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Show: American Idol: No but seriously, Elliot Yamin had a year-end charting hit? Craaazzzy

Kelly Clarkson - A Moment Like This: 7 Being the first winner's theme means something tbh

Kelly Clarkson - Miss Independent: 7

Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway: 10 A grade school lying in bed, staring at the ceiling, fantasizing classique

Ruben Studdard - Sorry 2004: 7 Me too

Clay Aiken - The Way: 4 Outsold Arianahahahaha I'm just fuckin with ya could you imagine

Fantasia - I Believe: 9 Went from solid to a smash at the bridge

Fantasia - Free Yourself: 8 Thinking about the crazy timeline where this wins and Missy makes Winners IV twice off features

Fantasia - When I See U: 8

Jennifer Hudson - And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going: 10 Showtunes rate coming eventually

Jennifer Hudson - Spotlight: 8

Jennifer Hudson - If This Isn't Love: 6 (Hey!)

Carrie Underwood - Jesus, Take the Wheel: 4

Carrie Underwood - Before He Cheats: 9 A literal smasha

Carrie Underwood - All American Girl: 5 This is an eighth level of heterosexuality I have yet to gain access to

Katharine McPhee - Over It: 3 Hope the Betty Boop musical sounds better than this

Elliott Yamin - Wait for You: 6 I have not thought about this name in years. I don't need this

Daughtry - It's Not Over: 7 The absolute power stance he has on this album cover

Daughtry - Home (Daughtry): 5 If you try to make a heartfelt video for the troops this automatically comes attached to the project, you actually have to opt out of it

Jordin Sparks - Tattoo: 5

Jordin Sparks - One Step At a Time: 6 The high heels intro had me expecting a much stronger motherquake than I got

Jordin Sparks - Battlefield: 5 Queued up the Pat Benatar song immediately after, now that's a track that gets you armed and ready for the love war (Rater's note: Okay I was actually thinking about the riff to Heartbreaker, Love is a Battlefield is awesome but does not have that sick riff. My bad Jordin Sparks - Battlefield, you did not deserve that specific comparison)

David Cook - Light On: 4 Practicing self-care by not watching his Always Be My Baby cover to not give myself even a sliver of a chance of ruining a positive music talent show memory

David Archuleta - Crush: 8 Verse sections are weak but the chorus's got me bopping some, pretty solid bridge too

Kris Allen - Live Like We're Dying: 5 There's some really nice guitar & string flourishes, but otherwise it's unsalted pop rock

Adam Lambert - Whataya Want from Me: 7 Packs some more oomph than I expected, good work

Adam Lambert - If I Had You: 9 Now that's some good quality trashpop

Adam Lambert - Better Than I Know Myself: 4

Scotty McCreery - See You Tonight: 6 Hit the twelve second mark and went "oh, they are gonna hate your ass"

Lauren Alaina - Road Less Travelled: 8 Hallmark Channel female protagonist who owns a ranch theme

Phillip Phillips - Home (Phillip): 7 pov: you are being sold insurance

Phillip Phillips - Gone, Gone, Gone: 9 pov: you are being sold insurance

Gabby Barrett - I Hope: 4 That's too much work just smash his four wheel drive smh

Show: X Factor UK: What a roller coaster ride this was, thank you so much for this

Shayne Ward - Breathless: 2 Usher at home if the home was marked for demolition

Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love: 11 Ohhh shit hold on I forgot this was in here. This one's great.

Leona Lewis - Better in Time: 6

Alexandra Burke - Hallelujah: 4 Tomato emoji

Alexandra Burke - Bad Boys: 6 Flo Rida revealed himself and I audibly cracked up

Alexandra Burke - Broken Heels: 9

JLS - Beat Again: 3 You can't start a song like that lmao, I was expecting the darkest turn

JLS - Everybody in Love: 7 2/2 in incredible song openings omfg congratulations

Diana Vickers - Once: 10 Timing the intro like she's Lakitu at the starting line

Olly Murs - Heart Skips a Beat: 5 How the hell did we end up rating Rizzle Kicks twice in the same month

Olly Murs - Dance with Me Tonight: 6 Cute doo-wop

Olly Murs - Troublemaker: 10 Gonna be up all night trying to remember what mashup I know this from. Yeah it's a lot like that Maroon 5 song but it's good fun

Jedward - Lipstick: 5 Now when do they start saying Da Vinky

Rebecca Ferguson - Nothing's Real but Love: 8 I didn't realize Jedward wasn't on the playlist and sat flabbergasted & confused for thirty whole seconds

One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful: 8 You're insecure. You're insecure. You're insecure. You're insecure.

One Direction - One Thing: 5 Imagine only having one thing lmaooooo

One Direction - Live While We're Young: 5 Oh yeah, that's definitely Should I Stay Or Should I Go alright. I don't even care that much about songs sounding like other songs so I don't count that against it, but for real that's pretty much the same intro

Cher Lloyd - Swagger Jagger: 1 Before this played I paused to make sure the Spotify playlist was set to "exclude from taste profile"

Cher Lloyd - Want U Back: 8 This better not awaken anything in me

Cher Lloyd - I Wish: 6 Really hard to fully come back from a bad opening "yeah!"

Little Mix - Wings: 7

Little Mix - Salute: 5 Thank you for your service

Little Mix - Move: 8

Misha B - Home Run: 8 More of a double through the gap that brings in a run but obviously that's still great so

James Arthur - Impossible: 1 So drab holy moly

James Arthur - Say You Won't Let Go: 2 I'm living laughing & loving so hard rn

Ella Henderson - Ghost: 7

Lucy Spraggan - Last Night (Beer Fear): 5 Chorus is nice but it's got too much DNA from Jason Mraz & the most bleh festival indie pop rock

Ben Haenow - Second Hand Heart: 6

Fleur East - Sax: 6 Vibes of an SNL skit that builds and builds to an incredible saxophone climax only it's Andy Samberg playing the most pathetic sounds you've ever heard

Louisa Johnson - YES: 6 How is there more than one song in this rate centered around warning sirens

Rak-Su - I Want You to Freak: 6 They really love Freak Like Me over there

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