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]
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.
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.
I think lee is the best. He deserves to win not a stupid greaseball that’s on drugs and a fucking nasty slut that tries to live on welfair and the mommy cards and its pretty sad she won’t even get her teeth or hair taken care of. All she did last night was suck up and she was trying to b something she’s not. She’s just nasty