per 2016 numbers from TV Insid er. Contestants also receive a $400 wardrobe allowance per episode, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The winner of "American Idol" 2025 receives a recording ...

“American Idol” has a new champion. The long-running singing competition series crowned the winner of Season 23 on Sunday, after drawing 26 million fan votes, the most since the reality ...

LOS ANGELES – The viewers have spoken, and "American Idol" has crowned a new winner. As the Season 23 finale came to a close May 18, the fan vote – the majority of all 26 million of them ...

In April, “American Idol” hopeful John Foster advanced from the Top 20 to the Top 14 with a performance of his tearjerking original song “Tell That Angel I Love Her.” The 18-year-old ...

Billy Idol has always pushed the boundaries of chronological time, starting with the anachronistic 1970s punk look he modeled all over 1980s MTV. Idol turned 65 on November 30th, three days after ...

You can say this for “American Idol”: More than 20 years in, it’s still worth arguing about. Should Kris Allen have prevailed over Adam Lambert? Queen would like a word. Carrie Underwood ...

May 19 (UPI) --American Idol has named its Season 23 winner. Jamal Roberts, 27, earned the title during the season finale, which aired Sunday on ABC. The other finalists were John Foster and ...

A teacher from Mississippi is America's next "Idol" winner. "American Idol" has crowned its season 23 winner! Jamal Roberts, a 27-year-old PE teacher from Meridian, Mississippi, emerged as the ...

Host Ryan Seacrest said there were 26 million votes cast, which broke a record and was twice as many as for last year's finale. By Kimberly Nordyke Managing Editor, Digital Jamal Roberts was ...

American Idol was on hiatus from 2016 to 2018. The program's last episode with FOX was in April 2016, and it began its ABC revival in March 2018. "American Idol" finalists John Foster (middle ...