Associated Content - Denver,CO,USA - American Idol's Brooke White has released her debut album Songs from the Attic. While Brooke White is unable to sign an official record deal until the American Idol tour finishes, she has chosen to release her album independently. You can also hear samples of songs from the album. Brooke White's album contains 11 songs, including covers of Aerosmith's Dream On and Coldplays' Yellow. I really enjoyed the clips from her album. The songs had a nice fusion of folk, pop, and a nice rhythmic upbeat quality. Even on the cover songs, Brooke White's unique voice and style came through.

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News Courier - Athens,AL,USA - American Idol and pop star Jordin Sparks sings, “Tell me how I’m supposed to breathe with no air,” in her recent love duet with Chris Brown. Now, she’s asking how teens are supposed to do school work with no supplies.


Sparks recently joined with the Web site DoSomething.org and Staples Inc. to resolve this problem with a national back-to-school supply drive.

“I’m very excited to be involved with the Do Something 101 campaign and to help motivate teens to get involved,” Sparks said. “There are so many kids in America who need school supplies and don’t have them, and all somebody has

Newsweek - USA - When OK! Magazine announced 16-year-old Nickelodeon star Jamie Lynn Spears' pregnancy in December 2007, it was the best-selling issue since the magazine's American debut in 2005. "We knew it was a very big story, but it took us a little bit by surprise just how big the story became," says Rob Shuter, OK!'s executive editor. "The nightly news was talking about it."

But the story wasn't exactly a publicist's dream. Jamie Lynn was, after all, barely old enough to get her driver's license, and she was a tween icon thanks to her sitcom, "Zoey 101." In October 2007, Jamie Lynn told

MyFox Kansas City - Kansas City,MO,USA - By now, most people know the story of how American Idol David Cook, from Blue Springs, Missouri, ended up trying out for the show. Now, he's happy to be in a position to pay back his brother, Andrew Cook.

David Cook went to Omaha not to audition for American Idol, but instead just to accompany his brother, Andrew for his audition. As most people know by now, David ended up auditioning for American Idol and winning the crown.

Now, Cook has a record deal, a tour, an endorsement deal with Sketchers, and the former bartender from Tulsa now has a little discretionary

Portsmouth Herald News - Portsmouth,NH,USA - Ayla Brown, an "American Idol" finalist in 2006, gave her many fans in her summer home of Rye a sampling of why she made it to No. 13 in the country on the popular television show.

Singing not only one of the tunes from her album "Forward" in her clear, strong voice, Brown also unveiled her newest single, "Absolutely Everybody," which had young and old alike dancing.

A tall, slender, attractive young woman, she was clearly very comfortable on the small stage at Parsons Field. And she had a blast, too, calling up many small children onto the stage with her, getting

MTV.com - USA - As far as Blake Lewis is concerned, selling close to 300,000 copies of his debut LP, A.D.D. (Audio Day Dream), was a "huge success" — at least on a personal level. Apparently, Arista Records has a different definition of success.

The atypical "American Idol" alumnus (he was the season-six runner-up, ultimately losing out to Jordin Sparks) told MTV News that he parted ways with Arista just seven months after his record landed in stores. That makes his the shortest of all the relationships forged between former "Idol" contenders and their various record labels. But the beatboxer would like to clarify one

New York Times - United States - EARLY last year, marketing executives at Totes Isotoner, a Cincinnati company that had spent the previous 30 years churning out a reliable lineup of humble umbrellas, crowded around a computer and listened to a teenage singer from Barbados named Rihanna breeze through a tune titled, appropriately, “Umbrella.”

The song, not yet released, had commercial, jingle-ready lyrics and a stick-in-your-head hook: “You can stand under my umbrella, ella, ella, eh, eh, eh.” Totes, which hadn’t deployed celebrity endorsements since the former N.F.L. quarterback Dan Marino hawked its gloves more than a decade earlier, was smitten. “Umbrella” became a corporate rallying cry, with

SheKnows.com - Scottsdale, AZ, USA - Archie got a record deal! David Archuleta has signed with 19 Recordings Jive Records and although that was hardly in doubt, what is still a question is what his sound becomes and how well he'll sell albums.

By signing with Jive, Archuleta is going with the practically in house recording company associated with “American Idol.” Winner David Cook gets the automatic deal, but anyone else in the Top 12 can sign wherever they want.

The fact that Archuleta signed with Jive is telling. At only 17, the singer could use some serious guidance as he navigates the mine fields of popular music

LiveDaily.com - USA - Toby Keith [ tickets ]'s fifth annual celebrity golf tournament raised more than $700,000 for Ally's House, a Oklahoma nonprofit that benefits children with cancer and their families. This year's record-setting total topped last year's $500,000, pushing the five-year charitable contribution for the tournament past $2.3 million, according to a statement on Keith's website.

The June 6-7 "Toby Keith & Friends Celebrity Golf Classic" brought together 750 celebrities and guests for golfing, music and a silent auction, which featured items including two dinners with Keith, selling for $35,000 each. Other top auction items this year included a "Deadliest Catch" package ,which

Lower Hudson Journal news - West Harrison, NY, USA - On a day when Tiger Woods and Rocco Mediate battled for the U.S. Open title in California, singer Taylor Hicks was one of dozens of celebrities at Winged Foot Golf Club yesterday to raise an estimated $1 million for the Autism Speaks charity.

