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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
8/27: Check out Kara DioGuardi on her first reality show
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I got kind of busy Wednesday and neglected to update the blog. My apologies. It’s a crazy week for multiple reasons, though maybe not as crazy as it is for Kara DioGuardi. A lot of debate on the Web whether she’ll help the show or not.
We really won’t know til we see it. The questions are:
1- Will she drive Paula even more batty or balance her out?
2- Will she force the others to shorten their comments because of time restraints? Will this peeve Simon even more? Will it improve flow? I’m not sure if four judges is a good thing though “So You Think You Can Dance” sometimes has five or six.
3- Who will break ties when deciding talent during auditions?
4- What order will she be placed?
5- Will she provide truly useful advise given her position as a singer-songwriter with an impressive resume (Paris Hilton, Ashlee Simpson and Lindsay Lohan notwithstanding) She seems pretty grounded.
6-Will this improve dynamics and inject some new life into the judge’s table? Simon told AP Tuesday “It’s like, you know, having dinner with three people for seven years, and getting quite bored of each other. So it’s having a fourth person, new opinion, I think it’s gonna be interesting.”
Naturally, someone taped “The One: Making of a Superstar,” the pitifully poorly received “Idol” ripoff Kara was on in 2006 and it’s on YouTube. This is definitely a good sign if she’s like this on “Idol.” She shows passion and knowledge. She berates the contestants (including Syesha Mercado, who has to thank her lucky stars was nixed after two weeks):
Fox 5 in New York City shows the first video of Kara entering the NYC auditions Tuesday here.
-Here’s the Mavid doing the Locomotion at the 2 minute point of this video from Dallas:
-Idol Chatter reports the usual three “Idols” on the top 200. As usual, Carrie Underwood is tops at No. 35 with 11K in sales and 2.30 million total. Daughtry holds at 7K in sales and 4.19 million. His single “What About Now” is moving up the download chart and is at No. 161 with 9K sold. It’s now at No. 30 on the top 40 chart with a bullet. Jordin Sparks is at 7K for the week, too, with 892K. Her single “One Step at a Time” is up to 16 on the download chart and 492K total in sales. It also jumps to No. 1 on the top 40 chart, her third top 10 hit on the radio, according to Radio & Records. David Archuleta’s “Crush” drops to No. 6 with 89K for the week and 256K total. It’s jumped to No. 31 in its second week on the top 40 charts (just behind Daughtry) and will soon overtake David Cook’s “Time Of My Life,” which is stuck at No. 29 (with a bullet though) on the top 40 chart. Cooks’ single has sold 29K, down 32 percent with 822K total.
Carrie’s “Just a Dream” has sold 114K so far with its best week so far (22K last week.) It edges up to No. 14 on the country chart. No guarantee it will make the top 10. If it misses the top 10, it’d be a first for a major single. Bucky Covington is sneaking up on the top 20 with “I’ll Walk,” which is at No. 21. It’s his third top 25 hit. Kellie Pickler is still gaining airplay but is jammed at No. 28 with “Don’t You Know You’re Beautiful.” Kristy Lee Cook is stuck way back at No. 46 with “15 Minutes of Shame.”
Jennifer Hudson edges up to No. 149 on the download chart with another 9K sold of “Spotlight.” It has sold 78K total. The single has stalled on the urban chart, though, losing airplay but moving up to No. 23 from 24.
-I have an autographed photo of the top 10 if anybody wants it. I got it just as they were finishing a round of autographs last week during a NetJets meet and greet at the Gwinett Arena. I forgot I had it til today. I kind of joked with some of them that they do so many autographs, they’ve become virtually illegible. Brooke White showed me her fancy big autograph on a separate sheet of paper in comparison to what you see on the photo with a smiley face and such. I need to take a picture of the picture and post it on the blog. I’ll do that later this week. How do you think I should give it away? A contest? Random?
