American Idol 5

Ace Young – Great Chefs of Los Angeles 4

Monday, November 9, 2009, 01:08 PM | Ace Young, American Idol 5

Ace Young 01-2009-11-09.jpg

Ace Young attends the Great Chefs Of Los Angeles “Go Green, Go Organic” event in Los Angeles.

What a surprise from my paparazzi subscription! I wonder what Ace is doing now. Fox Reality Channel is folding, so there goes the American Idol Extra gig. Anyone know?

One more picture:

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Bucky Covington – Gotta Be Somebody – Video 6

Monday, October 26, 2009, 03:02 PM | American Idol 5

Bucky Covington - Gotta Be Somebody

Bucky Covington “Gotta Be Somebody” video.

Sweet Tea!

Watch the video here:

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Ayla Brown – 2010 Moving Forward – Backstage Video 5

Friday, September 11, 2009, 05:12 PM | American Idol 5

Ayla Brown from Season 5 of American Idol is concluding her basketball career in Boston College and will release a live album with The Uptown Horns in November. She also plans a studio release for April 2010.

Ayla Brown’s official website here.

Watch the behind-the-scenes video here:

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Cheeshead Report — Green Bay, WI — 09/02/08 6

Thursday, September 4, 2008, 01:29 PM | American Idol 5, American Idol 6, American Idol 7, Carly Smithson, David Archuleta, David Cook, Michael Johns

(Here’s the Cheeshead Report from Peg in Green Bay! Peg was a cellcaster that night, and gave us the ultimate fangirl screams during PDSTM and BJ! Go Peg!)

The Cheesehead Report: Barricades, The Concert, The Pick Incident and Cheeseheads

The Barricades Tuesday with the Idols started with a blistering hot day for Green Bay standards. Several of us Cook fans had been planning signs, gifts and the inevitable props for Mavid. If you have ever seen a Green Bay Packer football game, the triangular-shaped foam cheesehead is a standard form of head gear. What could be better than having cheeseheads for the Mavid dance!! By the way, Green Bay is also the toilet paper capital of the world, so we figured it would be in poor taste for them to put a couple of rolls of TP on where ever.

Part of our plans included clever signs to convince Michael and Cook to wear this ridiculous headgear. Suzanne had found a photo of David with a box of Cheezits on his head, an actual box of Cheezits and a clever saying: “honorary cheesehead” Since we also had to have a sign for Michael, I was charged to figure out a sign for Michael Johns. So, if you can’t have a quality sign, go for innuendo. So my cheesehead sign for MJ read: “Michael Johns You melt my cheese.” I got quite a few comments on that sign!

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Kevin Covais — College 17

Sunday, May 25, 2008, 07:33 PM | American Idol 5

Kevin Covais

Kevin Covais stars in “College”

Video clip:

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Bucky Covington — 2008 CMT Music Awards 9

Monday, April 14, 2008, 11:32 PM | American Idol 5

Bucky Covington

American Idol’s Bucky “Sweet Tea” Covington was one of the “house bands” on the 2008 CMT Music Awards.

He was nominated for Breakthrough Video of the Year but lost to Kellie Pickler.

Video clip:

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Kevin Covais — College The Movie 3

Saturday, October 27, 2007, 10:28 PM | American Idol 5

Kevin Covais

American Idol’s Chicken Little, Kevin Covais, is starring in a new movie called “College” with Drake Bell.

College The Movie will be released on January 4, 2008.

Good job Kevin!

Video clip:

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Mandisa — True Beauty 10

Wednesday, August 8, 2007, 12:59 AM | American Idol 5

Mandisa

Hmmm… so American Idols of Season 5 up to Top 9 have recorded a CD… what happened to Top 7???

Some sales figures: (from Wikipedia)

1. Daughtry — 2,936,105
2. Taylor Hicks — 693,000
3. Kellie Pickler — 585,000
4. Katharine McPhee — 348,000
5. Elliott Yamin — 343,000
6. Bucky Covington — 223,000
7. Princess P – 18,000

American Idol is now invading the Gospel scene courtesy of Mandisa.

Mandisa — True Beauty (aff) on Amazon.com

Bucky Covington Debuts at #4, Daughtry #7 and #3 on Billboard 200 8

Thursday, April 26, 2007, 06:34 AM | American Idol 5, Carrie Underwood, Chris Daughtry

Now 24 (featuring ‘It’s Not Over’) — #3 (68,000 copies)
Bucky Covington — #4 (#1 in Country Charts) — (61,000 copies)
Chris Daughtry — #7 (52,000 copies)
Carrie Underwood — #9 (45,000 copies)
Elliott Yamin — #62

Sweet Tea! Very impressive!

