American Idol contestants discography
This is a comprehensive listing of official post-Idol releases by various contestants of the television show American Idol.
All of the compilations and singles of the show as well as most of its contestants' singles and albums were released by 19 Recordings with Sony Music Entertainment (the general record company associated and affiliated with the Idol series in most countries through its RCA/Jive Label Group) from 2002–2010 and with Universal Music Group (through its Interscope-Geffen-A&M Label Group) from 2011 onwards.[1][2][3][4]
The first winner Kelly Clarkson remains the best-selling contestant worldwide with 20 million albums sold followed by fourth winner Carrie Underwood (best-selling contestant in the United States) with 15 million albums sold worldwide.
By the end of 2009, all the contestants had 257 number one singles in the Billboard charts and have sold over 66 million albums worldwide and 56 million singles in US alone [5]
Season 1
Kelly Clarkson
Justin Guarini
- The Midnight Voices
- Justin Guarini
- "Unchained Melody"
- "Sorry"
- Stranger Things Have Happened
- "Did You Know That I Know Your Journey?"
- "Everlasting"
- Revolve (EP)
Nikki McKibbin
- Unleashed
- "To Be with You"
- "The Lie"
- "Naked Inside"
- "Save What's Left of Me"
- "Cry Little Sister"
- "Here to There"
- "Inconsolable"
- "Made it" (Featuring The League)
- Psychotrip (EP) ( with Love Stricken Demise)
- "Celebrity High"
Tamyra Gray
- The Dreamer
- "Raindrops Will Fall"
RJ Helton
- Real Life
- "Even If"
- "My Devotion"
Ryan Starr
- "My Religion"
- "Love Gone Bad"
- "Stranded"
- "7am"
- "Eyes of a Child"
- "Blue"
- "Broken"
AJ Gil
- "She's Hot"
- Love Me Later
- Life, Death & Resurrection
- "I Live"
Jim Verraros
- Unsaid and Understood
- Rollercoaster
- "You Turn It On"
- "I Want You"
- "You're Getting Crazy"
- "Outside"
- "Welcome to Hollywood"
- Do Not Disturb
- "Touch (Don't U Want 2)"
- "Electric Love"
- "Do Not Disturb"
Other contestants
- Voyces United for UNHCR (Brad Estrin – Album, 2006)
- Human Again (Adriel Herrera – Album)
- Numb (Angela Peel – Album, 2007)
Season 2
Ruben Studdard
- "Flying Without Wings" / "Superstar"
- Soulful
- "Sorry 2004"
- "What If"
- I Need an Angel
- The Return
- "Celebrate Me Home"
- Love Is
- "Together"
- "Don't Make 'Em Like U No More"
- Playlist: The Very Best of Ruben Studdard
- Letters from Birmingham
- "June 28th (I'm Single)"
Clay Aiken
- "Bridge over Troubled Water" / "This Is the Night"
- Measure of a Man
- Merry Christmas with Love
- "Winter Wonderland"
- "O Holy Night"
- "Hark the Herald Angels Sing / O Come All Ye Faithful"
- "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
- "Mary, Did You Know?"
