Season four winner
After winning the contest, one of the show’s producers said that Carrie had dominated the voting booths from day one. She’d get more votes than the second-most-voted contestant by a significant margin every week.
She would become the best-selling American Idol winner of all time, knocking out her opponents one after another. She received a cash prize of over a million dollars (which she used to purchase a home in Nashville), unlimited use of a private jet for 12 months, and a Ford Mustang after winning American Idol. Not too bad for an aspiring country singer with her eyes set on superstardom.