American Idol singer Allison Iraheta has become the third contestant from this years show to sign with 19 Recordings and Jive Records.

17-year-old Allison, follows in the footsteps of Kris Allen and Adam Lambert. She finished in fourth place and will release her debut album in the autumn.

“I think I’m still in shock that this is happening – getting to record my first album and this whole awesome experience is a dream come true,” she told Entertainment Weekly.

Danny Gokey is the only contestant from the top four who has not yet landed a deal. “There’s nothing to report just yet,” said a 19 Recordings spokesperson.

Allison Iraheta was made for rock week and who would believe that the little diva is only 17 years old? She belted out the Janis Joplin classic ‘Cry Baby’ as if she had the life experience of a 40 year old and her vocals were truly amazing.

Randy didn’t love the song choice, Kara would have preferred Break Another Little Piece Of My Heart, I think they’re deaf. I was loving Allison’s performance tonight.

Allison turned 17 this week, not that you would know it if you listen to her huge belting vocals.

The judges praised her efforts – apart from Cowell , who told her that he doesn’t think she believes she can win and that “she might be in trouble tonight”.

I would have to disagree with Cowell. I loved Allison’s rendition of this song. I loved her perfect vocals and her husky tone. Allison to win (or at least make the final) I say!

American Idol contestants Matt Giraud and Allison Iraheta have vowed to stay humble despite their new found celebrity status.

Giraud told KSFM-TV: “I don’t think any of us really think that we’re celebrities or anything like that. That’s why we still feel honoured to be at the premieres and for people to want our autographs.

“If I meet someone who’s like, ‘I voted for two hours’, that’s amazing to me and I’m like, ‘Really? I don’t even know you!’ It’s amazing to me.

“So we’re just trying to stay humble and I think that when we get out of this bubble we might be a little shocked about how much we’ve affected the world a little bit.”

Giraud’s fellow contestant Allison Iraheta added:

“Thinking about getting off the show and being in the real world again, people are actually going to know us,” she explained. “I’m not used to it. I’m always going to be humble about it like Matt said and just be glad that I made it this far. I’m happy that I’ve had the opportunity to be here.”

Allison Iraheta is certainly one of the most talented 16 year olds I have ever seen and I felt so sorry for her last night after the judges commented on her American Idol performance.

The girl rocked out with No Doubt’s Don’t Speak, even playing the guitar herself but all Simon Cowell could talk about was her outfit.

Now I’m not saying I liked her get up, it was a little out there and her hair was a liitle like Pebbles from The Flintstons but this show isn’t America’s Next Top Model!

Allison donned a poofy red dress, black leggings, white heels and spiky magenta hair, leading Cowell to comment that it was “something out of The Addams Family”, before joking that “the night’s theme must be Halloween”.

Way to go Mr Waistband!

I just LOVE Allison Iraheta. She has knocked the ball out of the park week after week and I was flabbergasted last week when she found herself in the bottom three acts along with Alexis Grace.

On last night’s AI show, Iraheta sang “Papa Was a Rolling Stone” and she showcased her astounding vocals once again. She seemed to find it hard to stay in character and ended up giggling a bit at the end but it didn’t detract from her performance at all.

I would love to see this girl in the American Idol final. I don’t know if that’s possible after last weeks results, but at the very least I hope she survives the next couple of weeks.

Judges Comments:

Randy – “You’re one of the dopest singers in the whole thing this season.”
Kara – “America, you’ve got to vote for her. You can’t teach that.”
Paula – “You are amazing.”
Simon – “That was one of the best performances you’ve ever done.”

It is hard to believe that Allison Iraheta is only 16 years old! She revealed in her VT that she has been singing publicly for years in a local shopping mall and obviously all that practice paid off.

During her performance of Michael Jackson’s “Give It to Me” she looked 100% comfortable on the stage with no sign of nerves at all. She definitely had a makeover for the first big AI show and I liked her new style!

Judges comments:

Paula: “You are a rock star up there. You look like you have been doing this since you were two. Keep doing what you are doing and stay authentic. We will be seeing a lot more of you.”

Simon: “We know who you are. You know what kind of artist you want to be.”

Randy: “If you got it, you just got it, go with it. You can sing anything. I think you are one to watch in this whole thing.

Kara: “You distinguish yourself by being the rocked-out girl with those vocals. Great job.”

Yes you read the title right! Last night the American Idol judges twisted proceedings a little and at the end of the wild card round announced that this year, they were actually going to allow thirteen contestants through to the live finals rather than the usual twelve.

Anoop Desai, Jasmine Murray, Megan Corkrey and Matt Giraud will now join Jorge Nunez, Scott MacIntyre, Lil Rounds, Kris Allen, Adam Lambert, Allison Iraheta, Danny Gokey, Alexis Grace and Michael Sarver in next weeks first live show in the full size American Idol studio.

I think last night’s choice were all quite predictable and doubt that the judges made their decision on the spot. Each person who got through was definitely amongst the favourites in their original group and each has a massive fanbase out there in the real world, especially Anoop it would seem. Simon claimed that the decision to make the numbers up to thirteen was semi spontaneous, but I think it might just be the ’shocker’ talked about by Fox execs at the beginning of the season.

I think it would be fair to say that last night’s American Idol show was on of the most forgettable yet. Very few singers stood out and one who certainly didn’t was Kris Allen from Conway Arkansas.

Allen sang Michael Jackson’s ‘Man In The Mirror’ and I found his performance distinctly average. Have a watch of the video above and judge for yourself.

It was easy to predict that Adam Lambert and Allison Iraheta would make it to the final 12 contestants. Alison blew the judges away with her rendition of Hearts ‘Alone’, whilst Adam the Emo Elvis strutted his stuff during a fabulous version of the Rolling Stones ‘Satisfaction’. Megan Joy Corkery should have been the third contestant through. I loved her folk sound and would have thought the fact that she strongly resembles Jennifer Garner would have carried her for at least a few more rounds.

You can watch some of the performances below and we’d love to hear which contestants you would have liked to see progressing to the next stage of the show.

16 year old Allison Iraheta was a big hit with the judges on last night’s American Idol and was undoubtedly one of the stars of the night.

Not only that but out of 12 acts she was the only contestant to get high praise from Cowell. He told her “she is the best by a clear mile”, with Randy adding that she “blew it out of the box” with her rendition of Alone” by Heart.

I preferred Adam Lambert myself but what did you think?

Watch American Idol Thursday 26 February, 8pm and 10pm, ITV2