American Idol Season 5: Encores

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Season 5: Encores
Album by Various Artists
Release Date May 23, 2006
Genre Pop
Length 47:19
Label RCA
Producer(s) Derek Bramble
Sales 311,946+
RIAA Certification N/A
Chart Positions
Professional Reviews
Various Artists Chronology
Season 4: The Showstoppers (2005)
Season 5: Encores (2006)
N/A (N/A)

Season 5: Encores was released on May 23, 2006 and contains one cover song from each of the top 12 finalists during season 5 of the television show American Idol. It is the only American Idol album that does not feature an ensemble track by all the contestants, and is the first year in which several individual finalists made the popular music charts. The album sold over 154,000 units in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200, behind the Disney Channel Original Movie's High School Musical Soundtrack and the Dixie Chicks' Taking the Long Way, thus becoming the best-selling debut any American Idol compilation disk. [1] It was also #2 on Top Soundtracks, #4 on Top Digital Albums and #6 on Top Internet.

With this album, American Idol became the most successful soundtrack franchise of any motion picture or television program, beating out Star Wars. [2]

  1. "What About Love" (Heart) – 3:45 Melissa McGhee
  2. "Superstition" (Stevie Wonder) – 3:54 Bucky Covington
  3. "I'm Every Woman" (Chaka Khan) – 3:44 Mandisa
  4. "Wanted Dead or Alive" (Bon Jovi) – 4:33 Chris Daughtry
  5. "Father Figure" (George Michael) – 5:46 Ace Young
  6. "Takin' It to the Streets" (Doobie Brothers) – 3:39 Taylor Hicks
  7. "Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)" (Stevie Wonder) – 2:55 Lisa Tucker
  8. "Walkin' After Midnight" (Patsy Cline) – 2:59 Kellie Pickler
  9. "Moody's Mood for Love" (James Moody) – 3:13 Elliott Yamin
  10. "Think" (Aretha Franklin) – 2:45 Katharine McPhee
  11. "Midnight Train to Georgia" (Gladys Knight & the Pips) – 3:33 Paris Bennett
  12. "When I Fall in Love" (Doris Day) – 3:07 Kevin Covais