10 Famous Singers Rejected By American Idol 

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

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

✋

true dat

yup

AGREED! 👌🏽

right

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

🫂🫂🫂🥺🥺🥺

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

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.

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🔥🔥🔥🔥

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?

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

Exactly!!!

Great Advice

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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.

Same

Fr

So true

Right they have regrets from it to

to give way for the autotune singers.

Ikr

Same 😂

me too lml

me too lml

me too😂

+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

R.I.P.):

So you forgot she passed or....

Yep. Made me sad.

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

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

Same

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!

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

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.

Ahhhhhhh that totally sucks, but alright

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

Madi Heidrich i totally agree

Madi Heidrich pretty skin

Chris Daughtry actually placed fourth in AI.

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

Exactly!!

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!

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

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.

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 😄

Child half these people did not even make it to judges

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

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

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

Not to my ear 😩👎

Gods your only idol

Yeah same here lol

colbie calbait used to be quite famous. but idk who dafuq the #10 lady is. probz cause she wasnt that famous internationally, unlike the rest?

violetgirl1996 woe someone got offended, i'm more than sure you've heard of lady antebellum.

agree...i only know no 10

I never heard of any of these people.

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

its over l l

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.

Rip

Sheila Dodds They didn't get rejected, they made it onto the live shows, they just didn't win.

they didnt get rejected you fool

Arnav Vaidyanathan tbh lol

I disagree

Arnav Vaidyanathan omg tell me more I care so much

+Arnav Vaidyanathan *Yes, and for a reason.* It’s true...

Simon was an ignorant

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

Leia’s World i love colbie

LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!! Ooooh delusional....

Leia’s World lets see... Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Daughtry, and I could go on...

Leia’s World one hit deals? What about scotty McCreary?

Who is she?

what the fuck is a christian singer?

DerPizzadieb a singer that sings Christian songs? How can you not process that?

jesscaspix Colton wasn't rejected. He made it into the finals

i've never heard any talented Christian singers and Christian music is an absolute joke anyways. that's why he didn't make it onto the video, because he's irrelevant. listen to real music lmao

Jay Forsyth You haven't heard talented Christian singers because you don't listen to it. Not listening to something doesn't make it irrelevant. That's an assanine thing to say.

I LOOKED FOR THAT AUDITION EVERYWHERE IT DOESN'T EXIST¡

Y u got me gud.

That's right🤬

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.

Simon is annoying... boring, zero personality.

Nick Guzzo can't show them if they didn't get to the judges

Nick Guzzo yeeah they should show at least a clip

Gypsie Hex wat does dat men

Favremysabre Fan I believe what Gypsie Hex means is a lot of these people didn't even make it to Simon and the crew because the producers rejected them before that step in the process. Therefore, there would be no footage of them singing because it was in front of the producers, not the judges. When you go on Idol, you didn't just get to see the judges right away. There were steps beforehand, and one of them was singing for the producers. It sounds like that's where a lot of these were cut. It seems as if only 2-4 actually made it in front of the judges. The others were rejected before they even had the cameras on them.

What's the video called?!

+Samantha Pepe ahhhh, my bad it was the X factor she was eliminated from, but still she was very talented, and if you want to check it out it is called Beatrice Miller tells the truth about X factor

She wasnt rejected on the last round, she made it to the live shows, i remember watching it.

+KittenChickens thanks

ah, im all mixed up with this, sorry

+destielftw OMG YES I was looking for this comment! Finally someone that agrees!

Actually, Scott Hoying (with the group Pentatonix) has won 3 grammys and even though Pentatonix won The Sing Off RCA dropped the recording contract within the first week of their win. Scott/Pentatonix then worked their behinds off posting videos to RU-vid to get where they are now. If you don't possess the talent, tenacity and drive, you will never make it in this industry.

You need to research at least tori kelly. She'll blow your mind

Seriously? Were you born yesterday?

Your not alone.

+Boom Box me neither

same

There's always a lot of rejection for creative people. If you don't love it and have that drive then you probably won't make it anyway.

Haley made it to like the top 3. How is that being rejected?

Lol who?

I agree, she’s amazing!

Yaaaaaa poor noodles

Eyyyyy a LIMELIGHT

And Daniel : (

Jadyn Aching Daniel went on it but he got eliminated on his birthday

I love wdw

I got a few words for ya..... Shut the hell up coz no one cares if u haven’t heard these singers. You don’t even count in the population as population is the number of people, people, and clearly u aren’t a person...... no Offence. Just kidding please don’t take it seriousely. Just take some advice that “listen to more songs :-)”

Arnav Vaidyanathan L

Arnav Vaidyanathan the thing is I don’t like listening to music this generation so I’m a blast in the past person

DanvilleGuy why is he to blame for her losing ? he let her through all the way to the live rounds, she lost because lack of viewer votes

DanvilleGuy yes.... Jhud.

