Canadian Idol Fans Watching American Idol

[missaddicted]

It airs next Sunday, at 8 (or 9, but I think it's at 8) on ABC. I haven't watched the show in a few years, but usually the concept is this: they choose a family that's been going through a lot (sick kid, mom just passed away, huge family living in a tiny house, etc), they send them to Disney World for a week and they rebuild and/or renovate their house. If the family has a kid in a wheelchair for example, they'll make sure to build an elevator and make everything accessible to them.

In the case of David's episode, the little girl in the family is sick (I don't remember what she has, but it's a chronic disease). She met a friend in the hospital who has leukemia and while sick herself, she's been raising money for cancer.

So, yeah, it's always really touching stories, and everyone cries when they reveal the rebuilt house.

 

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Thanks, missaddicted! That sounds good.

Boy, it's weird to have no mj's blog to find out all the latest stuff. Wonder when the 'maintenance' will be over? Tomorrow, probably.

I can't picture myself venturing forth to Somerville to see Dallas Green. Only 20 bucks, at least. (It would be funny if Leah was there. I doubt it.) There's a theatre in my town, also, but it seems they don't book too many good acts. They could have more artists like this but mostly they have stuff I wouldn't go to.

 

[missaddicted]

LOL!

From David Cook:

In honor of @GRO... "Gooooooobye, L.A." I'm off to Vancouver to do some more writing. winter coat? packed.

Then it seems, I was not the only one to go "winter coat in Vancouver? Pffftt."

sorry, Vancouver... lol AMENDMENT: rain coat/definitely NOT winter coat? packed.

 

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Monday morning mediabase is up at mj's blog...

 

[missaddicted]

RCA definitely told the Glamberts today thay they were doing too much:

Adam Disqualified from Open House Party Voting | The Official Adam Lambert Site

Some of the comments underneath are hilarious:

In my opinion, some of us are perhaps trying too hard to promote Adam's music to compensate for what it appears to be an unfair practice of not wanting to play his music.

If radios don't want to play his music (and it's not really the case anymore, WWFM is still gaining), it's not an unfair practice, the radios have every right to choose not to play it, come on.

 

[SleepinIn]

Ouch, not only did RCA post that but Adam tweeted about it too. Way to piss Open House Party off, they were doing a lot for Adam too. Hopefully they will take the big giant hint and back away from the phone. Adam's brother has been posting about crazy fans too.

Kris must thank Adam everyday for being the main lightening rod for crazy this year.

FYE was the #1 video on MOD today though. So crazy definitely has it's uses. lol

 

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FYE was the #1 video on MOD today though. So crazy definitely has it's uses. lol

Funny how MOD and Open House Party refuse to acknowledge the existence of Kris Allen. Especially OHP (or so I hear).

So I thought there might be some comments about LLWD's charts this week. Are you guys getting complacent??

 

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Here are your Monday Morning Mediabase Updates for airplay as of 4am of 01/04/10.

Adam Lambert:
“Whataya Want From Me”: ^34 Pop (34), ^42 HAC (45)

Carrie Underwood:
“Cowboy Casanova” : ^24 HAC (26), ^45 AC (107)
“Temporary Home” : ^18 Country (21)

Danny Gokey:
“My Best Days are Ahead”: ^47 Country (78 )

Daughtry:
“Life After You”: ^14 HAC (13), ^32 Pop (31), ^36 AC (16 )
“No Surprise”: ^6 AC (4)

Elliott Yamin
“Can’t Keep on Loving”: ^41 AC (154)

Jordin Sparks:
“Battlefield”: ^18 AC (36)

Katharine McPhee:
“Had it All” : 21 AC (42)

Kellie Pickler:
“Santa Baby”: ^23 Country (25)

Kelly Clarkson:
“Already Gone”: ^1 AC (1), 9 Pop (9), ^10 AC (12)

Kris Allen:
“Live Like We Are Dying”: ^12 HAC (12), ^26 Pop (27), ^43 AC (250), ^49 CAC (414)

Mandisa:
“He is With You”: ^20 CAC (99)

Ruben Studdard:
“Don’t Make ‘Em Like…”: ^18 UAC (18 )

