American idol is a tv show that you can watch in fox channel and other kind of channels. american idol is based on you if you want to be a star you got to work really hard because it's not just winning. if you win you get to be a pop star or a singer if you want to but the actual prize or you could say reward is 10,000 dollars! as you know that there's lots of ways to be a star but just let me give you only 3 facts or i would say hints one of the hints is: 1. you have to have a really beautiful voice hint 2: 2. you need to love your fans. hint 3: never be late. so those are the 3 facts to be a great singer. know that i told you how to be a singer let me tell you about american idol so you get a number and that number can be a big number or a small number if you have a big number such as this one 9678 if thats your number your going to have to wait 9678 days just to perform yep that's true i watch them alot thats why I know alot about american idol. so if you have any number you are going to have to wait those days. so american idol is located in califonia if you live in california you have good luck. There is also different tv shows thats like this one america's got talent, america got talent only you can do what ever talent you want and there's the voice kids which only you sing. And american idol only you sing in american idol so the voice kids is like american idol and also there's just the voice kids. so the voice kids give a reward of you can be a singer or a pop star and america's got talent has a reward of 10,000 dollars! and you can be a singer or a popstar basically american idol's reward is the same thing as america's got talent reward. so the american idol winner is Caleb Johnson! he said This is crazy. Caleb johnson won the title over teenage pop singer Jena Irene! Caleb Johnson is the 2014 American idol winner!