MTV.com News — Season-nine semifinalists' rocky live debut has 'Idol' experts and fans concerned.By Gil Kaufman Tim Urban Photo: FOX The early semifinal rounds of "American Idol" are always difficult. You are bound to have some early hopefuls falling vic... more info

Idolator — It turns out, winning American Idol is just as good as winning the lottery, so instead of spending a few bucks on that Scratch-N-Win card, you might want to brush up on your singing lessons. The New York Times reports that all eight winners of the re... more info

Mjsbigblog — The Top 12 girls failed to impress in a big way last night. Will the guys bring it tonight? Or will they their nerves get the best of them. Will the guys’ song choices be bolder, riskier? Or will there be many WTF moments when the dudes hit the... more info

MTV.com News — New York Times finds that Kris Allen has banked $650,000 since winning last year.By Gil Kaufman Kris Allen wins "American Idol" season 8 Photo: Kevin Winter/ Getty Images Note to this year's "American Idol" top 24 contestants: Winning is ... more info

Starpulse — Thursday evening brings the first live results show back to American Idol for this ninth season, but more than that, it brings the return of Idol Gives Back, a mega-hit in 2008 and that was all... more info

Mjsbigblog — Numbers. Oh, numbers. Wherefore art thou numbers? I feel like I’m sitting in the kiss-and-cry waiting for my scores to come up. Everybody is either obsessed with traveling or the new season or I don’t know what. Hopefully, the numbers will soon ... more info

Mjsbigblog — A reporter from the New York Times got a hold of the Idol contracts from last year, and is reporting a breakdown of the earning for the Top 10.  Read it here: Factoids: Kris has earned $650,000* Winners have never failed to earn $1M in the year... more info

Mjsbigblog — Check out FOX publicity photos from Kris Allen’s trip to Haiti. The woman with Kris is United Nations Foundation, CEO, Kathy Calvin. You can real a transcript of their press conference from yesterday HERE. Re-posting the B-roll of footage from t... more info

People.com — With his recent trip to earthquake-ravaged Haiti, the American Idol winner joins the ranks of other celebs - Angelina Jolie, Sean Penn - who've lent a helping hand more info

Mjsbigblog — Girl happy The women start first tonight in the “American Idol” Top 24 round — and predictions are that a woman will finish first at the end of the season. Guys have won the last two years of “Idol” — rocker Dav... more info