American Idol elimination errors

My opinion on the American Idol results shows of each season are as follows:

Season 1
Christina Christian should have made the top 5 instead of RJ Helton.
Tamyra Gray should have made the top 3 instead of Nikki McKibbin.


Season 2
Equoia Coleman should have made the top 12 instead of Vanessa Olivarez.
Chip Days should have made the top 12 instead of Corey Clark.
Rickey Smith should have the top 6 instead of Carmen Rasmusen.
Trenyce should have made the top 4 instead of Josh Gracin.
Kimberley Locke should have made the top 2 instead of Clay Aiken.

Season 3
Lisa Leuschner should have made the top 12 instead of Camille Velasco.
Jennifer Hudson should have made the top 6 instead of John Stevens.
LaToya London should have made the top 3 instead of Diana DeGarmo.

Season 4
Nikko Smith should have made the top 4 instead of Scott Savol.
Vonzell Solomon should have made the top 2 instead of Bo Bice.

Season 5
Ayla Brown should have made the top 12 instead of Melissa McGhee.
Mandisa should have made the top 8 instead of Bucky Covington.
Chris Daughtry should have made the top 3 instead of Katharine McPhee.

Season 6
Jared Cotter should have made the top 12 instead of Chris Sligh.
Sabrina Sloan should have made the top 12 instead of Haley Scarnato.
Melinda Doolittle should have made the top 2 instead of Blake Lewis.

Season 7
Alexandréa Lushington should have made the top 12 instead of Kristy Lee Cook.
Asia'h Epperson should have made the top 12 instead of Ramiele Malubay.
Chikezie Eze should have made the top 9 instead of Jason Castro.
Michael Johns should have made the top 7 instead of Brooke White.
David Archuleta should have won instead of David Cook.
Season 7 should have featured a top 13 featuring Danny Noriega.

Season 8
Leneshe Young should have made the top 36 instead of Stevie Wright and the top 13 instead of Michael Sarver.
Jun'ot Joyner should have made top 13 instead of Jorge Núñez.
Jasmine Murray should have made the top 10 instead of Megan Joy.
Anoop Desai should have made the top 5 instead of Matt Giraud.
Allison Iraheta should have made the top 3 instead of Danny Gokey.
Adam Lambert should have won instead of Kris Allen.

Season 9
Angela Martin should have made the top 24 instead of Haeley Vaughn.
Jermaine Sellers should have made the top 12 instead of Andrew Garcia.
Michelle Delamor should have made the top 12 instead of Didi Benami.
Todrick Hall should have made the top 12 instead of Tim Urban.
Lilly Scott should have made the top 12 instead of Lacey Brown.
Alex Lambert should have made the top 12 instead of Aaron Kelly.
Crystal Bowersox should have won instead of Lee DeWyze.

A Beautiful Day for Lee DeWyze

At the end of the finale of American Idol season 9, it has been announced that Lee DeWyze, a paint salesman who auditioned in Chicago, Illinois, has been crowned the ninth American Idol.  He hails from Mount Prospect, Illinois.  Therefore, Crystal Bowersox, a single mother from Toledo, Ohio, is the runner-up.  The Idol Democracy survey says that Crystal Bowersox should have won, and I agree with the survey.  The male sex now dominates American Idol by 5 to 4.  Since top 12 week, I pulled for a Michael Lynche, who landed in fourth place.  Next season, I will pull for a female contestant.

Here is how American Idol season 9 went down:

Top 12

Winner: Lee DeWyze
Runner-up: Crystal Bowserox
Third Place: Casey James
Fourth Place: Michael Lynche
Fifth Place: Aaron Kelly
Sixth Place: Siobhan Magnus
Seventh Place: Tim Urban
Eighth Place: Katie Stevens
Ninth Place: Andrew Garcia
Tenth Place: Didi Benami
Eleventh Place: Paige Miles
Twelfth Place: Lacey Brown

Best of the Rest

Thirteenth Place: Lilly Scott
Fourteenth Place: Alex Lambert
Fifteenth Place: Todrick Hall
Sixteenth Place: Katelyn Epperly
Seventeenth Place: Haeley Vaughn
Eighteenth Place: Michelle Delamor
Ninteenth Place: Jermaine Sellers
Twentieth Place: John Park
Twenty-First Place: Tyler Grady
Twenty-Second Place: Joe Múñoz
Twenty-Third Place: Ashley Rodriguez
Twenty-Fourth Place: Janell Wheeler

Elimination Errors

Robbed: Jermaine Sellers, Michelle Delamor, Todrick Hall, and Lilly Scott
Bumped: Tim Urban, Lacey Brown
Wasted: Haeley Vaughn

"Robbed" means that the contestant was eliminated earlier than he or she should have.  "Bumped" means that the contestant advanced further than he or she should have.  "Wasted" means that the contestant auditioned when he or she clearly was not ready for the competition, thus should have waited until a later season of American Idol.

Here are my replacement wishes:

Angela Martin should have made the top 24 instead of Haeley Vaughn.
Jermaine Sellers should have made the top 12 instead of Andrew Garcia.
Michelle Delamor should have made the top 12 instead of Didi Benami.
Todrick Hall should have made the top 12 instead of Tim Urban.
Alex Lambert should have made the top 12 instead of Aaron Kelly.
Lilly Scott should have made the top 12 instead of Lacey Brown.
Crystal Bowersox should have won instead of Lee DeWyze.

America gives Aaron Kelly a plane ticket back home

Last week was Frank Sinatra week, and the mentor was actor Harry Connick, Jr.  The five remaining American Idol contestants sang classics by Frank Sinatra, who died in 1998.  America voted to have Ryan Seacrest give a plane ticket to Aaron Kelly, the youngest American Idol finalist to date.  Aaron Kelly sang "Fly Me to the Moon", which has been covered by many artists. He was born in 1993.  He auditioned in Orlando, Florida, bypassing the preliminary auditions as a result of completing the American Idol Experience at Walt Disney World

Siobhan Magnus gets a curtain call

Last week, despite praise from the judges, Siobhan Evelyn Magnus ended her journey on American Idol in sixth place.  She was in the bottom three with Michael Lynche and Casey James.  It was Shania Twain week, and she sang "Any Man of Mine."  Her closest friends among her contestants are Didi Benami and Crystal Bowersox. However, she will participate on the American Idols LIVE! Tour 2010, among with her aforementioned closest friends and the rest of the top 10.

Magnus was born on March 15, 1990, in Barnstable, Massachusetts.  Her father was a singer-songwriter. Her siblings play in various bands, and her brother Rory works for the motion picture industry. She auditioned in Boston, Massachusetts.  At the time of her audition, Magnus was an apprentice glassblower.