Quote Originally Posted by SuperMillionaire View Post
Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood came from this show. To quote Kelly Clarkson's coronation song, some people wait a lifetime for a moment like this, and Clarkson's moment took place in the first season in 2002, and Underwood's moment happened in the fourth season in 2005. Now, 15 years later, the show is ending. It is the end of an era.
Which begs the question of what happened to all those other winners?

Clarkson and Underwood both still have their careers, though they're nowhere near what they used to be. I remember Fantasia Barrino and Jordin Sparks, neither of which seem to be on the radar anymore. I couldn't even name any of the other ones.

Then again there are people who lost, like Adam Lambert and Chris Daughtry, who have somehow managed to have way more successful careers than the people who actually won.