Where The Hell Is David Archuleta's "Crush" On The Upcoming 'American Idol' Greatest Hits LP?

Today the official American Idol site announced that the series would be issuing its first greatest hits album, American Idol 10th Anniversary - The Hits. But the dubious tracklisting seems a bit lackluster, despite the announcement touting the "mega-hit singles" included.

The one good thing the powers that be seem to have done is slap Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone" on there first. (Clearly they took a quick glance at Chart Rigger's Top 40 Singles Of The '00s list and saw that it placed at #1).

But, really—where the hell is AI Season 7 runner-up David Archuleta's "Crush," a multi-platinum #2 hit on Billboard's Hot 100 and one of the best songs to ever come out of this televised dog-and-pony act? Or Season 5 runner-up Katharine McPhee's "Over It," a Top 40 single with ten times more merit than Taylor Hicks' dire "Takin' It To The Streets"?

And while Jordin Sparks' "No Air" was indeed a smash, her duet partner Chris Brown was not an American Idol contestant. Wouldn't it have made more technical sense to include one of her other Top 10 singles, like "Tattoo" or "Battlefield"? Christ, just put on two Jordin Sparks songs and cut Lee DeWyze!

Oh, well. Below is the tracklist for American Idol 10th Anniversary - The Hits along with the Hot 100 chart positions of the singles included. Personally I'm just gonna hold out for Kelly Clarkson's greatest hits.

1. Kelly Clarkson - “Since U Been Gone” (#2)
2. Ruben Studdard - “Superstar” (B-side, #2)
3. Clay Aiken - “Invisible” (#37)
4. Fantasia – “When I See U” (#32)
5. Carrie Underwood – “Before He Cheats” (#8)
6. Taylor Hicks – “Takin’ It To The Streets” (#69)
7. Daughtry – “Home” (#5)
8. Jordin Sparks (duet with Chris Brown) – “No Air” (#3)
9. David Cook – “Light On” (#17)
10. Kris Allen – “Live Like We’re Dying” (#18)
11. Adam Lambert – “Whataya Want From Me” (#10)
12. Lee DeWyze – “Sweet Serendipity” (failed to chart on Hot 100)

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U.S. Chart Roundup: Rihanna Makes Hot 100 History With "Only Girl (In The World)"

This week Rihanna not only becomes the first female singer to nab four #1 singles within one year on the Billboard Hot 100, she's also the first artist ever to have the first single from an album top the chart after the second single did.

Yes, RiRi's "Only Girl (In The World)" has finally inched its way to the top spot, two weeks after her second Loud single "What's My Name" was #1. Earlier this year she ruled with both her hooker jam "Rude Boy" and Eminem's "Love The Way You Lie."

Meanwhile, over on the Top 200, Rihanna settles for a #3 debut with Loud, behind Susan Boyle's The Gift (#1 for a second week) and 10-year-old Pittsburgh native/America's Got Talent runner-up Jackie Evancho's O Holy Night (#2). That's right—bow to SuBo's powerful thong, you amateurs!

Back on the Hot 100, just behind Rihanna is Pink's "Raise Your Glass" at #2. Her only other single to chart higher (not counting collaborative cover "Lady Marmalade" or shit "We Are The World 25") is "So What", which reached #1 two years ago.

It's annoying to think of that time period in the early '00s where labels by and large weren't offering CD singles in the U.S., and the iTunes store wasn't around yet. Because surely "Get The Party Started" would have been a #1 hit, rather than peaking at #4 on airplay alone? At any rate, Pink's Greatest Hits...So Far!!! debuts at #14 this week over on the Top 200.

Cee Lo Green's "Fuck You" finally cracks the Top 10 (#9), likely thanks to last week's episode of Glee. Gwyneth Paltrow's own tame version of "Forget You" from the episode debuts at #11.



And, hey—maybe this will pave a highly fuckable path for Enrique Iglesias' new single, "Tonight (I'm Fuckin' You)"?

On a final single note, Michael Jackson and Akon's duet "Hold My Hand" debuts at #84. Currently it's up to #30 at the iTunes store. Will this will become MJ's first Top 40 hit in nearly 10 years, Jacko fans? Eeeeeeeeeeee-Heeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

And on a final album note, 2010 American Idol winner Lee DeWyze appears to be dead on arrival. His debut LP Live It Up pretty much kicked the bucket with its #19 debut.

The U.S. Top 10:

1. "Only Girl (In The World)" - Rihanna *1 week*
2. "Raise Your Glass" - Pink
3. "Like A G6" - Far*East Movement
4. "We R Who We R" - Ke$ha
5. "Just A Dream" - Nelly 
6. "Firework" - Katy Perry 
7. "Just The Way You Are" - Bruno Mars
8. "What's My Name" - Rihanna feat. Drake
9. "Fuck You" - Cee Lo Green
10. "Bottoms Up" - Trey Songz feat. Nicki Minaj

Janet Jackson New Haircut: Janet Jackson Short Hair On American Idol

Janet Jackson had a new haircut, see picture below! Janet Jackson showed her extra short hair on last night’s American Idol 2010 grand finale where Lee DeWyze was crowned as the winner!

Janet Jackson New Haircut: Janet Jackson Debut Short Hair On American idol (FOX/Youtube)

Sporting a short haircut and opting in a floor body suit, 44-year-old Janet Jackson's style was hailed awesome and phenomenal!

More than that, Jackson indeed also cheered the AI audience with her live performance of Again/ Nothing/Nasty at the Nokia Theater. Below is Janet’s performance, enjoy!

