Just in time for the seventh-season kickoff of American Idol comes word that Season 5 winner Taylor Hicks and Season 2 winner Ruben Studdard have been dropped from J Records thanks to lackluster album sales. (Studdard is still represented by Idol creators 19 Management.) Meanwhile, Season 5 third-place finisher Chris Daughtry continues to steamroll over the top-40 playlists and big-box music sections of America. Why is this making me wonder if fans of the upcoming season’s contestants will withhold their votes en masse in the show’s second-to-last week?
Taylor Hicks, Ruben Studdard dropped from J Records? [Hollywood Insider]
Em.. Daughtry was actually the fifth place finisher. Behind Hicks, McPhee, Elliot Yamin and Paris Bennett.
@Blaine23: Nope, fourth place – DHMBIB had it right. See here: [en.wikipedia.org]
Quibbling over specific Idol placement (after 1st and 2nd) is like arguing about who won Bud Bowl IV.
It was Bud, BTW. 27-24.
@Bob Loblaw: Brilliant! And please tell me you had to look that up.
@DHMBIB: I just imagined the savant version of myself that wouldn’t have to look that up and shed a single tear.
Taylor Hicks broke the show.
Taylor Hicks broke the show.
Been saying it for a year and a half, and I look more right all the time.
Not to get all “after-the-fact checking department” up in your grill or anything, but Daughtry was the fourth-place finisher that season. Elliott Yamin was third-place.