Last night's exhibition of Billboard No. 1s was extraordinarily boring, but at least it wasn't bad. Therefore, tonight we will most likely see an expected boot because it's still too early in the season for a shocker.
To see who I predict will be leaving tonight, see here. Please feel free to add your two cents throughout the two-hour blogcast, with coverage starting just prior to 9 p.m. ET.
Tonight's blogcast features the music of Carrie Underwood, Kelly Clarkson, Matt Giraud, Melinda Doolittle and Nick Pedro.
Coming off a strong Idol presence at last year's event, the 2009 Teen Choice Awards was even less of the place to be if you had starred on FOX's highest-rated show, as Twilight and Miley Cyrus proved. Making waves at the staple meaningless awards show of the summer was Jordin Sparks, who made a trip up to the stage to introduce the "Dare the Jonas Brothers" segment during which viewer-submitted dares for the group were aired. Watch Jordin's segment below (begins at 5:54):
In terms of actual awards for the franchise, David Archuleta had three attached to his name as he was the recipient of Choice Music Breakout Artist, Choice Music Love Song (for "Crush") and Choice Music Tour for his tour with Demi Lovato.
Another big Idol-related winner of the night was Adam Lambert, who defeated his Season 8 rival Kris Allen in the Choice TV Male Reality/Variety Star. Neither David nor Adam could make an appearance at the show due to being on tour at the moment.
One last big Idol-related win included American Idol taking home a surfboard for Choice TV Reality Competition at the fan-voted award show, as expected.
The Teen Choice Awards were taped yesterday at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, Calif., and aired earlier tonight on FOX.
The following are Idol-related odds and ends that happened this week:
>Blake Lewis began making the rounds in support of his forthcoming album, Heartbreak On Vinyl, beginning with an appearance on New York City's FOX affiliate morning program, Good Day New York, on Mon., Aug. 3. On the show, Blake spoke with its co-hosts and performed the album's first single, "Sad Song." Watch Blake's performance below:
Blake said the album is about the death of the physical medium of music, and it will additionally be available to purchase on vinyl records. The album will be out on Tues., Oct. 6.
>David Archuleta posted his latest blog entry from his tour with Demi Lovato on his official Ning site on Tues., Aug. 4. A snippet from the entry is found below:
After the Pittsburgh show, we had the North Carolina show, and then went down to Florida! The state where I was born and lived my first 6 years of life haha. We had a day off there, and so I got to spend it with some friends who are amazing people! I also got to spend time with my Grandparents! I love them. My grandparents were actually able to come to all 3 of our shows in Florida, and it was so great. I honestly don't remember the last time I was able to spend that much time with them, so I'm really grateful for it.
Arch also talked about some second cousins he did not know existed until he did research and ended up inviting them to his show, and ended the blog entry by encouraging his fans to research up on their families to see if they had any relatives they did not know about.
>Jordin Sparks spoke with ABC News about her new album, Battlefield, in addition to her thoughts on Chris Brown and Paula Abdul. Watch the interview below:
Jordin should get points just for speaking to Darius Brown while getting her nails done. That must take some talent.
>Amid all the Paula mania that happened this week, the controversy raised by Ju'Not Joyner got two more voices to contribute to the discussion. Ayla Brown, a semifinalist on the show's fifth season, told ABCNews.com:
"A few weeks in, when I was rehearsing, Ken and Nigel came in and said, 'You know, we knew you were pretty but we really didn't know you could sing this well,'" Brown said. "It made me think that I was on the show, and some people are put on the show, just to get ratings."
Similarly, Justin Buckles, a former production coordinator for Idol, said that the way the show's contestants are treated "is slave labor and I am not afraid to say it."
>Daughtry's highly anticipated AOL Sessions were uploaded to AOL Music last week. Watch the entire set below, starting with "No Surprise."
Other songs performed during the set include "Possum Kingdom," "Every Time You Turn Around," "Home" and "Ghost of Me." In addition to the performances, the band participated in a Q&A session.
Season 6 champ Jordin Sparks is the second major Idol alum to release an album in the span of a week, and just like Daughtry's first album, Jordin's self-titled debut eventually was certified platinum. The two releases also were each released Thanksgiving week, albeit a year apart (2006 for Daughtry, 2007 for Jordin Sparks).
This fact makes predicting first week sales for Jordin's latest album Battlefield a bit trickier, as proved by my overambitious prediction for Leave This Town just one week ago. Another important factor to consider in predicting the kind of numbers the album will open to is the relevant competition.
