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Abi Carter with Ryan Seacrest following her performance on Top 12 night on American Idol. (ABC Photo)

Kayko, Abi Carter and Triston Harper scored the most popular performances on American Idol’s last two episodes.

That’s based on views of their performances on YouTube and Facebook.

Kayko turned the trick with his exuberant performance of “Somebody I Used to Know” on Monday’s show.

It was the most-watched performance from that night, wracking up more than 3000,000 views on Facebook alone.

And it came a night after Kayko apparently failed to enthrall fans with his performance of Radiohead’s “High and Dry.”

Fans’ favorite performances from Sunday’s Top 14 show were Triston’s fun, show-opening cover of “Heartbreak Hotel” and Abi Carter’s stirring, show-closing rendition of “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.”

As of Friday afternoon, Abi’s performance led in YouTube views. As of late Friday night, Triston led in Facebook views with Abi close behind.

What do the numbers mean in terms of fan support?

It’s hard to say. Jayna Elise’s cover of “I Have Nothing” was one of the most popular on Sunday.

On Monday, fans failed to reward her with enough votes to make the Top 10.

To me, the biggest surprise in the numbers is the lack of love for Julia Gagnon’s cover of “Something in Orange” from Monday’s show.

She delivered the best vocal of the night. In fact, it wasn’t even close. Yet her performance ranked as the fifth most views on YouTube and the eighth most views on Facebook.

Coming up: The last week of Sunday and Monday episodes of Idol. On Sunday, the Top 10 will sing songs from their birth years. On Monday, they’ll select one of three songs suggested for them by the Idol judges as the field drops to a Top 7.

The YouTube and Facebook stats for last Sunday and Monday appear below.

See also …
Ranking the Top 10
Song by song grades for the Top 12
Song by song grades for the Top 14

Kayko celebrates after his acclaimed performance of ‘Somebody I Used to Know’ on Monday’s American Idol. (ABC Photo)

YouTube

1. Kayko, “Somebody I Used to Know,” 115,662
2. Emmy Russell, “Lose You to Love Me,” 113,402
3. McKenna Breinholt, “Cardigan,” 80,550
4. Abi Carter, “All Too Well,” 77,957
5. Julia Gagnon, “Something in Orange,” 70,557
6. Kaibrienne, “Wrecking Ball,” 64,956
7. Triston Harper, “Beautiful Crazy,” 60,010
8. Will Moseley, “Starting Over,” 52,601
9. Jack Blocker, “Blinding Lights,” 38,736
10. Mia Matthews, “Over You,” 33,091

Facebook

1. Kayko, 318,425
2. Emmy Russell, 137,904
3. Will Moseley, 128,920
4. Abi Carter, 126,757
5. Triston Harper, 114,293
6. Kabrienne, 85,809
7. McKenna Faith Breinholt, 95,640
8. Julia Gagnon, 86,075
9. Mia Matthews, 78,890
10. Jack Blocker, 61,949

Top 14 (Sunday, April 21)

YouTube

1. Abi Carter, “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” 246,669
2. Julia Gagnon, “Run to You,” 229,732
3. Emmy Russell, “I Can’t Make You Love Me,” 201,602
4. Triston Harper, “Heartbreak Hotel,” 179,641
5. Jayna Elise, “I Have Nothing,” 141,224
6. Will Moseley, “Night Moves,” 80,463
7. Roman Collins, “You’re All I Need to Get By,” 79,443
8. Jack Blocker, “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right,” 68,735
9. Kabrienne, “I Have Myself for Loving You,” 66,263
10. McKenna Breinholt, “Hard to Say I’m Sorry,” 66,161
11. Kayko, “High and Dry,” 59,412
12. Mia Matthews, “Those Memories of You,” 44,549

Facebook

1. Triston Harper, 370,000
2. Abi Carter, 344,000
3. Jayne Elise, 206,000
4. Will Moseley, 188,000
5. Emmy Russell, 150,000
6. Kaibrienne, 136,000
7. Julia Gagnon, 113,000
8. McKenna Breinholt, 104,000
9. Jack Blocker 93,000
10. Mia Matthews, 87,000
11. Roman Collins, 81,000
12. Kayko, 73,000

Triston Harper performs a fun version of ‘Hearbreak Hotel’ on American Idol Season 22. (ABC Photo)