{"id":6696,"date":"2010-05-27T10:54:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T15:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=6696"},"modified":"2010-05-27T10:56:13","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T15:56:13","slug":"american-idol-finale-ratings-drop-significantly-from-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/05\/27\/american-idol-finale-ratings-drop-significantly-from-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;American Idol&#8221; Finale Ratings Drop Significantly From Last Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;American Idol&#8221; season finale, which featured a send-off for judge Simon Cowell and the announcement that Lee DeWyze won the competition, achieved ratings dominance Wednesday, rising dramatically over recent season nine results shows.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the number also represented a near-20% decline from the closing rating for last year&#8217;s finale, in which dark horse Kris Allen defeated frontrunner Adam Lambert.<\/p>\n<p>According to THRFeed, the finale posted an 8.2 adults 18-49 rating from 8:00PM to 10:07PM, with a viewership average of 24.2 million.  The number was down 18% from last year&#8217;s 10.0 rating with 28.8 million viewers, notes TVBN.<\/p>\n<p>The show&#8217;s numbers did escalate greatly from 9:30PM onward (apparently peaking at over 30 million for the final seven minutes), indicating that there was still significant interest in the result.  From 9:30PM-10PM, the show averaged a 10.2 rating with 28.8 million viewers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Idol,&#8221; which was down about ten percent year-over-year (the average was held up by strong marks for the early audition episodes; midway through the season, performance and results show episodes were often down from last year by as much as 20%), returns next season without Simon Cowell at the judges&#8217; table.  He will instead host FOX&#8217;s US version of &#8220;The X-Factor&#8221; in the fall of 2011.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/VB27580-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Lee Celebrates\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6673\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;American Idol&quot; Finale Ratings Drop Significantly From Last Year<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The &quot;American Idol&quot; season finale, which featured a send-off for judge Simon Cowell and the announcement that Lee DeWyze won the competition, achieved\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/05\/27\/american-idol-finale-ratings-drop-significantly-from-last-year\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;American Idol&quot; Finale Ratings Drop Significantly From Last Year\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The &quot;American Idol&quot; season finale, which featured a send-off for judge Simon Cowell and the announcement that Lee DeWyze won the competition, achieved\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/05\/27\/american-idol-finale-ratings-drop-significantly-from-last-year\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Headline Planet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-05-27T15:54:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2010-05-27T15:56:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/VB27580-500x333.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Brian Cantor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cantorpedia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@headlineplanet\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/05\/27\/american-idol-finale-ratings-drop-significantly-from-last-year\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/05\/27\/american-idol-finale-ratings-drop-significantly-from-last-year\/\",\"name\":\"\\\"American Idol\\\" Finale Ratings Drop Significantly From Last Year\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2010-05-27T15:54:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2010-05-27T15:56:13+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\"},\"description\":\"The \\\"American Idol\\\" season finale, which featured a send-off for judge Simon Cowell and the announcement that Lee DeWyze won the competition, achieved\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/05\/27\/american-idol-finale-ratings-drop-significantly-from-last-year\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/\",\"name\":\"Headline Planet\",\"description\":\"Music News &amp; Charts, TV News &amp; Spoilers\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\",\"name\":\"Brian Cantor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Brian Cantor\"},\"description\":\"Brian Cantor is the editor-in-chief for Headline Planet. 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