American Idol's journey ended for the first of the ninth season's 24 semifinalists last night, with Tuesday and Wednesday's initial live performance shows culminating in a Thursday night results show that eliminated the two male and two female semifinalists who had received the fewest votes from home viewers.
After four weeks of open audition broadcasts and four more episodes that gave viewers a look at the competition's Hollywood Round, American Idol has finally formally announced its Top 24 ninth-season semifinalists.
American Idol's ninth-season dream ended for 25 additional Hollywood Week hopefuls during last night's Fox broadcast of the week's second elimination round.
Viewers received their first look at new judge Ellen DeGeneres and the American Idol dream ended for almost half of the ninth season's 181 Hollywood Week hopefuls during last night's Idol broadcast on Fox.
The anonymous online spoiler who managed to correctly reveal the identities of American Idol's semifinalists for the last two years has now released the alleged names of nearly all of the ninth-season's Top 24 semifinalists.