Kris Allen has pulled off a huge upset by winning American Idol Season 8.
If you read our earlier post, we predicted, based on the volume of Google searches after each episode, that Adam Lambert would win American Idol Season 8.
I truly thought he would would run away with it.
Bill Tancer at HitWise, agreed with me.  [...]

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Update: Well, I was wrong, although I’m not sure how that happened.  See here for more.
It looks like Hitwise has come up with some data supporting my theory that Adam Lambert will win American Idol by a landslide tonight.
After every show, I’ve been tracking the trends and searches for “Adam Lambert”-related phrases have been phenomenal.  [...]

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On American Idol, it’s down to the last two contestants, Kris Allen and Adam Lambert.
Kris Allen and Adam Lambert each delivered their final three Season 8 performances on the American Idol Final, Tuesday May 19, 2009.
Among the songs performed tonight were “What’s Going On”, “Mad World”, “A Change Is Gonna’ Come”, and the ‘coronation [...]

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It was down to Danny Gokey, Kris Allen and Adam Lambert. One of the three would be sent home on American Idol on May 13.
Season 6 winner Jordin Sparks performed. Katy Perry also performed Waking Up in Vegas. She even wore a cape with Adam Lambert’s name embroidered boldly in red across [...]

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Kris Allen wowed the crowd and the judges tonight on American Idol.
Kris sang “Apologize” by One Republic and “Heartless” by Kanye West.  He appeared to have some problems with his falsetto here and there but Simon praised him for it, so he must have done OK.
Kara DioGuardi said she chose “Heartless” because it had a [...]

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This week on American Idol, it was disco week so break out those bell-bottoms.
Kris Allen was probably the most original of all the performers tonight singing a truly unique version of “She Works Hard for the Money” by Donna Summer.
Kris said he picked the song because it had something to say and admitted he was [...]

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