American Idol Season 12 Betting Odds - Top 9 Weekend Edition

Now that Curtis Finch is headed back here to St. Louis, we have nine contestants left on American Idol, and we even were given the vote rankings on the show this past week. That helped to make a big shift in the betting odds for a number of contestants.

The big switcheroo in odds now that the voting ranks are known was between Candice Glover and Janelle Arthur. Since folks now know that Candice is among the top 3 vote receivers and Janelle is not, that pushed Candice into being one of the favorites now (9/4 odds tied with Angie Miller and slightly ahead of Kree Harrison at 5/2) where Janelle is now tied with Amber Holcomb for the 4th/5th favorite spots with much higher 12/1 odds. We also now know for sure that Lazaro Arbos (14/1) is the most popular guy and that Burnell Taylor did not receive as many votes as any of the ladies. That drops Burnell's odds (25/1) in the bottom 3 of the remaining contestants along with Paul Jolley and Devin Velez, who are both the big long shots now at 33/1.

I sure hope these results shake up the remaining contestants into bringing some more interesting, upbeat performances to the show. Last week's Top 10 show was full of ballads and could use some livening up. If Devin, Paul or Burnell want to last much longer they had better perform with some more excitement and try to win some new fans or they are going home in the next few weeks. Amber and Janelle should take notice too, especially Amber who seems extremely talented but has picked some incredibly boring songs to perform.

I will be curious to see what the results will be for the "11th tour member" vote between Aubrey Cleland and Charlie Askew. Whereas Aubrey is clearly a much better vocalist than Charlie, she also has been hit with "boring ballad disease" whereas Charlie is much more unpredictable and is definitely much more interesting (although sometimes in a very bad way!)