This is a comprehensive listing of official post-Idol releases by various contestants of the television show American Idol.
All of the compilations and singles of the show as well as most of its contestants' singles and albums were released by 19 Recordings with Sony Music Entertainment (the general record company associated and affiliated with the Idol series in most countries through its RCA/Jive Label Group) from 2002–2010 and with Universal Music Group (through its Interscope-Geffen-A&M Label Group) from 2011 onwards.'American Idol' Music Rights Move From Sony To Universal‘American Idol’ Switches Labels To UniversalAmerican Idol jumps from Sony Music home to Universal Music GroupUPDATE 1-American Idol dumps Sony label for Universal
The first winner Kelly Clarkson remains the best-selling contestant worldwide with 25 million albums sold followed by fourth winner Carrie Underwood (best-selling contestant in the United States) with 15 million albums sold worldwide.
By the end of 2009, contestants had a total of 257 number one singles in the Billboard charts and have sold over 66 million albums worldwide and 56 million singles in US aloneAMERICAN IDOL CHART ACHIEVEMENTS
Season 1 American Idol: Greatest Moments
Kelly Clarkson
"Before Your Love" / "A Moment Like This" Thankful "Miss Independent" "Low" "The Trouble with Love Is" Breakaway "Breakaway" "Since U Been Gone" "Behind These Hazel Eyes" "Because of You" "Walk Away" My December "Never Again" "Sober" "One Minute" "Don't Waste Your Time" "Up to the Mountain" "Because of You" All I Ever Wanted "My Life Would Suck Without You" "I Do Not Hook Up" "Already Gone" "All I Ever Wanted" "Don't You Wanna Stay" Stronger "Mr. Know It All "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" "Dark Side" "I'll Be Home for Christmas" Greatest Hits: Chapter One "Catch My Breath" "Don't Rush" "People Like Us" "Tie It Up" Wrapped in Red "Underneath the Tree" "Wrapped in Red" "PrizeFighter" Piece by Piece "Heartbeat Song" "Invincible" "Piece by Piece" "Second Hand Heart " "Softly and Tenderly" "This Is For My Girls" Meaning of Life "Love So Soft" / "Move You" "I Don't Think About You" "Heat" "Christmas Eve" "Broken & Beautiful" "I Dream in Southern" "I Would've Loved You" "I Dare You" "Under the Mistletoe" "All I Want For Christmas Is You" When Christmas Comes Around... "Christmas Isn't Canceled (Just You)" "Glow" "Santa, Can't You Hear Me" "You For Christmas" Kellyoke "You're Drunk, Go Home" "Don't Fence Me In" Chemistry "Mine" / "Me" "Favorite Kind of High" "Lighthouse" "From the Jump" "If I We Were You" "Sweet December" DJ Play a Christmas Song" (Remix) "I'm Movin' On" "Where Have You Been"
Justin Guarini
The Midnight Voices Justin Guarini "Unchained Melody" "Sorry" Stranger Things Have Happened "Did You Know That I Know Your Journey?" "Everlasting" Revolve (EP)
Nikki McKibbin
Unleashed "To Be with You" "The Lie" "Naked Inside" "Save What's Left of Me" "Cry Little Sister" "Here to There" "Inconsolable" "Made it" (Featuring The League) Psychotrip (EP) ( with Love Stricken Demise) "Celebrity High"
Tamyra Gray The Dreamer "Raindrops Will Fall"
RJ Helton Real Life "Even If" "My Devotion"
Ryan Starr "My Religion" "Love Gone Bad" "Stranded" "7am" "Eyes of a Child" "Blue" "Broken"
AJ Gil
"She's Hot" Love Me Later Life, Death & Resurrection "I Live"
Jim Verraros
Unsaid and Understood Rollercoaster "You Turn It On" "I Want You" "You're Getting Crazy" "Outside" "Welcome to Hollywood" Do Not Disturb "Touch (Don't U Want 2)" "Electric Love" "Do Not Disturb"
Season 2 American Idol Season 2: All-Time Classic American Love Songs "God Bless the USA" "What the World Needs Now"
Ruben Studdard
"Flying Without Wings" / "Superstar" Soulful "Sorry 2004" "What If" I Need an Angel "I Need an Angel" The Return "Change Me" "Make Ya Feel Beautiful" "Celebrate Me Home" Love Is "Together" "Don't Make 'Em Like U No More" Playlist: The Very Best of Ruben Studdard Letters from Birmingham "June 28th (I'm Single)"
