American Idol

26 people made it on to the Hollywood Round

31 people made it on to the Hollywood Round

Avril Lavigne was the Guest Judge on Day 1 and Katy Perry was the Guest Judge on Day 2. This is the first time they have had two different guest judges for one city.

23 people made it on to the Hollywood Round.

Kristen Chenoweth was the Guest Judge on Day 1. However she was unable to be there for Day 2, so it was just Simon, Kara and Randy.

31 people made it on to the Hollywood Round.

Shania Twain was the Guest Judge in this episode.

13 people made it on to the Hollywood Round

The contestants had to go up an elevator in order to audition for the judges.

Mary J. Blige was the guest judge for this episode.

25 people made it to the Hollywood Round.

31 people made it on to the Hollywood Round.

The Ford Music Video was "I Will Remember You" by Ryan Cabrera. Kris and Adam sing in front of clips of past Ford Videos.

During the Black Eyed Peas performance things went quiet and the angle was changed to an American Idol symbol for about five seconds because Fergie swore in the song.

Special Performances:
Top 13-"So What" by Pink
David Cook-"Permanent"-after his performance he made an announcement that you could buy the performance off of iTunes and all proceeds would go to a charity ABC2(Squared)
Queen Latifah & Lil Rounds-"Cue the Rain" by Queen Latifah
Jason Mraz, Anoop Desai & Alexis Grace (the rest of the top 13 minus Kris & Adam joined at the end of the song)-"I'm Yours" by Jason Mraz
Keith Urban & Kris Allen"Kiss a Girl" by Keith Urban
Top 13 girls-"Glamorous" by Fergie
Fergie-"Big Girls Don't Cry"
The Black Eyed Peas-"Boom Boom Pow"
Cyndi Lauper & Alison Iraheta-"Time After Time" by Cyndi Lauper
Danny Gokey-"Hello" by Lionel Richie
Lionel Richie & Danny Gokey-"Just Go" and "All Night Long" by Lionel Richie
Adam Lambert-"Beth" by KISS
KISS & Adam Lambert-"Detroit Rock City" and "Rock and Roll All Night" by KISS
Carlos Santana & Matt Giraud-"Black Magic Woman" by Santana
Carlos Santana & Top 13-"Smooth" by Santana
Megan Joy, Michael Sarver with Steve Martin playing banjo-"Pretty Flowers" by Steve Martin
Top 13 guys-"Do You Think I'm Sexy?" by Rod Stewart
Rod Stewart-"Maggie May"
Kris Allen & Adam Lambert-"We Are the Champions" by Queen. This was a little different then most Top 2 duets as the band Queen performed the song and at the end the rest of the Top 13 joined on stage (however they didn't really sing).
After winning Kris Allen performed his debut single "No Boundaries"

Kris Allen is the second person to not have his entire audition fully shown on the show. The first was Kelly Clarkson.

Kris Allen is the third contestant to win after being in the Bottom Three on an elimination show. The other two are Ruben Studdard and Fantasia Barrino.

Camryn Manheim, Carrie Underwood, David Cook, Bo Bice, Kimberly Locke and Justin Guarini were all in the audience.

Kris Allen is the first contestant that is married to win on the show. Ruben Studdard also won but he wasn't married at the time.

This is the first time in the shows history that the winner is awarded a trophy.