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Season 22 (2024)

Aired on ABC from February 18, 2024 to May 19, 2024. The 14 finalists (Top 14): the contestants listed for season 22 in the Contestants table of Wikipedia's List of American Idol finalists, the same group as the season's finals and elimination chart. Contestants cut at the Top 24 and Top 20 stages are not finalists.^⁠[1][2]

Finalists

• Winner
• Runner-up
• Other finalists

Season 22 finalists: show result, then career after the show

Finalist	Show result	After the show
Abi Carter	Winner⁠[1][2] Last competed May 19, 2024	Abi Carter won American Idol on May 19, 2024. She released the 10-track album ghosts in the backyard on November 15, 2024 on Ethos Music Group, and a deluxe edition on April 25, 2025. She has not signed with a record label.⁠[3][4]
WMWill Moseley	Runner-up⁠[1][2] Last competed May 19, 2024	Will Moseley, from Hazlehurst, Georgia, was the season 22 runner-up. He released Gone For Good in 2023, then singles through 19 Recordings, including Good Book Bad, Everything But Me, and Mechanic. He opened for Zac Brown Band on June 2, 2024, and again at State Farm Arena in Atlanta on December 31, 2024, co-headlined a fall 2024 tour with Colin Stough, and performed at the Grand Ole Opry for the first time on April 25, 2026.⁠[5][6][7][8][9][10]
Jack Blocker	Third place⁠[1][2] Last competed May 19, 2024	Jack Blocker finished third on American Idol season 22 and released the debut album The Land On Most High on September 12, 2025, on Elbow Grease Records. Big Jefe, produced by Patrick Lyons, is scheduled for November 6, 2026.⁠[11][12][13][14]
KKaibrienne	Eliminated (8th)⁠[1][2] Last competed April 29, 2024	Latest documented update (February 26, 2025): Kaibrienne Richins, from Henefer, Utah, finished in the top 8 on American Idol season 22. Her first single, girl i am now, came out on Groundwork Records. By February 26, 2025 she had completed a 21-city tour, and Walk Away was her latest single.⁠[15][16]
EREmmy Russell	Eliminated (4th–5th)⁠[1][2] Last competed May 12, 2024	Latest documented update (May 19, 2024): Emmy Russell made her Grand Ole Opry debut on April 13, 2023, competed on American Idol season 22, and released Skinny in August 2023 and Redemption on May 17, 2024. Redemption is on 19 Recordings and BMG.⁠[17][18][19][20][21]
THTriston Harper	Eliminated (4th–5th)⁠[1][2] Last competed May 12, 2024	Triston Harper released H.O.P.E. on May 17, 2024, and Wrapped Up in Jesus on July 19, 2024. He played the CMA Fest 19 Takeover on June 6, 2024, a show with Triston Harper and the Dreamcatchers on July 13, 2024, and the Pensacola Interstate Fair on October 21, 2024. In 2026 he released Do It Over Again on January 16 and Easy On Me on August 1.⁠[22][23]
JHJulia Haven	Eliminated (6th–7th)⁠[1][2] Last competed May 5, 2024	Julia Haven, known on American Idol season 22 as Julia Gagnon, reached the Top 7. She tours New England with Nate Haven and Jackson Cullen, and the singles Impending Doom and NYNY came out in 2026.⁠[24][25]
MFMcKenna Faith Breinholt	Eliminated (6th–7th)⁠[1][2] Last competed May 5, 2024	Latest documented update (February 6, 2025): McKenna Breinholt sang with Cinematic Pop from her teens, including a 2015 recording of Hallelujah, and the group later withdrew from America's Got Talent. She released the singles I Wanted You and Shooting Stars. After season 22 she had surgery in July 2024 to remove a polyp from her vocal cords and played the Franklin Summer Bash on July 30, 2024. On February 6, 2025, BYU-Idaho announced a Friday Hart Auditorium concert with Kabrienne Richins.⁠[26][27][28][29]
KKAYKO	Eliminated (9th–10th)⁠[1][2] Last competed April 28, 2024	KAYKO, also known as Sam Kelly-Cohen, finished in the top 10 of American Idol season 22. His singles include Time of Your Life, Love You Goodbye, Feel the Same with Kaibrienne, and Someone Like You. A December 5, 2025 show at the Gray Box Theater in Fort Lauderdale was scheduled as of September 25, 2025.⁠[30][31][32]
MMMia Matthews	Eliminated (9th–10th)⁠[1][2] Last competed April 28, 2024	Latest documented update (November 2, 2024): Mia Matthews sang with the trio Worth the Wait on The Voice season 19, where all four coaches turned and the trio reached the live playoffs with Blake Shelton, and the group later sang at the Grand Ole Opry. After season 22 she played June Jam and CMA Fest in June 2024 and the Franklin Summer Bash on July 20, 2024. In 2024 she released an acoustic cover of You Ain't Woman Enough, and in October 2024 she shared the original First Time at Life.⁠[33][34]
JEJayna Elise	Eliminated (11th–12th)⁠[1][2] Last competed April 22, 2024	Latest documented update (November 23, 2024): Jayna Elise, formerly Jayna Brown, began the North American tour of Tina as Tina Turner on September 24, 2024, in Akron, sharing the role with Mona Swain. She has also released songs she co-wrote, including Lionheart, Forgive with Andreas Moss, Sooner Than Right Now, and More, plus a cover of I'm With You.⁠[35][36]
RCRoman Collins	Eliminated (11th–12th)⁠[1][2] Last competed April 22, 2024	Latest documented update (February 6, 2025): Roman Collins released the live album Same Gospel New Sound (Live) on March 15, 2024, while he was still a contestant on American Idol. On the May 19, 2024 finale he sang Goodness of God with CeCe Winans. On February 2, 2025, as gospel director of the Biola Gospel Choir, he led the choir at its 40th-anniversary Gospel Fest.⁠[2][37][38][39]
JAJordan Anthony	Eliminated (13th–14th)⁠[1][2] Last competed April 21, 2024	Jordan Anthony, a Top 4 finalist on The Voice Australia in 2019 and a Top 14 finalist on American Idol in 2024, has released Lost in LA, Existing with Chloé Caroline, Wrong Impression, and Missing Me, which came out on June 26, 2026. A debut EP was still forthcoming on July 1, 2026.⁠[40][41][42]
NNya	Eliminated (13th–14th)⁠[1][2] Last competed April 21, 2024	Latest documented update (February 23, 2024): Nya is a Kenyan Broadway performer who grew up in Florida. She played the title role in the off-Broadway musical Cleopatra, which opened on November 7, 2018, and was one of The Radio, with Nasia Thomas and Harper Miles, in the Broadway revival of Caroline, or Change, which ran from October 8, 2021 to January 9, 2022. Before her season 22 audition she had also appeared in the off-Broadway musical Titanique.⁠[43][44][45][46]

