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Finally, Kelly Clarkson’s Fifth Album Will Drop This Fall

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After several leaks and delays, Kelly Clarkson‘s fifth album will finally be released, and soon!

Titled, Stronger, the album will drop October 25, preceded by the single Mr. Know It All which debut via a live webcast with fans August 30 through Kelly’s website. The song will then hit the airwaves September 5.

The album was originally slated for a late 2010 release, but got several push backs. Last month, three of the album’s songs leaked, including Forgive You and Dumb + Dumb = You just a week after another new tune, Let Me Down had surfaced online.
Clarkson is super excited about the long-anticipated release. She posted a note on her blog saying, “Can’t wait for y’all to hear the new single! The band and I are really excited and currently gearing up for this record! It’s gonna be a fun record to tour!”

Before the above note, the first American Idol winner has been excitedly and frustratingly Tweeting about the album release for a while. She wrote: “Just found out my single is hitting radio in August!” She also tweeted: “Woohoo! It sounds great as well! Can’t wait for y’all to hear it!” An hour later, Clarkson had to retract: “Okay please do not get angry but it might be September for my single.” Then again, “My calendar was messed up! I’m so sorry! BUT it might be late August! It’s a huge bummer waiting but I promise it’ll be worth it! Stupid technology!!”

Adam Levine Slams American Idol For “Masking” Gay Contestants

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The Voice judge and Maroon 5 lead singer Adam Levine can’t stand some things about his competition American Idol and in an interview with gay magazine Out, Levine, who has a gay brother, slammed AI for making its contestants allegedly “mask” their sexuality.

“What’s always pissed me off about ‘Idol’ is wanting to mask that, for that to go unspoken,” he said. “C’mon. You can’t be publicly gay? At this point? On a singing competition? Give me a break. You can’t hide basic components of these people’s lives. The fact that ‘The Voice’ didn’t have any qualms about being completely about it is a great thing.”

The Voice featured several gay contestants on the show whereas gay contestants on Idol had to wait until after the competition to come out with their sexuality. Idol runner-up Adam Lambert, for example, admitted he was forced by FOX to keep his sexuality under wraps while filming season 8.

“It was hard for me because I wasn’t able to talk,” Lambert said. “So I was sitting there, going, I can’t really put in my two cents. It felt out of control, and feeling out of control is scary.”

Levine said: “I can single-handedly dispel any ideas that sexuality is acquired. Trust me, you’re born with it. My brother is gay, and we knew when he was two. We all knew.” 

Jennifer Lopez Confirmed As American Idol Judge Next Season

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It may have taken two months since the finale of American Idol season 10, but we now have confirmation that Jennifer Lopez will join the other two judges from last season, Steven Tyler and Randy Jackson, on next season’s judges’ panel.

Idol‘s Executive Producer, Nigel Lythgoe, called in to On Air with Ryan Seacrest Wednesday with this message:  “I am delighted to say that all three judges, along with the brilliant host of American Idol is back for the next season.”

VIDEO: Pia Toscano Premieres “This Time”

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Season 10 American Idol contestant Pia Toscano has released her first video, This Time, and you can watch it below.

The video’s lack of bells and whistles places the entire focus on Pia’s power vocals and lyrics – and she delivers.
“This time, this time I’m gonna do it my way / This time, I’m finding out the hard way / This time, I’m gonna go back to the girl I was on the night you found me.”

Watch the video for yourself:

VIDEO: Idol Champ Scotty McCreery Premieres Video For ‘I Love You This Big’

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American Idol winner Scotty McCreery Tweeted a huge announcement yesterday: “The Love You This Big video will premiere on CMT August 9th. Y’all be sure to tune in.”

The video was shot in Los Angeles but has the look and feel of a small town. McCreery has said, “If you looked one way, you could see Dodger Stadium, and if you looked another way, you could see downtown L.A. If I hadn’t told you that, you would think we would have shot that in North Carolina.”

The video is “a summertime barbecue, kinda like a community thing on the Fourth of July,” McCreery recently told Access Hollywood. 

Besides earning the highest-charting debut single in country music in over two decades, the current Idol reigning champ is hard at work on his new album and still out on the road touring with his Idol buddies. You can watch best buddy Lauren Alaina‘s video premiere for Like My Mother Does here.
Watch Scotty’s I Love You This Big video premiere below:

VIDEO: American Idol’s Lauren Alaina ‘Like My Mother Does’ Premiere

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American Idol runner-up Lauren Alaina premiered her debut video today for Like My Mother Does, shot by Nashville video director Shaun Silva in Altadena, Calif.

