American Idol Season 10 winner is Scotty McCreery

American Idol Season 10 has crowned its winner and it's no other than Scotty McCreery during the finale results night held Wednesday, May 25, 2011.

As announced by Idol host Ryan Seacrest, the finale got a record of 122 million votes, with most of the votes received by 17-year-old Scotty McCreery from Garner, North Carolina.

Scotty is now the 10th winner of American Idol, the 6th male to win the said popular singing competition in the US.

Lauren Alaina, 16, was the Season's Runner Up.

The American Idol Season 10 finale was a star-studded one, featuring performances from Beyonce, Tom Jones, Tim McGraw, Jack Black, Carrie Underwood, Bono, The Edge, TLC, Lil Jon, Kirk Franklin, Tony Bennett and JLo's hubby Marc Anthony.

American Idol eliminates Pia Toscano

American Idol Season 10 Top 9 elimination Thursday night (Friday AM in Manila) was by far the most shocking elimination of the season with Pia Toscano as the one who was voted off the competition.

Stefano Langone was surprised that he's not going home.

Even 'Idol' judge Jennifer Lopez couldn't hide her disappointment upon learning that Pia was the one eliminated following her inclusion in the Bottom 3 with Jacob Lusk and Stefano Langone.

JLo said she's shocked and angry with the results.

Watch a video of the elimination: Everyone, from the judges to the audience and even Pia's co-finalists, they were all shocked!!


I think the 3 judges are now regretful for using the "Save" vote too early for finalist Casey Abrams two weeks ago.

Pia was considered a strong contender, usually ranked in the Top 5 of everyone's list but her elimination shows that there's no such thing in American Idol whose winner is based on the viewers' votes.

And it's kinda obvious that the viewers were favoring the male finalists more than the female ones as Pia is already the 5th consecutive female finalist to be eliminated from American Idol Season 10.

There are only 2 female finalists left in the in the competition, Lauren Alaina and Hailey Reinhart, and the 6 others in the Top 8 are all male who are still in tact since the selection of the Top 13 Finalists.

Shall we expect a male winner this season? Or will it be between Lauren and the "survivor" Hailey?

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