Reuters - The upset "American Idol" victory by rock singer David Cook drew nearly 32 million U.S. television viewers on Wednesday night, up 3 percent from last year's finale, Nielsen Media Research reported on Thursday.

AP - For more than a decade, Usher's music has been the soundtrack to a player's lifestyle.

AP - Prosecutors trying to prove that a woman appeared in a sex tape with R. Kelly when she was underage — over her protestations that she didn't — have turned to one of her childhood friends, the friend's father and two relatives.

E! Online - This is just not turning out to be the Tyler family's month.

Reuters - Pearl Jam, the Foo Fighters and the Flaming Lips will pay tribute to the Who during VH1's "Rock Honors" charity concert in Los Angeles on July 12.

E! Online - People might still be talking about "my Blake incarcerated" and Herbie Hancock's surprise Album of the Year victory, but the Recording Academy has started looking ahead to next year.

E! Online - Just as you suspected, someone named David has been named the winner of the seventh season of American Idol. Find out which one, Big or Little, wound up standing tall...

AP - A look at the winners of Fox's "American Idol" and what they've been up to since taking home the prize:

Reuters - Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler, a poster boy for rock 'n' roll decadence in the 1970s, has entered a Los Angeles rehab facility after two decades as a passionate advocate of sobriety, according to an report.

AP - CHICAGO (AP) — A childhood friend of the woman prosecutors say appears in an explicit video at the center of R. Kelly's child pornography trial testified Wednesday that she recognizes her friend as the one in the tape.

AP - Did Simon Cowell know David Cook would win? Or was he — gasp! — just being nice?

Reuters - Rocker David Cook won the coveted title of "American Idol" on Wednesday, dealing an unexpected but decisive defeat to a silken-voiced teenager, also named David, on the most popular U.S. television show.