Reid Umstattd credits his record-setting performance earlier this week on The Voice to a great song and a different approach. For those who missed it, Reid’s performance of the Patty Griffin’s “Let Him Fly” was montaged Monday night on The Voice. Yet it became the most popular song from Monday’s episode on iTunes, reaching number…
Carrie Underwood dropped her new single, “Cry Pretty,” this week. And the predictable happened: It has soared straight to number one on iTunes country songs chart. In fact, it’s still there Friday morning, more than 48 hours after its official release. It’s also number four on iTunes overall singles chart, trailing only two new releases…
Who’s the favorite to win Season 14 of The Voice? Who knows? After three rounds, there isn’t a clear front-runner. Terrence Cunningham made the biggest splash during the blinds with that wonderful rendition of “My Girl.” D.R King and Jackie Foster stole the thunder in the battle round with their cover of “Sign of…
Earlier this season, Brynn Cartelli and Dylan Hartigan teamed up for an acclaimed performance of Taylor Swift’s “Ready for It?” in The Voice battle round. Brynn won that match; Dylan was stolen by Blake Shelton. One knockout round and one steal later, Brynn and Dylan are back together on Team Kelly Clarkson. In fact, they’re…
If Drew Cole can rally his social media supporters to vote next week, he should be able to earn a spot in the Season 14 finals on The Voice. Drew enters next week’s live playoffs with nearly twice as many Instagram followers as any other member of Team Adam Levine. He also has more than…
The youngest remaining member of Team Alicia Keys is also the team’s leader on social media. That would be 18-year-old Britton Buchanan of Sanford, N.C., who also has the distinction of being the very first contestant we met in Season 14 of The Voice. Not to mention the first-ever contestant on whom a block was…
Longtime background singer Kyla Jade enters the live playoffs as the most popular Team Blake contestant on social media. Kyla has more than 15,000 followers on Instagram and nearly 4,000 on Twitter, both tops among the remaining six members of Team Blake. The only social media platform she doesn’t lead on its Facebook. Pryor Baird…
Well, The Voice is changing up its live playoff format again. Live voting is back and every remaining contestant — all 24 of them — will perform Monday night. Wow, that’s going to be interesting for a show that has so much talk and coach time that it has to montage performances during the blind…
The youngest contestant on Season 14 of The Voice scored the biggest hit of the knockout round. Brynn Cartelli, just 14 when she auditioned, hit number 62 on iTunes overall singles chart with her cover of Rascal Flatts’ “Here Comes Goodbye.” That performance earned her a spot in the live playoffs with Team Kelly Clarkson….
You could say Jaron Strom was pretty busy musically prior to The Voice. A web designer by day, he had just released a debut solo album called “Feelz.” And the young man from Shelby, N.C., was also fronting the band “Minutes and Years,” which released an EP of its own in 2016. Jaron was bumped…
