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What Is the Platinum Ticket on ‘American Idol’? What It Means, When It Was Introduced & More

Alyssa Norwin, TV Insider
Mar 17, 2025

Since American Idol‘s very first season, contestants who made it through the audition round were given a “golden ticket,” which meant that the…

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