“The video is all about my mom and it has footage from my childhood and pictures of me and my family while I was growing up,” Lauren has said.

“It’s all projected on this beautiful Southern-style house. It’s really great. It shows my life, so people will know more about me after they see it.

“I love that it shows who I am and how I became who I am,” added Lauren. “It shows my family and all about what I’ve done all through the years, and I love that.”

Watch Lauren’s video below and click here to watch the premiere of Scotty McCreery’s music video.

Jordin Sparks Shows Off Seventh Tattoo & Hot New Bod

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Jordin Sparks is showing off her seventh tattoo on her new svelte body!

A few days before posting this photo on Twitter, she Tweeted: “Tweeting as I get a new tattoo. Number 7. :)”

Her new tattoo? It reads, “Respira.”

“New tat on my rib cage…’Respira’ I love it. :)” wrote the American Idol winner, explaining, “Respira’= Breathe. It’s for my time on ITH, the people I met there & a reminder to take a moment when things get crazy. <3" she wrote. In this pic, you can also see a tat of a bird in flight on her hip.

Jordin lost 30 pounds in a year and recently told Ryan Seacrest: “It was one of those things where I was turning 21 and New Year’s was coming. It was like I’m not going to start my resolution on New Year’s Day – I’m going to try to start it early and just stick to it.”

Watch Sparks talk about her weight loss (Second story below):

Lee DeWyze Is Engaged!

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Congratulations goes out to Lee DeWyze who is now engaged to Joanna Walsh, a model from one of his music videos!

The season 9 American Idol winner popped the question July 16 while on a private yacht at Disney World in Orlando, under a fireworks-filled sky. 
DeWyze told People: “I’m excited!” 
Lee met Walsh last October while shooting a video for his single Sweet Serendipity. “We were casting and I saw her and said, ‘Let’s go with her.’ I thought she was cute.” Guess that’s the best kind of sweet serendipity there could be.

DeWyze spoke of his first date with Walsh: “We hung out and we went to a Lakers game on our first date. She’s a Lakers fan and I’m a Chicago Bulls fan and we just clicked out of the gate.”

The couple has only been dating for 8 months but that does not cause concern for DeWyze who says: “When you know, you know. We both feel that way. We don’t need to be together 20 years before we figure it out.”

You can watch Lee and his fiance in this video of Sweet Serendipity where it all started:

Lauren Alaina Signs Record Deal

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THR is reporting that Haley Reinhart, who came in third place on American Idol last season, has signed a deal with Interscope Records. Interscope is part of the Universal Music Group and is also home to other season ten Idol alums Pia Toscano, winner Scotty McCreery, and runner-up Lauren Alaina.

And The Winner Of The Top Earning American Idol Star Is….

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Forbes has released its annual list of the top earning American Idol stars for the past year, and the list will surprise you.

Of course, Carrie Underwood tops the list — but the shocker is that my fave Glambert comes in at number 2, above Kelly Clarkson.

In fact, Kelly Clarkson gets beat out by even Jordin Sparks and Fantasia Barrino… Then again, this list only covers May 2010-May 2011.

What you will notice missing from the list are the last three winners of the show, Lee DeWyze, Kris Allen and Scott McCreery, although, granted, McCreery obviously gets a pass since he just won the Idol crown.

Here are the top 10 earners:
1. Carrie Underwood – $20 million

2. (tie) Adam Lambert and Chris Daughtry – $6 million. Lambert’s first album, For Your Entertainment, sold 821,000 copies domestically and was certified gold or platinum in six other countries. He also had a 116-date Glam Nation Tour which proved a rare success in 2010′s troubled concert industry.
4. Fantasia Barrino – $4 million–Fantasia’s reality show Fantasia For Real, was VH1′s biggest hit of 2010, and her comeback album Back To Me, was her highest-charting album to date.
5. Jordin Sparks – $3 million
6. Kelly Clarkson – $2.5 million
7. Jennifer Hudson – $2 million
8. Kellie Pickler – $1.8 million
9. Clay Aiken – $1.5 million
10. (tie) Katharine McPhee, David Archuleta, David Cook – $1 million. McPhee made the list due to her upcoming NBC series Smash and a new label deal with Columbia Records in conjunction with that show.