David met the Idols in the airport!

Back in Utah and AI Season 10 Contestants!

Pretty cool indeed! It's good to see that David is in Utah now. :)

Idol finale tidbits!

American Super Star:

Just Jared Jr:

 Click the link above to view more photos from Just Jared Jr!

And David's advice to the Idols from TR3S:

David Archuleta
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American Idol Finale!

And some red carpet pics!

 Credit to David Daily for the untagged version!

Getty Images

 Credit to Neon Limelight

Credit to Idol Chatter

EDIT: More pics from Getty Images!

From AmericanIdol.com:

EDIT: Video of David in the audience of Idol, click HERE. Video credit to DanWarp

EDIT: More pictures from Belga Pictures:

And Newcom Images:

Untagged pics thanks to David Daily!

Heartthrob poll + a little buzz!

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Lauren is having a hard time singing it. TEARS! HUGS! A smiling David Archuleta. Oh how I miss you. Randy: A great ode to your mom, I love that support. I love how at the end, finally, the Lauren we met in auditions came back.

MJ's

Miss Exclusive

And David's facebook posted both his vlog and his last tweet!

Also found this on FOD. It's a video compilation of all the times David was shown on Idol last night, credit to JRforDAI:

Karen Rodriguez met David!

David shown in the Idol audience!

David was shown in the audience on Idol tonight!

Pic credit to Sammie

EDIT: These are the two other times David was shown tonight. Once during old footage of Cook winning and then again in the audience:

David's shocked

Karen Rodriguez mentions David in OK! interview

Have you watched Idol before? Who were your favorites?
I never really watched it. I think that made my experience a little bit better because I didn’t know what was going on. I did like David Archuleta, Jordin Sparks and Carrie Underwood. They are still known. They are not some of those Idols that have pretty much went away. Jordin because she was the youngest, and Carrie the most successful. And David, he is just a cutie. He loves Selena too. I connect with him on that part.

OK! Magazine

David has a fan named Jovany

He sure is a big fan!

David Archuleta Being Excluded from American Idol Phenomenon

At just seventeen years old, David Archuleta was named runner-up to David Cook during American Idol’s seventh season finale. Not long after the show ended, literally that night in his dressing room, David got signed. Soon after, he released the hit song “Crush”, and three albums, numerous tours and even a book later, David’s still going strong. Which begs the question, where is his recognition?

It’s been three years since David, or known then as Archie, competed on American Idol, being the front-runner every week. Especially after his total of three beautiful renditions of “Imagine” on the Idol stage, you’d think American Idol would praise David on his success, and the success he brought to the show. And yet, nothing. Though this year tops it all.

A few major incidents state my case here. One being, the American Idol Tenth Anniversary: The Hits compilation album. With numerous hits from past Idols, you’d think David’s “Crush” would be a shoe-in for this CD. But instead, what should’ve been placed right between David Cook’s “Light On” and Kris Allen’s “Live Like We’re Dying”, “Crush” seems to have been completely skipped over. “Crush” became #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold 166,000 copies in it’s first week. I’m pretty sure that would be considered a “hit”.

Another example of Idol’s disregard towards Archuleta is this year’s American Idol intro. For all the past seasons, the only Idols featured in the intro were the winners. With all of season ten’s changes, their intro changed the rules as well, adding Jennifer Hudson, Chris Daughtry and Adam Lambert to the beginning along with the past nine winners. Now sure Jennifer, Chris and Adam have gotten big since they were on the show, but they’re leaving out probably the most famous runner-up the show has had.

It’s actually quite shameful of them to expel David Archuleta the way they have. As much as every former Idol wants to be cut off from the show once it ends, being completely excluded the way David has is just moronic on Idol’s part, and even insinuates that Idol thinks more highly of Lambert Daughtry then of David. With all the success David has achieved, he definitely deserves more acknowledgment from the people who spotlighted him in the first place.

Though David has grown past being the “kid from American Idol” and is now just David Archuleta, he still deserves a little realization of his accomplishments from his time on American Idol, for it was what got him to where he is in the first place.

Associated Content

Examiner says Idol promo should feature David...

Another tactic that could have worked would be to cut a video featuring those that didn't take the big prize and still went on to be successful artists in their own right: folks like multi-platinum rocker Daughtry, country star Kelly Pickler, and famous runners-up David Archuleta, Clay Aiken, and, of course, Glam Nation tour sell out Adam Lambert.

Examiner