Idol Chatter & Voice Views

Squeezed between lots of fine performances Tuesday night on The Voice was a big surprise.

Not only will Season 8 champ Sawyer Fredericks be performing a new single on The Voice during Wednesday’s performance show, he’ll be releasing an EP.

Well, that EP hit iTunes at midnight. It consists of four tracks, including the catchy, mid-tempo “Take It All.”

That’s the song he’ll be performing on The Voice.

Here’s another surprise: One of the tracks on the EP feature vocals by fellow Season 8 teen Mia Z.

And they sound fabulous together on a folksy song called “Stranger,” my favorite track on the EP.

With The Voice still in search of its first breakout star, it’s going to be very interesting to see how this does on the charts.

Everything Sawyer sang on The Voice went Top 10 in a heartbeat.

And this release is clearly timed to coincide with his appearance on the show, since new music typically hits iTunes on Fridays.

Just one hour after its release, Sawyer’s EP was already number four among singer-songwriter albums on iTunes and number 131 on the Top 200 albums chart.

By 11:30 a.m. this morning, it was sitting at number 1 on the singer-songwriter chart and number 28 on iTunes’ overall albums chart.

And it’s continued to climb. By 6 p.m. EST, it had cracked the Top 10 on the iTunes’ album chart.

And “Take It All” was sitting at number 19 on the singer-songwriter singles chart.

Oh, and according to a post from Sawyer on Facebook, that photo on the EP cover is of his family’s Windrake Farm in Fultonville, N.Y. And the photo was taken by his oldest brother Skyler.

Sawyer also recently released a song called “Forever Wrong” on the Magic Strings of Frankie Presto soundtrack. That song is available on iTunes, too.

You can listen to “Forever Wrong” here.