Which past contestants have seen decent success?
 

List all contestants (not just the winners) who have had a decent record deal/career from all the past shows. I also am interested in other success (for instance Hudsons oscar).

Also, if you know, please list what number they went out in?
In other words, how many people were left when they got booted?

Thanks!

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Idol

Look about 2/3 down the page.

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William Hung is the 11th most successful recording artist to come out of American Idol. That's pretty sweet.

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lol, outside of clarkson they all have had zero success with follow up albums. (obviously they all haven't had followup albums but the numbers are still pretty shocking. specifically aikens)

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lol, outside of clarkson they all have had zero success with follow up albums. (obviously they all haven't had followup albums but the numbers are still pretty shocking. specifically aikens)

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His Christmas album DID go platinum, not too shabby. I'm most surprised with Fantasia's success, although in retrospect that was a weird season and from what I saw I didn't like her that much. Elliot and Katherine from last year just released albums according to this and both have sold well to start.

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Wow, when Simon said Carrie would go on to sell more records than any previous Idol winner, I thought he was nuts.

Guess he was right. As usual...

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Wow, when Simon said Carrie would go on to sell more records than any previous Idol winner, I thought he was nuts.

Guess he was right. As usual...

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Putting out a good country album will get you much more sales than a good rock album. Country fans eat that sh*t up.

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I think Chris Daughtry will have the best post-idol career. He is easily the most talented of anyone that has been on the show IMO. He was so much better than anyone last eason its ridiculous. And the bonus for him was getting voted off early so that his credibility wasn't harmed by winning idol. You can see how much that title has done for Taylor...nothing much.

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BTW Elliott Yamin's new album debuts at #3 on the Billboard Charts this week. Pretty good considering he didn't even get an Idol record deal - it was an independent release.

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I think Chris Daughtry will have the best post-idol career. He is easily the most talented of anyone that has been on the show IMO. He was so much better than anyone last eason its ridiculous. And the bonus for him was getting voted off early so that his credibility wasn't harmed by winning idol. You can see how much that title has done for Taylor...nothing much.

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I think he'll do second best, next to Kelly Clarkson.