Jordin Sparks (along with John Legend), was part of a tribute to Whitney Houston last night on The Billboard Music Awards.
Jordin sang Whitney’s most famous & popular song, I Will Always Love You. TOUGH SONG! Jordin did a great job! Touching to see Whitney’s daughter, Bobbi Kristina, in the audience crying to Jordin’s performance.
Enjoy!
Just a few pictures from tonight’s American Country Awards…
Carrie looking cute as always:
Carrie Underwood
Carrie Underwood won for Single of the Year by a Female Artist – Mama’s Song! YAY CARRIE!
Jordin Sparks
Jordin looked great…loved the dark dress! 
Josh Turner & Jordin Sparks
Lauren Alaina & Scotty McCreary
We haven’t seen too much of her recently, but AI Season 6 winner Jordin Sparks stopped by The Talk.
First of all, Jordin lost 30 lbs and she LOOKS GREAT! She has such a pretty face! Gotta say, tho…it’s so nice to see her again. She’s SUCH a cute, down-to-earth girl. Her interview just reminds me why she won American Idol. Such a sweetie! Love her!
Enjoy!
Forbes has published its list of the 2010 Top Earners for the past year. Would you like to guess who was #1?
1. CARRIE UNDERWOOD ($20 million) Buoyed by 83 concert dates in 12 months, the Season Four winner made as much as the rest of the TOP 5 IDOL EARNERS COMBINED. GO CARRIE! Here's the rest of the list: 2. DAUGHTRY ($6 million, tie) Though he only finished fourth in Season Five, Chris Daughtry ’s eponymous band earned big with 53 dates in support of album Leave This Town. 3. ADAM LAMBERT ($6 million, tie) Lambert was edged by Kris Allen in Season Eight, but he easily out-earned his rival thanks largely to 116 shows around the world in 12 months. Go Adam! 4. FANTASIA ($4 million) Season Three’s champ cashed in on new album Back to Me and 38 shows; will star in film Mahalia! later this year. I think as long as you "tour" and do live shows, your number increase significantly... 5. JORDIN SPARKS ($3 million) The youngest winner in the show’s history, Sparks debuted at age 17 and broke out with “No Air,” a duet with Chris Brown that has sold 4 million digital copies to date – making it the best-selling single ever by any American Idol contestant. Jordin has always done well because of her singles...Great job Jordin! 6. KELLY CLARKSON ($2.5 million) The first-ever American Idol continues to be a household name, though Clarkson’s earnings dipped from last year’s tour-fueled $11.7 million. Look for a comeback: her fifth album is set for release this fall. 7. JENNIFER HUDSON ($2 million) Hudson’s yearly take is a bit low due to a paucity of tour dates, but she remains one of Idol’s greatest successes, winning an Oscar in 2006 for her role in Dreamgirls. She recently signed on as spokeswoman for Weight Watchers. 8. KELLIE PICKLER ($1.8 million) With nearly 80 shows in the past 12 months, mostly as a supporting act or co-headliner, Pickler is one of the hardest-working Idol alums. 9. CLAY AIKEN ($1.5 million) The Raleigh, N.C., native has sold over 4 million albums, penned a New York Times bestselling memoir and starred in Broadway’s “Spamalot” in the wake of his second-place finish in Season Two; new album Tried and True hit stores last year. Considering Clay hasn't had an album in a while, it's still pretty impressive. 10. KATHARINE MCPHEE ($1 million, tie) In addition to releasing three albums, the Season Five runner-up has co-starred in series The House Bunny and is set to co-star in NBC’s Smash. Now that Kat will be in "Smash," hopefully her numbers will rise next year. 10. DAVID ARCHULETA ($1 million, tie) Defeated in Season Seven by David Cook, Archuleta went on to release a self-titled album on Jive records that reached No. 2 on the Billboard charts. His memoir, Chords of Strength, debuted last June. 10. DAVID COOK ($1 million, tie) Cook has come a long way from tending bar in Tulsa, Okla. four years ago. After winning Season Seven, debut album David Cook went platinum. He also boasts an endorsement deal with Sketchers; his second album, This Loud Morning, was released in June. Near Misses Recent contestants Kris Allen, Lee DeWyze, Crystal Bowersox and Season Two champ Ruben Studdard narrowly missed the list this year. Methodology These numbers are based on estimated pretax income earned from May 2010 to May 2011, before subtracting agent and manager fees. The totals were compiled with the help of data from Pollstar, RIAA and others, as well as extensive interviews with industry insiders including managers, concert promoters, publicists, agents and, in some cases, the musicians themselves. For more on the business of music, check out Zack’s Jay-Z biography, Empire State of Mind. Source
The Hollywood Reporter released their annual list of the most successful earners in American Idol history. Guess who’s #1?!