Opening against Jordin are Demi Lovato, Brooke Hogan, Sugar Ray to name a few. Out of that crop, the biggest threat to Battlefield is Lovato's Here We Go Again, which is benefiting from a top-selling single and Disney-related promo from her Disney Channel show Sonny with a Chance. As for Hogan, her single is not faring nearly as well, and with limited promo she should expect a very soft release.
Jordin's first album opened at #10 on the Billboard 200 chart with 119.1k copies, but again, this was Thanksgiving week and nearly two years ago. The story this time around will undoubtedly be the fact that "Battlefield" is not half the single "Tattoo" was, which will diminish the chance of a big opening week. Although Jordin is a part of the hottest tour (Jonas Brothers) at the moment, and she has more than 200k followers on Twitter, on which she has been alerting fans about her album's release for weeks now, it appears that a safe bet for a prediction would be somewhere in the 65k range. As for where it will place on the BB 200, a Top 10 showing at #7 sounds about right.
As for Brooke White's first post-Idol album High Hopes & Heartbreak, an extremely healthy pre-release week on iTunes has earned it between 8-10k according to estimates. In its first week of nationwide release, a slightly higher take should be expected, probably somewhere around 16k. On the chart side of things, an increase to #35 seems like a plausible scenario.
As certain as the sun will rise and Ryan Seacrest will tell people they are safe, the Teen Choice Awards are once again returning to FOX this August. And, as usual, Idol alums dominate the list of nominations.
This year, the most interesting category to watch will be the "Male Reality/Variety Star" category in the TV section, where both Kris Allen and Adam Lambert are nominated. This is interesting, as the category is usually reserved only for the Idol winner. Adam received one other nomination in the "Red Carpet Icon - Male" category in the Other Stuff section, which he will easily win in.
Another rather interesting observation in terms of Idol effects is the "TV: Personality" category, which features two personalities from Idol (Simon Cowell and Ryan) and two from America's Best Dance Crew, which is produced by Randy Jackson.
But the Idol alum to score the most nominations is David Archuleta, as he is up for "Music: Breakout Artist," his single, "Crush," is up for "Music: Love Song" and his tour with Demi Lovato is nominated for "Music Tour."
See a full list of Idol-related nominees below:
TV: Reality Competition America's Best Dance Crew Dancing With The Stars American Idol America's Next Top Model The Bachelor
TV: Personality Ryan Seacrest - American Idol, E! Simon Cowell - American Idol Tyra Banks - America's Next Top Model Lil Mama - America's Best Dance Crew Mario Lopez - America's Best Dance Crew
TV: Male Reality/Variety Star Kris Allen - American Idol Brody Jenner - Bromance Adam Lambert - American Idol Ryan Sheckler - Life of Ryan Rob Dyrdek - Fantasy Factory
Music: Single Miley Cyrus - The Climb Britney Spears - Circus Katy Perry - Hot N Cold Kelly Clarkson - My Life Would Suck Without You Lady Gaga - Poker Face
Music: R&B Artist Beyonce Jaime Foxx Jennifer Hudson Ne- Yo T- Pain
Music: Breakout Artist Asher Roth David Archuleta David Cook Kid Cudi Lady Gaga
Music: Love Song Crush - David Archuleta Halo - Beyonce How Do You Sleep - Jesse McCartney Love Story - Taylor Swift Lovebug - Jonas Brothers
Music: R&B Track Beyonce - Single Ladies (Put A ring On It) Jennifer Hudson - If This Isn't Love Kanye West - Love Lockdown Ne-Yo - Mad Soulja Boy Tell 'em Featuring Sammie - Kiss Me Thru The Phone
Music Album Female Artist Carnival Ride - Carrie Underwood Fame - Lady Gaga Fearless - Taylor Swift I am… Sasha Fierce - Beyonce One Of The Boys - Katy Perry
Music Album Male Artist Relapse - Eminem We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things - Jason Mraz David Cook - David Cook 808s and Heartbreak - Kanye West Tha Carter III - Lil Wayne
Music Tour Jonas Brothers Britney Spears Demi Lovato/David Archuleta Taylor Swift American Idol Tour
Other Stuff Red Carpet Icon - Male Justin Timberlake Adam Lambert Jonas Brothers Zac Efron Kanye West
The 2009 Teen Choice Awards, hosted by The Jonas Brothers, will be broadcast on Mon., Aug. 10, at 8 p.m. ET on FOX. Voting runs from now until Aug. 1 and is open to anyone between the ages of 13-19 (or anyone who says they're between this age range).
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