Hicks, who won the fifth season of "American Idol" and is guest-starring in "Grease" on Broadway, said the cause is important to him.

"One of my dad's best friend's sons has autism," he said, moments before practicing his swing at the driving range. "When I heard about this particular event, I wanted to make sure I got out and

Country Hound - Nashville, TN, USA - The Toby Keith & Friends Celebrity Golf Classic held this past weekend in Oklahoma raised $709,000, a record for the event, far exceeding last year’s $500,000.  The tournament benefits Ally’s House, a nonprofit that helps families dealing with childhood cancer.

The event included an auction which featured memorabilia donated by Country Music stars George Strait, Carrie Underwood, and Loretta Lynn, actor Tom Hanks, and sports greats Tiger Woods, Brett Favre, LeBron James, Andre Agassi, Tony Stewart, Peyton Manning, Troy Aikman and Nolan Ryan.   The top bid was $35,000 for dinner with Country Music artist and charity host Toby Keith.

Ally's House is

Voice of America - USA - Julianne Hough grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah. At age 4, she began singing in her family's Country band, White Lightning. After studying dance in London for five years, Julianne returned home to the U.S., and decided to pursue a singing career. But, last year, she put her music career on hold once again while competing on seasons four and five of Dancing With The Stars. Julianne made a third appearance this year, but was eliminated in the fourth week.

After leaving the series, she headed to Nashville. Julianne says the first thing she had to do was find songs

Hagerstown Morning Herald - Hagerstown, MD, USA - Country music star Kathy Mattea will tour the newly renovated former Jefferson County Jail in Charles Town on July 18 and participate in a panel discussion about the project, an official with the event told county officials Thursday.

Mattea is a West Virginia native who maintains an interest in state issues. She recently made a trip to the Charleston, W.Va., area to learn more about mountaintop removal mining in that region, said Doug Estepp, who was involved in the effort to save the former Jefferson County Jail.

Estepp said he was interested in having Mattea visit Charles Town to see the renovated

MyFox Kansas City - Kansas City, MO, USA - American Idol, and Kansas City's own, David Cook is better than Miley Cyrus. At least, that's according to their Billboard Hot 100 debuts.

According to Billboard.com, Cook's debut of entries into the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Digital Songs sets a record previously held by Hannah Montana herself, or Miley Cyrus.

Cook has 11 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 and 14 songs on the Hot Digital Songs lists. His takeover of the charts includes the number three slot for "The Time of My Life" on the Hot 100 list and the same song takes the number one spot on the downloads

Entertainment Weekly - USA - For the moment, it's David Cook's world and we just live — and download — in it. That would be the conclusion to draw, anyway, from this week's digital-songs chart, where American Idol-atry has truly reached critical mass. Cook's TV coronation anthem, "Time of My Life," debuted atop that chart with 236,000 downloads.

But his success hardly stopped there: "Big" David had a total of 14 songs bow on the digital songs chart. His second-biggest single of the week, "Dream Big," bowed at No. 6 with 111,000 sold, and he claimed a third entry in the chart's top 10, selling 98,000

MTV.com - USA - "American Idol" vet Clay Aiken is going to be a father, according to TMZ.com.

Citing "multiple sources," the site reported that the mother is Jaymes Foster, who served as executive producer of his new album, On My Way Here, and is a close friend. The site said he stays at her home when he's in Los Angeles.

The site said Foster, 50, is due in August, and this will be her first child. She is the sister of hit producer David Foster. Aiken is 29.

The site also reported that Foster was artificially inseminated, but Aiken will take an active role in raising

BuddyTV - Seattle, WA, USA - David Cook has been busy.  It's only been one week since the former bartender was crowned the American Idol champion, and he's already gone on a date, conducted thousands of interviews, rehearsed for the American Idol tour and found 17 of his Idol songs on the Top 100 Digital Music charts.  Not bad for someone who was completely anonymous six months ago.  Below, we're going to go through the laundry list of activities that Cook has endured over the past week.  Tomorrow, we'll take a gander at David Archuleta's week but, since he was second place (and, really, second place

National Ledger - Apache Junction, AZ, USA - American idol Carrie Underwood will grace the stage in Hollywood once again.  Fresh off her big win and incredible performance at the Academy of Country Music Awards (ACM Awards) she will join the Jonas Brothers (Nick, Kevin and Joe Jonas) for a big time finale for American Idol.  Both acts will take the stage Wednesday night when America votes for either David Archuleta or David Cook to become the season seven and reigning champion of American idol.

Carrie Underwood took home the female vocalist of the year the Academy of Country Music Awards on Monday night where she gave a humorous

Houston Chronicle - United States - It's still unclear what we'll most remember about this year's American Idol. But it's likely not what host Ryan Seacrest repeatedly promised - the most talented singers ever! - during the early weeks of the show.

If anything, quirky details and disasters, more than the music, made this season worth watching: David Hernandez's seedy stripper past; Brooke White's do-overs; Carly Smithson's tattoos; Jason Castro's distant gaze; David Archuleta's stage dad; Danny Noriega's peculiar energy.

So what we're left with on tonight's show isn't exactly a David vs. Goliath battle - despite glaring differences in age, attitude and size.

Instead it's David vs. David.