Idol Chatter & Voice Views

John Foster with Ryan Seacrest after the former performed Jailhouse Rock on American Idol. (ABC Photo)

Each week I check the American Idol performance vidoes on YouTube to see which ones have been viewed most often.

And a trend is developing.

For each of the last four episodes, the same two artists have appeared in the top two spots on the list — Jamal Roberts and John Foster.

John scored the most popular video from Sunday’s show with his cover of “Jailhouse Rock.” Jamal finished a distant second.

Jamal scored the most popular video from Monday’s show with his episode-ending performance of “Heal.” This time, Jamal was a distant second.

You can check out all the number below as of early Thursday afernoon.

If they’re truly an indicator of artist popularity, they could be bad news for Josh King and Mattie Pruitt.

Josh’s last two performances were the least often viewed each night. Mattie’s the second least often viewed among remaining contestants.

See also …
Ranking the Top 10
Song by song grades for the Top 14
Song by song grades for the Top 12
Top performance from previous week

Monday, Top 12 perform *

1. Jamal Roberts, “Heal” — 469,578
2. John Foster, “I Told You So” –268,461
3. Canaan James Hill, “Goodness of God” — 171,338
4. Gabby Samone, “A Song for You” — 163,366
5. Kolbi Jordan, “Over the Rainbow” — 142,279
6. Slater Nalley, “Angel from Montgomery” — 98,678
7. Thunderstorm Artis, “House of the Rising Sun” — 97,817
8. Breanna Nix, “Tell Your Heart to Beat Again” — 116,920
9. Mattie Pruitt, “Because of You” — 80,470
10. Josh King, “All By Myself” — 81,482

Sunday, Top 14 perform *

1. John Foster, “Jailhouse Rock” — 439,090
2. Jamal Roberts, “Shout” — 265,892
3. Gabby Samone, “Saving All My Love for You” — 144,404
4. Slater Nalley, “Your Song” — 127,195
5. Che Chesterman, “It’s a Man’s World” — 164,701
6. Canaan James Hill, “Mary, Don’t You Weep” — 157,655
7. Thunderstorm Artis, “Fire and Rain” — 106,536
8. Kolbi Jordan, “You’re All I Need To Get By” — 105,422
9. Breanna Nix, “Open Arms” — 86,268
10. Mattie Pruitt, “Piece of My Heart” — 76,458
11. Filo, “With a Little Help from My Friends” — 71,741
12. Josh King, “The Longest Time” — 53,886

* American Idol does not post performance videos for the eliminated contestants, which would include Amanda Barise and Desmond Roberts from Sunday’s show and Filo and Che Chesterman from Monday’s.

Jamal Roberts closes Monday’s episode of American Idol with an impassioned cover of ‘Heal.’ (ABC Photo)