(Image from here)

The two Davids, American Idol season 7 winner David Cook & American Idol season 7 runner-up David Archuleta performed in a back-to-back concert in Manila, Philippines at the sprawling concert grounds at Mall of Asia last weekend. Since this is the first time the two Davids ever held a back-to-back concert - in a country outside the US at that - I thought I'd do you guys a favor and list links to youtube videos of their performances.

David A.'s setlist: Touch My Hand / Barriers / A Little Too Not Over You / You Can /
My Hands / Your Eyes Don't Lie / To Be With You / Don't Let Go / Waiting for Yesterday / Stand By Me/Beautiful Girls / A Thousand Miles / Angels / Zero Gravity / Crush /

David C.'s setlist: The World I Know / Heroes / Mr. Sensitive / Declaration / Life on the Moon / Always Be My Baby / Kiss on the Neck / Straight Ahead / Make Me / Avalanche / Little Lies / Come Back To Me / Light On / Bar-ba-sol


David Cook ends his set by performing "A Daily Anthem". David Archuleta joins him towards the end for the finale.

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David Cook & David Archuleta fan t-shirts are still available at Poptastic!


The best-selling "Word Nerds Rock" David Cook fan design


The best-selling "No One Sings it Betta than Mistah Archuleta" design


For those who are "Hungry for More Cook"


Another top-seller "Archie is my Hero"

See all our American Idol designs HERE.

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We have more pop culture graphic tees @ PoptasticTees.com

We recently put up Poptastic Bestsellers (in association with Zazzle), a site to showcase Poptastic Tees' bestselling t-shirt designs as well as our original artworks for Keds sneakers. Everything is fully customizable! You can add your own text below the artworks or at the back of the shirts plus you get to choose from a variety of different mens & ladies shirt styles, colors, shapes & sizes.

Bestselling Tees

create custom t-shirts at Zazzle

Graphic Sneakers

buy unique gifts at Zazzle

We also have a host of American Idol fan merch (buttons, keychains, t-shirts) for fans of Adam Lambert, Danny Gokey, and Anoop Desai. If you want us to make merch for your favorite idol, please don't hesitate to leave us a note via the comments link below.

Choose from the following items or you can also go straightaway to the store.


make custom gifts at Zazzle

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We have more pop culture graphic tees @ PoptasticTees.com

UPDATE (9.05.08): From now on, we will no longer be selling Jason Castro fan merchandise. Please head on over to his official site, Jason Castro Music, to show him and his family your support! To Jason, thank you for the music. Poptastic Tees wishes you all the best.

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The nicest thing about having a small, home-based t-shirt business is that, because my husband and myself run it on our own, we correspond with our customers ourselves and thus get to meet a lot of wonderful people from all over.

One of which is Mandee whom I've had the pleasure of corresponding with for sometime now. You see, she owns a "Jason is My Idol" fan shirt that carries one of our favorite but discontinued designs:


(Sorry about the watermark. We have to take extra precautions now because design piracy is becoming rampant of late...)

Today, she sent me this piece of wonderful news - she met Jason Castro. Part of her email goes:

I met Jason Castro on Aug 13 @ Philadelphia's Wachovia Center. My friend and I wore the "Jason Is My Idol" cartoon drawing t-shirts that were available on your site for a limited time. When Jason got to me, he took a double take at my friend and I, looked back at me and was like "I LOVE those shirts... where did you get them?" So I told him I had gotten them on-line, but that they were no longer available. He replied that he REALLY liked them. And even after I took my picture with him and talked to him, he moved on to my friend and spoke to her for a bit, studied her shirt again and said once more that he really liked the shirts!!!!! I thought you'd enjoy that! Approval from the man himself!!!

Yes Mandee, I totally did enjoy that! How wonderful to have approval from Jason himself. Thank you so much for remembering to share that info with me, we at Poptastic truly appreciate your thoughtfulness!


Mandee and Jasonnnnn

Mandee went on to say that David Archuleta and Brooke White showed appreciation for this shirt too. Ooh, how exciting! If only they knew that we made fan shirt designs for them as well, LOL. :)

Meanwhile, what we do have in our shop is the now-iconic (thanks to MTV's John Norris AND Castrocopia) "Jason is My Idol" design which features a folk guitar (or a ukulele, if you will. It kinda looks like it too) and the words "Jason is My Idol" in light blue and green.



See the different colors and styles here.

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The Official Jason Castro t-shirts however are available HERE. Proceeds of these shirts will go to Jason's choice of charity.

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We have more pop culture graphic tees @ PoptasticTees.com

As I was surfing through some Idol fansites on the net, I found this really great photo of David Archuleta signing autographs for his fans.

(Portland Tour photo from FanBlaster Jennifer)

Upon closer inspection, I noticed this:

The girl holding a camera is wearing one of our "No One Sings it Betta Than Mistah Archuleta" t-shirts! I'll recognize that design anywhere (well of course I will, I made it. LOL).

