David Archuleta within driving distance? We’re there! Since Archie was back in Hollywood last weekend to shoot a performance for the Nickeleodeon hit show iCarly, we decided to pop by the set and catch up with last season’s American Idol runner-up.

We arrived to to find David and iCarly star Miranda Cosgrove knee-deep in taping promos for his guest-starring role (airing Feb. 7), which can only be described as moments of acute awkwardness. But he got the hang of it soon enough, and even hinted later that there could be more acting gigs in his future. After performing two songs for the network’s “Crush Night” (his first hit, “Crush,” and second single, “A Little Too Not Over You”), David sat down to talk to us about this new phase in his life, and what may come next (a duet with Miranda?!). Read on for our exclusive (and classic Archie) Q&A…

First off, how were your holidays?
It was so nice to be home because I haven’t hung out with my brothers and sisters for so long. They’ve changed a lot over the year, and I didn’t even notice. My 12-year-old sister has really matured. And my 9-year-old sister, well, she’s kind of the same, but my brother’s even taller. It was great to catch up with them and see what they’re into because I didn’t realize how out of the loop I was. It’s like, you don’t appreciate how busy you are until you come back and realize, “Woah, I missed a lot of my family life!” So I’ve been spending time with the family. My birthday is between Christmas and New Year’s, so we all went to Las Vegas together, saw “Blue Man Group,” you know…

And you were at the inauguration in D.C.?
I sang the National Anthem at the Latino gala, which was fun. Obama didn’t come by, but there were a lot of cool people there. I got to meet Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony and they were super nice. They’re some of the most well-known Latino people and were just so warm, welcoming and embracing to everyone. I was shocked that they knew who I was, but they watched the show! Marc was saying, “She calls you her other man and normally, if she did that, I would kick their… But you’re OK.” I was, like, “Awesome!”

So here we are on an entirely different kind of stage. How did you like your guest-starring experience on iCarly? Did Miranda give you pointers?
I didn’t really ask for any. It’s kind of like, the more you do it, the more you get the hang of it and find your own way of acting. I hope to do more acting — nothing too fancy or serious, more fun like this. But it’s amazing to see how Miranda is in person, because she plays pretty nasty characters sometimes, like on Drake and Josh and in School of Rock. But we had a great time and I love hanging out with her. It’s nice to work with someone who’s in a similar situation, because Miranda has a record deal, too.

She’s hoping to have an album out this summer, and told us she’d love to do a song with you.
Like a duet? That would be way cool.

Speaking of duets, you had your younger brother Daniel play with you at Sundance. Can we expect to see a repeat on your upcoming tour?
I don’t know. That was kind of an experiment to see how it would go, and my brother still has some work to do. But it would be cool to have him come out on tour and play with me. It’s more special that way, when you have someone who means a lot to you up there on that stage. And the thing about Sundance was, he got to experience a little bit of what I went through.

Any plans to pull a Jason/Michael Castro move on a future season of Idol?
Idol is not his thing, really. He just likes to play guitar and stuff, he doesn’t have that big American Idol voice. Plus, he already has his own fans. A video he put up on YouTube got over 100,000 views, which is crazy.

How are you liking the more positive Idol so far this season?
I like it a lot. I still feel bad for people who do bad, but I’m so happy about the new setup and that Kara Dioguardi is there, because she has a lot of knowledge, experience and spunk. And she knows what she’s looking for.

You’ve called her tough before. Was she like that working with you in the studio?
She just told it like it was. She’s that kind of person — really forward, but easy to talk to and work with.

She and Simon do seem to clash a lot. When it comes time to voting, who do you think viewers will listen to?
Simon. People still put their trust in Simon, where they’ve kind of built their foundation on what Simon says. Like even if they like something, they’ll change their mind if Simon says it’s terrible. Or vice versa. He has a strong influence on people. But I think will Kara will shake that up a little because she’s new and has really caught people’s interest. Plus, she has a lot more experience with writing. But we’ll have to see whether they agree with each other. I’m sure they’ll try to have some tension there to liven things up. No matter what, it’ll be good for the show.

This year, they’re also having the Top 12 live in one house. How do you think that would have played out on your season?
A house together with, like, guys and girls? That’s kind of risky. I think it would’ve been tough. We had roommates, but I like my privacy. Especially with performing; you’re out there in front of everyone and meeting so many people and smiling for so many pictures, it’s nice to have a moment where it’s no one but yourself. The we-all-live-here-it’s-all-fair-game kind of thing? I don’t know.

