{"id":5222,"date":"2011-05-30T00:01:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T23:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/?p=5222"},"modified":"2017-10-20T18:53:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T17:53:10","slug":"american-idol-2011-final-29-million-viewers-saw-scotty-mccreery-crown-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/5222\/american-idol-2011-final-29-million-viewers-saw-scotty-mccreery-crown-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"American Idol 2011 Final: 29 Million Viewers Saw Scotty McCreery Crown Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Scotty Mccreery\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/images\/usa\/logo1.jpg\" alt=\"Scotty Mccreery\" width=\"116\" height=\"97\" \/>Approximately 29 million people tuned in to Fox\u2019s American Idol to watch North Carolina singer Scotty McCreery and Southern Belle Lauren Alaina to battle in the finale.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to last year, the numbers are reportedly up by 5 million viewers. The numbers further prove the success of the revamped show.<\/p>\n<p>Critics also attribute the finale\u2019s line-up to the success in American Idol\u2019s finale. Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Tony Bennett, Tom Jones, Gladys Knight, Carrie Underwood, Marc Anthony, Judas Priest, Steven Tyler, Mark Anthony and Jennifer Lopez were a few artists who graced the stage with the top 13.<\/p>\n<p>According to Nielson, 40 million people tuned into the last minutes of the show to see who would be declared the winner.<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* largexfactor 336x280, created 11\/25\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"7071761240\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0Approximately 29 million people tuned in to Fox\u2019s American Idol to watch North Carolina singer Scotty McCreery and Southern Belle Lauren Alaina to \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/5222\/american-idol-2011-final-29-million-viewers-saw-scotty-mccreery-crown-winner\/\"> [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americanidol"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5222"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119774,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222\/revisions\/119774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}