Idol Chatter & Voice Views

Sofronio Vasguez performs Sia’s Unstoppable on Monday’s episode of The Voice (NBC Photo)

Once upon a time on The Voice, contestants released official recordings of the covers they performed on the show to Apple Music.

That meant it was pretty easy to tell whose finale performances were clicking with fans. You just needed to check who was charting best on Apple Music.

Those days are long gone, of course.

But there’s still a good tip off as to which contestants and which performances from the finale are most popular.

That would be YouTube views of those performances.

Within a couple of hours of Monday’s show, The Voice posted YouTube videos of every performance from Monday’s Top 5 of Sofronio Vasquez, teammate Shy, Team Reba’s Danny Joseph, Team Gwen’s Sydney Sterlace and Team Snoop’s Jeremy Beloate.

And based on those YouTube views, Sofronio looks like the runaway winner of Season 26.

As of 2:30 p.m. eastern time, both of Sofronio’s performances from Monday night had been viewed more than 400,000 times on the site.

No other contestant had reached 100,000. Heck, no one else had reached 80,000. On any performance from Monday.

In fact, it appears the only suspense tonight will be who is standing alongside Sofronio as a potential runner-up when the winner is announced.

Shye, with the help of her amazing show-closing performance of “Falling” might have the inside track on that. The video from that performance is the third most viewed on YouTube by a pretty wide margin.

It’s worth nothing that three of the five finalists were originally members of rookie coach Michael Buble’s team.

All four finalists turned four chairs in the blind audition. And we met three of them — Sofronio, Danny Joseph and Sydney — in the premiere episode of Season 26.

Here’s a look at a complete rundown of those YouTube views. Again, the numbers are as of 2:30 p.m. eastern time.

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Song by song grades for the Top 5 on The Voice
Ranking the Top 5 on The Voice

Sofronio Vasquez, “A Million Dreams” — 442,263

Sofronio Vasquez, “Unstoppable” — 407,968

Shy, “Falling” — 77,944

Shye, “One of Us” — 53,640

Jeremy Beloate, “Dancing on My Own” — 52,248

Jeremy Beloate, “What the World Needs Now” — 47,892

Sydney Sterlace, “Chasing Cars” — 35,266

Danny Joseph, “Back to Black” — 32,640

Sydney Sterlace, “I Love You, I’m Sorry” — 30,906

Danny Joseph, “Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma” — 29,062