Carrie Underwood Makes History!

Our very own Carrie Underwood has made country music history!

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 – Carrie Underwood's "Last Name" this week becomes her seventh consecutive number one single to top the Mediabase country airplay charts. Underwood becomes the only artist in country chart history to have their first seven singles all reach number one.

From her double platinum current release, "Carnival Ride," "Last Name" is the album's third number one single - including "So Small" and "All-American Girl" - all of which were co-written by Underwood.

Congratulations Carrie!

American Idol - Top 4 - Results Show - Bo Bice "Witness"

American Idol welcomes back another Alum, Bo Bice:

American Idol - Bucky, Bo and Phil

Bo Bice is Entertaining the Troops!

According to BonaFideBice, Bo is currently touring in Afghanistan and Kuwait, February 4 - 13, 2008, entertaining our troops. Here are a couple of pics they tracked down of Bo on the blog of a Professor Tom Mengesha (Adjunt Assistant Professor, University of Maryland University College) who is currently stationed in Kuwait.


source: bonafidebice

CMT Music Awards 2008 - IDOL Nominations!

FOUR IDOL's have been nominated in SIX categories (resulting in NINE total nominations) for the CMT Music Awards to be aired LIVE from Nashville, April 14th at 8/7c! The CMT Music Awards are the only fan-voted awards show in country music. Well done!

1) Video of the Year

- Carrie Underwood, “Wasted”
- Kelly Clarkson with Reba McEntire "Because Of You"

2) Female Video of the Year

- Carrie Underwood, “So Small”
- Carrie Underwood, “Wasted”

3) USA Weekend Breakthrough Video of the Year

- Bucky Covington, “A Different World”

4) Collaborative Video of the Year

- Kelly Clarkson and Reba McEntire, “Because of You”

5) Tearjerker Video of the Year

- Kelly Clarkson and Reba McEntire, “Because of You”
- Kellie Pickler, “I Wonder”

6) Performance of the Year

- Kellie Pickler, “I Wonder” CMA Awards

Carrie Underwood - Musc Video Premiere - All American Girl

Idols (and Others) in the News

I have been a little idle taking advantage of this last week before the premiere, and have decided one MEGA post is more efficient to catch you up on all of the news instead of several individual posts!

- Kelly Clarkson Number 5, Posh Beckham Number 1, on Blackwells Worst Dressed List of 2007. Posh is interesting due to the rumor that she is being wooed by Heidi Klum to be a guest judge on Project Runway, a show about fashion!

- Taylor Hicks speaks to fans about being dropped by J Records.

- Phil Stacey's first single hit radio on Monday. Slim over at idolbloglive has the audio here.

- Dance Wars: Bruno vs. Carri Ann. I am not a huge fan of the audition process on any of these shows, so I am withholding judgement. My favorite at first glance? Maxx. How can ya not love Drew as the host?

- Carrie Underwood to headline her next tour beginning in February. Tickets go on sale Jan 12th. Read about it here.

Jessica Sierra In Better Days

Constantine Maroulis - Music Video - Girl Like You

Season 4 of American Idol is the only season my favorite (Constantine) didn't make it to the finals. Even though I continued to watch, I lost interest in the outcome altogether. So, naturally I have been following his post-idol career. Constantine recently landed a role on the soap opera The Bold and The Beautiful, playing "Constantine", a record producer.

I have been watching video shorts of Constantine on the Bold and the Beautiful and saw this a week ago or so. It debuted during a sequence on the show, where Constantine is playing his "new" recording for his love interest "Phoebe". She's the girl in the video.




Constantine's debut album, which includes this track, is due out in August.

Thanks to girlstalkinsmack.com for tracking this one down.

Favorite Top 8 Performances

There are MANY memorable TOP 8 performances. In fact, some of the MOST memorable of all time. Here are two of my favorites:

Fantasia Barrino - Summertime



Constantine Maroulis - Bohemian Rhapsody



Does this bunch have a performance like these in them? Well, we will see.

Constantine joining The Bold And The Beautiful

According to TV Guide, Constantine Maroulis will be joining the cast of the soap "The Bold And The Beautiful" for a 13 week stint. Now I don't watch the show but TV Guide reports:

"We're going to blur reality à la 'Entourage' and have Constantine play a fictional version of himself," "B&B" Executive Producer BRAD BELL told the magazine. Look for Maroulis to be involved in the Phoebe/Rick storyline -- he will initially join the soap as a possible music producer for Phoebe.

This is certainly a larger audience for Constantine than Broadway I would think. I will definately have to record an episode or two to see him in action!

Bo Bice news

I have to give credit to MJ over at MJ's Big Blog for tracking this tidbit down about our 2nd place finisher, Season 4. This entry was tracked down by her team at blog.myspace.com/bonafidebice.

Source Update: It has been brought to my attention that the first scoop of this story was actually Bonafide Bice. I wouldn't have seen this story if MJ hadn't tracked it down and reported it, but she wasn't the original source. I want to give credit where credit is due!

Bo Bice singing Theme for new Will Ferrell movie

Bo announced this week that he is singing the theme song to the new Will Ferrell movie Blades of Steel. He was invited to work on the song by Ben Stiller, who is the movie's producer and has been a fan of Bo's since Idol.

The song is deliciously cheesy, with over-the-top lyrics and a bombastic sound reminiscent of 80s hair band power ballads.

You can hear it on the "Blades of Steel" MySpace page - just scroll down below the movie trailer on the right-hand side of the page and look for the heading "soundtrack" - Bo's song is listed second.

Apparently they have just finished a video for the song, which Bo says "allows me to show my sense of humor," so I'm expecting great things!

Stay tuned!

Just for FUN!

All of these were STAND OUT performances in their respective seasons...for comparison purposes!

Carrie Underwood (Season 4) performing "Alone"



Constantine Maroulis (Season 4) performing "My Funny Valentine"



Paris Bennett ( Season 5) performing "Midnight Train to Georgia"