Phillip Phillips

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The 2013 MuchMusic Video Awards were rife with pop performances and huge names. Stars like Demi Lovato, Avril Lavigne, Phillip Phillips and Ed Sheeran all joined forces with co-host Psy to rock the stage in Toronto, Canada.

After wrapping up his stint as the opening act on Matchbox Twenty's current tour, Phillip Phillips is ready to strike out on the road with his very first headlining tour, which gets under way Tuesday in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Phillip Phillips recently wrapped up a stint opening for Matchbox Twenty, whose song he covered on American Idol last season.

Matchbox Twenty's current album, North, is the band's first new album in a decade.  When it came out last year, it became their first disc to top the charts...and now the band is finally hitting the road to support it.

American Idol may have faced stiff competition in recent years from The Voice and, to a lesser extent, The X Factor, but one thing the show can brag about, at least at this point, is that it alone has managed to produce actual hit-making, chart-topping artists.

When season 11 of American Idol premiered a year ago, Phillip Phillips was immediately considered an early frontrunner for the title, which of course, he ended up capturing in May.  But he claims that when he first appeared on Idol, he really didn't think he'd be popular at all.