American Idol Season Five finalist Elliott Yamin, who scored a #3 hit in 2007 with Wait For You, has released Three Words, the carrier single of his third CD, Let’s Get To What’s Real. After tasting mainstream success with Wait For You on independent label Hickory Records, Yamin is back on Koch Records – labelmates include Brian McKnight – and ready to make the kind of music he wants to make. Let’s Get To...

American Idol winner Kris Allen has released The Vision of Love, the carrier single of his yet-untitled sophomore album. In The Vision of Love, Allen takes on the daunting task of encouraging people to learn to love one another, even as the powerful video of The Vision of Love showcases teenage bullying and introversion, two very real, very important topics that are not usually addressed by mainstream stars of American music to keep the...

Country superstar and former American Idol winner Carrie Underwood is back with a hot new single titled Good Girl. Released to country radio yesterday, February 23, Good Girl follows in the tradition of Carrie’s bread-and-butter “message to bad boys,” warning female listeners to be wary of that boy. There’s never been any question that Underwood’s vocals are fantastic, and this is clearly going to go to #1 on...

American Idol Season Seven winner David Cook is back with a brand-new single titled The Last Goodbye. Yes, I know this isn’t a Christian single, but I’m a David Cook fan, all the way down to my copying his goatee and awesome hair, and The Last Goodbye is a great carrier for a sophomore post-Idol CD. Taking into consideration that the folks at 19 Entertainment don’t generally know what they’re doing with the winners...

The Kris Allen/Boyce Avenue/Jabbawockeez concert was OFF THE HOOK. Here are ten post-concert thoughts: 1. It was the first major open-air concert I’d ever attended. Ang daming tao! (There were so many people.) There were naysayers who said Kris wouldn’t be able to attract a crowd, but boy, those naysayers should’ve been there. Praise God it didn’t rain. 2. The crowd seemed strangely subdued. After each number of any...

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