AI OD (American Idol Overdose): Ep 1 - Ranking the Idol seasons

January 15th, 2008 | Category: American Idol

On that Idol Eve, it only makes sense to reflect back on seasons past. The producers and judges of the show are certainly doing that, by telling us how much better that season is going to be than final season. But was Season Six the worst of the bunch? Both Season 5’s winner (Taylor Hicks) and runner up (Katharine McPhee) have been dropped from their labels, but S5 additionally brought us Chris Daughtry, who had the best-selling album of 2007. Carrie Underwood and Kelly Clarkson are the two best-selling Idol winners, but where’s everyone else from those seasons?

It takes more than record deals and album

sales to produce a great American Idol season. It takes a real depth of talent that few seasons are able to manage. I still wonder how, whether tens of thousands of public audition every year, they can’t seem to find a Top Twenty where ALL TWENTY CONTESTANTS are pretty damned good singers. Are they that few and far within? Let’s hope not, as tomorrow night we start looking again. But before we look forward to our next American Idol let’s look back at Idols past.

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