Any plans for you to perform on the show this season?
I haven’t been approached yet, but I’d like to, even though it will be kind of weird to be back on that stage.

– Shirley Halperin

Hey guys.. I just wanted to stop by and tell everyone I am seeing David on February 25th! I cant wait to go to the show and see him LIVE. I hope to be able to take pictures, and record video — and maybe I will even get to meet Archie and tell him about the site How cool would that be??

Hi all. David here with another blog. So this week I got to go to the Adele concert!! Adele is amazing amazing amazing amazing, and she sounds so good live! James Morrison opened up for her, and he sings with so much soul. It’s so weird to see him perform because white people usually don’t sing like that haha. But anyway, I loved how Adele didn’t move around a whole lot when she performed.
She was all about the voice, and didn’t try to change that. What’s also cool is that it was at the Murray Theater in Murray, my home town! A few of my friends came with me too, so good times haha.
This Saturday was another extremely exciting day, because I got to go to Senior Ball at my high school!! I didn’t think I’d ever get another chance to go to a school dance, but I asked management and they gave the ok and made time in the schedule for me to go. I had soooo much fun! For our day activity, we had breakfast and then played games. We fit in a lot of them too. We played dodge ball, basketball, musical chairs, apples to apples, and crab soccer. I got a good work out from the crab soccer too haha. We rocked out at the dance too, and even though I sweat so bad it was worth it.
The girl I got to go with was awesome too. After the dance we all watched Mall Cop, but I kept falling asleep lol. I was so tired.
And I had to wake up early in the morning anyway for a flight.
So yesterday, we flew back down to LA, and I did some things for Nickelodeon with Miranda Cosgrove. It was something that involved more lines to say, haha. So I was really nervous before we started, but once we got going I had so much fun! It felt like Miranda and I just hung out all day long, and she’s such a nice girl. But yeah, the lines were for Crush Night that’s coming up on February 7th! The day of my acting debut.. when the episode of iCarly I’m on airs. It really is so much fun working with all of them on that show. I wasn’t sure if I’d get to work with them anytime soon, so when I heard I was going to be working with Miranda Sunday, I was pumped! haha. But yeah, I’ll stop talking about that and save it for the week it comes on. But keep that on your calendars! It’s a big day haha. Well for me anyway. But yeah I wrote an awfully lot in this blog. But it was a big weekend! Adele, the school dance, and Miranda all in 3 days. But I will post some pictures for you guys. Bye bye.

Song of the week: Adele “Best for Last.” Her album is my favorite right now!

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Calling all David Archuleta fans! The wait is over. The American Idol runner-up has announced his first solo tour, where he’ll be supported by Irish pop-rocker Lesley Roy.

Archuleta’s first single, Crush, was released in August and hit the No 2 spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 Singles chart in the same month. It has also sold more than 166,000 downloads to date.

The Utah native will kick off the tour in Virginia Beach on Feb 24 and end it in Boise, Idaho on March 21 after 18 other stops.

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Hey guys.. MTV Hits has started airing David Archuleta’s Hitlist! There are a few upcoming showings so be sure to DVR it or check it out when its on, they are for for the MTV Hits channel, check out the next showings:

1/27- 3:00 AM.
1/30- 7:00 AM.
1/30- 3:00 PM.
1/30- 11:00 PM.
2/01- 10:00 AM.
2/01- 6:00 PM.

Here are the tour dates for David’s solo tour! Tickets are all about $25.00. I am really bummed out David is not coming to Maryland I am hoping one of the Virginia shows are not that far.. Here are the confirmed dates!

