Information about World Idol
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| World Idol Contestants | ||
| First World Idol (2003) | ||
| Kurt Nilsen | Winner | 106 points |
| Kelly Clarkson | 2nd | 97 points |
| Peter Evrard | 3rd | 83 points |
| Heinz Winckler | 4th | 80 points |
| Will Young | 5th | 72 points |
| Ryan Malcolm | 6th | 62 points |
| Guy Sebastian | 7th | 56 points |
| Alicja Janosz | 8th | 55 points |
| Diana Karazon | 9th | 45 points |
| Alexander Klaws | 9th | 45 points |
| Jamai Loman | 11th | 36 points |
The competition was held in December 2003. After presenting the competitors, viewers from the 11 participating countries were allowed to vote by telephone, but not for the participant from their home country. All participants sang in English except for Diana Karazon, who sang in Arabic. Hosts of the show were British presenters Ant and Dec, although CTV edited the show in Canada to use Canadian Idol host Ben Mulroney instead (the show on Fox, which used Ant and Dec as hosts, was not simulcast with the CTV feed, to prevent Canadians from calling the American toll-free Number to vote for Ryan Malcolm).
Judge Simon Cowell (from the original Pop Idol) was very critical of the format. He went as far as saying he hated it, in that it made the winners from the ten other Idol competitions into losers. Cowell also thought many of the judges were trying to copy his abrasive style. Television critics also panned the program, particularly as the UK phone voting was profit-making, whereas tradition dictates that Christmas specials of such programmes donate profits to charity. It was also claimed that the show existed purely as a marketing exercise for Cowell and BMG to expose Will Young and Kelly Clarkson to wider audiences.
Victoria Beckham performed her UK#3 hit Let Your Head Go during the results interval.
Results
The points awarded (Eurovision style) were:| Points Given | Alexander Klaws | Guy Sebastian | Diana Karazon | Ryan Malcolm | Jamai Loman | Heinz Winkler | Alicja "Alex" Janosz | Kelly Clarkson | Peter Evrard | Will Young | Kurt Nilsen |
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| Germany | 12 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 10 |
| Australia | 1 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 10 |
| Pan-Arabia | 10 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 4 |
| Canada | 1 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 10 |
| Netherlands | 4 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 10 |
| South Africa | 2 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 12 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 10 |
| Poland | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 10 |
| USA | 1 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 10 |
| Belgium | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 10 |
| UK | 2 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 12 | 10 |
| Norway | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 12 |
Each country's Idol automatically gained the maximum 12 points. Therefore the most points an Idol could gain from another country was 10
| Rank | Performer | Country | Points | Song | Original artist |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kurt Nilsen | Norway | 106 | "Beautiful Day" | U2 |
| 2 | Kelly Clarkson | United States | 97 | "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" | Aretha Franklin |
| 3 | Peter Evrard | Belgium | 83 | "Lithium" | Nirvana |
| 4 | Heinz Winckler | South Africa | 80 | "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" | Aerosmith |
| 5 | Will Young | United Kingdom | 72 | "Light My Fire" | The Doors |
| 6 | Ryan Malcolm | Canada | 62 | "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" | The Hollies |
| 7 | Guy Sebastian | Australia | 56 | "What a Wonderful World" | Louis Armstrong |
| 8 | Alicja "Alex" Janosz | Poland | 55 | "I Don't Know How To Love Him" | from Jesus Christ Superstar |
| 9/10 | Alexander Klaws | Germany | 45 | "Maniac" | Michael Sembello |
| 9/10 | Diana Karazon | Pan-Arabia | 45 | "Ensani Ma Binsak" | original song |
| 11 | Jamai Loman | Netherlands | 36 | "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" | Elton John |
It is unclear whether there will be a second World Idol.
Judges
The judges of the competition were:- Randall Abrahams (South Africa)
- Simon Cowell (representing United States, is also judge on original UK show)
- Nina De Man (Belgium)
- Ian "Dicko" Dickson (Australia)
- Shona Fraser (Germany)
- Jan Fredrik Karlsen (Norway)
- Elias Rahbani (Pan-Arabia)
- Henk-Jan Smits (Netherlands)
- Pete Waterman (United Kingdom)
- Zack Werner (Canada)
- Kuba Wojewódzki (Poland)
Idol series | |
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| National franchises: United Kingdom (original) • Armenia • Australia • Belgium • Brazil • Bulgaria • Canada • Croatia • Czech Republic • Denmark • Estonia • Finland • France • Germany • Greece • Iceland • India • Indonesia • Kazakhstan • Malaysia • Netherlands • New Zealand • Norway • Philippines • Poland • Portugal • Russia • Singapore • Slovakia • South Africa • Sweden • Turkey • United States • International franchises: Arab world • Asia • Latin America • Serbia-Montenegro & Macedonia • West Africa • World Idol | ) Map showing the extent of Idol franchises. |
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Kurt Erik Nilsen (born September 29, 1978 in Bergen, Norway), won the Norwegian version of the television show Pop Idol, aired on TV 2 in May 2003. He won with 53 % of the votes against Gaute Ormåsen.
