American Idol winner Lee DeWyze, runner up Crystal Bowersox and fellow AI contestants Casey James, Katie Stevens, Michael Lynche, Siobhan Magnus, and Andrew Garcia attended a press conference and a gave a short performance at Herald Square in New York this morning to launch the American Idol – Live Tour 2010. For a complete list of tour dates you can go here.

Lee DeWyze entered Billboard’s digital song chart at number 12 this week with U2′s Beautfiul Day (selling 95,000 copies) and Crystal Bowersox’s version of Patty Griffin’s “Up to the Mountain” ranked number 32 and was downloaded 49,000 times. Those numbers are down from last year’s American Idol winner and runner up Kris Allen and Adam Lambert’s downloads.

In addition to that American Idol ratings overall were down this year from previous years.  Combined with it being Simon Cowell’s last year do you think American Idol is losing its lustre?

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It just feels like yesterday when auditions were taking place for American Idol and already they are down to their top 12:

• Didi Benami
• Aaron Kelly
• Paige Miles
• Crystal Bowersox
• Andrew Garcia
• Lacey Brown
• Michael Lynche
• Katie Stevens
• Lee Dewyze
• Casey James
• Siobhan Magnus
• Tim Urban

They celebrated last night at the Industry Club in Los Angeles where they were joined by:  Justin Guarini, Hayley McFarland, John Francis Daley, Terri Seymour, Mark Salling, and Cory Monteith.

Who is your favourite of the Top 12? Did someone get voted off that should have been included in this Top 12?

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