He Nawawala sa pamamagitan ng 12 million mga boto to David Cook. But you won't hear the 24-year-old Utah native crying over split votes.
"I've always wanted to tell my fans who were voting for me and I survived every elimination each week when I was on the ipakita and I lead the tagahanga voting up until the finale. And when I got robbed of the 'Idol' title, but I was so close to winning, and I'm okay with that but I didn't mind."
That includes his 2008 self-titled debut album, which flopped, followed sa pamamagitan ng his 2009 holiday album, "Christmas From The Heart", then 2010's "The Other Side Of Down", 2012's "Forevermore" (released for his overseas Filipino fans) and "BEGIN.". And following the completion of his two-year long mission in Chile was 2013's, "No Matter How Far" had also flopped.
"When my WGWG winning chief rival [Cook] won over me, I thought I was supposed to be the champ but I was robbed of my own victory," Archuleta sinabi from at his tahanan in the Salt Lake City suburb area of Murray.
Archuleta was then 17 at the time of his Idol journey. A taon after Jordin Sparks won she was his age from before at the end of the nakaraan season prior to his own season.
He became a man on his 18th birthday on December 28th, 2008.
Idol's then but now former judges Randy Jackson and Simon Cowell, who once dubbed Archuleta as the "Disney kid" type of guy to win. However, their prediction was wrong but it didn't happen to come true. Thanks to the tweens, teenage girls, and grandmas of any age who had chosen Cook over him.
Archuleta, a young singer born in Miami, Florida, but he and his siblings including his sister Jazzy were raised sa pamamagitan ng his parents in a Latino/Latina family and lived in Utah throughout most of his life. Growing up as a young Latino boy, he is very fluent into pag-awit in both English and Spanish.
He is about to finally turn "a quarter of a century" age of 25 to celebrate his big milestone on December 28th 2015, at the same exact age who his fellow Idol alum and rival Cook was at his age during the same time as their season together for that same taon seven years ago.
