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During The Top 5 Results Show Jamie Fox Promoted His New Movie The Soloist Successfully And Then Got Cutoff. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bvernon199 ( talk • contribs) 22:42, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
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Yahoo was reporting around 7:30 pacific time, before the show even aired, that Kris Allen won Idol. Did they do this shit last season, report it before the show aired? I've seen the last couple season finales and that didn't happen. Fox advertises the finale as being live (i.e. a circa 15-second delay), so I assumed that at, oh, 8:10 pm (west coast time, my time), I was watching something that was being taped at 8:10 pm in LA. -- 98.232.181.201 ( talk) 03:19, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Why should there be two indentical sections on Itunes one at the start and one at the end? Only to promote Itunes. Wikipedia is not for that! Suggest to remove top mentioning. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.127.162.156 ( talk) 14:53, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
Grand Finale (American Idol 8) should be merged with American Idol (season 8)#Finale. The article can easily fit into the main article, and currently is a WP:Content fork. iMatthew : Chat 19:15, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
I changing the 'Elim' to palegoldenrod as they are too similar to the wildcard colours Frazzler9 ( talk) 13:49, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
i know Ryan never said they were the bottom 4... but it was heavely implied... ryan would say to JaSMINE... come to centre stage please... then to Kris ... you are safe... then to Megan... come down to centre stage... he only referenced Megan and Anoop as being 'safe' in comparison to Jasmine and Jorge respectively...I will put it btm 4 for Megan and Anoop even though I know that it will be reverted Frazzler9 ( talk) 15:13, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
I copied this performance summary list of the 'Popstars The Rivals' wikipedia article. I think it looks more proffessional.. What do You guys think?
Frazzler9 ( talk) 23:44, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
Theme: Billboard Hot 100 hits
Order | Artist | Song (original artists) | Result | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jackie Tohn | " A Little Less Conversation" ( Elvis Presley) | Eliminated | |
2 | Ricky Braddy | " A Song for You" ( Donny Hathaway) | Eliminated | Chosen for Wild Card |
3 | Alexis Grace | " I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" ( Aretha Franklin) | Advanced | Highest Votes Female |
4 | Brent Keith | " Hicktown" ( Jason Aldean) | Eliminated | |
5 | Stevie Wright | " You Belong with Me" ( Taylor Swift) | Eliminated | |
6 | Anoop Desai | " Angel of Mine" ( Monica) | Eliminated | Chosen for Wild Card |
7 | Casey Carlson | " Every Little Thing He Does Is Magic" ( The Police) | Eliminated | |
8 | Michael Sarver | " I Don't Want to Be" ( Gavin DeGraw) | Advanced | Top 2 Males |
9 | Ann Marie Boskovich | " (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" (Aretha Franklin) | Eliminated | |
10 | Stephen Fowler | " Rock with You" ( Michael Jackson) | Eliminated | |
11 | Tatiana Del Toro | " Saving All My Love for You" ( Whitney Houston) | Eliminated | Chosen for Wild Card |
12 | Danny Gokey | " Hero" ( Mariah Carey) | Advanced | Top 2 Males |
Frazzler9 (
talk) 10:20, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
This format is used on the Pop Idol page so if you want to keep consistency then you should stick to the original Idol wikipedia article. This way looks more professional and the notes section is good for putting facts like Alexis, Allison and Lil were the highest voted females and information about the save etc... 92.2.27.46 ( talk) 21:39, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
Actually, the Pop Idol page was only done recently - I should know, I helped do most of it. If anything, the Pop Idol pages should change to these American Idol pages, which are far more established. Pop Idol doesnt even run anymore, making it sort of irrelevant. (
Kyleofark (
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Well if you made the pop idol page then did you make these tables. They are really good and are more clear and simple to read. 92.4.65.142 ( talk) 22:02, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
I made some of the tables, but the first few were already done by someone else, who I imagine thought that Pop Idol would be under the same category as The X Factor, which followed it as such in the UK ( Kyleofark ( talk) 23:13, 29 May 2009 (UTC))
June 2009 (UTC)
