Kyla Jade turned in a splendid performance of “How Great Thou Art” Monday night. In the process, the background singer for Jennifer Hudson earned a spot in the Top 12 on Season 14 of The Voice. Tonight, the remaining five members of Team Blake take the stage again. They’re performing in hopes of securing one…
Based on YouTube views, Ada Vox and Jurnee scored the most popular performances Monday night on American Idol. One constant between the two: Both were partnered with former Glee star Lea Michele on duet night. Ada and Lea had easily the most popular performance, viewed more than 380,000 times. That’s the second most for any…
Kyla Jade and Brynn Cartelli earned spots in The Voice Season 14 Top 12 Monday night. They also appear to have scored the night’s biggest hits on iTunes. By midnight eastern time, both had already cracked the Top 200 on the iTunes singles chart, though iTunes downloads don’t count as votes in this phase of…
The American Idol judges finalized the Season 16 finalists Monday night. But not without a couple of surprises. Apparently, even in this age of female empowerment, a potential male heartthrob (aka Garrett Jacobs) has more value than a teen with a golden tone (aka Alyssa Raghu). Joining Garrett in advancing on Idol: Mara Justine, Jurnee,…
Sharane Calister earned a spot in the Top 12 on The Voice for Team Adam Levine Monday night. She did it by covering “Never ENough” from “The Greatest Showman” soundtrack. It wound up being fans’ favorite Team Adam performance of the night. Now the remaining members of Team Adam — Drew Cole, Reid Umstattd, Jackie…
Britton Buchanan sailed into The Voice Top 12 thanks to fan support Monday night. He’ll be one of three representatives of Team Alicia Keys in The Voice Season 14 finals. We won’t learn the identity of the other two until Wednesday night. But the other five members of Team Alicia — Jackie Foster, Terrence Cunningham,…
Kyla Jade became the first member of Team Blake Shelton to earn a spot in The Voice Season 14 Top 12 Monday night. She wowed the live playoff crowd with a soaring version of “How Great Thou Art” and was the team’s top vote-getter. The remaining five members of Team Blake — Austin Giorgio,…
Brynn Cartelli is the youngest contestant on Season 14 of The Voice. She’ll also be competing with the Top 12 next week after topping all members of Team Kelly Clarkson in the voting Monday night. That leaves the other five members of Team Kelly to perform again Wednesday night in hopes of landing one of…
Last week, I was underwhelmed by how much we learned about — and heard from — this year’s American Idol cast on duets night. I mean, the first 12 Idols to compete just didn’t have that many moments to show off their vocal talent during the course of a two-minute, 30-second performance. About the…
High school student Mara Justine scored the most popular performance Sunday night on American Idol. As of noon Monday, her performance of Whitney Houston’s “Run to You” had been viewed nearly 260,000 times on YouTube. Only one other performance from Sunday’s show — Jurnee’s cover of Jessie J’s “Flashlight — had more than 200,00 views….
