10 Famous Singers Rejected By American Idol 

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true dat

yup

AGREED! 👌🏽

right

Chloe Brandon-Hopkins no ur not lmao that legit happened to me with almost all of them

#eggzackly ✌️😆

What's most amazing to me these days - with all the talent shows and internet/ utube, etc. Is the huge amount of gifted, talented, unique people who have so much to offer and never get to be heard beyond the happy clip that we accidentally come across sometimes. The cream of show business couldn't handle the competition if all the jewels of the world rolled into Hollywood at once to audition for their jobs. Really!

Same!

Same here haha

I hope those judges regret rejecting her. Rip naya we miss you

He still thinks 'Without You' is a Mariah Carey song when it was originated by English group Badfinger who John Lennon thought would be the Beatles of the 1970's.

Naya Rivera should of never got rejected r.i.p Naya

Jimmie Allen

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She's huge! I wonder why she wasn't put on the top 10?!

Lauren Daigle never gave up on her dreams...God Blessed her for His glory...

Don't get me wrong, I really like Lauren Daigle...but, have you seen her audition tape? It's not good at all. It was not her best whatsoever. Of course now she's amazing!

Whaaaat?!!!!!

@@monicahahn5623 because she's a Christian singer. Mainstream media mainly focuses on the secular.

Agreed.

Agreed

They wouldnt have done much for her anyway...Half the ppl that won basically isnt as popular or is doing much work as the ppl who didnt (in some cases)

+Dshawn TheGr8 Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Kelli Pickler are all very popular and are winners on Idol. Kelly Clarkson and Carrie especially

+Jessica Waldron the reason I said (In some cases) lol

But we can only see them if there's footage, lol. If some of them, like Hilary's or Amber's never even made it to the judges, there wouldn't be anything to show.

Some of them weren't aired

I read that Bruno Mars tried out for American Idol as well but got rejected in the interview process. I local musician in my area, Darcie Miner, tried out for American Idol but got rejected in the interview process. They told her that they wanted singers to have no experience in the music industry. This disqualified Darcie Miner because she was previously, before her audition, signed to a small record label that went bankrupt less then a year after signing her plus Darcie opened for Patty Griffin and other major record label artists and this also disqualified her for American Idol since American Idol wanted musicians with no ties to the record industry. American Idol probably wanted musicians that have no ties to the music industry prior to the show so that they can solely claim that they made this musician a star all by themselves.

R.I.P.):

So you forgot she passed or....

Yep. Made me sad.

Ikr

Same 😂

me too lml

me too lml

me too😂

And LOOKS.

But Tori looks awesome no? 😍😍

Not really

Lisa R. Nailed it

American Idol wasn’t always about that. Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood, their biggest contestants by a landslide, had absolutely no drama (unless you count Carrie’s blown eardrum during the finale). Even the most recent winners Maddie Poppe and Laine Hardy have no drama.

Jimmmmyyy🔥🔥🔥🔥

IKR!!!

That's right and she is so awesome

right?!

Ik

+Purvi N. i know right? she has one of the best voices of this generation

yeas

NATA B-A-K-A wew wwk ada kak nata disini 😂 you got caught

tori Kelly is amazing great

Leos Setiawan nata baka siapa

i know wtf is wrong with Simon

Tbf i can name most of the winners and a lot have had great careera

@@katekinder my cousin won x factor 2005 Shayne ward ❤️❤️

Lol. Country singers are always easier to get grammys, the competition is not tight in country category, compared to other genre. Ariana Grande only have one, Demi is no, Tori Kelly just got in 2019. Country music suck.

@@thankuslay6766 ur opinion sucks

@@goulienkhuolgangte1525 fuck country singer, today's country singer suck. Trash, they're just *pop* . Bullshit. Fuck CMA, ACM, CMT

I feel like Hillary is actually the weakest vocal link in Lady A...

@@thankuslay6766 that's why taylor got more than lana, nicki, katy, kesha and many more

That was literally me

lol😅

Same

Fr 😂😂

dude Tori is life

Tori Kelly

aye

Yay

Chris Daughtry actually placed fourth in AI.

Biebs To Simon Cowell it was very annoying. Now Tori gets her revenge!

Same

Exactly!!!

Great Advice

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That's a good advice. And it's not limited to only singing or dancing but it's applicable to every field of our life and career.

ikr!!

+Jessica Uba but she doesn't have one still.

I was just going to mention him lol... thank god he was rejected though, Pentatonix never would've happened...

and still a reject xP

BLESS THIS COMMENT

His Ego chair.

Come on.. Do you actually think he knows anything about singing??

And she is truly beautiful!!!

guido conti actually I do, Simon Cowell is actually responsible for the production of several major league acts like Camila, Zayn, Kelly, Carrie, Leona Lewis, etc...

Who?