- A Thousand Different Ways
- "Without You"
- "A Thousand Days"
- All Is Well: Songs for Christmas (EP)
- On My Way Here
- "On My Way Here"
- The Very Best of Clay Aiken
- Tried and True
Kimberley Locke
- One Love
- "8th World Wonder"
- "Wrong"
- "Coulda Been"
- "I Could"
- Based on a True Story
- "Change"
- "Band of Gold"
- "Fall"
- Christmas
- "Strobelight"
- Four for the Floor
- "Finally Free"
Josh Gracin
- Josh Gracin
- We Weren't Crazy
- "Favorite State of Mind"
- "I Keep Coming Back"
- "We Weren't Crazy"
- "Unbelievable (Ann Marie)"
- "Telluride"
- Redemption
- "Enough"
- "She's a Different Kind of Crazy"
- "Over Me"
- "Cover Girl"
- "Long Way to Go"
Carmen Rasmusen
- Carmen (EP)
- "Photograph"
- Nothin' Like the Summer
- "Nothin' Like the Summer"
Kimberly Caldwell
- "Who Will You Run To"
- "Fear of Flying"
- Without Regret
- "On the Weekend"
- "Tied Together"
- "Doin' Me Right"
Corey Clark
- Corey Clark
Charles Grigsby
- Charles Grigsby (EP)
Vanessa Olivarez
- "The One"
- The One (The Remixes)
- "As Vain As You"
- Butterfly Stitch EP
- Butterfly Stitch – Live at The Loft
Others
- Quiana Parler
- Use Your Gift
- Jordan Segundo
- Jordan
- George Trice
- George Trice
Season 3
Fantasia Barrino
- "I Believe"
- Free Yourself
- "Truth Is"
- "Baby Mama"
- "Free Yourself"
- "Ain't Gon' Beg You"
- Fantasia
- "Hood Boy"
- "When I See U"
- "Only One U"
- Back to Me
- Side Effects of You
- "Lose to Win"
- "Without Me"
- "Side Effects of You"
Diana DeGarmo
- "Dreams"
- Blue Skies
- "Emotional"
Jasmine Trias
- "Love 'Ko To"
- Jasmine Trias
- "Excuses"
- "Lose Control"
- "Sana Lagi"
- "Kung Paano"
- "I'd Rather"
- "The Christmas Song"
LaToya London
- Love & Life
- "Appreciate" / "Every Part of Me" / "All By Myself"
- "State of My Heart"
George Huff
- My Christmas EP (EP)
- "Go Tell It on the Mountain"
- Miracles
- "Brighter Day"
- "Miracles"
- "You Know Me"
- George Huff
- "Don't Let Go"
John Stevens
- Red
- "Come Fly with Me"
Jennifer Hudson
Jon Peter Lewis
- "Turn to Grey"
- Stories from Hollywood
- "Stories from Hollywood"
- "It's Christmas"
- "If I Go Away/Man Like Me"
- Break the Silence
- Jon Peter Lewis (EP)
Camile Velasco
- "Hangin On"
- "Guava Jelly" (feat. Stephen Marley)
- Koy
- "Super Star"
Leah LaBelle
- "Sexify"
- "Lolita"
- "What Do We Got To Lose?"
- Love to the Moon (EP)
Others
- Kiera Bivens
- Love, Lipstick and Poetry
- Lisa Leuschner
- Sing Me Home
- Reality
- Dina Lopez
- Str8up Band
- Lana Phillips
- Love, Lana
- John Preator
- I'll Be Seeing You
- Alan Ritchson
- This Is Next Time
- Donnie Williams
- Just Like Magic
- Lisa Wilson
- Sun Shiney Day
Season 4
Carrie Underwood
- "Inside Your Heaven" / "Independence Day"
- Some Hearts
- "I'll Stand by You"
- Carnival Ride
- "Praying for Time"
- "Just Stand Up!" (with Various Artists)
- "Home Sweet Home"
- Play On
- "Remind Me"(with Brad Paisley)
- Blown Away
- "Somethin' Bad" (with Miranda Lambert)
- Greatest Hits: Decade Number 1
- Storyteller
- "Smoke Break"
- "Heartbeat"
- "Chaser"
- "Church Bells"
- "Dirty Laundry"
- "The Fighter" (with Keith Urban)
- Cry Pretty
- "The Champion" (with Ludacris)
- "Cry Pretty"
- "Love Wins"
Bo Bice
- "I Don't Want to Be"
- "Inside Your Heaven" / "Vehicle"
- The Real Thing
- "The Real Thing"
- "U Make Me Better"
- "Blades of Glory"
- See the Light
