David Cook was declared as the winner of the American Idol Season 7. Besting David Archuleta by garnering a record 56% of the total 97.5 million audience votes. Wow! Over 12 million votes more than the 44% votes garnered by David A.

He sang The Time of My Life, a song written by Redgie Hamm, the winner of the AI songwriting competition, at the end of the show.

Congratulations, David Cook!