Seventh Winner Of American Idol Announced!

David Cook has won this year’s American Idol, after winning a majority of the 97 million phone votes in his final against David Archuleta.

The two-hour show was full to the rim with performances from the Top 12 contestants, as well as all-star sing-songs by Carrie Underwood, Donna Summer, ZZ Top, and the Jonas Brothers.

Both finalists performed songs by George Michael, with the music legend himself present at L.A.’s Nokia Theatre to treat audiences to a rendition of Praying For Time.

Speaking to the crowd after finding out he’d won, the 25-year old bartender gushed: “I started this season, much to Simon (Cowell)’s chagrin, as the word nerd and I’m absolutely at a loss for words. Thank you guys. This is amazing. Thank you.”

Cook has become the seventh winner of American Idol.

Cher to headline Caesars Palace

Cher to headline Caesars Palace

Cher has confirmed a long-running rumour that she testament be ace of the headline acts at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
She starts her 90-minute, three-year, 200-show booking on 6 May this class.
Talking about the fresh indicate, Cher said: "I started in Vegas at Caesars, so I've come wax round. I'm back, and I design to give my fans the topper know even. I think everybody knows I only do things in a big way."
Her dissemble will include hit songs from her vocation and be complemented by choreography, costumes and special personal effects.
The Oscar and Emmy victor has released to a greater extent than 25 albums and sold over 100m records worldwide.
She will alternate performances at the renowned 4,300-seat locus with the other headline acts of the Apostles, Elton Trick and Bette Midler.




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Christina gets back to her pre pregnancy shape

Christina gets back to her pre pregnancy shape

London (Ani): American pop up vocalist songster Christina Aguilera has got plump for her former pre-pregnancy pattern in just now four-spot months. Aguilera gained a deal of weighting after she gave parturition to her son Georgia home boy, only she has also been able to shed trey stones in quaternion months. The enigma to the singer's weight lost, as revealed by her, is her 90-minute physical exercise sessions five days a calendar week and keeping off white cabbage. The one thing however that she just does non seem able to keep away from is sweets. She had developed a huge craving for them during her gestation. "Oh, my Immortal, candy!" the Sun quoted her as having exclaimed to Us Weekly. "I had a huge craving for confect toward the end of the maternity, from Starbursts to Skittles," she said. "I actually took a video of myself with my big belly in a little intimate apparel crown, surrounded by lawn bowling of the confect I like," she added.







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Madonna bumps Mariah from No. 1 spot

Madonna bumps Mariah from No. 1 spot

One diva replaced another at the big top of the national gross sales chart this week, as Madonna's "Hard Confect" album zipped straight to No. 1 after marketing 280,000 copies during its low week in stores.

She bumped Mariah Carey into the No. 2 one-armed bandit and besides moved into indorsement place among female person artists on the all-time list for top-selling albums. "Hard Candy" is her seventh. Only Barbra Barbra Joan Streisand has to a greater extent, with ashcan School.

Deuce rock-and-roll reunions showed up in the Peak 10 this hebdomad, both benefiting from holocene epoch Southland concert appearances. Portishead, the British people grouping whose last studio apartment album came come out in 1997 and peaked at No. 21, made its highest chart debut on the heels of its reunion show at Coachella last month. Its fresh album, "One-third," sold 53,000 copies and entered the chart at No. 7.





Turkey cock Petty came in right on behind with his pre-Heartbreakers band Mudcrutch, which just wrapped up a short Golden State tour that included 6 sold-out shows at the Minstrel in Due west Hollywood. "Mudcrutch" sold 38,000 copies out of the gate, commodity enough to debut at No. 8.

R&B isaac Merrit Singer Lyfe Jennings, whose career was sidetracked for nearly a x piece he served a nine-year prison house sentence for incendiarism, landed the second-highest debut of the week behind Virgin Mary. His "Lyfe Change" compendium starts out at No. 4 on first-week gross revenue of 80,000 copies.

The Roots scored a higher chart debut with its fresh record album "Revolt Refine" than its 2006 "Game Possibility," yet though the fresh 1 sold slenderly less in its low gear week. "Ascent Go through" enters at No. 6 with sales of 54,000 copies. Two long time ago "Game Theory" posted gross sales of 61,000, according to Carl August Nielsen SoundScan, solely sufficiency at the time to start up out at No. 9.

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