Clay Aiken
"Bridge over Troubled Water" / "This Is the Night" Measure of a Man "Invisible" "The Way" / "Solitaire" "I Will Carry You" "Measure of a Man" Merry Christmas with Love "Winter Wonderland" "O Holy Night" "Hark the Herald Angels Sing / O Come All Ye Faithful" "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" "Mary, Did You Know?" A Thousand Different Ways "Without You" "A Thousand Days" All Is Well: Songs for Christmas (EP) On My Way Here "On My Way Here" The Very Best of Clay Aiken Tried and True
Kimberley Locke One Love "8th World Wonder" "Wrong" "Coulda Been" "I Could" Based on a True Story "Change" "Band of Gold" "Fall" Christmas "Up on the House Top" "Jingle Bells" "Frosty the Snowman" "We Need a Little Christmas" "Strobelight" Four for the Floor "Finally Free"
Josh Gracin Josh Gracin "I Want to Live" "Nothin' to Lose" "Stay with Me (Brass Bed)" We Weren't Crazy "Favorite State of Mind" "I Keep Coming Back" "We Weren't Crazy" "Unbelievable (Ann Marie)" "Telluride" Redemption "Enough" "She's a Different Kind of Crazy" "Over Me" "Cover Girl" "Long Way to Go"
Carmen Rasmusen Carmen (EP) "Photograph" Nothin' Like the Summer "Nothin' Like the Summer"
Kimberly Caldwell "Who Will You Run To" "Fear of Flying" Without Regret "Mess of You" "Desperate Girls & Stupid Boys" "On the Weekend" "Tied Together" "Doin' Me Right"
Corey Clark Corey Clark
Charles Grigsby Charles Grigsby (EP)
Vanessa Olivarez "The One" The One (The Remixes) "As Vain As You" Butterfly Stitch EP Butterfly Stitch – Live at The Loft
Season 3 American Idol Season 3: Greatest Soul Classics
Fantasia Barrino
"I Believe" Free Yourself "Truth Is" "Baby Mama" "Free Yourself" "Ain't Gon' Beg You" Fantasia "Hood Boy" "When I See U" "Only One U" Back to Me "Even Angels" "Bittersweet" Side Effects of You "Lose to Win" "Without Me" "Side Effects of You" The Definition Of... "No Time for It" "Sleeping with the One I Love" "When I Met You" Christmas After Midnight Sketchbook "Enough" "PTSD"
Diana DeGarmo
"Dreams" Blue Skies "Emotional"
Jasmine Trias
"Love 'Ko To" Jasmine Trias "Excuses" "Lose Control" "Sana Lagi" "Kung Paano" "I'd Rather" "The Christmas Song"
LaToya London Love & Life "Appreciate" / "Every Part of Me" / "All By Myself" "State of My Heart"
George Huff My Christmas EP (EP) "Go Tell It on the Mountain" Miracles "Brighter Day" "Miracles" "You Know Me" George Huff "Don't Let Go"
John Stevens Red "Come Fly with Me"
Jennifer Hudson
"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" Jennifer Hudson "Spotlight" "The Star-Spangled Banner" "If This Isn't Love" "Giving Myself" I Remember Me "Where You At" "I Remember Me" "No One Gonna Love You" "I Got This" "Think Like a Man" JHUD "I Can't Describe (The Way I Feel)" "Walk It Out" "It's Your World" "I Still Love You" "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" Respect "Here I Am (Singing My Way Home)" "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" The Gift of Love
Jon Peter Lewis "Turn to Grey" Stories from Hollywood "Stories from Hollywood" "It's Christmas" "If I Go Away/Man Like Me" Break the Silence Jon Peter Lewis (EP) "Crazy Love"
Camile Velasco "Hangin On" "Guava Jelly" (feat. Stephen Marley) Koy "Super Star"
Leah LaBelle "Sexify" "Lolita" "What Do We Got To Lose?" Love to the Moon (EP)
Lisa Leushner Sing Me Home Reality
William Hung Inspiration Hung for the Holidays Miracle: Happy Summer from William Hung
Season 4 American Idol Season 4: The Showstoppers
Carrie Underwood
