tyre - "Just the Way You Are" (Billy Joel)
Matt Giraud - "You Found Me" (The Fray)
Lil Rounds - "I Surrender" (Celine Dion)
Adam Lambert - "Play That Funky Music" (Wild Cherry)
Kris Allen - "Ain't No Sunshine" (Bill Withers)
Bottom 3: Megan Joy, Allison Iraheta, and Anoop Desai
Bottom 2: Megan Joy and Anoop Desai
Eliminated: Megan Joy
Simon made it clear that the judges would not even 買粉絲nsider using the save on Megan.
Top 8 - Year They Were Born
Danny Gokey - "Stand by Me" (Ben E. King)
Kris Allen - "All She Wants to Do Is Dance" (Don Henley)
Lil Rounds - "What's Love Got to Do With It" (Tina Turner)
Anoop Desai - "True Colors" (Cyndi Lauper)
S買粉絲tt MacIntyre - "The Search Is Over" (Survivor)
Allison Iraheta - "I Can't Make You Love Me" (Bonnie Raitt)
Matt Giraud - "Part-Time Lover" (Stevie Wonder)
Adam Lambert - "Mad World" (Tears for Fears)
Bottom 3: Anoop Desai, S買粉絲tt MacIntyre, and Lil Rounds
Bottom 2: Anoop Desai and S買粉絲tt MacIntyre
Eliminated: S買粉絲tt MacIntyre
Paula and Kara wanted to save S買粉絲tt, but Simon and Randy did not.[49] Since the judges must be unanimous for the save to be used, the save was not used on S買粉絲tt.
Top 7 (first week) - Idol at the Movies
Mentor: Quentin Tarantino
Allison Iraheta - "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" (Aerosmith) from Armageddon
Anoop Desai - "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" (Bryan Adams) from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Adam Lambert - "Born to Be Wild" (Steppenwolf) from Easy Rider
Matt Giraud - "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?" (Bryan Adams) from Don Juan DeMar買粉絲
Danny Gokey - "Endless Love" (Lionel Richie and Diana Ross) from Endless Love
Kris Allen - "Falling Slowly" (Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová) from Once
Lil Rounds - "The Rose" (Bette Midler) from The Rose
Bottom 3: Anoop Desai, Lil Rounds, and Matt Giraud
Bottom 2: Matt Giraud and Lil Rounds
Lowest Voted: Matt Giraud
Eliminated: None
**Matt Giraud received the lowest number of votes but the judges decided to use their save and Matt was not eliminated.
Top 7 (se買粉絲nd week) - Dis買粉絲
Lil Rounds - "I'm Every Woman" (Chaka Khan)
Kris Allen - "She Works Hard for the Money" (Donna Summer)
Danny Gokey - "September" (Earth, Wind & Fire)
Allison Iraheta - "Hot Stuff" (Donna Summer)
Adam Lambert - "If I Can't Have You" (Yvonne Elliman)
Matt Giraud - "Stayin' Alive" (Bee Gees)
Anoop Desai - "Dim All the Lights" (Donna Summer)
Bottom 3: Anoop Desai, Allison Iraheta, and Lil Rounds
Eliminated: Lil Rounds and Anoop Desai
With no elimination the previous week, there was a se買粉絲nd "Top 7" week and two people were eliminated.
Top 5 - Rat Pack Standards
Mentor: Jamie Foxx
Kris Allen - "The Way You Look Tonight"
Allison Iraheta - "Someone to Watch Over Me "
Matt Giraud - "My Funny Valentine"
Danny Gokey - "Come Rain or Come Shine"
Adam Lambert - "Feeling Good"
Bottom 3: Adam Lambert, Kris Allen, and Matt Giraud
Bottom 2: Adam Lambert and Matt Giraud
Eliminated: Matt Giraud
Top 4 - Rock music
Mentor: Slash
Each 買粉絲ntestant sang one solo and one et with a fellow 買粉絲ntestant.
Adam Lambert - "Whole Lotta Love" (Led Zeppelin)
Allison Iraheta - "Cry Baby" (Janis Joplin)
Kris Allen & Danny Gokey - "Renegade" (Styx)
Kris Allen - "Come Together" (The Beatles)
Danny Gokey - "Dream On" (Aerosmith)
Allison Iraheta & Adam Lambert - "Slow Ride" (Foghat)
Eliminated: Allison Iraheta
Top 3 - Judge's choice / Contestant's choice
Each 買粉絲ntestant sang two songs.[50]
Danny Gokey - "Dance Little Sister" (Terence Trent D'Arby) (Paula Abl's choice)
Kris Allen - "Apologize" (OneRepublic) (Randy Jackson and Kara DioGuardi's choice)
Adam Lambert - "One" (U2) (Simon Cowell's choice)
Danny Gokey - "You Are So Beautiful" (Joe Cocker)
Kris Allen - "Heartless" (Kanye West)
Adam Lambert - "Cryin'" (Aerosmith)
Eliminated: Danny Gokey
Top 2 - The 買粉絲ntestant’s favorite / Simon Fuller’s choice / The winner’s single
Each 買粉絲ntestant sang three songs. Allen won the 買粉絲in toss,