Note: Numbers indicate position on the chart while numbers in brackets indicate the position on the chart the previous week. The “^” (aka “a bullet”) indicates that a song gained spins since last week


iTunes Checkpoint (Top 300) (1/4/10, 1:56pm)

21 Kris Allen “Live Like We’re Dying” – lw 30
33 Carrie Underwood “Cowboy Casanova” – lw 25
45 Kelly Clarkson “Already Gone” – lw 37
52 Daughtry “Life After You” – lw 74
70 Adam Lambert “Whataya Want From Me” – lw 93
84 Jordin Sparks “Battlefield” – lw 88
148 Daughtry “No Surprise” – lw 195
179 Adam Lambert “For Your Entertainment” – lw 153
205 Carrie Underwood “Temporary Home” – 232
220 Kellie Pickler “Best Days of Your Life” – 222
221 Kelly Clarkson “My Life Would Suck Without You” -221
243 Carrie Underwood “Before He Cheats”- 212
287 Carrie Underwood “All-American Girl” -207
290 Kellie Pickler “Didn’t You Know How Much I Loved You”

 

[missaddicted]

Do we usually talk about Mediabase here that often? I don't know, I see the numbers everyday, but I guess I thought I would make a comment about it only when LLWD reaches the top 10 on HAC or the top 20 on CHR! Anyway, everything has been frozen for a while because of the holidays, so I guess we'll see some more movement in the charts in the coming weeks!

It's good though that LLWD maintains its position on iTunes! It shows how radio play is super important. In Canada, not a lot of radio play (that's correct, right?) equals LLWD not really charting on iTunes.

 

[missaddicted]

Is Randy Jackson really asking his twitter followers to tweet him their preferences for the Grammy's so that he can make a choice? Dude, please.

 

[SleepinIn]

So I thought there might be some comments about LLWD's charts this week. Are you guys getting complacent??

Oh, those old things. Yeah, Kris is doing pretty good, eh? (EEE!) He's charting on AC and CAC now, that's pretty cool actually. And I agree it's the lack of airplay in Canada that's keeping his sales low here. This week when he hits the top 40 charts might change that though. (hopefully) He had 8 adds today from HAC stations so that's good news too.

I don't think it will affect him getting played on Much. I don't see it happening right now to tell the truth. They've been pretty unsupportive and after the one weekend OHP has been unsupportive too as far as I can tell.

 

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Do we usually talk about Mediabase here that often? I don't know, I see the numbers everyday, but I guess I thought I would make a comment about it only when LLWD reaches the top 10 on HAC or the top 20 on CHR!

I was actually directing my comment more to SleepinIn, because like me she usually enjoys seeing LLWD making even the smallest headway on the charts.

I just thought the charts might be interesting. *shrugs*

 

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Oh, those old things. Yeah, Kris is doing pretty good, eh? :icon_smile: (EEE!) He's charting on AC and CAC now, that's pretty cool actually. And I agree it's the lack of airplay in Canada that's keeping his sales low here. This week when he hits the top 40 charts might change that though. (hopefully) He had 8 adds today from HAC stations so that's good news too.

I don't think it will affect him getting played on Much. I don't see it happening right now to tell the truth. They've been pretty unsupportive and after the one weekend OHP has been unsupportive too as far as I can tell.

LLWD has never been as high as #21 on iTunes, has it? That made me happy -- as it means actual sales, after all -- and it just makes me smile that it climbed up out of the basement and is now higher than when it debuted back in September. Go, go, go!

You know what I remembered about OHP, though? Being a Boston boy, that show originated on Kiss108, and that station was one of the top disco/dance stations in the country. It was all dance music back in the day. And the show is still very dance oriented, isn't it? Maybe that's why Garabedian is more excited about Adam's music (I don't listen to the show, so I don't know)?

 

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Ugh, some of the Adam fans on mj's blog are not getting it, re the admonitions from RCA. I don't know what's complicated about it. Some seem to feel OHP or VH1 (who apparently got spammed for dropping FYE) should not have reacted as they did. But they did. It's that strange arrogance of Adam's fans. (I'm sure they're not the only fans like this, of course.) I don't get their feelings of entitlement.

This is my big thing with them. Like last week someone remarked about the Jingle Balls, "Adam doesn't need that kind of gig." It just amazed me.

 

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Just read this on the blog. Angry tweets from crayzee Glamberts to OHP.

