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“I understand what the show encompasses — I just don’t think I chose to get wrapped up in it. For me, I didn’t want to just experience the experience, but enjoy the experience.”
“I just didn’t really see this as my path, for whatever reason. But 5:30 in the morning in Omaha, standing in line and it’s raining, the sun hasn’t come up. And a producer comes by with a camera and interviews my brother and then turns to me. I say, “I’m not auditioning.” And he says, “You are now.” Life has a weird way of working itself out sometimes.”
Performances
- Audition – Livin’ on a Prayer
- Hollywood Week – (Everything I Do) I Do It for You; I’ll Be
- Top 24 – Happy Together
- Top 20 – All Right Now
- Top 16 – Hello
- Top 12 – Eleanor Rigby
- Top 11 – Day Tripper
- Top 10 – Billie Jean
- Top 9 – Little Sparrow
- Top 8 – Innocent
- Top 7 – Always Be My Baby
- Top 6 – The Music of the Night
- Top 5 – I’m Alive; All I Really Need is You
- Top 4 – Hungry Like the Wolf; Baba O’Riley
- Top 3 – The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face; Dare You to Move; I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing
- Top 2 – I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For; Dream Big; The World I Know
Song Arrangements
- The arrangements of Hello, Little Sparrow, Always Be My Baby, All I Really Need is You, Baba O’Riley, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, and I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing were all done by David.
- The Day Tripper arrangement was based on Whitesnake’s version. The Eleanor Rigby arrangment were based on Neil Zaza’s and Doxology’s versions of the song.
- The Billie Jean arrangement was done by Chris Cornell.
Results
On May 21, 2008, David was declared the winner of the seventh season of “American Idol” with fifty-six percent of almost one-hundred million votes cast. Post his win, eleven of David’s songs (“The Time of My Life” and songs he performed on Idol) debuted on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, which was the highest number of new entries in a week since the Beatles in 1964.
