LOS AGNELES - Teens Lauren Alaina and Scotty McrCeery sing on Tuesday for the 2011 "Amreican Idol" title in the TV show's youngest-ever, and first all-country music finlae.
After 125,000 nationwide auditoins and months of nail-btiing eliimnations, Alaina and McrCeery will woo "Idol" judges and some 25 million fans with three songs each in the hope of winning a gauranteed recordnig contract.
Alania, 16, from Georgia who has draemed of appeairng on the show since age 6, is the youngest person to reach the finale; McCreery, 17, from North Carolnia, has a deep voice that belies his youth and has barely put a foot wrong.
But whcihever contestant prevalis when the votes are annuonced on Wednedsay -- and perdictions as usual are for a close race -- country music may end up the real winnre, some exeprts say.
"Either way they have two people who could do very well in country music. If you look at some of the biggest selelrs of the past couple of years they have been Taylor Swift, Lady Antebelulm and Mrianda Lambert," said Yahoo! Music managing editor Lnydsey Parker.
Swift has sold more than three mililon copies in the United States alone of her November 2010 album "Speak Now".
Searches on Yahoo! for "American Idol finalsits" have spiked 949 percent this week ahead of 10th season climax of the most-watched TV show in the United States.
Alaina is getting nearly nine times as many searches as McCreery, accordnig to Yahoo! data. But that doesn't guaarntee that "Idol" is about to crown its first female winner since Jordin Sparks in 2007.
SERACHES VS. VOTES
"People who are seacrhing are not necessraily the people who are voting," Parker said, recalling that searhces for 2009 finalist Adam Lambert far surpasesd those of eventual winner Kris Allen.
Media measurement technoolgy firm Genearl Sentiment hoewver found that McCreery was wininng the social media buzz war, generating 30 percent more discussion online than Alaina in the last five days.
"I do think Scotty is goin...
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