American Idol Season 10

American Idol Season 10. The show had been criticized in earlier seasons over the onerous contract contestants had to sign that gave excessive control to 19 Entertainment over their future career, and handed large part of their future earnings to the management. Read also about American Idol Auditions 2011.

American Idol Season 10

Individual contestants have generated controversy in this competition for their past actions, or for being 'ringers' planted by the producers.[68] A number of contestants had been disqualified for various reasons, for example Joanna Pacitti in season eight for having connections to the producers at 19 Entertainment,[and Chris Golightly of season nine for having an existing contract in violation of the rules, although the show had been accused of double standard for disqualifying some but not the others.

Voting results have been a consistent source of controversy, for example when Jennifer Hudson was eliminated in season three. The mechanism of voting had also aroused considerable criticisms, most notably in season two when Ruben Studdard beat Clay Aiken in a close vote, and in season eight, when the massive increase in text votes (100 million more text votes than season 7) fueled the texting controversy. Since the 2004 season, the vote has also been affected to some degree by online community services such as DialIdol.com, Worldsentiment.com, and VotefortheWorst.com.