CARRIE UNDERWOOD!
WOOOHOO! Not surprising really…but pretty awesome she has surpassed Kelly Clarkson, considering Carrie won 3 YEARS AFTER Kelly did. 
Here’s the entire Top 10:
1. Carrie Underwood
Season 4 winner
Album sales: 12,296,000
Digital track sales: 18,482,000
Concert revenue: $66,762,207
2. Kelly Clarkson
Season 1 winner
Album sales: 10,674,000
Digital track sales: 17,254,000
Concert revenue: $32,681,389
The singer who started it all, Clarkson’s 18 singles, many of them hits, set the Idol bar high.
3. Chris Daughtry
Season 5, 4th place
Album sales: 6,104,000
Digital track sales: 11,127,000
Concert revenue: $19,159,287
He turned out to be a winner at rock radio with a string of chart-topping singles.
4. Clay Aiken
Season 2, runner up
Album sales: 4,990,000
Digital track sales: 581,000
Concert revenue: $17,754,872
His debut was a hit, and while Aiken has kept a low profile of late, public outings like his recent co-headlining trek with Ruben Studdard proved successful.
5. Fantasia
Season 3 winner
Album sales: 2,809,000
Digital track sales: 1,325,000
Concert revenues: $466,631
After a 2008 stint on Broadway in The Color Purple, she launched a reality show, Fantasia For Real, which became VH1’s No. 1 rated series.
6. Ruben Studdard
Season 2 winner
Album sales: 2,556,000
Digital track sales: 445,000
Concert revenues: N/A
Four albums, a Grammy nomination and a co-headlining tour with Aiken has kept Studdard on the radar.
7. Jordin Sparks
Season 6 winner
Album sales: 1,275,000
Digital track sales: 9,547,000
Concert revenue: $1,141,629
Her massive presence on pop radio translates to 9 tracks sold for every album.
8. Jennifer Hudson
Season 3, 7th place
Album sales: 1,160,000
Digital track sales: 1,964,000
Concert revenues: $1,055,971
After winning an Oscar and Grammy, she lost over 80 pounds and became the spokewoman for Weight Watchers in 2010.
9. David Cook
Season 7 winner
Album sales: 1,324,000
Digital track sales: 4,196,000
Concert revenue: $1,012,335
Soon to follow his platinum-selling debut with June 28’s This Loud Morning, Cook also tours regularly and scored a deal with Skechers.
10. Kellie Pickler
Season 5, 6th place
Album sales: 1,322,000
Digital track sales: 3,319,000
Concert revenues: N/A
NO WAY could I pass up blogging about THIS episode! Top 4 results has always been a very SHOCKING week on this show (Daughtry in S5, Latoya in S3, Tamyra in S1), and this season was NO DIFFERENT.
Instead of a Top 4 group number, they split them into duets:
SCOTTY & JAMES Start A Band:
With both guys singing, they picked a true COUNTRY SONG. Huh…interesting. Is that some kind of sign? James obviously wasn’t QUITE in his element, and you could tell he wasn’t really that into it. As usual, they didn’t sound the greatest. Eh. They really need help with harmonies.
