I was beginning to think The Voice producers had all but outlawed country music on Season 14. I mean, what better way to avoid another Team Blake Shelton/country singer triumph than to keep country singers off the show. After four audition episodes, 33 singers had earned spots on the show. Just three had auditioned with…
Two singers from Tuesday’s episode of The Voice had already cracked an iTunes genre chart as of midnight. Sharane Calister, the 24-year-old who snagged the final spot on Team Alicia, had already cracked the Top 50 on the R&B/soul singles chart with her cover of “Make It Rain.” And by early Wednesday, Dallas Caroline, the…
Five talented ladies rounded out the teams for Season 14 of The Voice Tuesday night. Adam Levine picked up the country singer he craved in Jackie Verna and also added Genesis Diaz. Blake Shelton rounded out his team with promising country singer Dallas Caroline, and Alicia Keys added more vocal firepower to her team with…
For the first time Monday night, ABC’s new American Idol went head-to-head with The Voice. The Voice won. Big time. Idol dropped 2 million viewers from its opening night premiere and saw its rating among 18 to 49 years olds plummet from 2.4 to 1.8. As for The Voice, it had one of its best…
To hear Katy Perry tell it, we’ve already met three potential Top 10 finishers on Season 16 of American Idol. I’m not sure how Katy’s going to do as a judge once the live shows start. But at this point, I sure can’t argue with her musical tastes. Tuesday’s second night of auditions featured…
A fourth singer earned a four-chair turn. A block finally worked. And, hallelujah, The Voice managed to show us full blind auditions for 10 singers that earned a spot on Season 14 witout montaging a single one. See that, producers, it can be done. Meanwhile, the coaches continued to be stingy with their chairs turns….
As of midnight, two songs from Monday’s episode of The Voice were already charting. And they might not be the two you’d expect. Liva Faith, the teen from Stanton, Ken., had cracked the Top 150 on the pop singles chart with her unique cover of “Dream a Little Dream of Me.” And Gary Edwards, the…
American Idol introduced viewers to 15 more Hollywood bound contestants Monday night. In addition to those featured in photos below, we saw Andrew Weaver, Griffin Tucker and Christina Jones — all 16 or younger — earn golden tickets. Told you this was a young cast Season 16 cast on American Idol. A recap with videos…
ABC has to be happy with its opening night numbers for American Idol. According to TV By the Numbers, the network’s American Idol premiere drew 10.34 million viewers and a 2.3 rating among adults 18-49. Let’s put that in perspective. In Idol’s final season on FOX, its audience exceeded that 10.34 million total just twice…
Early in Sunday’s premiere of American Idol Season 16, Ryan Seacrest called it “the dawn of a new era.” Perhaps, but ABC’s revived American Idol seemed an awful lot like FOX’s old-era American Idol. Contestants who overcame a difficult past? Check. Ron Bultongez’s family fled civil war in the Congo. Dennis Lorenzo’s dad was murdered…
