Katharine McPhee Fashion Blog
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Katharine Hope McPhee is an American pop singer, songwriter and actress who gained fame in May 2006 as the runner-up on the fifth season of American Idol. Her self-titled debut album, released on RCA Records on January 30, 2007, debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, and her second album Unbroken followed in 2010. She played Karen Cartwright, one of the lead roles on the NBC series Smash, and went on to star in the CBS series Scorpion. This page collects the fashion blog coverage of what she has been wearing.
Katharine Hope McPhee is an American pop singer, songwriter and actress. She gained fame in May 2006 as the runner-up on the fifth season of American Idol. Her self-titled debut album was released on RCA Records on January 30, 2007, and debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, selling 381,000 copies (as of December 2010). The album's first single, "Over It", was a Pop Top 30 hit and was certified gold in 2008. Her second album, Unbroken, was released on Verve Forecast Records on January 5, 2010, and debuted at number 27 on the Billboard 200. The album featured the single "Had It All", which peaked at number 22 on the Billboard AC chart. It has sold 45,000 copies as of January 2011. Her third album, the holiday-themed Christmas Is the Time to Say I Love You, was released on October 12, 2010. The album debuted at number eleven on the Billboard Top Holiday Albums chart while the single "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" peaked at number sixteen on the Billboard AC chart. As of January 2011, this album has sold 23,000 copies. McPhee has also established an acting career, co-starring in The House Bunny and Shark Night 3D. She played Karen Cartwright, one of the lead roles on the NBC series Smash. She is currently starring in the CBS series Scorpion.
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An Idol Runner-Up Who Built Two Careers at Once
Katharine McPhee's biography is unusually numerical, and the numbers tell the music story precisely. Fame arrived in May 2006 as runner-up on the fifth season of American Idol; the self-titled debut album followed on RCA Records on January 30, 2007, debuting at number two on the Billboard 200 and selling 381,000 copies as of December 2010, with its first single “Over It” a Pop Top 30 hit certified gold in 2008. The second album, Unbroken, came on Verve Forecast Records on January 5, 2010, debuting at number 27, its single “Had It All” peaking at number 22 on the Billboard AC chart. A third album the same year — the holiday-themed Christmas Is the Time to Say I Love You, released October 12, 2010 — debuted at number eleven on the Billboard Top Holiday Albums chart. A singing-competition launch makes an artist's image a public construction from the first week: viewers watched her perform, and vote, in outfits chosen under television conditions, which is why Idol alumni carry fashion coverage from the very start of their careers.
The acting career was built in parallel rather than afterwards. Film co-starring roles in The House Bunny and Shark Night 3D led to Karen Cartwright, one of the lead roles on the NBC series Smash — a series about the making of a Broadway musical, a setting where costume and performance dress are built into the premise — and then to starring in the CBS series Scorpion. That combination, a recording career and a network-television acting career running at the same time, gives her public appearances two wardrobes to follow: the singer's stage and promotional dressing, and the actress's premiere and press dressing. The blog search on this page gathers the Apparel Search fashion blog posts across both.
Resources on This Page
This page carries the fullest resource list in the K group: the blog search, her own website, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia, IMDb and a YouTube link — eight destinations, reflecting a career conducted across music and television at once. In the K index she files between Kate Hudson and Katherine McNamara, two actresses whose names differ from hers by a syllable and a spelling — Katharine, Katherine and Kate in consecutive filing, a cluster readers should navigate by surname: Hudson, McPhee, McNamara.
Common Questions
How did Katharine McPhee first gain fame?
She gained fame in May 2006 as the runner-up on the fifth season of American Idol. Her self-titled debut album was released on RCA Records on January 30, 2007, and debuted at number two on the Billboard 200.
What were Katharine McPhee's second and third albums?
Her second album, Unbroken, was released on Verve Forecast Records on January 5, 2010, and debuted at number 27 on the Billboard 200. Her third album, the holiday-themed Christmas Is the Time to Say I Love You, was released on October 12, 2010.
What acting roles has Katharine McPhee played?
She co-starred in the films The House Bunny and Shark Night 3D, played Karen Cartwright, one of the lead roles on the NBC series Smash, and stars in the CBS series Scorpion.