{"id":333650,"date":"2026-05-12T23:36:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=333650"},"modified":"2026-05-12T23:36:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:06:53","slug":"who-won-american-idol-see-winners-through-the-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/who-won-american-idol-see-winners-through-the-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Won American Idol? See Winners Through the Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"gallery-current\">\n<p><em>American Idol<\/em> has made singing dreams come true because it premiered in June 2002.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter I was slightly girl \u2026 if you happen to had asked me what I desired to do once I grew up, I&#8217;d have told you I desired to be a famous country music singer,\u201d season 4 winner <strong>Carrie Underwood<\/strong> told fans during her concert on the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville in September 2019. \u201cAs I got older, dreams tend to present strategy to practicalities, so I began going to highschool to get an actual job. Someday there was an open door, and I walked through it and my life was modified endlessly.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Underwood will not be the one past winner whose life was modified after appearing on <em>American Idol<\/em>. For <strong>Jordin Sparks<\/strong>, the experience was much more unique because she was a fan of the hit competition show first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to be such an enormous fan of Idol that I used to be more excited to audition for that than to get my driver\u2019s license,\u201d Sparks told AZCentral in August 2017. \u201cThat\u2019s how an enormous a fan I used to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Keep scrolling to look back in any respect the <em>American Idol<\/em> winners through the years:<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Idol has made singing dreams come true because it premiered in June 2002. \u201cAfter I was slightly girl \u2026 if you happen to had asked me what I desired to do once I grew up, I&#8217;d have told you I desired to be a famous country music singer,\u201d season 4 winner Carrie Underwood told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":333651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337],"tags":[4861,6901,2044,6114,1303],"class_list":["post-333650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-american","tag-idol","tag-winners","tag-won","tag-years"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333653,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333650\/revisions\/333653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}