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25 year old David Cook, with mic in hand, was crowned the winner of the seventh season of American Idol. 

As David Archuleta and David Cook competed for the title of “American Idol,” the second-to-last installment of the Fox show’s seventh season attracted 26.1 million viewers, according to Nielsen’s estimates. That tally was up slightly from the same night a year ago (25.3 million).