American Idol Season 21 continues with Hollywood Week on Sunday, April 9th, The season started off with its traditional audition episodes that took place in Las Vegas, Nevada and Nashville, Tennessee. After the auditions, the hopefuls arrived in Los Angeles for group rounds and a chance to advance to the live shows. Showstoppers and the Final Judgment Part 1 was aired with the first half of The Top 24 announced. The remaining contestants will be announced on Monday, April 10th.

Judges Lionel Richie, Katy Perry and Luke Byran return for their sixth season on the panel. Ryan Seacrest also returns to the show as the host for the past 21 seasons.

Click on the links below to see a few standout auditions from the episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73lVCXuTRTc&t=9s
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zbD2NRR5XL4
https://youtube.com/watch?v=AVkx8SWLkBM

American Idol airs Sundays and Mondays on ABC.

Top 24 to date :

PJae

Malik Heard

Kaeyra

Lucy Love

Zachariah Smith

We Ani

Warren Peay

Nutsa

Tyson Venegas

Michael Williams