American Idol Archive - Popdust

The Ultimate “American Idol” Power Rankings: Top 12 (Sorta) Perform

All the ballads and adult contemporary from the year you were born! We rank all this. Somehow, we manage to like quite a bit of it....

Finally, an "Idol" alum who gets some choice material!

Or, you know, for the world-class singing on a singing competition, but let's just stop to think about the more likely explanation.

But don't worry, the decision to cut the 25-year-old hopeful will play out in "dramatic fashion" on Wednesday night.

And we're fine with it. WTF, though, America?

The guitar-playing hopeful visited a doctor Thursday morning, putting his status for tonight's results show in question.

The best, worst and weirdest of a night in which Houston gets half the tribute she deserves.

The "Idol" winner's cover of Tim McGraw's "Please Remember Me" will be played as contestants are shown the door.

On the bright side, if you ever audition successfully for either show, you are guaranteed to get some high, if unoriginal praise.

Learn a bit more about the people you'll hear a lot about over the next few months.

We don't power rank results shows, but in lieu of that, we put together some superlatives.

All 13 of them. We are A-OK with all but one! (Spoilers, obviously.)