American Idol 2011 Top 11 Round 2 Elimination

Naima Adedapo, a 26-year-old from Milwaukee, WI, and Thia Megia, a 16-year-old Mountain House, CA resident, became the third and fourth finalists sent home from American Idol's tenth seasonwith the fewest home viewer votes following Wednesday night's performance show, which featured the Top 11 finalists performing Elton John songs.

On Wednesday's performance Recap:

Ryan Seacrest said they’re shaking things up, then he explains that Lauren Alaina and Scotty McCreery are going to a duet. They performed their version of “I Told You So.”

Naima Adedapo and Jacob Lusk are called up to sing a duet together with their own version of the song “Solid”.

Fantasia gave an enjoyable performance.  Then the song version of “Teenage Dream” from Haley Reinhart, Thia Megia and Pia Toscano.

The last to perform were Paul McDonald, James Durbin, Casey Abrams and Stefano Langone. Their foursome performance of the song “Band on the Run”. And this sums up the over-all performance of the final 11 contetants, and the last for the 2 girls eliminated.

American Idol’s Top 13 Finalist Song Choices

American Idol’s Top 13 Finalist choice of songs from their own idols. It was pre-taped due to some time and sound issues as was reported earlier, last Wednesday night’s song choices are listed below. Even if it was not live- it is still perhaps one of the biggest episodes for the season-with its own record for the season.

Here are the songs from Wednesday night’s show and their list in chronological order:

Lauren Alaina – “Any Man Of Mine” by Shania Twain
Casey Abrams – “With A Little Help From My Friends” by Joe Cocker
Ashthon Jones – “When You Tell Me That You Love Me” by Diana Ross
Paul McDonald – “Come Pick Me Up” by Ryan Adams
Pia Toscano – “All By Myself” by Celine Dion
James Durbin – “Maybe I’m Amazed” by Paul McCartney
Haley Reinhart – “Blue” by LeAnn Rimes
Jacob Lusk – “I Believe I Can Fly” by R. Kelly
Thia Megia – “Smile” by Michael Jackson
Stefano Langone – “Lately” by Stevie Wonder
Karen Rodriguez – “I Could Fall In Love” by Selena
Scotty McCreery – “The River” by Garth Brooks
Naima Adedapo – “Umbrella” by Rihanna

American Idol's Carrie Underwood @ 28, Happy Birthday!

One of the hottest and sensational country singers- Carrie Underwood is celebrating her 28th birthday today- and that’s today! (March 10, 2011). She is the winner of the fourth season of "American Idol" will undoubtedly be celebrating in style together with his husband, hockey player Mike Fisher. Her first birthday as Mrs. Fisher.

Her debut album, Some Hearts, which was certified seven times platinum, the fastest selling debut country album in Nielsen SoundScan history.

She has also paved for her carreer, the “Jesus Take the Wheel” hottie has had over ten no. 1 hit songs on the Billboard charts . Underwood has since become a multi-platinum selling recording artist, a multiple Grammy Award winner, a Grand Ole Opry inductee, a Golden Globe Award nominee, a three-time Academy of Country Music and Country Music Association Female Vocalist winner.

Carrie Underwood is not only busy with creating and sharing her sweet musics, she is also devoting much of her time and money to various charities, including the Save the Children program.

American Idol's Season 10 Top 13 Revealed

In Thursday’s episode the American Idol cut 24 contestants into 10 remaining Top finalists. But before moving on the judges has to picked another 3 contestants and has to choose from the 6 wild card candidates to make up the twists in the Top 13 for Season 10 American Idol.

The Top 10 contestants chosen by the viewers are:
•    Casey Abrams
•    Haley Reinhard
•    Jacob Lusk
•    James Durbin
•    Karen Rodriguez
•    Lauren Alaina
•    Paul McDonald
•    Pia Toscano
•    Scotty McCreery
•    Thia Megia

The 6 contestants picked by the judges for second chance to redeem themselves as wild cards are:

Ashton Jones
Stefano Langone
Kendra Chantelle
Jovany Barreto
Naima Adedapo
Robbie Rosen

And the chosen 3 wild cards to complete the Top 13 are:

Ashton Jones
Stefano Langone
Naima Adedapo

All together now, here's the American Idol Top 13:

• Casey Abrams
• Naima Adedapo
• Lauren Alaina
• James Durbin
• Ashthon Jones
• Stefano Langone
• Jacob Lusk
• Scotty McCreery
• Paul McDonald
• Thia Megia
• Haley Reinhart
• Karen Rodriguez
• Pia Toscana

American Idol's Online Voting

On the first 9 seasons American Idol's fans and viewers are able to cast their votes for their favored contestants using their phones or through SMS. Now, the show has given everyone the option to vote online.

The creator and executive producer Simon Fuller in a press release for the American Idol said, "We have been wanting to do online voting for several years, and now Facebook has offered us a secure solution and we are ready to go", adding that the show has always involved a high level of engagement with its viewers through texting and phone voting.

To vote online fans or  viewers should visit AmericanIdol.com site and follow the directions. It will be required for every voting individulas to log in using their Facebook account for them to access the American Idol voting page that will feature the name and photo of each of the current contestants. 

During the voting process viewers and fans alike will simply choose their favorite contestant, complete a security verification provided and submit their choice. After each performance and even during the online voting, viewers may cast up to 50 online votes for that particular evening's performances. Unfortunately for other Idol fanatics, only fans with a registered Facebook account in the U.S., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands will be able to cast their vote(s) online.

Voting will start on the first performance show on March 1 (Tuesday) at 8PM (ET) eastern time, featuring the top 12 male semifinalists. While the top 12 female semifinalists will perform on March 2 (Wednesday) at 8PM (ET) eastern time.

American Idol's Top 24 Revealed

American Idol’s Wednesday night revealed the top 24 contestants from the 61 back in L.A.-but not without an abrupt halt when Jennifer Lopez cried over Chris Medina’s send-off. Randy and Steven assured her that she did a good job and told her not to worry while Chris on the other hand dealt well with the rejection.
Jennifer Lopez was able to pull herself together after about 5 minutes break and continued choosing the Top 24 contestants moving on for American Idol.

So here goes the list of 24 who made it through the judges final decisions and choices…

The 12 men who made it:                               

1. Brett Loewenstern
2. Casey Abrams
3. Clint Jun Gamboa
4. Jacob Lusk
5. James Durbin
6. Jordon Dorsey
7. Jovany Barreto
8. Paul McDonald
9. Robbie Rosen
10. Scotty McCreery
11. Stefano Langone
12. Tim Halperin

The 12 women who made it:

1. Ashthon Jones
2. Haley Reinhart
3. Julie Zorrilla
4. Karen Rodriguez
5. Kendra Chantelle
6. Lauren Alaina
7. Lauren Turner
8. Naima Adedapo
9. Pia Toscano
10. Rachel Zevita
11. Tatysnisa Wilson
12. Thia Megia