Correction: American's idol's biggest mistakeS: Jack Avery and Daniel Seavey

Exactly.... she is now one of the best singers honestly her voice is just .... above the ordinary

Correction: AM's biggest mistake is being corporate!

Not to my ear 😩👎

+Girl Wednesday I think some of them didn't even have audition tapes because they didn't make it that far.

handsome baby

+Girl Wednesday 1ST AND 2ND AUDITION AREN'T TAPED.

+Girl Wednesday same

You can view 3 or 4 of them

Same

Fr

So true

Right they have regrets from it to

to give way for the autotune singers.

Rip

Ikr

+Jonathon Jaszczak He made it really far on the show, so he wasn't really rejected; viewers just didn't vote for him to move on.

Who's he?

+Jonathon Jaszczak He wasn't rejected by idol though lol he was rejected by america because he didn't get enough votes. he made it to top 24 but was eliminated before top 12.

I have to go google him.

Big yes

Same on AGT

Hahaha

Indonesia too😂 Welcome to the club

As long as youre goodlooking even without a talent youre in 😆😆

Sunny Monroe thank you !

Well i dont realy like her. And who kows, how they sang on that day? Just stop making a scene here ö_Ö

i could have been criticism to make her more better.

Gods your only idol

Drugs lmao is jk they wasn’t thinking

Crack

ever*****

Shuyi Xu plastic face

Shuyi Xu ikr

Jodie T xxx Lmao ikr.

Shuyi Xu RIGHT?😂😂😂

Neither American Idol, nor Country, could identify music if pressed.

Well now they picked Carrie Underwood who is still the most successful Idol alum ever. I do agree they let some good ones slip by and choose winners that were not as good as the runners up. However, let's be glad these people did not let that show or others deter them.

Well I mean Carrie Underwood.

Actually, it was Kelly Clarkson who spoke to one of the producers in the show to include country music.

James Ford what are you on about?

They could have practiced and are better than back in the day

The ones who couldn't get past producers could have been stupid hollywood reasons - like they were at the point where they were more concerned with 'interesting' than vocal talent.

Jin OMG is Jin. Yes ARMY

Straight up 😂💯

YES!!!😂❤👌

why i see you everywhere. 😂😘

She sure didn't deserve this craping show

Jennifer Graham Yeah and in the video, you expect them to get together, but they actually are looking for someone else!

ik

Todrick made the Top 16 on American Idol so I don't think it counts as rejection

ikr🤔

Cry Baby yh but simon cowell told him he would never make it big because he wasnt really a "singer" according to him.. that's quite a rejection i think.

ikrrr

Ahhhhhhh that totally sucks, but alright

yeah, really.,.I would of loved seeing that¡!!!!

Madi Heidrich i totally agree

Madi Heidrich pretty skin

she is not and she is annoying

+Ember Herr IKR

Simon is SOOO rude!!!!

Chanel Oberlin I didn't say she was the best but have you even taken the time to properly look into her? she is incredible, you can't deny that

Valerie Downing YES

OMG PTX is the bomb! Idol reject? SO LAME! I don't feel bad at all now that I got through 3 producer rounds of X-factor ... Actually, the further you get, the more you learn about how to get further next time if you try again. I got cut at the cattle call for idol, but I did make the first round of X-factor the first year in the biggest cattle call LA had ever seen. I got cut on the second day, and didn't even get an audition in at all for season two. But season 3, I made it all the way through the LA producer rounds, but didn't get the final cut for the actual show. I felt like if the show had not gotten cancelled and had one more year, I could have at least gotten to sing in front of Simon and the audience, maybe further even- and it was actually his opinion I wanted to get more than anything, because I would actually believe him if he told me I didn't have what it takes or if I did. One thing I noticed that last year was a lot of the people at the final producer stage before the actual show judge audition had been at least that far already during previous seasons, Song choice is EVERYTHING, but not the way you might first think... I think a lot of whether you make the show or not has to do with the licensing costs of the audition song you choose - it has to be popular enough for it to be worth them paying to use it. If you do a song that is really great but too niche or unknown, it won't matter how great you sing it because they won't buy the rights to use it in the show for just one person's audition.... Probably why they encourage using stuff from the last few years in popular music, making it more likely that they already own it since they have produced much of the formulaic pop in recent years. If I had the money and ten years fewer mileage on my 44 year old body, I might actually try to fly to the UK and audition there with some real confidence instead of just courage. 1 Something to think about if you are looking to audition for a show like this - find out who the showrunners are and try to select a song that is already in their library to avoid getting passed over for licensing cost reasons. Maximize your opportunity by being easy on their bottom line even before you start....

Valerie Downing Yesssss!!!!! Btw thanks for saving me 6 minutes of my life lol

3 time now!!!

YES.

Simon is annoying... boring, zero personality.

Exactly!!

Seriously? She is amazing.