OK fine, so I may have been over-reaching with that photo but I certainly am not with these following gems courtesy of the lovely Lindsay:

Lindsay was very lucky indeed to have met ALL the idols like David Cook -


... Mr. Jeff Archuleta (ok, the dad of an idol) -


... and Mistah David himself! Awesome.

Don't the three of them look adorable?

There are more pics with the other idols on her Myspace.

Lindsay is wearing out "Mistah Archuleta Sings It Betta" tee in navy blue

See this design in other t-shirt styles and colors HERE.

If you've bought a shirt from us, please send us a photo of you wearing it. It's really always a pleasure to see our designs on happy customers.

Related entries:
- She be rockin' our Word Nerds Rock t-shirt
- David Archuleta fans wearing Poptastic's Archie tees
- American Idol 7 Tour shirts
- Idol shirts @ Poptastic


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We have more pop culture graphic tees @ PoptasticTees.com

A few days ago, we posted a photo of David Cook fan Elizabeth wearing our "Word Nerds Rock" tee. This weekend, it's the Archie fans' turn in the Poptastic limelight:



The lovely Sophie is wearing our "Archie is My Hero" Jr. Jersey Shirt


More t-shirt styles & color choices are available HERE.

Jenny also very kindly gave us permission to post the following photo of herself and her friends taken at one the Idol summer tour venues. Aren't they cute?



Starting from the left, the girls are wearing an "Archie is My Hero" Jr. Jersey Shirt (same as Sophie's above) and a "No One Sings it Betta Than Mistah Archuleta" raglan.


More t-shirt styles & color choices are available HERE.

Okay, so we have photos of Cookie and Archie fans. Now I'm calling all Jason Castro fans to send in your photos wearing our top-selling "Jason is My Idol", "Dreadhead", or "Dork Dance" tees! Come on over and reprazent. :) (MTV's John Norris is excused, of course.)

It's always a pleasure to see our customers happy with their purchases. If you're one of them, please don't hesitate to send us your photo wearing our merch.

UPDATE: ALL of our Jr. Jersey ladies' shirts are on SALE! Use coupon code 4JRJERSEY. Click HERE to see all the Jr. Jersey designs.

Related links:
- American Idol 7 Summer Tour T-shirts
- Idol shirts @ Poptastic

So I was just exploring my MySpace friends' pages when I came across this photo of the very pretty Elizabeth wearing our "Word Nerds Rock" tee. Naturally I was overcome with glee! Like any other t-shirt designer, seeing my designs out there gives me a huge thrill. :)


Elizabeth is wearing our original "Word Nerds Rock" design on a Jr. Jersey shirt.You may click the link or t-shirt image above to see our original design on different shirt styles & colors.

To see all the David Cook / American Idol 7 designs, click HERE.

By the way, great news - orders over $65 from today, July 8th through July 20th will be shipped for FREE! Yep you read that right, that's FREE shipping for orders within the US! Remember to use coupon code 'freesummer'.

Lastly, if you've got photos of yourself wearing any of our shirts, do send it to us! Always a pleasure seeing our designs on people who appreciate them. :)

* Thank you Elizabeth for rockin' our shirt and for allowing me to post your photo here!

Related post:
- American Idol summer tour shirt suggestions

(via Youtube)

It's so inspiring how those two have become so close despite the competition! Cookie may have won Idol but Archie SO won the handstand contest, LOL.

If you say yay to the Word Nerd, we've got just the shirts for you:


If Archie is your Hero, you may wanna look at these:


More AI7 designs HERE.

(Jason Castro singing Gnarls Barkley's Crazy - via youtube)

How can we not blog about Jason? He was definitely one of our favorites on AI this season - I mean, what's not to love? Good looks and great personality, check. Beautiful singing voice, check. Spunk and originality, check check check!

Poptastic also had a blast designing shirts for his fans. In fact, in our one and a half years running a t-shirt shop online, never before have we had one shirt by us - let alone two - appear on international TV. In the same month at that.



There you have it, that's the power of Jason Castro.

* Calling all Dreadheads, do send us photos of you wearing our shirts so we can put them in the gallery. :)

UPDATE (9.05.08): From now on, we will no longer be selling Jason Castro fan merchandise. Please head on over to his official site, Jason Castro Music, to show him and his family your support! To Jason, thank you for the music. Poptastic Tees wishes you all the best.

Related entries:
- Jason is My Idol tee on MTV News
- Jason's Vote Dread tee on MTV News
- American Idol Summer Tour shirt suggestions

(David Archuleta singing One Republic's Apologize - video via youtube)

Wow, the kid sure can sing! Archie was one of Poptastic's favorites during the AI season 7 run and we cannot be happier that he landed a record deal even as a runner-up to AI winner David Cook. This means the whole world will get to hear a lot more from him, right?