Order | Performer | Song | Artist | Result | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jesse Langseth | " Tell Me Something Good" | Rufus and Chaka Khan | Eliminated | Was told by Cowell she almost made it |
2 | Matt Giraud | " Who's Lovin' You" | The Jackson 5 | Advanced | Was the 3rd selected |
3 | Megan Joy | " Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" | KT Tunstall | Advanced | Was the 2nd selected |
4 | Von Smith | " Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" | Elton John | Eliminated | Was told he had some incorrections |
5 | Jasmine Murray | " Reflection" | Christina Aguilera | Advanced | Was the 1st selected |
6 | Ricky Braddy | " Superstition" | Stevie Wonder | Eliminated | Was told he lacked personality |
7 | Tatiana Del Toro | " Saving All My Love for You" | Whitney Houston | Eliminated | Tatiana sang the same song |
8 | Anoop Desai | " My Perogative" | Bobby Brown | Advanced | Anoop was advanced to make a top 13 |
I much prefer these tables. If there is a concern about space then we can eliminate the 'artists' sections and merge it with the song section to make it a 'songs (original artists)'. 92.6.113.88 ( talk) 20:47, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
check otu this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_Idol_(series_2)#Elimination_chart ... this is the pop Idol article and they use tables.. they lose the notes section however after the semi finals 92.6.113.88 ( talk) 20:52, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
So what was the final score of votes between Kris and Adam? This is something American Idol never mentions on the show (or rarely). And its pretty important for validity. 24.61.21.58 ( talk) 05:02, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
Someone needs to elaborate on the AT&T scandal because there are quite alot of significant details not gone into there..like the exponential voting, free cell phones given out, etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.61.21.58 ( talk) 06:08, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
I was just doing some work, and browsing through, various contestant articles. Why does every finalist except for Alexis Grace have an article? I noticed the deletion page (so don't just point me there), and it seems very shady to me that it was first kept then deleted a VERY short time later, with very little discussion, and no reference to the previous time when it was kept. Anyways, it just seems odd that Jorge Nunez and Jasmine Murray--neither of whom lasted as long in the competition as Grace--have articles about them and she doesn't. And someone protected Alexis Grace so the article can't even be created. I just don't understand all of this stuff. Unitanode 13:27, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
I changed the wording of a sentence in their short biography things. They both previously said "Jasmine/Jorge was the first to be eliminated from the top 13 along with Jasmine Murray/Jorge Nunez. I felt that to give the wrong message, because whilst they were the first two to be eliminated, and we're unsure of the order, its strange to say that two people were the first to be eliminated. Im not even entirely sure that it makes sense. I changed it to "Jasmine was eliminated in the first week of the finals, along with Jorge" and the same for Jorge, which i feel makes more sense. I know its minor, but I thought id mention the change here anyway. :) ( Kyleofark ( talk) 22:06, 6 June 2009 (UTC))
(Moved elimination chart to User:Frazzler9/Sandbox instead of continually having new charts here on the talk page. Aspects ( talk) 20:50, 14 June 2009 (UTC))
I think this is a good idea and should be up for discussion as this version of the elimination chart is more in-sync with the shows format in which the highest-voted female, male and the next highest vote recipient advances. You get the impression from this table through the use of the male and female colours that the highest male and female advanced. I have some problems though. Do we know for definite that Kris, Jorge and Michael were the 'next highest'? If so then should their semi final result block contain '2' in the cyan colour or '3' in the palegoldenrod. I fear that if it was the 'cyan' colour it might give the impression that 2 guys get voted through. i got this idea from other idol articles which show the vote placement for the semi finals by using '1' and '2' on contestants semi final performances. I implimented this idea into season 1 and 3 articles as i thought it made the table more accurate. one issue i had with this is that the column width is not equal to the 'btm 3' column lenght so I put an extra '0' in front of the semi final dates. I know u can increase column width but I didn't want to mess with it.. I am not putting this idea on the table just for change sake but I feel that is useful and you can't deny that I have a point. 92.3.181.207 ( talk) 20:15, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
Just to add my two cents in this, but I really dont see the point in adding this information. Anyone with any sense would work out that the people with "top 13" are the ones who went through, just by them having "Top 13" and the other contestants from their group having "Elim". Also, seeing as we have no idea of which males were the 1st placed male, it's just going to get confusing. I think it should just be left as it is. The table is fine, people need to stop making endless changes to it. ( Kyleofark ( talk) 16:25, 17 June 2009 (UTC))
(Moved elimination chart to User:Frazzler9/Sandbox instead of continually having new charts here on the talk page.) Aspects ( talk) 22:46, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
I feel that the wild card colours are too similar to the elimination colour scheme especially the yellow 'elims'. i am suggesting this scheme posted below... We could also change the 'save' colour to this scheme as it is the same concept: the judges are saving a contestant who was eliminated at one stage in the competition. The WC colour is too similar to the elimination chart colours 92.3.174.44 ( talk) 14:28, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
check out my awesome ideas at User:Frazzler9/Sandbox.. these are significant and not foolish ideas 92.3.174.44 ( talk) 19:49, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
I am changing the wild card colours to the same colour used for the judges save. I am doing this because A) the wild card colours are too similar to the btm 3/btm 2/Elim colour scheme and B) because it is a similar concept: the judges saving contestant/contestants who were originally eliminated 92.3.174.44 ( talk) 11:34, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
It's completely pointless to add "top 2" in their table. If Matt got eliminated and Adam and Kris were in the bottom 3, it's pretty obvious they were top 2 since they were the only ones left. It just adds visual pollution to the article. -- Tam001 ( talk) 21:37, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
Currently Kris Allen's image is being used twice in the article. First in the infobox at the top of the article and second next to his mini-biography. I have removed it from the article since I cannot recall any Wikipedia article using the same picture twice in the article, just to have it reverted without an explanation. I do not want to have an edit war, so I am starting a discussion here to gain a consensus on the image. Aspects ( talk) 04:39, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
I feel that since the elimination chart is more of a results summary (if it was just elimination chart then there would be no btm 3) then we should place the semi-final positions e.g. Allison, Alexis, Lil were the highest voted female for their group so they are '1' in the female colour. For the two guys that advanced each week we should put '1-2' in cyan showing that they were either the 1st or second male that advanced. In a perfect world, if we knew which position the guys came in then we could put the 2nd guy as '3' in palegoldenrod showing that the 3rd spot is not gender specific. 92.4.145.177 ( talk) 21:15, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
On the elimination chart, I have replaced the 'adv' with other things that make more sense. 'Adv' is very vague. From the chart, I can gather that the top 3 voted contestants advanced. That is however not the case in reality. The top 3 females may have more votes that the top male but still the highest voted male, female and the next highest vote getter advanced. I have put a footnote at the bottom of the chart which says something along the lines of 'every week highest male, female and next highest advanced. Every week, 2 males advanced however it was never revealed which male was the highest and which male won the non-gender specific slot'... Because of this I have replaced 'adv' with 'Top 2' in the cyan colour for male contestants and 'Top' in pink for the female contestants that were non wild-card as we know that they were the highest female vote getters. This new format makes the chart much more correct especially with the footnote at the bottom. Frazzler9 ( talk) 02:03, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
Came across this tidbit about what season 8 people got paid and their financial obligations [2], figured it would make an interesting addition to the article somewhere. -- Hourick ( talk) 17:20, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
As for the song list: can anyone please revert it back to become similar with that of season 7's? Season 7's list is much better than what we have, as we actually get to easily see the songs sung by each of performer if they are listed together. Hope this is a good argument for you guys.