- "Witness"
- 3
- "You Take Yourself with You"
Vonzell Solomon
- My Struggle
Constantine Maroulis
Nadia Turner
- "Standing on Love"
Nikko Smith
- Revolution
Jessica Sierra
- Deepest Secret EP
Others
Judd Harris
- Fly (with Visible from Space)
Jeff Johnson
- Enter In
- Glorious Day
Jamie Paul Koehler
- It's Christmas Time'
Melinda Lira
- Melinda
Sarah Mather
- Another Day
Kurtis Parks
- Something for Everyone
Elizabeth Pha (aka Chandara)
- The Moon & the Stars
Celena Rae
- Invisible Woman
Jared Yates
- All That I Am
Season 5
Taylor Hicks
- "Do I Make You Proud" / "Takin' It to the Streets"
- Taylor Hicks
- The Distance
- "What's Right Is Right"
- "Seven Mile Breakdown"
Katharine McPhee
Elliott Yamin
- "Moody's Mood for Love"
- "This Christmas"
- Elliott Yamin
- "Movin' On"
- "Wait for You"
- "One Word (Elliott Yamin song)"
- "Home"
- "In Love With You Forever"
- Sounds of the Season: The Elliott Yamin Holiday Collection
- "Warm Me Up"
- My Kind of Holiday
- Fight for Love
- "Fight for Love
- "You Say"
- "Can't Keep on Loving You (From a Distance)"
Chris Daughtry with Daughtry
- "Wanted Dead or Alive (Bon Jovi song)"
- Daughtry
- "It's Not Over"
- "Home"
- "What I Want"
- "Over You"
- "Crashed"
- "Feels Like Tonight"
- "What About Now"
- Leave This Town
- "No Surprise"
- "You Don't Belong"
- "Life After You"
- "September"
- Break the Spell
- Baptized
- "Waiting for Superman"
- "Long Live Rock 'n Roll"
- "Battleships"
Paris Bennett
- "Midnight Train to Georgia"
- Princess P
- "Ordinary Love"
- "Duet"
- "My Boyfriend's Back" (Promo only)
Kellie Pickler
- Small Town Girl
- Kellie Pickler
- "Don't You Know You're Beautiful"
- "Best Days of Your Life"
- "Didn't You Know How Much I Loved You"
- "Makin' Me Fall in Love Again"
- 100 Proof
Ace Young
- "Father Figure"
- "Scattered"
- Ace Young
- "Addicted"
Bucky Covington
- Bucky Covington
- I'm Alright
- TBD Album
- "I Wanna Be That Feeling"
Mandisa
- True Beauty
- Christmas Joy EP
- It's Christmas
- "Lose My Soul"
- Freedom
- "My Deliverer"
- "He Is with You"
- What If We Were Real
- "Stronger"
- "Good Morning"
Others
Bobby "Bluu Suede" Bullard
- The Bluu Suede Project
Patrick Hall
- One for the Ages (LP)
Josh Royse
- Memories
David Radford
- Swing on By (LP)
Stevie Scott
- Stevie Scott (EP)
- Brianna Taylor (EP)
- Fireworks at the Fairground
Stephanie White
- Knee Deep InSanity
Season 6
- American Idol Season 6: Greatest Hits
Jordin Sparks
Blake Lewis
- Blake Lewis (EP)
- A.D.D. (Audio Day Dream)
- Heartbreak on Vinyl
- "Sad Song"
- "Heartbreak on Vinyl"
- "Till' We See the Sun"
- Portrait of a Chameleon
Melinda Doolittle
- Melinda Doolittle (EP)
- "It's Your Love"
- Coming Back to You
LaKisha Jones
- LaKisha Jones (EP)
- So Glad I'm Me
- "Let's Go Celebrate"
Chris Richardson
- Chris Richardson (EP)
- Come Right Back to You
- "All Alone"
- "Far Away" (as featured artist)
Phil Stacey
- Phil Stacey (EP)
- Phil Stacey
- "If You Didn't Love Me"
- Into the Light
- "Old Glory"
- "Inside Out"
- "You're Not Shaken"
- "Some Kind of Love"
Sanjaya Malakar
- Dancing to the Music in My Head
Haley Scarnato
- StrongHeart
- "Girls Night Out"
Gina Glocksen
- Gina Glocksen – EP
Chris Sligh
- Running Back to You
- "Empty Me"
- "Arise"
Stephanie Edwards
- "On Our Way"
- "Here I Am"
Brandon Rogers
- Automatic
