Taylor Hicks will likely not even break a million albums sold which will be the first time that happened.
4th place finished last year, Chris Daughtry, meanwhile, already has a platinum album and it might go double the way it is going.
The voting is done by the American public but in fairness, there have been a few people who have made careers from it.
Taylor Hicks did not deserve to win. Unfortunately, the American public is not necessarily qualified to judge any sort of talent. If they were, we would have been spared from quite a few television shows I can think of.