Amen!

Are we going to ignore one direction? That mistake is almost criminal

DanvillGuy...IKR...how do you not name Jennifer Hudson on this list? They need to redo this video

You must be very young

Mario Or Derek I'll take that as a compliment. But I'd guess that I'm at least older than you are, unless you're in your 40s or more.

Nico says the one with a cartoon for a profile picture

Mario Or Derek So? I like Anime and I like the one specific character I'm using as a profile pic, I didn't judge you based on whatever you may or may not like didn't I? I don't know you, you don't know me, at most the thing people can use here to judge others are comments, thematically or contextually. Since the first response you made can no way be verifiable unless I explicitly provide you with my personal details, anyone with half a brain would know that that's an insult. Which confirms my second point. Yes, I'm pretty sure I'm older than you are.

GodZiLLA not really no.

They wouldve won and got mass attention from very major companies, and they couldve more quickly got successful contracts and most likely wouldve been able to choose their producer

or maybe become on of the forgotten winners . like it has 14 seasons and i know a second place( adam lambert ) and a winner ( kelly ) others ? i have 1 or 2 that i like . but because i watched the show . other than that ? no success

+Beste Naz Karabulut CARRIE UNDERWOOD(COUNTRY) FANTASIA BARRINO R & B, & JORDIN SPARKS(POP), RUBEN STUDDARD(R & B, GOSPEL) ALL SUCCESSFUL AMERICAN IDOL WINNERS. THEY HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN THEIR GENRES, INCLUDING NON WINNERS, LIKE ADAM LAMBERT AND JENNIFER HUDSON.

Sharon Looz fair point...

autotune happens for a reason.

Payio Kayina or maybe they can't sing well and technology makes up for it. so many singers only playback and can't sing.

Robin Clarijs well actually Tori Kelly sings good without auto tune or technology

Thanks

Or the talent scouts were really bad and didn't know good music when they heard it.

Amen to that! Really thankful it didn't stop her though! Her career is impacted a lot of people!

And Mandisa, too! She was on American idol and was booted unfortunately.

susan lemery wait, you actually listen to that shit?

James Rennick awwwww is someone’s feelings hurt ? :(

Arty Munoz lol good comeback

true af

I tought the same thing

i know right!?!?!?!?!?! wth

At least they proved American Idol wrong

me neither! Their voices are so amazing

producers told him he sounded too much like Michael Jackson

whatttttttt I never knew this oh my god¡

@@AX-zj3xm = Hehehe...... Classic but amusing, I didn't know about that either

No way that's true

@@AX-zj3xm I can believe that. I've always said he sounds like he could be a love child between Jackson and Stevie Wonder.

Kokaioh99 What the problem in being a Mariah fan and praising other singers? Both Amber and Tori still can't beat Mariah prime vocals. ;) Now they are in their prime.

Lorien Valar Oh :/, if it was this, then I ask him to forgive me. Bcuz the internet is full of trolls and haters and also my english is bad. Hahaha

Kokaioh99 Yea, that's the problem. :/

Thi Hills Music and Jennifer Hudson

Greatest voices in America, maybe, but the rest of the world really hasn't heard of them 😂

becuase you must go through the first audition acapella? they want raw talent, not a boosted performance

I know right!!! Its funny how the winners couldnt even find fame but these guys did!! Just goes to show u Idol has become sooooooo wishy washy!

Like all of them?

+Hello Hi - Except Carrie, Kelly & Jennifer 😭 My Fav Was Adam Lambert, But He Was Only Runner Up , So Yeah . They Aren't That Great at Picking Winners All The Time LOL

But just look at The Voice winners. They win and are nobody's right after they win..

Mark Komar the only person I heard of from the voice that had fame was christian grimmie RIP but that's it

Shaggy Rogers and Melaine Martinez. She's the only one from the voice (she didn't even win!) Who's music video has over 100M

I disagree.... look at Carrie Underwood, Chris Daughtry, Mandisa, Kelly Clarkston,Danny Gokey, Colton Dixon....they all did very well after idol. Remember no one knew them before. I can't say the same for the winners of the voice...they are not getting promoted very well at all.

@@offlineediting don't forget Cassadee Pope