Changing Shirts, Fleeing Traffic: 'American Idol' Top 11 Talk Adjusting to Singing From Home

"This is life-changing. This is a dream come true, all the good things," Just Sam told E! News' Lilliana Vasquez after winning American Idol.

By Dino-Ray Ramos

Katy Perry is looking forward to tonight's season finale, but she also feels a little down about having to do it remotely.

American Idol‘s Top Five has been revealed!

Only seven singers are left on American Idol!

Season 18 of American Idol has been a real rollercoaster. From the elation of making it to Hollywood and then getting ground to a fine dust by the grueling tinsel town cuts, to the joy of hitting the beaches and stage in Hawaii.

Nobody has ever had to figure out how to pull together an all-star reality singing competition finale when literally nobody on your show is in the same place. Until now. So leave it to American Idol showrunner/executive producer Trish Kinane and her ninja team of fellow producers and dedicated crew to make the most of an admittedly terrible situation in the lead-up to Sunday night's (May 17) all-star season 18 finale.

LOS ANGELES — We Are the World, the celebrity-packed 1985 charity single, is getting an encore this weekend, courtesy of the stars of American Idol.

By Peter White

Two weeks ago, we had 20 American Idol contestants in the game. Last week’s remaining 11 will be narrowed down to seven before tonight is over. And next week is, of course, the finale.

Only seven singers are left on American Idol!

Things in these hyper-accelerated, Coronavirus-era live rounds of American Idol are about to get brutal, as only 10 of the remaining Top 20 contestants will be moving on through following last week’s nationwide vote -- that is, unless judges Lionel Richie, Katy Perry and Luke Bryan decide to use their one save of the season to rescue one of these folks from the jaws of obscurity.The theme this week: Homeward Bound.

Katy Perry is doing what she can to liven up quarantine for “American Idol” viewers.

Katy Perry is doing what she can to liven up quarantine for viewers.

After amusing fans with her hand sanitizer get-up during American Idol's at home episode last week, Katy Perry recently dressed up as a toilet roll in the latest episode of the singing show. Looks like Katy Perry has the most comical ways to spread awareness about the ongoing Coronavirus outbreak. After hand sanitizers, toilet rolls have become the most much-in-demand products during the COVID-19 spur and the 35-year-old singer surely knows how to put out her message about the same.

American Idol‘s Top 11 has been revealed!

By this time next week, American Idol's first-ever at-home edition will be way slimmed down. After 20 singers became the first Idol class to sing for spots in the top 10 from their homes on Sunday night, America will find out next week which semifinalists will keep rocking it from their rec rooms for a shot at the season 18 top prize. Billboard hopped on a conference call with the top 20 on

In case you hadn’t gathered from the previous two weeks of American Idol Season 18 recaps that ABC aired, the pre-taped episodes ran out after Hawaii as the pandemic finally caught up with the show.