As for the grand finale: the article has been deleted. Anyone who can actually re-write the event in this article? LordBelly06 ( talk) 07:11, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
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During The Top 5 Results Show Jamie Fox Promoted His New Movie The Soloist Successfully And Then Got Cutoff. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bvernon199 ( talk • contribs) 22:42, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
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Yahoo was reporting around 7:30 pacific time, before the show even aired, that Kris Allen won Idol. Did they do this shit last season, report it before the show aired? I've seen the last couple season finales and that didn't happen. Fox advertises the finale as being live (i.e. a circa 15-second delay), so I assumed that at, oh, 8:10 pm (west coast time, my time), I was watching something that was being taped at 8:10 pm in LA. -- 98.232.181.201 ( talk) 03:19, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Why should there be two indentical sections on Itunes one at the start and one at the end? Only to promote Itunes. Wikipedia is not for that! Suggest to remove top mentioning. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.127.162.156 ( talk) 14:53, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
Grand Finale (American Idol 8) should be merged with American Idol (season 8)#Finale. The article can easily fit into the main article, and currently is a WP:Content fork. iMatthew : Chat 19:15, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
I changing the 'Elim' to palegoldenrod as they are too similar to the wildcard colours Frazzler9 ( talk) 13:49, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
i know Ryan never said they were the bottom 4... but it was heavely implied... ryan would say to JaSMINE... come to centre stage please... then to Kris ... you are safe... then to Megan... come down to centre stage... he only referenced Megan and Anoop as being 'safe' in comparison to Jasmine and Jorge respectively...I will put it btm 4 for Megan and Anoop even though I know that it will be reverted Frazzler9 ( talk) 15:13, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
I copied this performance summary list of the 'Popstars The Rivals' wikipedia article. I think it looks more proffessional.. What do You guys think?
Frazzler9 ( talk) 23:44, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
Theme: Billboard Hot 100 hits
Order | Artist | Song (original artists) | Result | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jackie Tohn | " A Little Less Conversation" ( Elvis Presley) | Eliminated | |
2 | Ricky Braddy | " A Song for You" ( Donny Hathaway) | Eliminated | Chosen for Wild Card |
3 | Alexis Grace | " I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" ( Aretha Franklin) | Advanced | Highest Votes Female |
4 | Brent Keith | " Hicktown" ( Jason Aldean) | Eliminated | |
5 | Stevie Wright | " You Belong with Me" ( Taylor Swift) | Eliminated | |
6 | Anoop Desai | " Angel of Mine" ( Monica) | Eliminated | Chosen for Wild Card |
7 | Casey Carlson | " Every Little Thing He Does Is Magic" ( The Police) | Eliminated | |
8 | Michael Sarver | " I Don't Want to Be" ( Gavin DeGraw) | Advanced | Top 2 Males |
9 | Ann Marie Boskovich | " (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" (Aretha Franklin) | Eliminated | |
10 | Stephen Fowler | " Rock with You" ( Michael Jackson) | Eliminated | |
11 | Tatiana Del Toro | " Saving All My Love for You" ( Whitney Houston) | Eliminated | Chosen for Wild Card |
12 | Danny Gokey | " Hero" ( Mariah Carey) | Advanced | Top 2 Males |
Frazzler9 (
talk) 10:20, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
This format is used on the Pop Idol page so if you want to keep consistency then you should stick to the original Idol wikipedia article. This way looks more professional and the notes section is good for putting facts like Alexis, Allison and Lil were the highest voted females and information about the save etc... 92.2.27.46 ( talk) 21:39, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
Actually, the Pop Idol page was only done recently - I should know, I helped do most of it. If anything, the Pop Idol pages should change to these American Idol pages, which are far more established. Pop Idol doesnt even run anymore, making it sort of irrelevant. (
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Well if you made the pop idol page then did you make these tables. They are really good and are more clear and simple to read. 92.4.65.142 ( talk) 22:02, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
I made some of the tables, but the first few were already done by someone else, who I imagine thought that Pop Idol would be under the same category as The X Factor, which followed it as such in the UK ( Kyleofark ( talk) 23:13, 29 May 2009 (UTC))
June 2009 (UTC)