"Inside Your Heaven" / "Independence Day" Some Hearts "Jesus, Take the Wheel" "Some Hearts" "Don't Forget to Remember Me" "Before He Cheats" "Wasted" "I'll Stand by You" Carnival Ride "So Small" "All-American Girl" "Last Name" "Just a Dream" "I Told You So" "Praying for Time" "Just Stand Up!" "Home Sweet Home" Play On "Cowboy Casanova" "Temporary Home" "Undo It" "Mama's Song" "Remind Me" Blown Away "Good Girl" "Blown Away" "Two Black Cadillacs" "See You Again" "Somethin' Bad" Greatest Hits: Decade Number 1 "Something in the Water" "Little Toy Guns" Storyteller "Smoke Break" "Heartbeat" "Chaser" "Church Bells" "Dirty Laundry" "Forever Country" "The Fighter" "The Champion" Cry Pretty "Cry Pretty" "Love Wins" "Southbound" "Drinking Alone" My Gift "Hallelujah" "Tears of Gold" My Savior "I Wanna Remember" "If I Didn't Love You" "Only Us" "Stretchy Pants" Denim & Rhinestones "Ghost Story" "Hate My Heart" "Out of That Truck" "I'm Gonna Love You" "Leave a Light On (Talk Away the Dark)" "
Bo Bice "I Don't Want to Be" "Inside Your Heaven" / "Vehicle" The Real Thing "The Real Thing" "U Make Me Better" "Blades of Glory" See the Light "Witness" 3 "You Take Yourself with You"
Vonzell Solomon My Struggle
Constantine Maroulis Constantine
Nadia Turner "Standing on Love"
Nikko Smith Revolution
Jessica Sierra Deepest Secret EP
Other Mario Vazquez Mario Vazquez "Gallery"
Season 5 American Idol Season 5: Encores
Taylor Hicks
"Do I Make You Proud" / "Takin' It to the Streets" Taylor Hicks "Just to Feel That Way" "Heaven Knows" The Distance "What's Right Is Right" "Seven Mile Breakdown"
Katharine McPhee "Think" "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" / "My Destiny" Katharine McPhee "Over It" "Love Story" Unbroken "Had It All" Christmas Is the Time to Say I Love You "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" Hysteria "Lick My Lips" I Fall in Love Too Easily "Night and Day" Christmas Songs "Jingle Bell Rock" "Carol of the Bells"
Elliott Yamin "Moody's Mood for Love" "This Christmas" Elliott Yamin "Movin' On" "Wait for You" "One Word (Elliott Yamin song)" "Home" "In Love With You Forever" Sounds of the Season: The Elliott Yamin Holiday Collection "Warm Me Up" My Kind of Holiday Fight for Love "Fight for Love "You Say" "Can't Keep on Loving You (From a Distance)"
Chris Daughtry with Daughtry
"Wanted Dead or Alive (Bon Jovi song)" Daughtry "It's Not Over" "Home" "What I Want" "Over You" "Crashed" "Feels Like Tonight" "What About Now" "By the Way" "Long Way Down" "By the Way" "Had Enough" Leave This Town "No Surprise" "You Don't Belong" "Life After You" "September" "Waitin' for the Bus / Jesus Just Left Chicago" Break the Spell "Renegade" "Crawling Back to You" "Outta My Head" "Start of Something Good" Baptized "Waiting for Superman" "Long Live Rock 'n Roll" "Battleships" It's Not Over...The Hits So Far "Torches" Cage to Rattle "Deep End" "As You Are" Dearly Beloved "World on Fire" "Heavy Is the Crown" "Changes Are Coming" "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" "Artificial"
Paris Bennett "Midnight Train to Georgia" Princess P "Ordinary Love" "Duet" "My Boyfriend's Back" (Promo only)
Kellie Pickler
Small Town Girl "Red High Heels" "I Wonder" "Things That Never Cross a Man's Mind" Kellie Pickler "Don't You Know You're Beautiful" "Best Days of Your Life" "Didn't You Know How Much I Loved You" "Makin' Me Fall in Love Again" 100 Proof "Tough" "100 Proof" The Woman I Am "Someone Somewhere Tonight" "Little Bit Gypsy" "Closer to Nowhere" "The Man with the Bag" "Feeling Tonight" "If It Wasn't for a Woman"
Ace Young "Father Figure" "Scattered" Ace Young "Addicted"
Bucky Covington Bucky Covington "A Different World" "It's Good to Be Us" "I'll Walk" I'm Alright "I Want My Life Back" "Gotta Be Somebody" "A Father's Love (The Only Way He Knew How)" TBD Album "I Wanna Be That Feeling"
Mandisa
True Beauty "Only the World" "God Speaking" "Voice of a Savior" Christmas Joy EP "Christmas Makes Me Cry" It's Christmas "Christmas Day" "Angels We Have Heard on High" "Lose My Soul" Freedom "My Deliverer" "He Is with You" What If We Were Real "Stronger" "Good Morning"
Others Ayla Brown Forward Ayla Brown Let Love In