Editing American Idol (section)

===Rewards for winner and finalists===
The winner usually receives a record deal with a major label, which may be for up to six albums,<ref>{{cite web |date=May 13, 2010 |title='Idol' Contestants – No Shtupping the Judges |url=https://www.tmz.com/2010/05/12/american-idol-contract-sex-judges-simon-cowell/ |access-date=February 24, 2011 |publisher=Tmz.com}}</ref><ref name="NYT 02-24-2010">{{cite news |last=Wyatt |first=Edward |date=February 23, 2010 |title=Idol' Winners: Not Just Fame but Big Bucks |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/24/arts/television/24idol.html}}</ref> and secures a management contract with ''American Idol''-affiliated [[19 Management]] (which has the [[right of first refusal]] to sign all contestants), as well as various lucrative contracts. All winners prior to the ninth season reportedly earned at least $1&nbsp;million in their first year as winner.<ref name="NYT 02-24-2010" /> At first the contract came with a $250,000-plus advance, but dropped to about $62,500 over the Fox years.<ref name="vty">{{cite news |last=Halperin |first=Shirley |date=May 17, 2018 |title='American Idol': How Disney's Approach to the Winner's Music Breaks From the Past |language=en |work=Variety |url=https://variety.com/2018/music/news/american-idol-disney-1202811694/ |access-date=May 8, 2019}}</ref> All the runners-up of the first ten seasons, as well as some of other finalists, had also received record deals with major labels. However, starting in the eleventh season, the runner-up may only be guaranteed a single-only deal.<ref>{{cite news |last=Anthony McCartney |date=May 25, 2012 |title=New 'American Idol' contract allows for lower payouts, no album guarantees for runners-up |newspaper=The Washington Post |agency=Associated Press |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/new-american-idol-contract-allows-for-lower-payouts-no-album-guarantees-for-runners-up/2012/05/25/gJQAwiPzpU_story.html |url-status=dead |access-date=May 25, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181208143442/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/new-american-idol-contract-allows-for-lower-payouts-no-album-guarantees-for-runners-up/2012/05/25/gJQAwiPzpU_story.html |archive-date=December 8, 2018}}</ref> [[Bertelsmann Music Group|BMG]]/[[Sony Music Entertainment|Sony]] (first through ninth seasons), [[Universal Music Group|UMG]] (tenth through fifteenth seasons), and [[Disney Music Group]]'s [[Hollywood Records]] (sixteenth through eighteenth seasons) had the right of first refusal to sign contestants for three months after the season's finale. In the fourteenth and fifteenth seasons, the winner was signed with [[Big Machine Records]]. Prominent music mogul [[Clive Davis]] also produced some of the selected contestants' albums, such as Kelly Clarkson, Clay Aiken, Fantasia Barrino and Diana DeGarmo. All top 10 (11 in the tenth and twelfth seasons, 5 in the fourteenth season, and 7 in the sixteenth season) finalists earn the privilege of going on a tour, where the participants may each earn a six-figure sum.<ref>{{cite web |title=The cost of being on 'American Idol' |url=http://www.bankrate.com/finance/personal-finance/the-cost-of-being-on-american-idol-6.aspx |access-date=August 6, 2011 |publisher=Bankrate.com}}</ref>