Idol Inadvertently Lets Contestant Popularity Slip

Posted by thefunnystone on February 22nd, 2008 at 6:29 PM
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Oops, Idol messed up again. This week, American Idol announced that performances could be downloaded from iTunes after the show. What they forgot is that iTunes tracks the popularity of each download... so now we can estimate how many votes each contestant received and where they stand in the popularity rankings. We're happy to see Danny so high. Good work, everyone! Most of the contestants who went home also had very low iTunes rankings. Here's a picture in case Idol learns its lesson and fixes this somehow. Enjoy!

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citizenstrange
Posted: February 22, 2008 - 8:33pm
Joined: 12 Apr 2007

I'm sure someone was shit canned for this ef up. Idol wants ALL their business done in secrecy behind closed doors.

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Smartie
Posted: February 22, 2008 - 9:11pm
Joined: 02 Apr 2007

I'm surprised Spinning Wheel was so lowly ranked - altho she's quite robotic a singer, Alexahjgffkdsjfosfkld"" whatever her name is was the best singer on the girls night, by a mile.

Jason Castro could be a buster on any city street, his performance was so forgettable and boring.

Someone please kill Australian Douchebag. I will provide stingrays if you need one.

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rockgolf
Posted: February 22, 2008 - 9:12pm
Joined: 22 Feb 2008

Aww c'mon, VFTW, a little credit? I posted this in the comments back on which girl to vote for at 5:44.

meintx
Posted: February 22, 2008 - 9:20pm
Joined: 17 Apr 2007

I think this just helps confirm my sneak suspicion that they gave Colton the boot early!!!!!! They had to send home their last two choices (Joanne and Colton from Hollywood week). Sorry, but aren't we all totally shocked Chikieze (however it's spelled) isn't G.O.N.E.???? It was a toss up between Garrett, Luke, Colton and Jason Y. IMHO; but Chikieze was NO toss up; he surely had the lowest votes!!!!! It's rigged!!!!! I love VTFW (but I couldn't vote for Amy; she was just TOO bad. I love Jason Castro and I think Kady Malloy looks like a spoiled brat bitch!

FubarGuy
Posted: February 22, 2008 - 9:20pm
Joined: 15 Mar 2007

I find it impossible to believe that *anybody* is buying crappy songs like this in the first place. Gotta be the studios pumping money into iTunes to make it look like the songs are selling. If not, that's truly depressing.

thefunnystone
Posted: February 22, 2008 - 9:23pm
Joined: 20 May 2006

Yes, I got this from like 200 people in my e-mail and in PM's and in posts, so I can't credit everyone, lol. But we definitely appreciate all of the tips!

o_o
Posted: February 22, 2008 - 9:52pm
Joined: 11 Mar 2007

I love the irony, as iTunes has a disclaimer that they won't let people see who was the most purchased.

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Mccaphrey
Posted: February 22, 2008 - 9:54pm
Joined: 02 May 2007

Umm...isn't the popularity rating on iTunes based on how many people buy the song? In that case, it doesn't tell us how many votes the contestants received.

tommy2
Posted: February 22, 2008 - 10:00pm
Joined: 22 Feb 2008

the dial idol site was pretty accurate despite low statistical certainty. (I wonder if less people were inspired to vote meaning less busy signals or if the phone companies added capacity to thwart the busy signal tracking)

there was also a voting site that tracked the bottom vote getters pretty well.

I am not sure that who sells the most would necessarily be the top vote getter...I mean people might buy a song they didn't have already even if they voted for a minute and a half light my fire version. People spending money might be a different group from nerds who vote repeatedly too.

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MrGlass
Posted: February 22, 2008 - 10:05pm
Joined: 20 Feb 2008

This confirms all the girls are super-boring this year, even to AI fans.

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