Here’s a video of American Idol winner, Fantasia Barrino’s interview on Live with Regis and Kelly. A video of her performance can be seen after the jump!

Here’s a breakdown of how our favorite American Idol alumni are doing on theBillboard 200 (dated May 26, 2007 – if the album appears on another chart it will be in brackets):

Chris Daughtry — #6
Carrie Underwood — #8 (#1 Country)
Bucky Covington — #44 (#9 Country)
Elliott Yamin — #67 (up from #87) (#4 Independent) (#49 R&B/Hip-Hop)
Fantasia — #93 (up from #112) (#15 R&B/Hip-Hop)
Paris Bennett — #133 (#15 Independent) (#47 R&B/Hip-Hop)

Also Noteworthy:
Kellie Pickler — #121 (2 weeks ago)
Katharine McPhee — #156 (2 weeks ago)
Kimberley Locke — #160 (2 weeks ago) — 4,800 copies
Paula Abdul “Greatest Hits” — (#86 R&B/Hip-Hop)
Kelly Clarkson’s “Never Again” …read more

In a recent post, a visitor left me a comment that involved the racial politics of American Idol. It got me thinking about the first major accusation of racism against the show (not that I am implying that racism is present, I’m just asking an open-ended question).

When Jennifer Hudson was voted off, there was such a public uproar that the question of racism was immediately raised. Even Elton John got involved in the debate, despite the fact that, of the six remaining contestants, at the time, three were black (Fantasia Barrino, La Toya London and George Huff). Ruben Studdard, also …read more

I’m watching the results show now. I love this show, but this is the epitome of taking the most time to say nothing. There’s nothing new shared at all on this show, just the best clips.
The only thing interesting is seeing all of them perform the group songs. The hardest workers in all of this though are the sound guys that are managing the mix for 24 different vocalists with very different volume and power.
HEY! Paul Kim has shoes on!
24 is just a huge group. I like it, but it just seems odd.
— Commercial Break —
Surprisingly they are jumping right …read more

If you’re going to get knocked off the #1 spot, I’m sure Jennifer Hudson would prefer it to be by another American Idol. The Dreamgirls soundtrack has finally fallen off the #1 spot, but was replaced by Season 5 American Idol contestant, Chris Daughtry’s album “Daughtry”.
Here’s a break down of the current American Idol placements on the Billboard Top 100 Album’s List

#1 – Chris Daughtry: “Daughtry”
#2 – Jennifer Hudson: “Dreamgirls Motion Picture Soundtrack
#9 – Carrie Underwood: “Some Hearts”
#50 – Taylor Hicks: “Taylor Hicks”
#51 – Kellie Pickler: “Small Town Girl”
#66 – Fantasia: “Fantasia”

Here’s another link that was sent to me that …read more

Just now getting started on the premiere. DON’T YOU LOVE DVR! Had to wait for my wife who had a meeting tonight, not sure who’s brilliant idea it was to schedule something tonight. Whomever it was, they were obviously not Idol Stalkers.
The show started with a great introduction to where we’ve come so far and how great past idols are doing like Kelly Clarkson, Fantasia, Carrie Underwood, Jennifer Hudson and of course Taylor Hicks.
The auditions started off in the hometown of last season’s finale closer, Prince, which would put us in Minneapolis. One of the guest judges for the Minneapolis …read more

I’ve got a couple of autographed copies of Fantasia’s latest album to give away. I’ve only got one problem, I can’t think of a good contest to host to give them away. So, here’s a contest in search of a contest. If you’ve got a blog and you’re a American Idol fan, write a post about your favorite American Idol and link back to the Idol Stalker website. I’ll pick a winner from those submitted. Be sure and let me know in the comments to this post that you’ve written a post on your site and I’ll be sure and …read more

Fantasia Barrino, American Idol Season 3 winner, releases her 2nd album today. It’s a self-titled release and you can hear a taste of her sound by clicking here and checking out this e-card.
From the clip, it sounds like this album is going to be fully of energy and movement. Overall, not my style of music, but it sounds really good. She still can’t get better than her version of “Summertime” in my opinion. I must be turning into an old geezer or something. Don’t know though, keep listening to additional tracks and really like what I’m hearing.
What’s really interesting …read more