Janet Jackson American Idol Again/ Nothing/Nasty Performance

American Idol Winners Since 2002 (PICTURES)

American Idol 2010 officially ended last night as Lee DeWyze was picked as the AI season 9's winner who bested Crystal Bowersox, a single mom with a son.

For those who wanna know who all American Idol winners are since FOX’s hit singing competition show first appeared un 2002, here is a name list: Kelly Clarkson, Ruben Studdard, Fantasia Barrino, Carrie Underwood, Taylor Hicks, Jordin Sparks, David Cook, Kris Allen (see photos below).

American Idol 1 Winner (Image © Philip Nelson, CC-BY-SA 2.0)

American Idol 2 Winner (Image © Jyle Dupuis/Flickr, CC-BY-SA 2.0)

American Idol 3 Winner (Image © Jyle Dupuis/Flickr, CC-BY-SA 2.0)

American Idol 4 Winner (Image © Jyle Dupuis/Flickr, CC-BY-SA 2.0)

American Idol 5 Winner (Image © Jyle Dupuis/Flickr, CC-BY-SA 2.0)

American Idol 6 Winner (Image © Jyle Dupuis/Flickr, CC-BY-SA 2.0)

American Idol 7 Winner (Image © Jyle Dupuis/Flickr, CC-BY-SA 2.0)

American Idol 8 Winner (Image © UNDP/Flickr, CC-BY 2.0)

Those former singing champions except for David Cook who was on a a chaity mission in Kansas, performed live a song titled Together We Are One on American Idol 9 finale, biding the farewell to judge Simon Cowell. Check out American Idol Winners--Together We Are One Video below:

American Idol Final Three: BLAH!!!!

Well. Only one more week of the worst season of American Idol to go and this train wreck will be off the rails.

Tuesday night's sing-off between Casey James, Crystal Bowersox and Lee DeWyze, for me, only really came alive at the end, with DeWyze's version of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah."

Does that song ever sound bad? And when you get it pimped with a backup chorus, it's even better.

Casey James started off the night in the dreaded first position, singing a song few had heard of, "OK, It's All Right With Me." Pretty much Casey was left on the stage with his guitar and nothing tarting up the production. No back up singers, no flashing lights, no smoke, no mirrors, no nothing, but James singing a boring song.

Casey's second song, John Mayer's "Daughters" is a song I don't care for. Again the production was barebones, compared to the big production numbers surrounding Crystal Bowersox and Lee DeWyze. The judges did not throw Casey so heavily under the bus for his second song. Then again, I found Simon Cowell's bizarre laughing when the judges got into judging mode, of Caseys final song, to be all sorts of wrong, with no good explanation forthcoming for the laughing.

DeWyze's first song was "Simple Man." Praise was heaped. I didn't feel it. Though one of those annoying judges said he'd crushed the competition. I don't know if this was a subtle reference to DeWyze appearing to be slightly overweight or totally a comment about his singing quality.

Bowersox sang the Melissa Etheridge classic, "Come To My Window," as her first choice. I hated the harmonica and I hate her under the lip stud piercing. The judges' chose the McCartney classic, "Maybe I'm Amazed" as Crystal's second song. I liked that okay, but I didn't like her doing the cliched wandering around the stage.

Who decides how these songs are produced? Did Casey James choose not to have a production number? It somehow seems unfair to me.

And another thing, what a difference between this season and the same point last season. You never knew what Adam Lambert was going to do. Last year's final 3, Lambert, Kris Allen and Allison Iraheta, were always entertaining. None of this final 3 comes close to being that entertaining.

Anyway, I don't know if I'll bother suffering through the bloated finale. I really don't care who "wins." That and I'll be exhausted from too much television due to watching the bloated finales of LOST and 24.

American Idol: Casey James Makes Final 3 Along with Crystal Bowersox & Lee DeWyze

The American Idol judges, or whatever the proper name might be for the goonballs who make comments after one of the singers sings on American Idol, have thrown the Cool, Texas boy, Casey James, under the bus so many times, who would have ever predicted he would be one of the last 3 standing, in this, the lamest season of American Idol yet?

Actually, in my tone deaf view, Casey James is the only one of the remaining 3 who does seem, sorta, Idol-worthy.

Even my aforementioned tone-deafness can detect that sometimes Lee DeWyze goes way into wrong note mode.

I know she's been pimped from the start, but to me, Crystal Bowersox, nice girl may she be, just seems really generic. Previous seasons of American Idol I don't think she would have gone so far. And, tattoo bigot that I am, I'm really offput by that monstrosity she's got painted on her back.

I think Michael Lynche really overstayed, and should never have been saved. Seeing a song from Free Willy, a movie about a whale, seemed perfectly ironic.

The final 3 now get the American Idol cliched, contrived hometown visits. Casey James' hometown visit will be a visit to his new hometown, Fort Worth. He will be in a parade down Exchange Avenue in the Fort Worth Stockyards, at 4pm, tomorrow, Friday, afternoon.

The Fort Worth Stockyards is about 9 miles from my abode. Am I motivated to go videotape and photograph this? I don't know. Years ago, I went to Burleson, hometown of the first American Idol, Kelly Clarkson, to witness the macabre scene outside the theater that was premierring her movie. It was all so contrived and fake. But amusing to watch.

I'll see if I can motivate myself to go to the Stockyards tomorrow afternoon to see the kid from Cool, Texas.