1st. Only one with several Grammies lol

They had to be toward the beginning of the video otherwise if it were just no names until the end, nobody would stay tuned

maybe she mentioned her earlier to attract the viewers, because most of the artists here are not really famous

+Bebe Strong Not really famous??? you must live under a rock!!!

no. 1 i think..

Lila Fox 100% same ptx is my life blood. It's not funny how much I love them

That is literally me 😂😂😂

Lila Fox I was waiting for this comment!!!

Elisa Iannidinardi Yassss 👏👏👐👐

Yassss Scotty😍

Hope you have fun!

So great! Have fun!

i saw her a while back! she was amazingggg, have fun :)

me too!!

seeing her this Friday 😄

Terry Scott hahaha...)

Terry Scott okay you sing better than them

DGElite Entertainment if you get an engineer to build you a house, and 1year later it goes all to the ground, it's obvious that he is a bad engineer, but are you better ? i dont think so, can you say he is bad ? you totally can.

Their job is to judge, not sing

@@kayleem8162 but how can u judge someone on something u don't have experience in.. makes no sense they shud have musical experience and they are humans to so they are prone to mistakes and also maybe the singers improved over time

A.K.A Emperor a lot of the judges are singers. But also, even if not, it’s just their job to judge talent. I miss when Simon was harsh :/

@@a.k.aemperor2365 One doesn't need to be able to sing to know how to :/

Willbert Jr exactly what I was thinking

because auto tune is not allowed on auditions

SOOOOOO TRUE HOW BEST EVER!

technically it wasn't lady antebellum just Hilary, however am in complete agreement she is amazing I saw them in concert once and so hope to again in the future

And Adam lambert

And Jordin Sparks

Wow. You certainly don't listen to much good music. Her voice is loud and unoriginal but I can see why she would appeal to a modern superficial and plastic society. 🤮

@@earthangel8730 first of all she’s not loud and unoriginal she’s extremely original. There’s no one that sounds like her anywhere you hear tori you know it’s tori She is powerful not loud there’s a difference, she can be very soft and pretty have you never heard her voice she sings like an angel, she’s not plastic. she’s the realist of the real honestly. You’re extremely rude. go find some joy. and leave this girl that hasn’t done anything to you and you’ve never met alone.

Child half these people did not even make it to judges

Joseph Wiliams how was she rejected? You do realize she made the top 12 of season 3? She came in 7th but that’s hardly being rejected by Idol - it was the viewers who screwed up

No she was on American Idol until the end.

@what a jabroni She was a contestant on American Idol a few years ago but did not win. She went on to win a role in the movie, "Dream Girls", for which she won an Academy award. Jennifer also won a grammy award. She was also a judge on the show ""The Voice." She has made multiple appearances in so many different types of venues.

The judgment not reject her the voters of American is reject her.

Wtf 😂😂

Actual Wakandan girl , Colbie suffered from severe stage fright, publicly known. It's very possible she had a lousy audition. Happens all the time! I actually saw her earlier on with Jason Mraz Live on some talk show, and she looked at her feet almost the entire time.

@@Rainbow-yh6ov I was friends with her back in middle school and high school. I never even knew she sang until she came out with bubbly.

i am sorry you feel that way but telling me once is enough thank you

Never heard of her...

Eh, she's alright. Don't get me wrong - she's beautiful and incredibly talented - but there are some tiny nitpicky aspects of her that keep her from being great in my opinion.

She is fantastic

I AGREE xD

Not all the songs but yeah..most of em'

+Torry James I know right, wow

what is ikr and lmao?

Torry James i only knew the two first songs and the caracter in hunger games.

Ryn .o. Same..same

Broke Girl I don’t know anyone

jakob sharp How else should they talk?? Like a damn robot??

its over l l

Sam Ballinger look at when this was made. She wasn’t that big back then to be apart of this list.

Kevin Munene fact

not they...just Simon lol

Simon sucks

Her audition sucked lol remember it was 15 years ago hard work and determination at crafting her skill made her better

Also to the people on here who say the winners get no game lol you must be kidding me.kelly Clarkson multiple Grammy carry Underwood multiple Grammys.besides you are not tied into a contract just because you win the show doesn't mean you need to except the contract.and also the contract is only for two years.terry fator win agt now he just signed a 100 million dollar contract with vegas.and to be honest the reason most singers (not just Xfactor winners) don't make it is BECAUSE OF RU-vid nobody buys music anymore when they can get it for free online

Brittany B, are you on drugs? Nobody can take your seriously fucking troll.

rinriny st Ahh Adam Lambert. I love him man!

rinriny st can't forget chris daughtry, kelli pickler and bucky covington. They were all three on the same season and were eliminated. U don't hear from the winner of that season

rinrini st don't forget Fantasia. She has really great concerts too.

Jennifer Hudson lost to Fantastia, remember? Simon had to eat humble pie for that!