Good morning, American Idol fans! After a good night sleep I was anxious to see what the
final DialIdol raw numbers looked like this morning and here they are. The first thing to note is the total number of votes cast using DialIdol which was over 59,000, over 30% more than the 45,000 cast last week. And if you look at the final busy percentages, only Phillip surpassed 10% last week (12.9%) but 4 out of the 7 this week were over 11.5% (Elise Testone at 12.5%, Jessica Sanchez at 12.4%, Hollie Cavanagh at 12.0% and Joshua Ledet at 11.5%).
This was definitely a much more busy night for voting. There were over 5,000 busy signals compared to the less than 3,000 last week, so Idol may have to open up two lines for these contestants! In terms of raw busy signals, Hollie, Jessica and Elise all broke 1,000 busy signals by themselves, and the lowest ones are Skylar Laine with 294, Colton Dixon with 405 and Joshua with 428. Let's see how accurate these numbers are for picking the Bottom 3, as they were last week (except for Colton who must not have many power voters using normal phone voting.)
The preliminary
WhatNotToSing.com ratings are up for last night, and they have Hollie as having the best ('Rolling in the Deep' at 81) and 5th best ('Son of a Preacher Man' at 62) performances of the evening. However, last week Jessica's 'Stuttering' was considered the best performance and we know how well that helped her! Of course, I like to look at those scores as a trending graph so here it is with the 'Now' and 'Then' performances separated:
That may look like a big jumbled mess to some folk, but you can definitely see how Hollie has made a good 'arc' last night compared to the past few weeks to put her back in contention for at least the Top 3. Another contestant who had a big change last night was Joshua, who started out with a low 38 with his 'I Believe' before slightly redeeming himself with 'Change Is Gonna Come'. Now that Joshua performed last, all 7 remaining finalists have performed last except for Jessica. (Note to producers: if you actually want Jessica to do well with the votes you may consider giving her that coveted 'pimp spot' before she gets eliminated!) Jessica's scores this week were actually below what she had been getting, a 69 for 'Fallin' and a 53 for her 'Try a Little Tenderness'. That 53 is her lowest score of the season. Maybe being almost booted has shaken her confidence a little bit. Then there is Colton who took an even bigger dive, with a 43 for 'Bad Romance' and a 28 for 'September'. Ouch, talk about a bad shift in momentum. Tonight was a mixed bag for Phillip with his 'U Got It Bad' giving him a 78, his best rating of the season, but then his 'Midnight Hour' dropping him back to earth with a 45. Elise and Skylar stayed in the middle of the pack with the ratings which may not be a good thing, Elise with a 56 and then a 47, and Skylar with a 63 and then a 48. Middling in the pack is often what it takes to end up in the Bottom 3 and be eliminated. We will see in the results tonight!
