American Idol Down to Five

A heavily-pounced American Idol Top 5 emerged from last week's episode on classic love songs popularized by famous singers like Whitney Houston. The remaining five American Idol hopefuls are battling for this week's top spot singing two songs -- one is from this week's Top 10 charts of Billboards and another song from the year of their birth.

Last week's performance were not very at par with the judges' meticulous ears but with audience, Katharine McPhee's rendition of a Whitney Houston hit was the most applauded. It was surprising though that Kelly Pickler carried out a surprisingly spiritless rendition no wonder it got her voted off. The nights top-scorers are Katharine and Chris Dautry who rocked the stage down. Does it mean that they'll be beating each other come the AI finals night?

Now that these American Idol hopefuls have been leveled down to only 5 remaining contenders namely Elliott Yamin, Paris Bennett, Chris Daughtry, Katharine McPhee, and Taylor Hicks; the competition gets hotter and hotter. Nevertheless, all of them have a very good chance of becoming this season's * American Idol.