The competition on the reality television show, The Voice has reached a fever pitch after Miley Cyrus, Adam Levin, Blake Shelton, and Alicia Keys cut short their teams while the Knock out rounds were in session.
Miley Cyrus decided to show the doors to the exit, to Lauren Diaz, who was Team Alicia’s original recruit. In her place, she thought it was best to keep Ali Caldwell. Miley was persuaded to take this decision after Caldwell sang No Ordinary Love, on the first knock outs, which aired Monday.
On the other hand, the Wrecking Ball singer, Miley, stole Belle Jewel. Belle lost her spot, on Team Alicia to Christian Cuevas, who won hearts by singing an emotional rendition of the song Superstar.
In a similar fashion, Adam Levin stole Josh Gallagher, who belonged to Team Blake. He also decided to keep Simone Gundy, who performed Midnight Train to Georgia. Apart from her some of the other names that are on Team Adam are Riley Elmore and Billy Gilman.
Riley ensured himself the position on the team by singing Haven’t Met You Yet, in his unique voice. While Billy Gilman swayed the audience and the judges to the tune of Fight Song.
Alicia Keys, parted with the sister-duo Whitney and Shannon, in exchange for Kylie Rothfield, who won her over by singing Hound Dog. For impressing The Voice coaches by singing her take on the song No More Drama, Alicia, the No One hit maker, chose to keep Wé McDonald instead of Courtnie Ramirez.
Finally, Shelton Blake’s team contested a single face off, where Sundance Head performed an innovative rendition of Miley Cyrus’s The Climb. Blake also went on to steal Team Adam’s Jason Warrior, originally under Alicia’s team. Also in his team, he kept Courtney Harrell, who sang River Deep- Mountain High.
So, at the end of this week, the composition of the teams remains as such. Team Miley consists of Ali Caldwell and Belle Jewel who was stolen. Then on Team Adam are Simone Gundy, Billy Gilman, and Riley Elmore. While, the new addition to the team is Josh Gallagher, who was stolen.
The contenders comprising of Alicia’s Team are Kylie Rothfield, Christian Cuevas andWé McDonald. While, Team Blake boasts the occupancy of names like Sundance Head, Courtney Harrell and last, but not the least Jason Warrior.
Only twenty artists will proceed forward to The Voice Live Shows. Faith Hill and Tim McGraw paired up as partner mentors with the contestants in the Knockouts. The Voice airs every Monday and Tuesday nights in the United States. It is also one on NBC’S top-rated singing reality shows.
As The Voice 2016 continued this October 24th on NBC. We got to witness the first six Knockout Round match-ups, featuring participants representing all four super star mentors. Here is a glimpse at how their individual covers ranked on the iTunes chart when the broadcast began on the west coast.
‘The Voice’ 2016: Knockout Round iTunes rankings
Even though the iTunes vote multipliers won’t matter much to the survival of the contestants until the live shows begin. Still, they could be the early indicators and yardsticks that point towards how the performers will do with music downloaders.
The ranking of the covers on October the 24th stood in the following manner.
Sundance Head stood at number Eighty-One with his song The climb. On the other hand, Wé McDonald came at number One Hundred and Twenty-Six with the song No More Drama. My Maria by Josh Gallagher stood at number Two Hundred Forty-Six.