103. Joey Cook (Season 14, placed 7th)This highly stylized, yowl-y alt-chick came off like a cross between Melanie Martinez and Adam Lambert, which might have suited her better on American Singing Star Clone. The Asheville, North Carolina, native went up against Jena Irene and was crowned the winner of season 13. 100. This was note-for-note identical to Trent's rendition of this tune in Top 4 week, just two weeks ago. After a turn on Taylor Dayne’s “Love Will Lead You Back” that inspired niceties from the normally grousing Simon Cowell, Seacrest asked her if she thought she could win; she replied yes, and was given the boot almost instantly. His self-titled debut album was certified platinum, and his single "Do I Make You Proud" debuted at No. His youth would sometimes fail him (he decided to forego the “Imagine” line about “no religion,” and he’d also bobble a lyric here and there), and the producers’ being so in the tank for him grew wearying after a while, but, in hindsight, the double-David finale that year was lots of fun to watch, and his being the budding pop star in wait to David Cook’s relatively (and I mean relatively) grizzled rocker was a big reason for that. He was so charming, in fact, that I suspected Make a Woman Win for Once–related conspiracy theories when his season hit Rock Week and he picked — and flubbed — “You Give Love a Bad Name.” Sadly, his slinky duet with eventual season-12 winner Candice Jones on “The Letter,” later that night, didn’t save him from doom. Little Big Town in a cave, Ashley McBryde in a barn, and Shania Twain in … a Charlie Chaplin museum? Jon Hamm! — helped send him to second place. Find NJ.com on Facebook. Probably in my heart, Kat is closer to Top 5, but my head knows I can't place her any higher than this. Would season two have been as fun without the odd-but-not-that-odd couple — the velvet teddy bear and the King of the Claymates — at its close? On the bright side, Hudson seemed to have things work out, career-wise, and her departure probably helped along the season-eight establishment of the Judges’ Save. Taylor Hicks (Season 5, Winner)Did the silver-haired soul singer from Alabama “break the show” when he defeated Katharine McPhee in season five, as some of my colleagues have claimed? Luckily they each sang the riskier numbers at the top of the show, and last impressions on the public were equally stellar. Well, you can’t fault him for trying on the “personal branding” front. "They both did incredible jobs with the songs," judge Jennifer Lopez said after Renae's performance. I might be misremembering, but in my mind, Fantasia had nearly a perfect season, unblinkingly staring down every theme and offering one classic moment after another. Alas, he was boxed in by themes in the later weeks, and while his rework of “My Cherie Amour” gave the chorus’s French a slight Latin spin, his fluttery voice was ill-served by “How Sweet It Is,” which led to him being bounced. The low register moments were a little off, but the finish was impassioned, clean and sky-high, as we've come to expect. Smart choice for Fuller to give Trent something he knew was centered in his wheelhouse, and Trent smashed this song. Wednesday night's show consisted of three rounds: the song that would be the contestant's first single if they were crowned the winner; a selection chosen by "American Idol" creator Simon Fuller; and a song of the contestant's choice. But I'm not too blinded to realize that although she always looked the part of a superstar, Kat unleashed several clunkers, including "Against All Odds," and she went through long patches where she seemed to want to oversing everything, even songs like "Hound Dog," which really didn't benefit from that treatment. Scotty McCreery (Season 10, Winner)This teen’s Idol tenure will forever be associated with Josh Turner’s “Your Man” (“Babylockdemdoorsandturn the liiiiiiights down low”), but he had a preternatural ability to work a crowd, and his deep-at-any-age voice was perfect for a country boy — er, man. Kimberley Locke (Season 2, placed 3rd)Rebounding after a gimmicky season-opening performance of “Heat Wave” that almost sent her home, this tart-voiced Tennessean filled the diva role during the show’s second season more than ably. Ben Briley (Season 13, Placed 11th)Raise your hand if you associate “Bennie and the Jets” with the rom-com 27 Dresses, which was this Tennessee-born singer’s excuse for picking a song that just happened to remind the audience of his name. I wouldn’t say it’s good, but it’s definitely big. Charm. 65. No demographic struggled harder to find its place in the Idol firmament than African-American males. Her smoothly confident performances and powerhouse voice helped Idol expand into the country space, and established her as a future Nashville hit-maker. If Justin had won that first vote, I doubt we'd be talking about his career in the same way and I suspect our "End of Idol" obituaries would have been written many years ago and with a different tone. 2. 161. She could bust out big notes like Celine and act as kittenish as Nicole Scherzinger, but the package those moves were in was deadly dull. Sanjaya Malakar (Season 6, Placed 7th)Idol first became dangerously self-aware when this Seattle-born 17-year-old garnered the attention of talent-show-obsessive Howard Stern, as well as Vote for the Worst, whose gleeful trolling of the Idol voting apparatus was as overblown as it was sorta funny. The important thing is, it worked out like he wanted! This singer from Queens represented a return to form — in a way, anyway. Michael Sarver (Season 8, Placed 10th)A roughneck (how American!) And the way the judges — particularly the original recipe of Simon, Paula, and Randy — tried to place certain singers into boxes must have been frustrating. Jacob Lusk (Season 10, placed 5th)One of the most transcendent performances of any recent Idol season was Jacob Lusk’s slow-build-to-stankface version of “You’re All I Need to Get By,” which caused Steven Tyler to leap up out of his chair and hug the singer. Carrie Underwood’s season-four victory allowed Idol to mark some territory in Nashville, while Chris Daughtry’s fifth-season deployment of Shinedown and Live helped nudge open the door to performers bearing instruments, who were finally allowed inside the Idol sanctum in season seven. Put that in your swivel chair, Adam Levine.

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