Others
- One
- "Dangerouz"
- "I'm So Crushed"
- Didn't Matter That
Amanda Coluccio
- "Fly Away"
- "Now That I Found You"
- The Thrill of Hope
Sherman Pore
- For My Lady Love
Season 7
David Cook
- "Dream Big"
- "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"
- "The World I Know"
- "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"
- "Billie Jean"
- "Always Be My Baby"
- "Hello"
- "The Music of the Night"
- "Eleanor Rigby"
- "I'm Alive"
- "Little Sparrow"
- "Hungry Like the Wolf"
- "Innocent"
- "Day Tripper"
- "All Right Now"
- "Happy Together" (Originally by The Turtles)
- David Cook
- This Loud Morning
- ''Digital Vein''
- ''Chromance''
David Archuleta
- "Imagine"
- "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me"
- "In This Moment"
- "Longer"
- "Think of Me"
- "Angels"
- David Archuleta
- Christmas from the Heart
- The Other Side of Down
- "Something 'Bout Love"
- "Elevator"
- Begin
- No Matter How Far
Jason Castro
- "Hallelujah"
- "Over the Rainbow"
- "White Christmas"
- The Love Uncompromised EP (EP)
- "Let's Just Fall in Love Again"
- Jason Castro
- "That's What I'm Here For"
- "Over the Rainbow"
- Who I Am
- "You Are"
- Only a Mountain
Brooke White
- High Hopes and Heart Break (2009)
- "Hold Up My Heart"
- "Radio Radio"
- Gemini EP (as part of Jack and White) (2011)
- Winter EP (as part of Jack and White) (2012)
Carly Smithson with We Are the Fallen
- Tear the World Down
- "Bury Me Alive"
Kristy Lee Cook
Michael Johns
Ramiele Malubay
- "We Are One (This Christmas)"
- "Kaya"
- "More to Me"
- "Here I Am"
Amanda Overmyer
- Solidify
- "Play On"
- "Love Me Like You Want"
Josiah Leming
- Angels Undercover EP
- Punk Ass Rain EP
- Come On Kid
- Another Life
Season 8
Kris Allen
- Season 8 Favorite Performances
- "Let It Be"
- Kris Allen
- "Live Like We're Dying"
- "The Truth (with Pat Monahan)
- "Alright with Me"
- Thank You Camellia
- Horizons
- "Prove It to You" (feat. Lenachka)
Adam Lambert
Danny Gokey
- Non-album song
- My Best Days
- Non-album song
- "Second Hand Heart"
Allison Iraheta
Anoop Desai
- All Is Fair
- "My Name"
- Zero.0
Scott MacIntyre
- Heartstrings
Michael Sarver
- Michael Sarver
- "You Are"
- "Cinderella Girl"
- "Ferris Wheel"
- Christmas
Season 9
Lee DeWyze
- "Beautiful Day
- "Hallelujah"
- "Falling Slowly" (with Crystal Bowersox)
- "The Boxer"
- "Everybody Hurts"
- Live It Up
- "Sweet Serendipity"
- "Beautiful Like You"
- Frames
- "Silver Lining"
- "Fight"
Crystal Bowersox
- "Up to the Mountain"
- "Falling Slowly" (with Lee DeWyze)
- "Black Velvet"
- "Me and Bobby McGee"
- Farmer's Daughter
- "Farmer's Daughter"
- "Ridin' with the Radio"
Casey James
Aaron Kelly
- "I Can't Wait for Christmas"
Tim Urban
Siobhan Magnus
- Moonbaby
- "Beatrice Dream"
- "Black Doll"
Andrew Garcia
- "Crazy"
Season 10
Scotty McCreery
- American Idol Season 10: Scotty McCreery
- American Idol Season 10 Highlights: Scotty McCreery EP
- Clear as Day
- Christmas with Scotty McCreery
- See You Tonight
Lauren Alaina
- American Idol Season 10: Lauren Alaina
- American Idol Season 10 Highlights: Lauren Alaina EP
- Wildflower
- "Barefoot and Buckwild"
- Road Less Traveled
Haley Reinhart
- American Idol Season 10 Highlights: Haley Reinhart EP
- "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (with Casey Abrams)
- Listen Up!
