American Idol Top 10 - What Not To Sing Ratings and Trend


After last night's ballad fest on American Idol, I was curious to see if the What Not To Sing would again look like a ladies' night. And sure enough the trend continues. This week looks even more "pink heavy" than last week, and we are not talking about Lazaro Arbos' outfits, either!
The top 4 ratings all go to ladies (it was top 3 and "4 of the top 5" last week) and those 4 have been the consistently top rated contestants for the past 3 weeks, Candice Glover, Amber Holcomb, Angie Miller and Kree Harrison. Burnell Taylor again leads the guys, but his rating of 50 does not come close to any of the top 4 ladies this week (or his own 74 from last week). Simiarly Devin Velez saw a big drop, from being rated 69 and 71 the first two weeks to only 46 this week.

Nobody saw an improvement this week over last week except for Candice and that was from an already stellar 88 to an even better 89. It is interesting, though, how even though Candice has continued to rate the highest, her betting odds of actually winning continue to trail the other ladies, even Janelle Arthur who continues to be a disappointment performance wise. I think the odds makers assume Candice will end up #2 or #3 and not win because the voters will pick someone else instead of her, despite her astonishing singing skills. Frankly, I can believe that too.