My favorite American Idol statistics site, WhatNotToSing.com has preliminary numbers up after last night, and I have posted them above as an image. If you rank the contestants by score, there is Pia Toscano and then James Durbin, Casey Abrams, Scotty McCreery, Jacob Lusk, Stefano and then Haley Reinhart. So the top 6 are Pia and five guys. It is surprising too, that the second highest gal in the list is Haley. I have made a lovely bar graph of the scores for the Top 13 sorted by this week's rank in red with last week's rank in blue (generated via LibreOffice Calc 3.)
Last week both Lauren Alaina and Thia Megia had scores well over 70 and Haley, Naima and Karen broke 50, but this week Pia is the only female over 50. On the flip side, all the males except Paul broke 50 this week. Four guys have been over 60 both weeks: James, Casey, Scotty and Jacob. My guess is that tonight's elimination will be a lady as well, with the most likely candidates being Ashthon, Naima or Karen. Maybe the judges should have selected three female wild cards (Lauren Turner, Kendra Chantelle, even Julie Zorrilla, where are you?) Maybe this will be another "4 guys and a gal in the Top 5" year after all. Allison, Crystal and Pia can form a club...