Billboard 200

Daughtry (aff) on Amazon.com
Daughtry (aff) on iTunes

Elliott Yamin (aff) on Amazon.com
Elliott Yamin — Wait for You (aff) on iTunes

Bucky Covington (aff) on Amazon.com

Paris Bennett – Princess P (aff) on iTunes
Pre-order Paris Bennett — Princess P (aff) on Amazon.com

Bucky Covington — Debut CD 9

Tuesday, April 17, 2007, 02:32 AM | American Idol 5

Bucky Covington

Bucky Covington’s new CD is out today! Sweet! Tea!

Bucky Covington (aff) on Amazon.com

Stephanie Edwards — Love Hangover 13

Tuesday, March 13, 2007, 08:43 PM | American Idol 5

Stephanie Edwards

Stephanie Edwards — Love Hangover

If there was a forgotten lyric, I didn’t notice. Liked it.

Direct link MP3:

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Gina Glocksen — Love Child 26

Tuesday, March 13, 2007, 07:40 PM | American Idol 5

Gina Glocksen

Gina Glocksen — Love Child

What is pronunciate?

Direct link MP3:

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Bucky Covington — A Different World 28

Friday, March 2, 2007, 05:19 AM | American Idol 5

Bucky Covington’s new single A Different World has found its way to YouTube. For all the Bucky lovers out there.

Elliott Yamin — Wait For You — Preview 42

Friday, March 2, 2007, 12:05 AM | American Idol 5, Elliott Yamin

Elliott Yamin

Another single from Elliott Yamin’s upcoming album (release date: March 20) was aired on the radio today. Some fans gave me an edited copy of ‘Wait For You’ (thanks!):

OMG, I’m really so excited now. Elliott’s music is great! The Yamination rejoices!

Pre-order the album Elliott Yamin (aff) on Amazon.com

Elliott Yamin — Movin On (aff) on iTunes

American Idol on Billboard 200 Charts 7

Friday, February 23, 2007, 10:42 AM | American Idol 5

Chris Daughtry ‘Daughtry’ — #9 down from #3 (but a 34% jump in sales to 102,000 copies)
Carrie Underwood ‘Some Hearts’ — #13 up from #19
Katharine McPhee ‘Katharine McPhee’ — #29 down from #11
Kellie Pickler ‘Small Town Girl’ — #93 down from #84 (again outselling…)
Taylor Hicks ‘Taylor Hicks’ — #96 down from #87

Billboard 200

Ace Young — Acoustic on Billboard 211

Sunday, February 18, 2007, 09:04 AM | Ace Young, American Idol 5

Ace Young

Ace Young on Billboard.com (videos and commentary!)

Help support rickey.org and buy Ace Young — Scattered (aff) on iTunes

I made a few MP3s if you don’t mind:

What’s Going On

Dream On

Scattered

Father Figure

Katharine McPhee Shaves Two Sexy Men 11

Friday, February 16, 2007, 11:50 AM | American Idol 5, Katharine McPhee

Katharine McPhee

Katharine McPhee endorsing Gillette in New York

They played ‘Not Your Girl’ from Kat’s new album (aff) during the American Idol Top 24 presentation.

Go McTatas!

Katharine McPhee on AOL Music Sessions (yay!)

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Chris Daughtry — Pictures 4

Friday, February 16, 2007, 04:35 AM | American Idol 5, Chris Daughtry

Chris Daughtry at the post-Grammy party with Carrie Underwood and Daughtry, his band

Daughtry (aff) on Amazon.com
Daughtry (aff) on iTunes

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Daughtry #3 for a third week on Billboard 200 6

Wednesday, February 14, 2007, 12:34 PM | American Idol 5, Chris Daughtry

Fall Out Boy — #1, 260,000 copies
Norah Jones — #2, 236,000 copies
Daughtry — #3, 76,000 copies

Katharine McPhee — #11
Kellie Pickler — #84 (again beating…)
Taylor Hicks — #87

Fall Out Boy Hits ‘High’ Note With No. 1 Debut (Billboard)
Fall Out Boy Take It To The Top, Score First Billboard #1 (MTV)

Carrie Underwood — Grammy Awards 18

Sunday, February 11, 2007, 09:51 PM | American Idol 5, Carrie Underwood

Carrie Underwood

Congratulations Carrie Underwood for winning the Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for ‘Jesus, Take the Wheel’ and Best New Artist. Woohoo!

Carrie you’re so pretty!

(Video clip after the jump)

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