OK….It’s time for the TOP 13 to perform!! It’ll be a 2-Hour AI show on Tuesday night, and contestants will sing songs from Michael Jackson’s collection of tunes, but thankfully, the ‘freak-show’ himself will NOT be there in person tutoring them! Hurrah for that!!

As promised, here’s your TOP 13 with some notes and my bold predictions for the Final 4 and Finale at the end of May!

Alexis Grace** --TOP 4! She’s HOT and America will love her! Should do OK with MJ songs and other genre of music.

Michael Sarver –-TOP 8 at best….nice, polite guy, hope he makes it farther, but doubtful. He’s lucky to even be here!

Danny Gokey** --Dark-Horse for TOP 4….though I don’t think he’s nearly as good as the other guys, but the judges love him!

Kris Allen – TOP 6 possibly…..not much farther! Should do well with MJ songs!

Allison Iraheta – Dark-horse candidate for TOP 4….not sure how she’ll do with MJ song-book though?

Adam Lambert** --Will all the nasty rumors and ugly postings hurt him? I think so……although I do think he’s capable of being in the Finale’ against Lil Rounds, but doubt he makes it anywhere close to that with all the negative publicity!

Lil Rounds** --FINALE’….and eventual AI Season 8 WINNER!! She’ll start strong tomorrow night!

Scott McIntyre** --He’ll hide behind the piano for a few weeks, then at some point America will realize he is simply NOT a good singer! No better than TOP 6! Can’t see him doing many MJ songs, will have to be a slow one….’BEN’ maybe?

Jorge Nunez—Out early….won’t make the TOP 10! Struggles with MJ tonight!
Jasmine Murray**---TOP 6 at best….that’s it….has the looks, but just does not have the pipes others do!

Megan Corkrey** -- She has no stage presence at all, and if she continues to act oddly on stage, out EARLY! She’ll struggle with MJ….I think!

Matt Giraud**--TOP 4….should do well, and I think he’s capable of going up against Lil Rounds in the FINALE’! If there was a dueling piano segment, he’d blow away Scott MacIntyre!

Anoop Desai –Should last at least a few weeks, long enough to be annoying and go on tour…..so TOP 10 at least, probably farther…..UGH!!! :-0

Bottom Line: To keep the show’s FINALE’ during the same week as last year (May 20th) and END before Memorial Day Weekend, they’ll have to kick two contestants off to start, and maybe they will since they are starting with 13 vs. 12, then one contestant kicked off each week after. Otherwise, it’ll get extended to after Memorial Day and we’ll crown the new AI Winner on Wed, May 27th, must end in May for May sweeps!

Inside the Numbers: Of the TOP 13, Eddie Idol picked 8 to be there, all shown in RED and noted with **!

OK….I’m still waiting here folks….let’s see some predictions from EVERYBODY on this list before tonight’s show! Come on, who’s your favorite to win it? Who’s the TOP GUY and TOP GAL? The Final 4? And who do you think will be in the FINALE’? More to come tomorrow..…until then…it’s Eddie ‘Little Simon-NO NOOP’ Idol……OUT!!