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   • Contestants table, row Kaibrienne: Season 22, Place finish 8th
   • Contestants table, row Emmy Russell: Season 22, Place finish 4th-5th
   • Contestants table, row Triston Harper: Season 22, Place finish 4th-5th
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   • Album: “On November 15, 2024, her debut album, "Ghosts In the Backyard", was released. It has 10 tracks.”
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    • Producer: “Produced by Patrick Lyons, Big Jefe”
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    • Home: “I’m from a super small town in Utah called Henefer.”
    • Finish: “finishing in top 8”
    • Song: “my first single “girl i am now,””
    • Tour: “a 21 city tour I completed with a few of my friends this past fall”
    • Single: “my latest single “Walk Away””
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    • Name: “formerly known as Jayna Brown”
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    • Tour: “The tour began on September 24, 2024, in Akron, Ohio”
    • Songs: “"Forgive" (a duet with Andreas Moss), "Sooner Than Right Now," "Lionheart," and "More,"”
    • Cover: “she released a cover of Avril Lavigne's "I'm With You."”
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    • First paragraph: “filled the Chase Gymnasium on the night of Feb. 2”
    • First paragraph: “the Biola Gospel Choir (BGC) took to the stage to celebrate their 40th anniversary”
    • First paragraph: “Led by current Gospel Director Roman Collins”
    • First paragraph: “Roman Collins — gospel singer and former American Idol contestant”
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    • Career: “After becoming a finalist on The Voice Australia in 2019”
    • Career: “reaching the Top 14 on American Idol in 2024”
    • Songs: ““Lost in LA,” “Existing” with Chloé Caroline, and “Wrong Impression.””
    • Single: “Out June 26”
    • EP: “Anthony’s forthcoming debut EP”
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    • Cast: “Nya (Motown: The Musical) and Christian Brailsford (The Lion King) lead the cast in the roles of Cleopatra and Marc Antony.”
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