Idol Chatter & Voice Views

Alisan Porter drops to her knees while delivering a fabulous version of “Stay With Me Baby” Monday night on The Voice. The song ranked fourth best from The Voice on iTunes today. (NBC Photo)

I’d like to pretend I have a hunch about what’s going to happen on tonight’s The Voice results show.

Well, I have a couple of hunches about the fate of certain contestants, but not strong feeling about who’s most likely to be eliminated.

You have to figure Owen Danoff is in danger. I mean, he landed in the bottom two last week when he did relatively well on the iTunes charts.

This week he landed about 60 spots lower on the singles chart, in 10th place out of 11 singers.

That sounds like bottom two territory. Unless his supporters realized from last week that there’s more to this competition than downloading songs off iTunes.

Meanwhile, you have to figure Mary Sarah is relatively safe. I mean, she advanced via fan voting the past two weeks despite lackluster performances on the iTunes chart.

This week, she landed second among the Top 11. Can’t see her going home after her biggest chart success yet.

And, in case you’re counting, that makes five different contestants that have landed higher than presumed front-runner Alisan Porter on the chart at some point this season.

Laith Al-Saadi, Mary Sarah and Paxton Ingram all did it this week. Hannah Huston and Adam Wakefield did it in previous weeks.

Adam Levine predicts Alisan will win. I’m not so sure.

After a performance by Thomas Rhett — not sure why — we get down to the results.

Advancing on The Voice:
* Mary Sarah (Team Blake): It’ll be interesting to see if last night is the start of something big momentum wise for her.
* Nick Hagelin (Team Christina): And the comeback singer is now a member of the Top 10.
* Laith Al-Saadi (Team Adam): He might not be a typical singing show contestant, but he’s finals worthy at this point.
* Alisan Porter (Team Christina): Speaking of which, someone might wrestle the Season 10 title from Alisan, but no way she won’t make those finals.

Team Pharrell will now perform “Let Love Rule.” Hannah and that growl of hers sounds especially good on this.

Now, more artists advance:
Hannah Huston (Team Pharrell): Look at that, the pre-school teacher is a member of the Top 10. Well deserved.
Paxton Ingram (Team Blake): Pharrell’s strategy for Paxton worked out just fine, didn’t it?

Team Christina will perform “Live and Let Die.” And why am I not surprised that Christina opened the song? She’s never figured out that the focus should be on the contestants in moments like these. And speaking of focus, what’s with all these dangers? Finally, Alisan gets a solo line. After which Christina has to wail her head off.

Also advancing:
Shalyah Fearing (Team Adam): “The Climb” did not to well for Shalyah on iTunes, so it will be interesting to see what she sings next week.
Adam Wakefield (Team Blake): That means all three of Blake’s team members are in the Top 10.
Bryan Bautista (Team Christina): And that means all three of Christina’s team members are in the Top 10.

That leaves Owen Danoff and Dan Passino to sing for the instant save.

Save-me performances

Daniel Passino: He’s sing “Jealous.” So Team Pharrell is in danger of losing two members in two weeks. Daniel has good stage presence and, as usual, makes sure to pick out a couple of spots in the song to remind us of his range. Sold performance. Pharrell compliments the incredible range Daniel showed on the song. Grade: B–

Owen Danoff: He, of course, got the instant save last week. Tonight, he’s going to sing “Burning House.” Like the song choice. Wow, love Owen’s voice in that opening. I wish this had been Owen’s performance show song choice. Blake confirms what I suspected, Owen lost the lyric at one point. Still, that was one of his better performances. Grade: B+

And The Voice instant save goes to Daniel Passino.

That means Owen Danoff leaves The Voice.