Scotty McCreery is the American Idol Winner

Scotty McCreery and Lauren Alaina performed three songs each on the first night of the American Idol finale on Tuesday, Jennifer Lopez summed up the competition: "It's a tight race," she said. "America has their job cut out for them." Now that job is done. The votes - 122 million of them, a new Idol record - are in and after a star-studded spectacular, host Ryan Seacrest announced the season 10 winner. Keep reading to find out if Scotty or Lauren was named the new American Idol ... Scotty is the winner!