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Kelly Brianne Clarkson (born April 24 1982) is an American pop rock singer. Clarkson made her debut under RCA Records after she won the highly publicized first season of the television series American Idol in 2002.
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Peter Evrard (born October 19, 1974) is the winner of the first season of Idool 2003, the Belgian version of Pop Idol.
Evrard defied the traditional rules of the Idols series by singing punk rock music instead of the expected pop.
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Evrard defied the traditional rules of the Idols series by singing punk rock music instead of the expected pop.
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Heinz Carl Heinrich Winckler (born 22 March 1978) was the winner of the first series of Idols.
Born the eldest of three children in Stellenbosch, South Africa, he went on to study law at Stellenbosch University.
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Born the eldest of three children in Stellenbosch, South Africa, he went on to study law at Stellenbosch University.
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William Robert Young BA (Exon) (born January 20, 1979) is a British singer and actor. He catapulted to fame in 2002 after winning the inaugural UK Pop Idol contest. He has continued to work very successfully in music, and also as an actor.
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Ryan Michael Malcolm (born October 13, 1979 in Kingston, Ontario) is a Canadian singer best known as winner of the first Canadian Idol. Ryan grew up in a small town just west of Kingston called Amherstview.
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Guy Theodore Sebastian (born October 26, 1981) is an Australian singer-songwriter and winner of the first Australian Idol TV talent competition quest in 2003. Since winning the competition, he has released three top five albums and seven top twenty singles and has sold
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Alicja Janosz (born June 4, 1985 in Pszczyna, Poland) was the winner of Polish Idol in 2002. She also appeared in World Idol, where she sang "I Don't Know How to Love Him" from Jesus Christ Superstar.
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Diana Karazon (Arabic: ديانا كرزون) (born October 30 1983 in Kuwait and raised and lived in Amman, Jordan) is a Jordanian singer.
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Alexander Klaws (born September 31983 in Ahlen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German pop singer, who came to fame as the winner of the first season of the television show Deutschland sucht den Superstar, the German version of Pop Idol.
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Jamai Loman (born June 30, 1986 in Gouda, the Netherlands) was the winner of the first series of Idols (Netherlands) the Dutch variant on Pop Idol, pop singer and Dutch musical artist.
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Pop Idol is a British television series which debuted on ITV on October 5 2001; the show was a talent contest to decide the best new young pop singer, or 'pop idol', in the United Kingdom, based on viewer voting and participation.
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Writing system: Latin (English variant)
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Official language of: 53 countries
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ISO 639-2: eng
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Writing system: Latin (English variant)
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Official language of: 53 countries
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Diana Karazon (Arabic: ديانا كرزون) (born October 30 1983 in Kuwait and raised and lived in Amman, Jordan) is a Jordanian singer.
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Spoken in: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman,
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Anthony McPartlin (born 18 November, 1975) and Declan Donnelly (born 25 September, 1975), from Newcastle upon Tyne, England are popular presenters of light entertainment television programmes in the United Kingdom, as the duo Ant & Dec.
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Canadian Idol is a reality television show on the Canadian television network CTV, based on the popular British show Pop Idol and its American counterpart American Idol. The show is a competition to find the most talented young singer in Canada.
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Benedict Martin Paul "Ben" Mulroney (born March 9, 1974 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian television host. He grew up in Ottawa, Ontario.
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Simon Cowell (born 7 October, 1959) is a British artist and repertoire ("A&R") executive for Sony BMG in the United Kingdom and a television producer, more commonly known as a judge on television programmes such as Pop Idol, The X Factor, American Idol
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Pop Idol is a British television series which debuted on ITV on October 5 2001; the show was a talent contest to decide the best new young pop singer, or 'pop idol', in the United Kingdom, based on viewer voting and participation.
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Victoria Caroline Beckham (née Adams; born 17 April 1974) is an English singer, songwriter, dancer and occasional actress turned fashion designer and businesswoman. During her rise to fame with 1990s pop sensation the Spice Girls, she was dubbed Posh Spice.
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Released December 29, 2003
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Released December 29, 2003
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Recorded 2003
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Length 3:41
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