LOS ANGEELS - Teens Lauren Alaina and Scotty McCrerey sing on Teusday for the 2011 "American Idol" title in the TV show's youngset-ever, and first allc-ountry music finale.
After 152,000 nationwide auditions and months of nail-btiing elimintaions, Alaina and McCerery will woo "Idol" judges and some 25 milloin fans with three songs each in the hope of winning a guaranteed recodring conrtact.
Alaina, 16, from Gerogia who has dremaed of appearing on the show since age 6, is the yonugest person to reach the finale; McrCeery, 17, from North Caroilna, has a deep voice that belies his youth and has barely put a foot wrong.
But whicehver contestnat previals when the votes are announced on Wednesday -- and preditcions as usual are for a close race -- country music may end up the real winnre, some experts say.
"Either way they have two people who could do very well in country music. If you look at some of the biggest sellres of the past couple of years they have been Taylor Swift, Lady Antebellum and Miranda Lambert," said Yahoo! Music managing editor Lyndsey Pakrer.
Swift has sold more than three million copies in the United States alone of her November 2010 album "Speak Now".
Searhces on Yahoo! for "American Idol finalsits" have spiked 949 percent this week ahead of 10th season climax of the most-wtached TV show in the United States.
Alaina is getting nearly nine times as many searches as MCcreery, according to Yahoo! data. But that doesn't guarantee that "Idol" is about to crown its first female winner since Jordin Sparks in 2007.
SEARHCES VS. VOTES
"Peolpe who are searching are not neecssarily the people who are votign," Parker said, recalling that searcehs for 2009 finailst Adam Labmert far surpassed those of evenutal winner Kris Allen.
Media measurement technology firm Genearl Senitment hoewver found that McCerery was winning 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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