American Idol might not have started out with a ton of country music representation on the judging panel, but the beloved singing competition has embraced the genre more and more over the past decade, even bringing three country music A-listers into the fold as judges.
Grammy-winning country artist Keith Urban was the first big country star to join American Idol , taking his seat on the judging panel in Season 12, where he would remain for four seasons before the show came to an end on FOX after Season 15. Urban has since returned to Idol as a guest mentor in the years since it was rebooted on ABC.
⁘Judging is a weird thing. I like the idea of mentoring, more like a producer than a judge,⁘ Urban told the Arizona Republic in 2016. ⁘But I believe that when I give advice about anything, that's probably advice I need to hear. So I would sometimes drive home from the set and I'd be thinking about some of the feedback I had given people, thinking, ⁘Hmm, I wonder if I do that too.' ⁘ So if it benefited me artistically in any way, it's probably being more honest with myself about the things I need to work on.⁘
"The American Idol brand was kind of roughed up," Bryan continued. "It wasn't anybody's fault. I think it had ran its course and they really had to do some talking to me to get me transitioning to a new form of my career."
"I had a lot of fun, for sure," Underwood told E! in May. "I didn't know how I'd feel about it, [but] Luke and Lionel [Richie], and the crew … the people that work on the show are just so easy to be around."
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