He won the Swedish Idol 2004 contest against Darin Zanyar.

During episode 23, Shotaro and Philip cover "Finger on the Trigger" in the Fuuuuuutic Idol contest.

Also for the second time on an Idol contest, the format for eliminations in the Top 12 round will be different.

When Ms. Clarkson won the first "American Idol" contest in 2002, she sang ballads like Mariah Carey.

Cooper calls for a "Naked Idol" contest and the outfit selects Kristina Reyes as their new bassist.

In 2002 Spanton was in charge of launching The Sun's first Page 3 Idol contest.

The only other Idol contest to have this occur was Greece's Super Idol in 2004.

Prashant got about 10 times more votes (70 million votes) than Amit in the final and went on to win the Indian Idol contest.

Alicja Janosz (born 1985), the winner of the 2002 Polish Idol contest, was born in Pszczyna.

In April 2007, he toured American Air Force bases in Europe, judging the Military Idol contest and performing.