Order | Performer | Song | Artist | Result | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jesse Langseth | " Tell Me Something Good" | Rufus and Chaka Khan | Eliminated | Was told by Cowell she almost made it |
2 | Matt Giraud | " Who's Lovin' You" | The Jackson 5 | Advanced | Was the 3rd selected |
3 | Megan Joy | " Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" | KT Tunstall | Advanced | Was the 2nd selected |
4 | Von Smith | " Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" | Elton John | Eliminated | Was told he had some incorrections |
5 | Jasmine Murray | " Reflection" | Christina Aguilera | Advanced | Was the 1st selected |
6 | Ricky Braddy | " Superstition" | Stevie Wonder | Eliminated | Was told he lacked personality |
7 | Tatiana Del Toro | " Saving All My Love for You" | Whitney Houston | Eliminated | Tatiana sang the same song |
8 | Anoop Desai | " My Perogative" | Bobby Brown | Advanced | Anoop was advanced to make a top 13 |
I much prefer these tables. If there is a concern about space then we can eliminate the 'artists' sections and merge it with the song section to make it a 'songs (original artists)'. 92.6.113.88 ( talk) 20:47, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
check otu this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_Idol_(series_2)#Elimination_chart ... this is the pop Idol article and they use tables.. they lose the notes section however after the semi finals 92.6.113.88 ( talk) 20:52, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
So what was the final score of votes between Kris and Adam? This is something American Idol never mentions on the show (or rarely). And its pretty important for validity. 24.61.21.58 ( talk) 05:02, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
Someone needs to elaborate on the AT&T scandal because there are quite alot of significant details not gone into there..like the exponential voting, free cell phones given out, etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.61.21.58 ( talk) 06:08, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
I was just doing some work, and browsing through, various contestant articles. Why does every finalist except for Alexis Grace have an article? I noticed the deletion page (so don't just point me there), and it seems very shady to me that it was first kept then deleted a VERY short time later, with very little discussion, and no reference to the previous time when it was kept. Anyways, it just seems odd that Jorge Nunez and Jasmine Murray--neither of whom lasted as long in the competition as Grace--have articles about them and she doesn't. And someone protected Alexis Grace so the article can't even be created. I just don't understand all of this stuff. Unitanode 13:27, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
I changed the wording of a sentence in their short biography things. They both previously said "Jasmine/Jorge was the first to be eliminated from the top 13 along with Jasmine Murray/Jorge Nunez. I felt that to give the wrong message, because whilst they were the first two to be eliminated, and we're unsure of the order, its strange to say that two people were the first to be eliminated. Im not even entirely sure that it makes sense. I changed it to "Jasmine was eliminated in the first week of the finals, along with Jorge" and the same for Jorge, which i feel makes more sense. I know its minor, but I thought id mention the change here anyway. :) ( Kyleofark ( talk) 22:06, 6 June 2009 (UTC))
(Moved elimination chart to User:Frazzler9/Sandbox instead of continually having new charts here on the talk page. Aspects ( talk) 20:50, 14 June 2009 (UTC))
I think this is a good idea and should be up for discussion as this version of the elimination chart is more in-sync with the shows format in which the highest-voted female, male and the next highest vote recipient advances. You get the impression from this table through the use of the male and female colours that the highest male and female advanced. I have some problems though. Do we know for definite that Kris, Jorge and Michael were the 'next highest'? If so then should their semi final result block contain '2' in the cyan colour or '3' in the palegoldenrod. I fear that if it was the 'cyan' colour it might give the impression that 2 guys get voted through. i got this idea from other idol articles which show the vote placement for the semi finals by using '1' and '2' on contestants semi final performances. I implimented this idea into season 1 and 3 articles as i thought it made the table more accurate. one issue i had with this is that the column width is not equal to the 'btm 3' column lenght so I put an extra '0' in front of the semi final dates. I know u can increase column width but I didn't want to mess with it.. I am not putting this idea on the table just for change sake but I feel that is useful and you can't deny that I have a point. 92.3.181.207 ( talk) 20:15, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
