Last week, the dreams of four young wannabe singers were crushed on Thursday during the American Idol show. Garrett Haley, Amy Davis, Joanne Borgella and Colton Berry were the unfortunate participants who were sent home. The remaining 10 performed yesterday: David Archuleta, Robbie Carrico, Jason Castro, David Cook, Chikezie, David Hernandez, Michael Johns, Luke Menard, Danny Noriega and Jason Yeager.

The young David Archuleta managed to steal the night with a stunning performance of John Lennon's Imagine, a very, very daring song choice. Few people if any manage to make it sound alright, besides ol' John, even if they are far more experienced than Archuleta. However, he somehow did it.

"Dog," judge Randy Jackson said, "that’s one of the best vocals I’ve ever heard on the show. You’re singing with maturity way beyond your years... that was brilliant."

"That was one of the most moving performances I’ve ever heard," Paula Abdul continued, on the same note. "You’re destined for superstardom."

Oh, and even Cowell had something nice to say: "very, very risky to do a John Lennon song, particularly that one, but it worked," he said. "Right now, you’re the one to beat," Simon continued.

The other good performance was from gymnast David Hernandez, who nailed good the Temptations classic "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone," and won both the viewers' and the judges' appraisal. Chikezie also improved, which was noted by the judges: "You looked better, you sounded better," Cowell said of Chikezie’s strong performance of Donny Hathaway's I Believe.

Today it will be the ladies’ turn. The Top 10 girls (Kristy Lee Cook, Asia’h Epperson, Alexandréa Lushington, Kady Malloy, Ramiele Malubay, Syesha Mercado, Amanda Overmyer, Carly Smithson, Alaina Whitaker and Brooke White) will compete tonight. Tomorrow night we will find out who the four contestants that will go home are.

The Vote for the Worst campaign has selected this season’s male contestant: Danny Noriega. They still haven’t decided which one of the girls is the worst contestant. The Votefortheworst.com site was started in 2004 to support "the entertaining contestants who the producers would hate to see win on American Idol."