The American Idol summer tour kicked off yesterday, and it's definitely not too late to buy tour shirts that you can wear to show support for your idols! Click HERE to see our designs.



*Poptastic thanks the Archie fan group on Facebook who've decided to make the above design their "official" tour shirt. You guys are the best. :) Remember to send us photos so we can include them in the gallery!

- Related post: AI7 Summer Tour shirt suggestions

UPDATE (9.05.08): From now on, we will no longer be selling Jason Castro fan merchandise. Please head on over to his official site, Jason Castro Music, to show him and his family your support! To Jason, thank you for the music. Poptastic Tees wishes you all the best.

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We've been receiving a lot of requests from Jason Castro's fans to make a new design for the talented and lovable guitar and ukulele-strumming dreadhead. We were kinda out of ideas so we turned to the nice peeps behind top Jason community/news source Castrocopia for advice, and one of the suggestions thrown our way was a design that had something to do with Dork Dancing. Great idea!

Without further ado, Poptastic is proud to present "Jason is my Dork Dance King".







Click HERE to see all of the products, colors, and t-shirt styles the design is available on.

*Castrocopia readers/forum members get a special discount. Please leave a note at the comments section so I can send you the link to the special pick-up page.


If you're looking for the OFFICIAL JASON CASTRO SHIRTS, they're available here.

Related links:
- Poptastic's Jason is my Idol shirt spotted on MTV News
- Poptastic's Vote Dread shirt spotted on MTV News

UPDATE (9.05.08): From now on, we will no longer be selling Jason Castro fan merchandise. Please head on over to his official site, Jason Castro Music, to show him and his family your support! To Jason, thank you for the music. Poptastic Tees wishes you all the best.

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Sort of belated news: another Poptastic t-shirt was spotted on John Norris of MTV News!


Here's the clip here wherein he talks about Twilight Tuesdays. (Incidentally, we also have TWILIGHT-inspired tees HERE).

The tee John is sporting is the "Vote Dread" baseball jersey in blue, pictured below.



Click HERE to find other t-shirt styles the design is available in.

Related links:
- MTV's John Norris wearing Poptastic's "Jason is my Idol" tee
- Poptastic's American Idol season 7 designs for the summer tour
- Poptastic's Twilight t-shirts

Even if he did not win the American Idol title, David Archuleta is still a winner in our book. (And isn't it sweet of David Cook to acknowledge little Archie in his interviews all the time? What a gentleman! They're BOTH shining stars).

Here are new t-shirt designs for showing support to the little guy, mostly in white & blue to match his official Idol summer tour colors.


Archie is My Hero - a shirt design based on that adorable, now-famous Guitar Hero commercial Archie made, complete with a silhouette of him in white shirt & boxers.



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I'll Stand By Archie - He sang "Stand By Me" -- now you Arch Angels can show him that yes, you'll stand by him all the way.



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Little David is a Star - that's a guarantee! His star is shining brighter than ever now that the pressure is off.



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I Heartchuleta - A cute design that spells out "I heart David Archuleta" in symbols! The text "I Heartchuleta" is spelled out at the back of some of the light colored shirts.




MORE ARCHIE AND OTHER IDOLS' DESIGNS AT POPTASTIC

Update (May 20, 209) - AMERICAN IDOL SEASON 8 (2009) TOUR SHIRTS CAN BE FOUND HERE

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Take your pick from our eye-catching, original POPTASTIC Idol shirt designs in their respective summer tour colors that you can wear to show support for your favorite idol:

David Cook Idol Tour T-shirts: They come in RED and other great colors!


WORD NERDS ROCK - because our favorite word nerd sure does, doesn't he?


COOK IS MY HERO - guitar hero inspired design


Hungry For More Cook - for those who can't get enough of Mr. Cook

MORE HERE.

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David Archuleta Idol Tour T-shirts - they come in WHITE and other great colors


No One Sings it Betta' Than Mistah Archuleta - because Little David's voice is made of awesome.


Awwww!chuleta - wear this if Archie makes you go "Awwww!"


David's Arch Angels (blue) - For Archie's Angels!

MORE HERE

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Jason Castro Idol Tour T-Shirts - they come in BABY BLUE and other great colors!


Dreadhead - For Jason's ever-devoted Dreadheads!


Jason is My Idol - How can we leave out the design made famous by MTV's John Norris?


Crazy For Castro - If you're crazy for Jason, be sure to let him know with this design!

MORE HERE.

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Michael Johns Idol Tour T-shirts - comes in black and other great colors!


Michael Rocks - For fans of Michael's rockin' style


The Aussie Posse - Because he's 'the wonder from the land down under' OR 'the glossy Aussie'

MORE HERE

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Brooke White Idol Summer Tour T-shirts - comes in YELLOW and other great colors!


Go For Brooke! - Here's a design that's as sunny as her personality


Play it again, Brooke - 'Let it be' was my favorite performance of hers - here's hoping she'll play it again for the tour!

MORE HERE.