Two weeks later than normal, The Voice will finally air its Top 24 show Monday night. That means lots of music. The show will squeeze 24 solo performances into a two-hour window. It will also means lots of eliminations Tuesday night, when 12 of those 24 artists go home. I’m going to be most…
Can anyone stop Laine Hardy in his quest to become the Season 17 winner of American Idol? If so, will it be Alejandro Aranda, who turned in what the show called it’s best audition ever? Social media numbers for the Top 8 on Idol show Laine and Alejandro with a clear edge. Laine came to…
Will The Voice Season 16 boil down to a country showdown between Dexter Roberts and Gyth Rigdon of Team Blake Shelton? Could Presley Tennant, Team Kelly Clarkson’s young pop singer, a one-chair steal in the blind auditions, make a run for the Season 16 crown? Or how about Jej Vinson, who has already performed in…
Stephanie Rice from Season 12 of The Voice has released a powerful new single. It’s called “Pages” and it’s the second since The Voice from the young woman who shared her heart-wrenching backstory with the show. As a teenager, she came out to her parents as gay. Her father is a Baptist minister and insisted…
The new album from former American Idol standout Danny Gokey landed at number two on the Billboard Christian albums chart this week. The 13-song “Haven’t Seen It Yet” album came out April 12, and tickets go on sale today for a fall tour to support the album. “I really think we’ve got an album that’s…
If you tuned in five minutes later to The Voice Tuesday night, you missed the evening’s musical highlight. Well, of course, it was the only musical performance of that night. But that takes nothing away from the fact that Season 14 champ Brynn Cartelli returned with a soulful new self-penned tune that’s more proof of…
Hmm, I guess the problem wasn’t the time slot after all. After The Voice registered its lowest ratings ever last week — a 1.0 rating among viewers 18-49 — NBC bumped the results show back from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. Guess what happened? The Voice just set a new record low — a 0.9…
Blake Shelton emerged as the king of the Cross Battles over the past two weeks on The Voice. And you have to wonder whether what transpired will give future contestants second thoughts about joining Team Adam Levine. First, there’s Blake. His contestants won six of their eight cross battles over the past two weeks with…
Kanard Thomas failed to turn a chair during The Voice Season 16 blind auditions. But he’s now the Season 16 Comeback Stage champ. That means he’ll get a chance to return to the live show next Tuesday night. He’ll sing for the first Twitter save of Season 16. His opponent — here comes about gimmick…
I’ve written it before and I’m going to write it again. If The Voice ever tries cross battles again, changes are needed. On Tuesday’s show, the two singers who were most impressive Monday — L.B. Crew and Beth Griffith-Manley — were eliminated. Adam Levine couldn’t do anything to stop L.B.’s elimination because he’d already used…
