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Billboard Chart Top 200

Chris Daughtry — #10 (peaked at # 1, then down to # 6 last week) 26 weeks on the chart
Carrie Underwood — #11 (from #8) 79 weeks on the chart
Elliott Yamin — #20 (from #67) 9 weeks on the chart

Bucky Covington — #56 (from # 44) 5 weeks on chart
Fantasia Barrino — #91 (from #99) 23 weeks on the chart
Kellie Pickler — #100 (from # 109) 29 weeks on the chart

Hot 100

DAUGHTRY – #5 (from #13 last week) 12 weeks on

Carrie Underwood — #8 (from # 11 last week) 38 weeks on

Elliott Yamin — #31 (from #80 last week) 5 weeks on the chart

Matt Rogers, fresh from the “American Idol Extra” gig, is still displaying his gift of gab on the Discovery Channel show entitled “Really Big Things” .This is definitely far from the singing hopes that he had when he was still in AI season 3. But no one’s complaining. I think he’s having such a grand time. Afterall, being seen everywhere is better than being seen nowhere. These breaks are big and he probably deserves it.

*He was a former correspondent to: Sports College Football, Best Damn Sports Show, Access Hollywood and Entertainment Tonight. He’s also worked in theater and radio.

Fantasia Barrino, our American Idol season 3, is now ready to explore new seas by going on to Broadway. She is currently in full preparation for her lastest challenging role yet, the main character “Celie” in the Broadway production of THE COLOR PURPLE. Fantasia will start playing as “Celie” beginning April 10^th this year

THE COLOR PURPLE is a musical that opened at the New York Broadway Theater on December 1, 2005. It is produced by Oprah Winfrey. The play had 11 nominations in 2006 including Best Musical, Best Original Score Written for the Theater, and Best Leading Actress in a Musical. LaChanze, the first actress who portrayed in the Broadway version as “Celie” won the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical. The story of THE COLOR PURPLE revolves around understanding the life of a typical African-American life during the early 20^th century.

THE COLOR PURPLE was originally a 1982 Pulitzer-price winning novel by Alice Walker (African-American novelist, short story writer, poet)

AVON, one of the world’s leading cosmetic companies has officially signed Academy Award winner (ex-American Idol finalist) Jennifer Hudson to be the next spokeswoman for their classic fragrance IMARI, Avon’s top-selling brand for 2 decades now. She will also be the exclusive endorser of the new IMARI SEDUCTION which will be launched in August. Expect Jennifer to appear in print ads and AVON Catalogs advocating the said perfume. Another lucky girl, she is

Also, Jen recently joined singer/songwriter Ne-Yo for his sophomore CD which will be released on the last week of April this year.

The second season of “American Idol Extra” is set to keep us glued on the boobtube once again starting on Thursday, March 15 at 6:30 pm ET (with an encore at 10:30 pm ET) on Fox Reality channel. This season will be hosted by JD Roberto (“Outback Jack”, “Shop ‘Til You Drop”, “Cut to the Chase”, “Great Hikes”, etc). AME aims to go deeper to show us the action that goes behind the scenes, and to help in that task are AI top 12 alums Mikalah Gordon (season 4) and Matt Rogers (season 3). Both have showed good confidence and hosting potential in past AI specials, it’s but right to give them this opportunity.

*The show will let us peek on the production team of American Idol. It will also give a glimpse on the producers, directors, fashion and make up unit of the show. It will also give us some updates on the past seasons’ AI finalists.

Jennifer Hudson is now indeed smelling the sweet scent of SUCCESS! The American Idol (season 3) top 7 finalist has finally “arrived” and she’s loving every minute. This only goes to show that the dream doesn’t end when a finalist gets cut from the AI show. There’s life after American Idol. Jennifer Hudson is one living proof that even an AI finalist can very much surpass the achievements of AI winners themselves.

Jennifer Hudson won a Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe, and an OSCAR award for the Best Supporting actress category for portraying Effie Melody White in the movie Dreamgirls. Wow! It’s a case of “too much too soon” but “so far, so good“! For all the hard work, CONGRATULATIONS Jennifer! You deserve all the awards