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Seven of the Top 8 on The Voice, including Sarah Grace, Chevel Shepherd, Kennedy Holmes, Kymberli Joye, MaKenzie Thomas, Kirk Jay and Chris Kroeze. Reagan Strange was apparently too sick to pose for the photo. (NBC Photo)

Don’t count Reagan Strange out.

Some Voice fans are after she landed in the bottom three last week and needed an ill-advised plea by Adam Levine to help save her from elimination.

But my guess is her fans — called The Strangers — will rally to show support for Reagan, especially in light of all the criticism directed her way following Tuesday’s show.

In fact, there are already signs that they’re doing so.

Reagan has picked up nearly 8,000 Twitter followers in the past week. She’s picked up 10,000 followers on Instagram.

The latter number is good for a tie with Kennedy Holmes for most Instagram followers gained in the past week.

But it’s the former number that’s more important, because it leaves Reagan well positioned should she need a save again this week.

She now has more Twitter followers than anyone in the Top 8. The nearly 8,000 Twitter followers she picked up in the past week is twice as many as any other member of the Top 8.

In fact, half of the Top 8 have fewer total Twitter followers than Reagan gained in the past week.

To understand how important that is, remember how the results show will work this week.

The top three vote-getters will advance to next week’s finals. The bottom two will automatically be eliminated.

The three in the middle will sing for the final instant save of Season 15.

Here’s a look social media numbers for the Top 8 as of Sunday afternoon. I’ve ranked them by the number of fans gained in the past week.

Instgram

Kennedy Holmes (Team Jennifer) — 61,500 (+10,000)
Reagan Strange (Team Adam) — 43,800 (+10,000)
Kirk Jay (Team Adam) — 39,400 (+9,600)
MaKenzie Thomas (Team Jennifer) — 115,000 (+9,100)
Chevel Shepherd (Team Blake) — 35,100 (+8,100)
Kymberli Joye (Team Kelly) — 29,400 (+7,100)
Sarah Grace (Team Kelly) — 21,300 (+5,500)
Chris Kroeze (Team Blake) — 10,900 (+2,126)

Twitter

Reagan Strange (Team Adam) — 13,300 (+7,953)
Chevel Shepherd (Team Kelly) — 8,816 (+3,399)
Kennedy Holmes (Team Jennifer) — 10,100 (+2,834)
Kirk Jay (Team Blake) — 9,370 (+2,831)
Sarah Grace (Team Kelly) — 6,813 (+2,534)
MaKenzie Thomas (Team Jennifer) — 5,956 (+2,337)
Kymberli Joye (Team Kelly) — 5,200 (+1,568)
Chris Kroeze (Team Blake) — 4,886 (+1,301)

See also …
Ranking the Top 8
Duet pairings to Top 8 night
DeAndre Nico on Adam Levine: ‘He sold me out’
iTunes results for the Top 10
iTunes results for the Top 11
iTunes results for the Top 13

Facebook

Chris Kroeze (Team Blake) — 53,303 (+4,994)
Chevel Shepherd (Team Kelly) — 15,708 (+2,856)
MaKenzie Thomas (Team Jennifer) — 10,709 (+2,262)
Reagan Strange (Team Adam) — 10,755 (+2,175)
Kirk Jay (Team Blake) — 11,473 (+1,708)
Kennedy Holmes (Team Jennifer) — 14,924 (+1,226)
Kymberli Joye (Team Kelly) — 5,986 (+1,189)
Sarah Grace (Team Kelly) — 5,141 (+1,022)