Joey Catalano auditioned in the Philadelphia round of auditions, and impressed the judges so much that he earnt himself a ticket to the Hollywood rounds!


You can all enjoy the audition again by checking out the video below:

For those of you who didn’t get enough of Kristy Lee Cook singing Amazing Grace in her audition, we have the clip of this amazing performance for you here!


Enjoy, and let us know what you think in the comments!

In Dallas 24 contestants were successful in gaining a ticket to the next stages of American Idol, although thousands more were not! (Italian Opera duetting brother-sister duo – I mean, c’mon people!?!)


Although we do not have full details of who made it through, the following people will be seen again:

• Kyle Ensley
• Drew Poppelreiter
• Nina Shaw
• Kady Malloy
• Colton Swon
• Jessica Brown
• Kayla Hatfield
• Pia Easley
• Brandon Green
• Alaina Whitaker

We look forward to seeing a lot more of them in the future, and will be bringing you pics and videos as they come available!

Well, the Philly auditions were pretty successful, with a number of particularly talented people auditioning. Among the people who got the so-called golden ticket to the Hollywood rounds are:

• Kristy Lee Cook
• Brooke White
• Chris Watson
• Beth Stalker
• Angela Martin
• Melanie Nyema
• Junot Joymer
• Jonathan Baines
• Jose Candelaria
• Joey Catalano

The full list of those successful is not yet available, although you can guarantee that AIF will bring them to you ASAP!

The veiwing figures are in for the opening two shows in the 2008 season of American Idol, and there’s good news and bad news for Messrs. Lythgoe, Cowell et al. While the show was comfortably the most watched show on television on each night in the United States, fewer people tuned in this year than watched the same show last year.



Over 30 million of us tuned in for the Dallas Auditions on Wednesday night, which is nearly twenty million viewers more than the next watched TV show, Deal or No Deal on NBC! It also did incredibly well in pulling in the ‘profitable’ viewing segment of 18-49 year-olds.


However, this time last year, the show had almost 37 million people watching, which is 6.66 million more viewers (scary number or what?!). So does this mean that American Idol is on it’s way out? Are less people interested in watching this, now that we’ve seen essentially the same thing happen 6 times in a row already?


What are your thoughts? Let us know!