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Like this? Lee DeWyze surpasses Crystal Bowersox in Facebook popularity

May 21, 2010   by  

While Crystal Bowersox continues to sharply lead fellow Idol top two contestant Lee DeWyze in overall mentions across the internet, one trend has emerged which suggests that Lee has in fact gained momentum heading into the season finale. On their latest official status updates on Idol’s official Facebook page, Lee leads Crystal nearly two to one in both the number of “Likes” from fans and in the number of comments: 9840 to 5797, and 3899 to 2122, respectively. So while the search results we unearthed earlier suggest that Crystal Bowersox has in fact been the frontrunner throughout the course of the season, today’s Facebook data suggests that Lee DeWyze is in fact rapidly gaining momentum. While voters at home will determine who will win with their telephones in Tuesday evening, voters on Facebook appear to be having their say in the mean time.

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DialIdol.com has Lee in the lead by far.

They are both going to do just fine after the competition, but my many votes will go to Lee. Love, love, LOVE Lee DeWyze!!

Crystal is a better singer than Lee, but this Tuesday night, let American be the judge... :D

Hi, I am in Australia so unfortunately do not get the chance to vote, however, if I did, Ms Bowersox would be getting my vote. She has consistently been good (verging on great), is always in tune and pitch and seem s like a genuinely nice person. I do not feel that she is trying for the sympathy vote - I think she just speaks her mind. Remember, that Crystal has never watched the show in previous seasons, she is not media savvy and she doesn't have a publicist / manager vetting her comments. Give the girl a break!!!Vote for Crystal - from an Australian fan :)

not exactly a scientific poll. And there are tons of people who aren't on Facebook who will be voting on Tues. night.

And by the way to all of you people saying Lee has improved sooooo much you are right, he has he can sing in tune now almost all the way through a song but he's not quite there yet. THIS IS NOT A "MOST IMPROVED PLAYER" contest!!! It is American Idol and is about finding a star who can sing right now, not after they get a vocal coach. MAMASOX FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is the stupidest article I have ever read, I am disappointed in Beatweek. For starters there aren't little teeny boppers crawling all over Crystals page vowing their love for her like Lees, as if you didn't notice that!! If you spent very much time on Lee's page at all you would notice the fans constantly urging people to suggest the page to their friends because they need to catch up with Crystal, they have been running overtime trying to get him some fans on that page and Crystal is STILL 30,000 fans ahead. What dumbass wrote this anyway??? And why??

YouTube view count may be a reasonable measure of how popular a contestant may be. Season 7 the most popular were David Cook then David Archuleta, Season 8 Adam Lambert then Kris Allen. It looks to be a good measure of each idol's popularity.and prediction of post-Idol album sales: David Cook > David Archuleta > Adam Lambert > Kris Allen View counts of the videos (1st page in youtube) Crystal Bowersox 5.5 million Lee Dewyze 2.8 million Facts win over hype!

You guys need to listen to Crystal's video from when she was 13 years old.Her vocals even then were perfection.Let's give AI and those producers who obviously want Lee to win our voices on Tuesday night.She gets to go last on Tuesday.VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE for Crystal.

You're right Maria,we have to vote for Crystal,so come on Crystal's fans like Maria said,VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE for Crystal......

This is a total set up by AI.Go read the article by Blake Lewis,the biggest idol set up ever.Then go to Casey's interview where he talks about how his arrangement was changed at the last minute.Ask yourselves this: Why did Simon choose this song for Lee,why did he have control over the arrangement and the choir,why was it put at the end of the night for full impact.If they give Crystal another lame and slow song than it will become apparent what Idol is doing.If he wins I will start watching DWTS instead of AI which will become the biggest joke EVER.

This is so wild and exciting,it reminds me of Kelly Clarkson and Justin G.in idol 1 season.It will be a showdown.But my vote is for Crystal,and she will bust out in the finals.So Crystal's fans lets go all out and vote for her....GO BOWERSOX............

Crystal needs to win. She is the best singer. We need to make up for the upset last year. Even Adam Lambert wants Crystal to win.

Love you, Lee! People have always tried to trash him but his gaining popularity is undeniable. And I hazard a guess that it's better to be gaining fans and momentum at this point than to have reached your ceiling of support a long time ago.

And by the way to all of you people saying Lee has improved sooooo much you are right, he has he can sing in tune now almost all the way through a song but he's not quite there yet. THIS IS NOT A "MOST IMPROVED PLAYER" contest!!! It is American Idol and is about finding a star who can sing right now, not after they get a vocal coach. MAMASOX FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just checked facebook Crystal has at least 3 pages. One has 112,325 (musician) likes, one has 4,168 (public figure) and her newly budding fan club has 708 fans

Facebook popularity... you falied to mention that Lee has 30,000 LESS fans than Crystal. Suggesting that Crystal has less popularity is wrong here. Lee may currently have momentum after last weeks over-pimping, but that's understandable.

over-pimping? wtf are you talking about

What are you talking about? Every article I read talks about Lee's over-pimping - 8 person gospel choir, band, lighting etc... They all say that Lee could have done a fine job on his own, but Simon chose to pull out all the stops so that Lee was assured a moment.

sorry you dont have a life and must spend all of your time with your face stuck in a magazine as for me the only time i have to know anything about american idol is when i watch it :)

Review the performances/judges coments objectively for the past 5 weeks. It's obvious that Crystal was so far ahead of this competition at that point, there was no drama therefore, no reason to watch, and therefore the dollars paid for advertising were not being realized. With as strong a fan base (at that point 2:1 vrs Lee), and the vote counts, it was pretty easy to see Crystal would cruise to the finals. However, it took some major work on the judges part to get Lee there. However, he does deserve it. And he is good talent. But not the deserving AI9 season winner.

Oh Puh-leeze don't act like you don't know what people are talking about, just google it, over 75% of the articles after Tuesday mentioned it!!

She has been constantly praised from day one.She hasn't improved-just the same.Lee has improved greatly.She does not have mass appeal-so sick of her hype from the very beginning.Don't think she hasn't used her tears too for the sympathy vote,single mother,diabetic.and so on and so on

If you knew Crystal you would know that this isn't true. Funny how people seem qualified to throw their judgment on someone they've never met. She hasn't improved greatly on this show, you are right. But that's because she was already great. Check out her originals. http://www.crystal-bowersox.net/

She has been constantly praised for a reason, because she has consistently knocked it out of the park almost every week. Problem with that is, it's tough to keep getting better and providing moment after moment. Lee is getting better, no doubt, but let's crown the American idol that's been great, performance after performance.

Tweens may decide this years Idol if FaceBook is any clue to voting. But wait, look at YouTube, search Crystal Bowersox and notice her videos have been viewed over 600,000 times, over twice as much as Lee. The bottom line is, Lee may get the popular vote but Crystal gets people who want to listen to her music...

True, but that's no reason to give up the battle. Crystal may have already won...check this out...http://crystalbowersox.com vrs. http://leedewyze.com/

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