Preliminary WhatNotToSing Ratings for American Idol Top 4

The preliminary WhatNotToSing scores are in for last night, and once again Jessica Sanchez and Joshua Ledet are battling it out for the top performance of the evening. Hollie Cavanagh had been at or near the top of the scores for the past three weeks, but this week she drops to the bottom of the list. And with one good performance, Phillip Phillips has escaped the bottom this time after two pretty unimpressive weeks. Here is the ranked list of the average of the two solo performances for each contestants and then my latest graph:

1) Jessica Sanchez (63,86) = 74.5
2) Joshua Ledet (50, 88) = 69.0
3) Phillip Phillips (45, 82) = 63.5
4) Hollie Cavanagh (64, 41) = 52.5

However, as Skylar showed last week, sometimes it is better to rank pretty low in the ratings than to be in the middle of the pack. The judges harsh criticism of Hollie's second performance will probably get her fans to vote in earnest for two straight hours. So if we are lucky Phillips' better performance this week can help him to be eliminated if his fans think he is safe! (Can you figure out who I want to see go away yet?)

One big change I noticed this morning from last night was on the DialIdol site. Last night all 4 contestants were pretty even in scores when I last checked about 11pm (2 hours after the show ended here in Central time), but now Jessica Sanchez is showing solid green and safe.

Unfortunately that is exactly where Skylar was last week, so I hope that does not result in the same fate for Jessica. Another thing I noticed on DialIdol is that a lot more people are casting votes using it as the weeks have progressed. If you compare the total number of votes cast starting from the Top 10 week you see:

Top 10 week: 36.9K
Top 9 week: 44.9K
Top 8 week: 45.5K
Top 7 week: 45.0K
Top 7.1 week: 59.2K (the week after the save was used)
Top 6 week: 49.8K
Top 5 week: 58.4K
Top 4 week: 67.5K

So even though we are losing contestants we are seeing more and more votes cast using DialIdol. I do not think that helps predicting the results in any way, but it is interesting to note. That does appear to happen every season, but during Season 10, their Top 4 week (Scotty, Lauren, Haley and James) saw 89.8K votes cast using DialIdol, Season 9 (Lee, Crystal, Casey J. and Mike L.) had 108.9K votes and Season 8 (Kris, Adam, Allison and Danny) saw an incredible 309.9K votes. So the general DialIdol usage has been going down over the past few seasons. So as less and less people are using analog phone lines to vote and most of the votes are coming from text messaging and on-line voting, the DialIdol results are becoming more for entertainment.