American Idol contestants discography

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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 25 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[]

  • American Idol: Greatest Moments

Kelly Clarkson[]

Main article: Kelly Clarkson discography

Justin Guarini[]

Main article: Justin Guarini § Discography
  • 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[]

Main article: Nikki McKibbin § Discography
  • 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[]

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[]

Main article: AJ Gil § Discography
  • "She's Hot"
  • Love Me Later
  • Life, Death & Resurrection
    • "I Live"

Jim Verraros[]

Main article: Jim Verraros § Discography
  • 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[]

  • (Brad Estrin – Album, 2006)
  • Human Again (Adriel Herrera – Album)
  • Numb (Angela Peel – Album, 2007)

Season 2[]

  • American Idol Season 2: All-Time Classic American Love Songs
    • "God Bless the USA"
    • "What the World Needs Now"

Ruben Studdard[]

Main article: Ruben Studdard § Discography
  • "Flying Without Wings" / "Superstar"
  • Soulful
  • 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[]

Main article: Clay Aiken discography
  • "Bridge over Troubled Water" / "This Is the Night"
  • Measure of a Man
  • Merry Christmas with Love
  • 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[]

Josh Gracin[]

Carmen Rasmusen[]

Kimberly Caldwell[]

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[]

  • American Idol Season 3: Greatest Soul Classics

Fantasia Barrino[]

Main article: Fantasia Barrino discography
  • "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
    • "Even Angels"
    • "Bittersweet"
  • Side Effects of You
    • "Lose to Win"
    • "Without Me"
    • "Side Effects of You"
  • The Definition Of...
    • "No Time for It"
    • "Sleeping with the One I Love"
    • "When I Met You"
  • Christmas After Midnight
  • Sketchbook
    • "Enough"
    • "PTSD"

Diana DeGarmo[]

Main article: Diana DeGarmo § Discography
  • "Dreams"
  • Blue Skies
    • "Emotional"

Jasmine Trias[]

Main article: Jasmine Trias § Discography
  • "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[]

Main article: Jennifer Hudson discography

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)
    • "Crazy Love"

Camile Velasco[]

Leah LaBelle[]

  • "Sexify"
  • "Lolita"
  • "What Do We Got To Lose?"
  • Love to the Moon (EP)

William Hung[]

  • Inspiration
  • Hung for the Holidays
  • Miracle: Happy Summer from William Hung

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[]

  • American Idol Season 4: The Showstoppers

Carrie Underwood[]

Main article: Carrie Underwood discography
  • "Inside Your Heaven" / "Independence Day"
  • Some Hearts
  • "I'll Stand by You"
  • Carnival Ride
    • "So Small"
    • "All-American Girl"
    • "Last Name"
    • "Just a Dream"
    • "I Told You So"
  • "Praying for Time"
  • "Just Stand Up!" (with Various Artists)
  • "Home Sweet Home"
  • Play On
    • "Cowboy Casanova"
    • "Temporary Home"
    • "Undo It"
    • "Mama's Song"
  • "Remind Me" (with Brad Paisley)
  • Blown Away
    • "Good Girl"
    • "Blown Away"
    • "Two Black Cadillacs"
    • "See You Again"
  • "Somethin' Bad" (with Miranda Lambert)
  • Greatest Hits: Decade Number 1
    • "Something in the Water"
    • "Little Toy Guns"
  • Storyteller
    • "Smoke Break"
    • "Heartbeat"
    • "Chaser"
    • "Church Bells"
    • "Dirty Laundry"
    • "Forever Country" (Artists of Then, Now and Forever)
  • "The Fighter" (with Keith Urban)
  • "The Champion" (with Ludacris)
  • Cry Pretty
    • "Cry Pretty"
    • "Love Wins"
    • "Southbound"
    • "Drinking Alone"
  • My Gift
  • "Tears of Gold" (with David Bisbal)
  • "I Wanna Remember" (with Needtobreathe)
  • "If I Didn't Love You" (with Jason Aldean)

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

Mario Vazquez

  • Mario Vazquez
    • "Gallery"

Jared Yates

  • All That I Am

Season 5[]

  • American Idol Season 5: Encores

Taylor Hicks[]

Main article: Taylor Hicks discography

Katharine McPhee[]

  • "Think"
  • "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" / "My Destiny"
  • Katharine McPhee
  • Unbroken
    • "Had It All"
  • Christmas Is the Time to Say I Love You
    • "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"

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[]

Main article: Daughtry discography
  • "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
  • Break the Spell
  • Baptized
    • "Waiting for Superman"
    • "Long Live Rock 'n Roll"
    • "Battleships"

Paris Bennett[]

  • "Midnight Train to Georgia"
  • Princess P

Kellie Pickler[]

Main article: Kellie Pickler discography

Ace Young[]

  • "Father Figure"
  • "Scattered"
  • Ace Young
    • "Addicted"

Bucky Covington[]

Mandisa[]

Main article: Mandisa discography

Others[]

Bobby "Bluu Suede" Bullard

  • The Bluu Suede Project

Ayla Brown

Patrick Hall

  • One for the Ages (LP)

Josh Royse

  • Memories

David Radford

  • Swing on By (LP)

Stevie Scott

  • Stevie Scott (EP)

Brianna Taylor

  • Brianna Taylor (EP)
  • Fireworks at the Fairground

Stephanie White

  • Knee Deep InSanity

Season 6[]

  • American Idol Season 6: Greatest Hits

Jordin Sparks[]

Main article: Jordin Sparks discography
  • Jordin Sparks (EP)
    • "This Is My Now"
  • Jordin Sparks
    • "Tattoo"
    • "No Air" (w/ Chris Brown)
    • "One Step at a Time"
  • Battlefield
    • "Battlefield"
    • "S.O.S (Let the Music Play)"

Blake Lewis[]

Melinda Doolittle[]

LaKisha Jones[]

Chris Richardson[]

  • Chris Richardson (EP)
    • "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[]

Sarah Burgess

  • One
    • "Dangerouz"
    • "I'm So Crushed"
  • Didn't Matter That

Amanda Coluccio

  • "Fly Away"
  • "Now That I Found You"

Sean Michel

  • The Thrill of Hope

Sherman Pore

  • For My Lady Love

Season 7[]

David Cook[]

Main article: David Cook discography

David Archuleta[]

Main article: David Archuleta discography
  • "Imagine"
  • "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me"
  • "In This Moment"
  • "Longer"
  • "Think of Me"
  • "Angels"
  • David Archuleta
    • "Crush"
    • "A Little Too Not Over You"
    • "Touch My Hand"
  • Christmas from the Heart
  • The Other Side of Down
  • 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)
  • 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[]

  • Why Wait
    • "15 Minutes of Shame"

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[]

Main article: Kris Allen discography
  • Season 8 Favorite Performances
  • "Let It Be"
  • Kris Allen
  • Thank You Camellia
    • "The Vision of Love"
  • Horizons
    • "Prove It to You" (feat. Lenachka)

Adam Lambert[]

Main article: Adam Lambert discography
  • Season 8 Favorite Performances
    • "Mad World"
    • "A Change Is Gonna Come"
    • "One"
    • "Cryin'"
    • "Slow Ride" (with Allison Iraheta)
    • "The Tracks of My Tears"
    • "Feeling Good"
  • "No Boundaries"
  • Take One
  • For Your Entertainment
    • "For Your Entertainment"
    • "Whataya Want from Me"
    • "Time for Miracles"
    • "If I Had You"
  • Trespassing
    • "Better Than I Know Myself"
    • "Never Close Our Eyes"

Danny Gokey[]

  • Non-album song
    • "You Are So Beautiful"
  • My Best Days
    • "My Best Days Are Ahead of Me"
    • "I Will Not Say Goodbye"
  • 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[]

  • American Idol 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[]

Main article: Crystal Bowersox discography
  • "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[]

  • Heart of Me
    • "Heart of Me"

Siobhan Magnus[]

  • Moonbaby
    • "Beatrice Dream"
    • "Black Doll"

Andrew Garcia[]

  • "Crazy"

Todrick Hall[]