@OpenHouseParty – don’t worry, I won’t be requesting anything from you anymore, there are thousands of radio stations.
8 minutes ago from web

@OpenHouseParty – bitching about how often we request Adam Lambert is BS, It’s the most publicity you people ever had!

Take that, OHP bitches! We don't need radio shows!!

...poor Adam...

 

[SleepinIn]

LLWD has never been as high as #21 on iTunes, has it? That made me happy -- as it means actual sales, after all -- and it just makes me smile that it climbed up out of the basement and is now higher than when it debuted back in September. Go, go, go

You're right I think it's the highest it's been. Whoot! Whoot! Especially with the album sales being so basement level (did you see them? Holy crap.. they are bad - just in general I didn't see Kris.. which means his are worse.. ugh!) So selling the single is a really good thing.

And I agree when I listened to OHP for Kris's interview - it struck me as being very dance music/pop oriented which is right up Adam's alley - but not Kris's - unless he has a dance re-mix or something. So really the spamming of OHP, hurt Adam where it really counted since a lot of his current spins were from being played on OHP since it's a syndicated show. One spin on that counted for like 40 spins.

Ugh, some of the Adam fans on mj's blog are not getting it, re the admonitions from RCA. I don't know what's complicated about it. Some seem to feel OHP or VH1 (who apparently got spammed for dropping FYE) should not have reacted as they did.

Seriously, they are never going to get it. It's just beyond them for some reason. You can tell them, but it's not going to sink in that their actions are the problem.

Do you read Neil's blog ever? He had a very telling post about fans and their actions in regards to him and Adam. Neil gets a lot of crazy directed his way to get close to Adam. I have every confidence that he can take care of himself, since he doesn't suffer fools - at all. But it's still a creepy/scary position to be in.

Remind me to always sabotage my sister's desire for fame. She'd do the same for me I'm sure.

Take that, OHP bitches! We don't need radio shows!!

OMFG! They will never learn.

 

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I think I mentioned this before, but one of my online friends who's a huge fan of a certain Canadian Idol told me that there was some similar repercussions from Kalan's fans requesting some of his stuff too much. And since I 'know' a lot of Kalan fans from his website, and the chat room over there, I can say I've never encountered a "crazy" Kalan fan. They're very down-to-earth, nice, often funny people (I do think that Idols attract fans who are somehow like them, or who share some similarities, like values and sense of humor.) They're certainly not arrogant or entitled.

But DJ's can tell when requests aren't coming from their regular listeners, so I believe Kalan's fans learned that lesson. There's a lot of talk on mj's about how "crazy" fans put in too many requests, but so can normal, well-meaning fans.

 

[missaddicted]

Wow, I have no words for those tweets from some Glamberts. They were directly told to let it go, by the record company nonetheless, and they post THAT? Seriously, what will it take? I wouldn't wish those fans to anyone I like.

I've read some pretty crazy stuff done by Cook fans (including going to 75 shows on the last tour, all around the country), but some of the Glamberts seem like 100 times worse.

ETA: I think you're right ross, it's really an attitude problem. Their attitude makes them so so unlikable.

 

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Oops, I see my post seemed to suggest I think that Adam attracts arrogant/entitled fans because he shares the same values. Didn't mean to suggest that. I don't know why he attracts some fans like this. I think it's more about his stage persona. It's a very " **** you" stage persona, in a lot of ways. I mean, that AMA thing, for example. It's all a big act, but I'm sure many people take it seriously and feel they have the right to flip-off the world, because Adam is leading the way.

 

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Good rules to follow.

SPAMALOT (Actually, Don't!). A Handy Guide to Making Radio Requests ** UPDATED w/CBTM and BBS Info** | DavidCookOfficial.com

Wow, I have no words for those tweets from some Glamberts. They were directly told to let it go, by the record company nonetheless, and they post THAT? Seriously, what will it take? I wouldn't wish those fans to anyone I like.

I know, right? After the record company told them to stop. I'm sure most Adam fans aren't happy with these loonies. But Adam told them (on twitter) he "laughed so hard" when he heard about it, which doesn't help, imho. I guess he has to play good cop while the record company plays bad cop. But I'm not sure he should be condoning it. Ah, well, not my problem.