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Phillip Phillips' new single, "Miles" was just officially sent to AAA and Hot AC radio this past week and is already sitting at #36 on the HAC and at #48 on the AAA Mediabase chart. Scotty McCreery's single, "Five Minutes" set a record for the highest charting country single by an unsigned artist (it is currently at #46 on the Mediabase Country chart). However, he is no longer unsigned, having accepted a label deal with Triple Tigers Records, which is a label partly owned by his management company, but which also has a distribution deal with Sony Music Group. Lauren Alaina's album, Road Less Travelled, was released this past January, and the title single from it hit #1 on the Country Airplay radio charts in April. Her current single is called "Doin' Fine". She is also featured on Kane Brown's single "What Ifs", which is currently at #12 on the country Mediabase chart https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/04/1/why-its-a-big-deal-that-lauren-alaina-has-the-no-1-song-on-country-radio/?utm_term=.73b774c1eece

Updates on some S8 Idols: Kris Allen and his wife Katy have two kids, a 4-year-old son Oliver and a one-year-old daughter, Rose He released his latest album, Letting You In, in early 2016 and later released an EP that had acoustic versions of a few of the songs from the album. Both the album and the EP hit #1 on the iTunes singer/songwriter chart. He also has a new side project, a rootsy rock band called The Dames, who have released 4 singles on iTunes/Spotify. Kris sings lead on 2 of the 4 songs (The Death of Mr. Jones and Don't Mess Around on Me) He tours regularly and also plays local shows in Nashville, which is where he lives now. Recently he headlined an outdoor show at Centennial park and took part in a tribute to Paul Simon's Graceland album. Adam Lambert recently completed the North American leg of his tour as the front man for Queen. The international leg of the tour begins in November. He released a new single "Two Fux" earlier this summer and says that his new album should be released soon, although there doesn't aappear to be an exact date announced yet. Earlier this week he performed a tribute to George Michael at the Angel Awards benefitting Project Angel Food. Danny Gokey and his wife are expecting their third child in September. After getting dropped by RCA, Danny moved into the Christian music world and has been very successful, his latest album, Rise (released in January 2017), hitting #1 on the Christian charts. He was been nominated multiple times for Dove Awards (the CCM/Gospel equivalent of the Grammys) in 2015, 2016 and 2017 Allison Iraheta fronts a bilingual alt-rock band called Halo Circus who have won a bunch of local awards for L.A. artists. The band released its debut album "Bunny" ain June 2016 nd went on a crowd-funded tour in the late summer/early fall of 2016. Allison married Matthew Hager, who is the bassist for Halo Circus, a few years back, and the two of them recently completed a short acoustic U.S. tour in support of an EP called The East Lansing Sessions that the band released this past May. Anoop Desai now goes by the stage name "Totem and is putting out some alt r&b/pop music as an independent artist. I personally am a big fan of his music. He has released a few EPs. And he also performed at Lollapalooza Here's a video of his single Hanging On, which was released this past April: