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American Idol: Ranking the Top 12

Alan Sepinwall

16 Mar 2010

Over at NJ.com, I ranked the top 12 "American Idol" contestants, while acknowledging the absolute folly of last year's rankings, and while appropriating the tiers concept that Adam Bonin again used today.

I'm not feeling very optimistic for tonight, as the combination of an underwhelming group of semi-finalists and the songs of The Rolling Stones seems a very poor fit.

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