- "Free"
James Durbin
- American Idol Season 10 Highlights: James Durbin EP
- Memories of a Beautiful Disaster
- "Stand Up"
- "Love Me Bad"
- "HIgher Than Heaven
Casey Abrams
- Casey Abrams
- "Get Out"
- "Simple Life"
Stefano Langone (as Stefano)
- "I'm on a Roll"
- "Yes to Love"
Pia Toscano
Thia Megia
- "One Day"
Naima Adedapo
- Untitled EP
- 'Free Your Mind"
Ashthon Jones
- "Lookout"
Tim Halperin
- Rise and Fall
- "The Last Song"
Chris Medina
Season 11
Phillip Phillips
- Phillip Phillips: Journey to the Finale
- American Idol Season 11 Highlights
- The World from the Side of the Moon
- "Home"
- "Gone, Gone, Gone"
Jessica Sanchez
- "Change Nothing"
- Jessica Sanchez: Journey to the Finale
- American Idol Season 11 Highlights
- Me, You & the Music
- "Tonight"
Joshua Ledet
Hollie Cavanagh
- American Idol Season 11 Highlights
- "Outer Limit"
Skylar Laine
- American Idol Season 11 Highlights
- "Settle Down"
Elise Testone
- In This Life
- "I Will Not Break"
Colton Dixon
DeAndre Brackensick
- "Her Crazy"
Heejun Han (as HeeJun)
- "Bring the Love Back"
Erika Van Pelt
- My Independence
- "Listen, Learn, Then Delete"
Season 12
Candice Glover
- Music Speaks
- "I Am Beautiful"
- "Cried"
Kree Harrison
Angie Miller
- "You Set Me Free
- "This Christmas Song"
- Weathered
Janelle Arthur
- "What You Asked For"
Paul Jolley
- "Healed"
Season 13
Caleb Johnson
- Testify
- "As Long as You Love Me"
- "Only One"
- "Fighting Gravity"
- Born from Southern Ground (credited as Caleb Johnson & the Ramblin' Saints)
- "Holding On"
- "Hanging with the Band"
Jena Irene Asciutto
- "We Are One" (credited as Jena Irene)
- "Unbreakable"
- Innocence
- Cold Fame
Alex Preston
- "The Light Was Already Here"
- Alex Preston
- A Work in Progress
Jessica Meuse
- "Done"
- "Rio Grande"
- Halfhearted
Sam Woolf
- Pretend
CJ Harris
- "In Love"
Dexter Roberts
- Dream About Me
- "Dream About Me"
- Dexter Roberts Unplugged, Vol. 1
Majesty Rose
- Bloom
- "Plunge"
- "People Hold On"
MK Nobilette
- "Make Believe"
Ben Briley
- Outlier
Emily Piriz
- "One of Those Nights"
Season 14
Nick Fradiani
- Hurricane
Clark Beckham
- "Champion"
Jax
- "Forcefield"
- "La La Land"
Rayvon Owen
- "Air"
Adanna Duru
- "Transparent Soul"
Season 15
Trent Harmon
- Trent Harmon
- You Got 'Em All
- You Got 'Em All
La'Porsha Renae
- Already All Ready
- Good Woman
- Already All Ready
Season 16
Maddie Poppe
- Whirlwind
- Going Going Gone
- Keep On Movin On'
- Made You Miss
- First Aid Kit
- Little Things
Caleb Lee Hutchinson
- Johnny Cash Heart
Gabby Barrett
- River Deep
- I Hope