AMERICAN IDOL: The Top 20 By the Numbers

theTVaddict

14 years ago

Your Top 20 Ranked by Social Media Popularity

While actual talent, singing ability and stage presence may play a small part in who will be named your next American Idol, the not-so-ugly-fact of the matter is that the success and/or failure of a contestant on America’s most-watched singing competition very often boils down to nothing more than popularity. Like High School, it’s not what, but rather who and how many people (on facebook!) you know. Which is why all season long theTVaddict.com will be posting a weekly mashup of the remaining contestants popularity on their official show-sanctioned twitter, facebook and myspace accounts in a new feature we like to call AMERICAN IDOL: By The Numbers.

Fun Facts about this week’s Top 20: By percentage, Lee Dewyze attracted the most new followers with an impressive 193%. Conversly, Todrick Hall after a fairly disappointing performance attracted the least new number of followers, adding a mere 48%. Casey James jumped from 10th to 4th place, while Aaron Kelly sunk to 7th from 5th. Meanwhile Andrew Garcia and John Park remain your front-runners, holding onto the first and second spots respectively.

Note: Numbers were calculated on 03/01/10 at 9:36AM (est)
name	facebook	myspace	twitter	total	last week
1. Andrew Garcia	9719	281	11365	21365	1
2. John Park	8767	114	2745	11626	2
3. Tim Urban	7799	299	2284	10382	4
4. Casey James	5955	379	2875	9209	10
5. Lee Dewyze	6170	391	1771	8332	13
6. Lacy Brown	5477	114	2338	7929	6
7. Aaron Kelly	5097	704	2042	7843	5
8. Katie Stevens	4540	232	2338	7110	7
9. Crystal Bowersoz	4336	492	2163	6991	8
10. Alex Lambert	4558	192	1698	6448	11
11. Siobhan Magnus	4703	186	1193	6082	15
12. Didi Benami	2852	202	2773	5827	9
13. Katelyn Epperly	2991	181	1339	4551	17
14. Jermaine Sellers	2684	164	1123	3971	18
15. Todrick Hall	1745	202	1602	3549	16
16. Lilly Scott	1211	126	1635	2972	20
17. Michael Lynche	1257	93	1541	2891	19
18. Haeley Vaughn	1228	143	1173	2544	21
19. Paige Miles	1589	80	710	2379	22
20. Michelle Delamor	1431	138	794	2363	24
~~Ashley Rodriguez~~	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX
~~Janell Wheeler~~	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX
~~Joe Muñoz~~	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX
~~Tyler Grady~~	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX