NO. 1: CHART SPOT reached by "Do I Make You Proud." the first single off Season 5 winner Taylor Hicks' self-titled debut album.
36.4 MILLION: Number of viewers who watched the May 24 finale— the show's second-most-watched finale (38.1 million tuned in to see Ruben beat Clay in 2003).
580 MILLION+: Number of viewer votes cast during Season 5.
304,000: First-week sales of Daughtry. the debut CD of Season 5's Chris Daughtry.
2: NUMBER OF CMA AWARDS won Carrie Underwood. (The look on CMA rival Faith Hill's face when Carrie won the Female Vocalist award? Priceless.) Two is also the NUMBER OF UNDERWOOD'S CHART-TOPPING SINGLES this year ("Jesus. Take the Wheel." "Before He Cheats").
12/25: The opening date for the feature film "Dreamgirls," with Season 3's Jennifer Hudson in the scene-stealing role of Effie. Hudson didn't make it to the final six on Idol, but her buzzed-about performance (she costars with Beyonce Knowles, Eddie Murphy and Jamie Foxx) landed her a deal with Arista Records.
19 MILLION: Number of viewers who watched Lifetime's original movie Life Is Not a Fairy Tale: The Fantasia Barrino Story. The biopic. starring the Season 3 Idol as herself, was the second-most-watched movie in Lifetime's history.
5: NUMBER Of AWARDS won by original Idol Kelly Clarkson this year. As long as we're counting, that's two Grammys. two American Music Awards and a People's Choice.