UK chart topper Ronan Keating was in Capital FM’s studios to “Takeover” runs of the station. When quizzed by a fan how things are going in his bid to break into the American market, Ronan perhaps had his pride take over by responding, “It’s going well, but it’s still very slow, as America is in general. It’s not something that happens overnight, you’ve got to work at it for quite a while. I’m putting together this new album with some of the singles from the first album, plus re-shooting the video for ‘Life Is A Rollercoaster’, and it should be coming out after the summer. So fingers crossed it starts to go reasonably well for me in America, you never know!” Audio has since been removed.

World Entertainment News Network reports former Boyzone singer Ronan Keating is blasting the Pop Idol program calling it “a karaoke show.” Keating said of the show that will be invading the U.S. later this year on FOX, “It scares me that they are surrounded by these people who are pushing the whole marketing campaign rather than nurturing the artist. It’s fine for them because they reap the rewards either way, but not for the artist.”