  • Somebody's Christmas
  • MTV's Todrick: The Music, Vol. 1
  • Straight Outta Oz
    • "Low"
  • Forbidden
  • Haus Party, Pt. 1
  • Haus Party, Pt. 2
    • "Nails, Hair, Hips, Heels"
    • "Wig"
    • "Fag"
    • "Dripeesha"
    • "Y.A.S."
  • Quarantine Queen
    • "Mask, Gloves, Soap, Scrubs"
  • 'Haus Party, Pt. 3
    • "Blue"
    • "Pink Dreams"
  • Femuline
    • "Boys in the Ocean"
    • "Rainin' Fellas"

Tori Kelly[]

  • Handmade Songs
    • "Confetti"
  • Foreword
    • "Dear No One"
  • Unbreakable Smile
  • Hiding Place
    • "Help Us to Love"
    • "Never Alone"
    • "Psalm 42"
  • Inspired by True Events
    • "Change Your Mind"
    • "Sorry Would Go A Long Way"
    • "Language"
  • Solitude
  • A Tori Kelly Christmas
    • "Let It Snow"
    • "25th"

Season 10[]

Scotty McCreery[]

  • American Idol Season 10: Scotty McCreery
  • American Idol Season 10 Highlights: Scotty McCreery EP
  • Clear as Day
    • "I Love You This Big"
    • "The Trouble with Girls"
    • "Water Tower Town"
  • Christmas with Scotty McCreery
  • See You Tonight

Lauren Alaina[]

  • American Idol Season 10: Lauren Alaina
  • American Idol Season 10 Highlights: Lauren Alaina EP
  • Wildflower
    • "Like My Mother Does"
    • "Georgia Peaches"
    • "Eighteen Inches"
  • "Barefoot and Buckwild"
  • Road Less Traveled
    • "Next Boyfriend"
    • "Road Less Traveled"
    • "Doin' Fine"

Haley Reinhart[]

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)[]

Pia Toscano[]

  • "This Time"

Thia Megia[]

  • "One Day"

Naima Adedapo[]

  • Untitled EP
    • 'Free Your Mind"

Ashthon Jones[]

  • "Lookout"

Tim Halperin[]

  • Rise and Fall
    • "The Last Song"

Chris Medina[]

  • What Are Words
    • "What Are Words"

Season 11[]

Phillip Phillips[]

Jessica Sanchez[]

Joshua Ledet[]

Hollie Cavanagh[]

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[]

  • "All Cried Out"

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"

Queen Burns as Queen Naija[]

  • "Medicine"
  • "Karma"
  • Queen Naija EP
    • "Butterflies"
    • "War Cry"
  • "Away From You"
  • "Good Morning Text"
  • Missunderstood
    • "Butterflies Pt. 2"
    • "Pack Lite"
    • "Lie to Me"
    • "Set Him Up"

Remi Wolf[]

  • You're a Dog
    • "Guy"
    • "Sauce"
    • "Shawty"
  • I'm Allergic to Dogs!
    • "Woo!"
    • "Photo ID"
    • "Disco Man"
    • "Hello Hello Hello"
  • Juno
    • "Liquor Store"
    • "Quiet on Set"
    • "Grumpy Old Man"
    • "Guerrilla"
    • "Sexy Villain"
    • "Anthony Kiedis"
    • "Front Tooth"

Season 14[]

Nick Fradiani[]

  • Hurricane
    • "Beautiful Life"

Clark Beckham[]

  • "Champion"

Jax[]

  • "Forcefield"
  • "La La Land"

Rayvon Owen[]

  • "Air"

Adanna Duru[]

  • "Transparent Soul"

Season 15[]

Trent Harmon[]

La'Porsha Renae[]

  • Already All Ready
    • Good Woman
    • Already All Ready

Season 16[]

Maddie Poppe[]

Caleb Lee Hutchinson[]

  • Johnny Cash Heart

Gabby Barrett[]

  • River Deep
  • I Hope

Season 17[]

Laine Hardy[]

References[]

  1. ^ 'American Idol' Music Rights Move From Sony To Universal>
  2. ^ ‘American Idol’ Switches Labels To Universal
  3. ^ American Idol jumps from Sony Music home to Universal Music Group
  4. ^ UPDATE 1-American Idol dumps Sony label for Universal
  5. ^ AMERICAN IDOL CHART ACHIEVEMENTS
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