02/24 - Virginia Beach, VA - Sandler PAC (seated)
02/25 - Richmond, VA - The National (GA)
02/26 - Sayerville, NJ - Starland Ballroom (GA)
02/27 - OFF
02/28 - Lancaster, PA - The Chameleon (GA)
03/01- Allentown, PA - Crocodile Rock (GA)
03/02 - Northampton, MA - Pearl Street (GA)
03/03 - Clarence, NY - Infinity (GA)
03/04 - OFF
03/05 - Columbus, OH - Newport (GA)
03/06 - Madison, WI - Barrymore Theater (seated)
03/07 - Duluth, MN - DECC (GA)
03/08 - Chicago, IL - House of Blues (GA)
03/09 - OFF
03/10 - Oklahoma City, OK - Diamond Ballroom (GA)
03/11- Beaumont, TX - Scout Bar (GA)
03/12 - San Antonio, TX - Scout Bar (GA)
03/13 - OFF
03/14 - Albuquerque, NM - Sunshine Theatre (GA)
03/15 - OFF
03/16 - Phoenix, AZ - The Marquee (GA)
03/17 - Pomona, CA - Glasshouse (GA)
03/18 - Reno, NV - Grand Sierra Theatre (GA)
03/19 - OFF
03/20 - Idaho Falls, ID - Civic Auditorium (GA)
03/21 - Boise, ID - Knitting Factory (GA)
03/22 - OFF

Exciting news! David’s tour dates should be announced sometime this week! Rumors have stated we could get the dates as soon as in 3 days! Lets hope David can stop close to everywhere so we all get to see him. I hope David comes to Maryland or I will be so bummed! haha. Get ready Archies and Arch Angels!

Week of Updates

Hola. I’m updating on what’s been going on again haha. So last week was pretty crazy!
Monday was way fun with the Hard Rock Cafe performance! For those of you who went, I hope you had fun.  I also accompanied myself on A Little Too Not Over You for the first time in New York for WPLJ.
After New York, I went to LA to do some stuff for Build-A-Bear, and there were 2 other talented girls. One of them was named Meaghan, who I believe was in Camp Rock. The other girl was named Jamia, and she was the little girl in August Rush! I remember watching Jamia actually on Showtime at the Apollo and Jay Leno when she was 7, so it was so cool! haha. I was blown away by her then, and I am blown away by her now. She was full of energy, and was hilarious too. 
On Friday I did Radio Disney. I got to visit all the lovely cheerful staff at the Radio Disney station again, and I always love to go there. I performed there again, and got to talk to Ernie D and answer some phone calls on the air. Access Hollywood was there too, and they filmed me singing and doing my interviews there. I also had a little photo shoot for Radio Disney too, just for a few things.
Saturday, I performed at one of the events at Sundance, and that was really special because it was the first time I sang a song with my brother accompanying me on guitar. He accompanied me on You Can, and he did great haha. My friends and family got to come along, and we partied and just jammed out to music. We all had a really good time.
I then flew out to DC to sing the National Anthem at a Latino Gala event on Sunday, one of the events going on for the week of the inauguration. Some of the performers were War, Paulina Rubio, Alejandro Sanz, and Marc Anthony, and I really enjoyed watching them. I got a chance to talk to Jennifer and Marc, and they were some of the coolest people I have ever met! It’s awesome because my mom is a huge fan of both of them, and they’re both incredibly talented. I love meeting people who are really well known and stuff, and you expect them to act all big and important, when they are some of the most down-to-earth cool people you’ve ever met haha. That’s how they were, and I really respected them for that.  And I hope I can sing like Marc when I’m older.
So another thing I got to do was go the the Museum of Natural History in DC, which I LOVED! I’m such a fan of things like museums lol. And there was so much to look at there. They had a lot of prehistoric animal skeletons to look at, and I got some pictures so I’ll load those up. But seriously, if you live in that area you need to go that museum! It’s a lot of fun. Well, at least if you like museums it’s fun.
Lastly, this is a big week so make sure to keep up with the Inauguration today!   I’ll write another blog soon.
Song for the day: Raise It Up - Jamia Simone Nash and Impact Repertory Theater (From August Rush) I This is a song Jamia sings on August Rush. I think it’s such a cool movie. I first watched it during my trip to Lake Powell during my short break in between The show and tour (and everything
else.) So good memories lol.

That’s so cool! David got to go to the museum that I’ve been too, and he was in DC! I went to that museum when I was little and it is a lot of fun! haha. I am glad David really enjoyed it too!

Hey guys.. I wanted to come on and say please keep wildcarding “David Archuleta - A Little Too Not Over You” on VH1 a few times daily! HOWEVER - please do NOT, I repeat do NOT use Automatic Voting!! VH1 detects that and it is considered cheating, if VH1 sees this - they will BAN all David videos from the countdown! They have banned Katharine McPhee’s videos because of this same reason, so please do NOT cheat! You will only ruin it for David - please pass this around!

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