American Idol Season 12 Top 10 - the Morning After DialIdol Numbers

Now that the voting is over for Top 10 night on American Idol, I could find the final tally for DialIdol votes for the contestants. Last week using DialIdol there were 15K votes cast for the ladies, and 12K votes cast for the gentlemen. This week there were about 19K total, with the vast majority being cast for female contestants. Last week Lazaro Arbos led all other contestants in total votes cast with over 3,400 votes cast, but this week he only received about 1,700. He is still the leading guy, but 4 gals beat him in total votes cast: Kree Harrison with about 3,700, Angie Miller with about 3,200, Candice Glover with over 2,200 and Janelle Arthur with over 1,800. Interestingly the only two contestants last night with any perceptible numbers of busy signals were Angie and Lazaro. Angie had 193, Lazaro had 128, Kree had 27 and Paul Jolley had 16. Everyone else had less than 10 busy signals. I think very few people are calling in votes with phones anymore. In fact we can compare those remaining contestants who received at least 10 busy signals last week and see how many they received this week:

The only contestants who saw an increase of busy signals were Lazaro (from 56 last week to 128 this week) and Kree (23 to 27.) Paul was actually very steady with 16 each week, but Devin fell from 48 to 5, Candice went from 14 to 5 and Curtis Finch went from 37 to 0 this week. From the busy signals, the only two folks we can determine this week are definitely safe are Angie and probably Lazaro. The call volume may be too low. Out of curiosity I checked last years number on their Top 11 week (the first week when the guys and gals were combined) and the total DialIdol raw votes cast were over 38,000 with 5 different contestants having more than 100 busy signals. That is a pretty significant drop.