might be over, but not for Danielle Bradbery. The Season 4 winner of The Voice relaxes by the pool with her friends in her new video for “Friend Zone.” That’s after showing off her skills on a skateboard with a hula hoop and playing kickball while hanging out with her friends. “Friend Zone” is the…
closing in on one of the biggest music releases of the year from a former American Idol. Carrie Underwood’s fifth album, “Storyteller,” comes out Friday. And Carrie continues to tease us a track at a time by releasing “Renegade Runaway.” Fans clearly don’t mind. As of Sunday night, all three songs Carrie has released from…
The first week of battles on The Voice featured a pair of match-ups in which both singers turned four chairs during the blind auditions. We won’t see a repeat this week. We’ve yet to see the battles featuring six recipients of four-chair turns, but none of them will be matched against one another when The…
The Season 9 cast of The Voice set a record for most four-chair turns during the blind auditions with 14. Well, the Season 9 eliminations began with the battle rounds last week, and three four-chair turn recipients — Manny Cabo, Lyndsey Elm and Krista Hughes — were among the victims. The Season 9 cast is…
Jake Worthington, the Season 6 runner-up on The Voice, released his debut EP on Friday. Twenty-four hours after it hit iTunes, the self-titled project was at number 30 on the country albums chart. Jake was 17 when he auditioned for Season 6, turned three chairs and, of course, found a home on Team Blake. He’d…
It was a Team Blake Shelton battle round showdown that lived up to its billing. Dustin Christensen squared off against Barrett Baber. Both had turned all four coaches’ chairs in the Season 9 blind auditions. For the battle round, they performed “Walking in Memphis,” and it turned out to be the week’s most popular…
Jordan Smith and Regina Love adopted a simple strategy heading into The Voice battle round. They wanted to make their performance so good that neither of them would go home. It’s an oft-adopted approach. But with only eight steals available, it fails much more often than it works. Jordan and Regina made it work. Jordan…
Mark Hood’s secret to battle round success: Being himself. Sounds simple, but it didn’t necessary come naturally for the 24-year-old from Chicago, one of The Voice’s most energetic and charismatic performers. For the battles, he was paired with Celeste Betton, a 27-year-old gospel singer from Hinesville, Ga. “Singing with a girl was different and,…
Ellie Lawrence’s blind audition on The Voice aired more than three weeks ago. And she’s still in the Top 25 on the iTunes’ alternative chart with her cover of “We Don’t Have to Take Our Clothes Off.” But the 26-year-old indie-rock singer from Calhoun, Ga., says she still picked up valuable pointers during the…
Chris Crump turned four chairs during his blind audition for Season 9 of The Voice. But he still felt like a bit of an underdog heading into his Team Blake battle round match. A 31-year-old from Texas with a pop and Christian pop album under his belt, Chris was being asked to perform a…
