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American Idol Season 8 Auditions
American Idol is gearing up for Season 8 in 2009! American Idol Season 8 auditions will begin on July 17, 2008 in San Francisco, CA at Cow Palace. Other dates are on American Idol is gearing up for Season 8 in 2009! American Idol Season 8 auditions will begin on July 17, 2008 in San Francisco, CA at... more
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Idol's David Cook tops iTunes download charts
Newly crowned "American Idol" David Cook, already topping the iTunes music download charts, said on Friday he hopes to put out a rock album that will "make the hair on your neck stand up."
Cook, 25, a Missouri guitarist who was tending bar before auditioning for the most watched show on U.S. television, also said his best musical advice came from Frank Sinatra.
Cook won the seventh season of the singing competition and a recording contract on Wednesday, beating 17-year-old crooner David Archuleta by a 12 million-vote margin in the record 97.5 million votes cast by viewers by telephone and text message.
Cook's first single "The Time of My Life" and the three songs he sang in this week's "American Idol" finale were the top four downloads on Apple Inc's iTunes music store on Friday.
Cook said he would not be putting out an album of standards even though he won fans on the show, which is broadcast on the Fox network, a unit of News Corp, with alternative versions of pop classics such as "Billie Jean" and Lionel Richie's "Hello."
"I think it's going to be a mixture of my writing and hopefully writing with other people. I just want to come out of the gate with a solid record," he told reporters in a telephone conference call.
"It'll probably be a rock record. I just want to make a record that's going to make the hair on your neck stand up ... Even if it doesn't do well commercially, as long as I can put out a record I am proud of -- that's the goal right now. And hopefully the success will follow."
Cook is not likely to start work on the first album until the Top 10 Idols finish a three-month U.S. tour starting in July. Newly crowned "American Idol" David Cook, already topping the iTunes music download charts, said on Friday he hopes to put o... more -
KC Happy to Back the Cook Idol Excitement
Whether you like or loathe the American Idol movement, one of the coolest winners in the contest's history, David Cook, has brought Kansas City some well deserved national recognition. Usually a net of odd weather incidents and accidents, the Kansas City metro can finally claim some good news via a down-to-earth crooner that epitomizes the best of the Midwest cool. Whether you like or loathe the American Idol movement, one of the coolest winners in the contest's history, David Cook, has broug... more
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Love Guru Sends Winning Vibes To New American Idol
America's new idol felt Guru Pitka's positive vibes big time this evening.
Congratulations to David Cook (the hot rocker had our vote!).
As the good guru says, "remember, winning isn't everything in life, unless you're one of the last two finalists on American Idol."
Mariska Hargitay! America's new idol felt Guru Pitka's positive vibes big time this evening. ... more -
Kansas City Native David Cook May Be the Next American Idol
Specifically from Blue Springs, MO, but within the Kansas City metro, David is whipping up a local fervor in anticipation of the biggest prize in reality TV. Last weekend he came home with a hero's welcome to downtown KC to play a show for a packed crowd. Specifically from Blue Springs, MO, but within the Kansas City metro, David is whipping up a local fervor in anticipation of the bigge... more
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