American Idol 12 Hollywood Rounds – New Details!

By On 12/14/2012 · 108 Comments · In American Idol, American Idol 12, Haley Reinhart

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Straight from the Valley Performance Arts Center in Northridge, CA, here’s your latest American Idol 12 Hollywood Round update!

The guys finished their rounds Thursday with a solo performance with the band. The ranks were narrowed down from 43 guys who survived the group rounds, to 28.  Those boys will be cut down to 20 on Sunday (They WON’T perform before this cut).

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There were a total of 16 groups that competed on Wednesday.

Correction: Here is a partial list of the 43 guys who competed in the Solo Rounds on Thursday

Adam Sanders
Johnny Keyser (Top 60 AI11)
Gabe Brown
Matheus Fernandes (Glee Project, Season 1)
Chris Watson
Mark LaDuke
WIll White
Peter  (guy wearing turbin)
Christian Lopez (cut today during narrowing down to 20-30 male contestants)
Cortez Shaw
David Leathers Jr. (Top 40 AI 12)
Devin Velez
Elijah Liu
Josh Holiday
Nate Tao
Nick Boddington
Paul Jolley
“Papa Peaches”
John Jada (female impersonator)
Bryant Tadeo
Curtis Finch Jr.
Devan Jones
Mathenee Treco
Charles Allen
Joel Wayman
Jimmy Smith

Watch for MAJOR DRAMZ from a group called Oz, featuring Adam Sanders, Frankie Ford, Charles Roach and Papa Peaches –

The girls arrived in Los Angeles yesterday, and will compete in a capella, group, and solo rounds. The Top 20 boys and the Top 20 girls will head to Vegas on Monday for the next phase of the competition.  There are 230 girls competing for a total of  347 hopefuls (Yes, there ARE more girls).

None of the 28 guys who remain are guys who perform with guitars.  Watch for a heavy dose of R&B and country.

On Thursay, Nicki Minaj was late. By the time she arrived, 12 contestants had already performed. Nicki has the potential to be the break-out judge. She has flair and isn’t afraid to be honest. Some of her critiques are Simon Cowell-esque. Oh, and Jimmy Iovine was in the house on Thursday for the solo rounds!

Here are contestants to keep an eye on. They had cameras following them around and had great critiques and audience response (also they survived Thursday’s round. 28 will be cut to 20 on Sunday)

1. Gabe Brown
2. Adam Sanders - Phenomenal vocals
3. Johnny Keyser
4. David Leathers – His vocal pitch has dropped quite a bit since last year.
5. Paul Jolley
6. Matheus Fernandes – He’s the little dude from The Glee Project season 1.  Matheus and Gabe Brown are roommates.

 

 

 
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  • Incipit

    It must be working for the majority. Because it’s majority of the viewers that decides the winner. 

    Well, no, they don’t, getaway. The majority of Votes decide the winner – the majority of viewers don’t even vote – and the majority of people who do vote don’t Power Vote. That’s the Idol voting system – which pithes everyone off because it doesn’t actually have to have anything to do with the majority of viewers.

    The assumption that it must be working runs into the fact that Idol is losing viewers, and so is every other TV show… and although there can be many  factors contributing to that – it’s not a fact the Bean Counters are likely ignoring.

    Of course no winner will please everyone – did someone say they would? Neither will every season, or every cast – but if enough people in the ad demographic Idol is chasing are displeased – there’s a problem. When TPTB have to adjust advertising fees downward and give credits – they bloody well notice that, even if the audience does not. And that already happened once.

    But I may as well just get some popcorn and sit back for this season and watch what happens next – since I’m not even making the question clear – *snerk* @ myself.

  • getaway1

    the majority of viewers don’t even vote – and the majority of people who do vote don’t Power Vote. That’s the Idol voting system

    That’s always been the voting system, even in seasons that supposedly showed more versatility. If the majority of the viewers don’t vote even vote, that’s their decision.  Like it’s just the right of the power voters to support their favorites.

  • girlygirltoo

    Idol is going into its 12th season. I can’t think of too many shows that have run that long that see their ratings go up (or that many shows that have run for 12 seasons, full stop). Viewer fatigue tends sets in after that many years on the air, no matter how interesting or strong a show may be. I don’t expect Idol to rebound in the ratings this season, although it could happen if some sort of huge buzz surrounds the show. But I do expect it to continue to get better ratings than XF and The Voice, and I think FOX will be happy with that, as long as the ratings don’t drop too drastically.

  • girlygirltoo

    The main reason I think Scotty have been more successful than Lee and Kris is that Interscope has been far more invested in promoting the winner and getting him songs that represent who he is as an artist than Sony was in the last few years it had this contract. As long as Interscope continues to do this, the winner will have a good chance to be commercially successful. If Interscope loses interest, then the winner will be in trouble.

  • blackberryharvest

    I also think Scotty was wildly popular during his season.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GIRFMNI2ELGND3HUAJV7KXZGUQ Bobo Arcjoe

    Scotty was the most popular dude all through his season out of the gate.

  • blackberryharvest

    I think it was because you said “I don’t think it will last beyond the coming season.” Its easy to misinterpret that I think.

  • Incipit

    I think it was because you said “I don’t think it will last beyond the coming season.” Its easy to misinterpret that I think.

    OK, blackberryharvest, I see where the confusion arose – my bad – I did not make myself clear enough – I was talking about TPTB ‘stay-in-your-lane’  approach lasting beyond the present three show arc –  not ‘Idol the Show’. 

    “Failure to Communicate”.

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