LAUREN & HALEY Gunpowder & Lead:
Now THAT was a great duet! The best one of the season FOR SURE! The girls sounded really good together! Lauren in particular sounded AWESOME! She really matched that song…and she sure sang it with some SPUNK! And once again…a COUNTRY SONG. Hmm…Makes me wonder what the show is trying to say…
JORDIN SPARKS I Am Woman:
Woohoo! New music from Jordin! I thought her 2nd album, Battlefied was great! This new song reminds me of something Beyonce would sing. Oh, and how GREAT did Jordin look?! She lost a bunch of weight and looks so much more toned! She really looked awesome. She sounded great, as usual. Way to show those contestants why you won Season 6 Jordin!
RESULTS:
Woohoo! LAUREN is the first person to be put thru to the TOP 3! My votes paid off!!! And Lauren’s reaction was great…she was so happy (but surprised)! I’m so happy for her! AWESOME!!!
OMG…HALEY in the Top 3 too?! Wow. That’s HUGE. I think EVERYONE assumed BOTH guys would be in. After Haley’s bad attitude last night, she kind almost didn’t deserve to make it. BUT if you look at her track record over the whole season so far, I GUESS she’s worthy. She better BE CAREFUL from now on tho. Bad attitude = Bad results.
You see James’ reaction after Haley made it?! He KNEW he was in danger…and rightly so.
O. M. G. Talk about my DREAM RESULT! JAMES IS ELIMINATED! I can’t. believe it. Hallelujah!
OK, I guess I couldn’t just be happy. James had to go and say stuff to irritate me. I really did NOT like his little speech and the way he acted when he was watching his goodbye video. You could tell he was pissed and there was attitude in the way he talked. “I’ve done so many things that have never been done on this show.” WHATEVER. Pretty much everything you did was a copycat/wannabe of Adam Lambert. And it was SUBPAR. The only difference were the smoke & mirrors. OBVIOUSLY all the stuff you did didn’t matter since you got booted.
And his swan song?! STOP SCREAMING. Haven’t you learned by now that when you scream while you’re emotional, you CANNOT PULL IT OFF. Even when you’re NOT emotional, those screams are just painful. They really are NOT pleasing…so thank god we won’t have to listen to it again next week.
WOOHOO!
Man, idols keep popping up all over the TV! First Carrie…now Jordin!
Jordin Sparks will be appearing on an upcoming episode of Bones, according to Jordin’s twitter:
Yes, I’m going to be on Bones!
Not tonight episode though. I’ll let you know when I can!
Pretty cool! Never seen an episode of that show, but I hear it’s quite entertaining. May have to tune in for that one.
Looks like the VH1 Divas live this Thursday will include Diva Duets…the pairings for the duets were revealed on the Today Show this morning:
As you could probably guess, the pairing that excites me the most is Jordin & Martina! Awesome!
Kelly & Melissa is a good pairing…they will rock it out I’m sure!
Funny how Jennifer’s duet is with a male…I mean, Stevie Wonder is great, but…this IS DIVAS Live. Interesting. No woman could “compete” with “The Lion.” Ha!
VH1 DIVAS
Thursday, September 17, 2009
9/8c pm
VH1
Here’s a picture of the Divas Live! 2009 poster:
Not sure if I mentioned it earlier, but Jordin Sparks and Jennifer Hudson have now been added to the set list.
Yay for Jordin! J-Hud…eh.
It’s becoming an Idol alumni concert already! Ha!
Jordin Sparks currently has been the opening act for the Jonas Brothers…accompanying them on their current tour. It has just been announced that Jordin will be joining Britney Spears’ Circus Tour as Britney’s opening act!
That’s a HUGE gig for Jordin! Even tho Britney’s image has been a “bit” questionable…you know HOW MANY people still go to see her in concert?! Talk about exposure for Jordin!
Congrats to her!
