RTE.ie - Ireland - Blake Lewis, the runner-up from the sixth series of 'American Idol', has signed a deal for his debut album.

Billboard reports that Lewis has agreed a contract with 19 Recordings/Arista.

The album, provisionally titled 'Audio Daydream (ADD)', is due for release late in 2007.

Speaking to Billboard earlier this month about the album, Lewis said: "It's your favourite 80s mix tape - very inspired by Michael Jackson, Prince, Erasure, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, the Cure. It's all over the map, really - very influenced by 80s hip-hop, old school breaks, whatever."

BuddyTV - USA - Blake Lewis, runner-up on last season's American Idol, has signed his first record deal.  The beat-boxing specialist from Bothell, Washington has inked a deal with Clive Davis's Artista record label and will release an album later this year.  Lewis was a surprise finalist on this past season of American Idol and while he was destined to lose to the safer and less unusual Jordin Sparks, he gained a loyal base of fans during his time on Idol.

It's being mongered in a few places that the album is provisionally titled “Audio Daydream (ADD)”, but who knows whether that's the truth.  Earlier

PR Newswire (press release) - New York, NY, USA - Blake Lewis, the popular runner-up on the sixth season of "American Idol," has been signed to 19 Recordings / ARISTA Records and is already working on his debut album with a stellar line-up of producers and songwriters. The album is due for release in late 2007.

"Blake has a strong music sensibility and knows who he is and what his music should represent." Says Clive Davis, Chairman CEO BMG Label Group "His collaborators are all knocked out by him."

Among the producers working with Lewis on his first album are Jonathan "JR" Rotem, who has worked with Rihanna (on her No. 1

Actress Archives - New York City, NY, USA - The runner-up on the last season of American Idol, the poor guy who had to face Jordin Sparks and come in second, was Blake Lewis and he has followed her recent footsteps, signing a record deal. Just days after Jordin Sparks signed with Jive Records, Blake Lewis has signed with Arista. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Blake Lewis has signed a deal in conjunction with 19Recordings, the label that’s managed by the creator of American Idol, Simon Fuller. It’s all one amazing machine. The show creates the star and the star gives back to the record label owned by the

PR Newswire (press release) - New York, NY, USA - Blake Lewis, the popular runner-up on the sixth season of "American Idol," has been signed to 19 Recordings / ARISTA Records and is already working on his debut album with a stellar line-up of producers and songwriters. The album is due for release in late 2007.

"Blake has a strong music sensibility and knows who he is and what his music should represent." Says Clive Davis, Chairman CEO BMG Label Group "His collaborators are all knocked out by him."

Among the producers working with Lewis on his first album are Jonathan "JR" Rotem, who has worked with Rihanna (on her No. 1

Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA - Blake Lewis may be an American Idol with thousands of rabid fans throughout the world, but his heart is still in Seattle.

"I'll never not live in Seattle, I love it so much," the famous Bothell beatboxer, aka "Bshorty," said in a phone interview while en route to an "American Idols" concert in Alabama.

"People ask me, 'Are you moving to California?' I say, 'Like, hell no.' Seattle is so wonderful."

But it isn't just the scenery that makes Seattle wonderful. It's the music scene.

"There's the fact that people moved away after the grunge scene died and there's no spotlight on this town