Just to add my two cents in this, but I really dont see the point in adding this information. Anyone with any sense would work out that the people with "top 13" are the ones who went through, just by them having "Top 13" and the other contestants from their group having "Elim". Also, seeing as we have no idea of which males were the 1st placed male, it's just going to get confusing. I think it should just be left as it is. The table is fine, people need to stop making endless changes to it. ( Kyleofark ( talk) 16:25, 17 June 2009 (UTC))
(Moved elimination chart to User:Frazzler9/Sandbox instead of continually having new charts here on the talk page.) Aspects ( talk) 22:46, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
I feel that the wild card colours are too similar to the elimination colour scheme especially the yellow 'elims'. i am suggesting this scheme posted below... We could also change the 'save' colour to this scheme as it is the same concept: the judges are saving a contestant who was eliminated at one stage in the competition. The WC colour is too similar to the elimination chart colours 92.3.174.44 ( talk) 14:28, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
check out my awesome ideas at User:Frazzler9/Sandbox.. these are significant and not foolish ideas 92.3.174.44 ( talk) 19:49, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
I am changing the wild card colours to the same colour used for the judges save. I am doing this because A) the wild card colours are too similar to the btm 3/btm 2/Elim colour scheme and B) because it is a similar concept: the judges saving contestant/contestants who were originally eliminated 92.3.174.44 ( talk) 11:34, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
It's completely pointless to add "top 2" in their table. If Matt got eliminated and Adam and Kris were in the bottom 3, it's pretty obvious they were top 2 since they were the only ones left. It just adds visual pollution to the article. -- Tam001 ( talk) 21:37, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
Currently Kris Allen's image is being used twice in the article. First in the infobox at the top of the article and second next to his mini-biography. I have removed it from the article since I cannot recall any Wikipedia article using the same picture twice in the article, just to have it reverted without an explanation. I do not want to have an edit war, so I am starting a discussion here to gain a consensus on the image. Aspects ( talk) 04:39, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
I feel that since the elimination chart is more of a results summary (if it was just elimination chart then there would be no btm 3) then we should place the semi-final positions e.g. Allison, Alexis, Lil were the highest voted female for their group so they are '1' in the female colour. For the two guys that advanced each week we should put '1-2' in cyan showing that they were either the 1st or second male that advanced. In a perfect world, if we knew which position the guys came in then we could put the 2nd guy as '3' in palegoldenrod showing that the 3rd spot is not gender specific. 92.4.145.177 ( talk) 21:15, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
On the elimination chart, I have replaced the 'adv' with other things that make more sense. 'Adv' is very vague. From the chart, I can gather that the top 3 voted contestants advanced. That is however not the case in reality. The top 3 females may have more votes that the top male but still the highest voted male, female and the next highest vote getter advanced. I have put a footnote at the bottom of the chart which says something along the lines of 'every week highest male, female and next highest advanced. Every week, 2 males advanced however it was never revealed which male was the highest and which male won the non-gender specific slot'... Because of this I have replaced 'adv' with 'Top 2' in the cyan colour for male contestants and 'Top' in pink for the female contestants that were non wild-card as we know that they were the highest female vote getters. This new format makes the chart much more correct especially with the footnote at the bottom. Frazzler9 ( talk) 02:03, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
Came across this tidbit about what season 8 people got paid and their financial obligations [2], figured it would make an interesting addition to the article somewhere. -- Hourick ( talk) 17:20, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
As for the song list: can anyone please revert it back to become similar with that of season 7's? Season 7's list is much better than what we have, as we actually get to easily see the songs sung by each of performer if they are listed together. Hope this is a good argument for you guys.
As for the grand finale: the article has been deleted. Anyone who can actually re-write the event in this article? LordBelly06 ( talk) 07:11, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
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