The Voice UK Cancels Tour

By On 06/18/2012 · 23 Comments · In The Voice UK

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The Voice UK Winner Leanne Mitchell and coach Tom Jones

The Voice UK winner, Leanne Mitchell won’t be belting out the big notes in front of live audiences any time soon. According to the Daily Mail, The Voice UK tour has been cancelled due to poor ticket sales.

“Unfortunately, The Voice UK Live has been cancelled due to lack of ticket sales – customers are advised to contact their point of purchase for ticket refunds,” said a spokesperson for the BBC, the network that airs The Voice in the UK.

Daily Mail pitches the Story as a Voice vs X Factor, with Simon Cowell winning this particular battle.  Although I’m not sure why–last year’s BGT tour was cancelled. This year, no tour is planned.  Although there was no US tour, Simon’s X Factor UK contestants did tour recently.

Britain’s Got Talent is the show that went head to head with the Voice this spring, losing the ratings battle early on. But just like the US version, once the gimmicky auditions were over, The Voice UK lost ratings momentum.  It went from 11 million viewers to less than 5 million by the semi final stage.

The Voice winner UK Leanne only got to number 45 on the iTunes chart.

Read more at The Daily Mail

 
  • Anonymous

    Hmmm, I’m sensing a pattern with the Voice brand.

  • Anonymous

    I’ve said it before, but it’s because it’s not just about “the voice”. It takes a lot to make a star these days. A great voice is just one part of it.

    Wish Leanne luck though. She does have a good voice. She just needs to learn when to do runs and when not to.

  • Anonymous

    They should just cancel The Voice IMO. The ratings are down from last season and it doesn’t produce any stars. It really only helps the judges. And even though the XF US hasn’t produced a star, it has with the UK version  (i.e One Direction, Leona Lewis).

  • Anonymous

    The Voice of Holland’s Ben Saunders was the only one to be a decent success so far in all of The Voice franchises. And obviously the Holland version is the original. By the looks of his charting singles lately, even he’s finding it tough.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Saunders_%28singer%29#Discography

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/XDQP2Y46M5B3OHOKALDDGDHQCM Leandro

    The team format has to be more free to allow more live shows, just like X-Factor. With only 4 or 5 live shows, there’s no way these people are gonna build big fanbases, no matter how wonderful the contestants are.

  • Anonymous

    I want to know when the whole “reality singing talent show stigma” started. Is it when album sales for the winners weren’t doing so well as it was in the past? Or is it because TV is over-saturated with those shows and they are just not relevant anymore?

  • Anonymous

     I think most of these shows are just looking in the wrong places, tbh.
     
    Javier and Jermaine Paul don’t look even remotely like anything in the charts, and I mean that in a bad way. They’re both very early 90s. Leanne was compared to Adele on Voice UK, but I’d disagree as Adele knows when to turn on belt mode and when to go soft.
     
    I could do a whole list of many contestants from all three brands that were always doomed to fail just because they’re not current at all. If these shows want to produce stars, they need to produce them for 2012, not 1992.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/XDQP2Y46M5B3OHOKALDDGDHQCM Leandro

    Proportionally, I think X-Factor UK produces even more stars than American Idol. Even their trainwrecks, like Jedward, who were worse than Sanjaya, sold multi-platinum albums. 

  • Anonymous

     I think The Voice Australia is also doing well, isn’t it? Its winner, Karise, was at #1 on australian itunes chart.

  • Anonymous

    I hope ‘they’ do not take your advice and cancel “The Voice”.  I enjoy it tremendously.  The ratings are not my concern…nor is the lack of a star grad.  It’s just a contest with variable singing and interesting gimmicks, and it’s fun to watch the race…something like Ninja tonight!

  • Anonymous

     Ah, yeah, Voice Aussie slipped my mind. It’s definitely the most successful Voice outside of the original. Had great ratings all season long.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/XDQP2Y46M5B3OHOKALDDGDHQCM Leandro

    I don’t think you need to be like someone who’s charting. Unless you’re country, it could be even interpreted badly, since you can be seem as a cheap copy. Imagine if Katrina had won The Voice? Wouldn’t she be compared with Adele and probably fail? You need to be “somehow fresh” and maybe be as someone who’s charting can help. That’s why they tried to push hard Lindsey Pavao and Juliet Simms, who aren’t exactly what’s charting but can bring something “fresh”.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/XY62PETGTXO3FFQXX45UKQ2O7M Steph

    This is not surprising but I still say that Leanne can sing circles around all of Idol’s S11 girls. Too bad they styled her like a poor man’s Adele.

  • Anonymous

    From what I understand, the ratings for this show were pretty bad, so I’m not surprised by this news. To be honest, they should have canceled the tour they did after the 1st season of the US version of “The Voice”, because the attendance at those shows was atrocious — they probably lost money on that tour. And I haven’t heard anything about a tour for the 2nd season US Voice contestants .

  • chessguy99

    As I see it, The Voice contestants aren’t all that appealing to the under 25 crowd, the ones who really fill up the venues. 

  • Anonymous

    Well, I just mean I don’t think the whole straight up R&B male is back in style yet.

  • Anonymous

    Here is The Voice Aussie winner. Much better than Leanne, IMO:
     
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pfiZA0UCkw

    The talent level was just better in Aussie than in the US and UK versions this year.

  • Listening

    I don’t think it’s fair to compare a show that’s been running for like 8 years to one that’s only been around for 1 year. 1D and Leona weren’t first year contestants they’re like 3rd and 7th. Though from the little bit i’ve picked up on X-factor uk didn’t the first season winner whom I don’t know fair well on the singles charts so in that case the voice lost out comparatively.

    Javier bombed in the us I suspect Jermaine will too. Has any of the voice contestants in any country done well where they’re from. If it’s the case that no Voice winner or even contestant has done well then it’s got to be the format that’s faulty.

    Oh and in regards to the US I think Simon has done Melanie a disservice by not getting her music out. She’s won and done nothing. How can X-factor US get any music cred w/ a winner whose done nothing. Also I think the interest in her will of died down by now. We never really got to know her and now a new crop of talent is coming up, will anyone care about her.

  • mitchellvii

    And meanwhile Vince Kidd’s Concert Tour is COMPLETELY SOLD OUT.  Vince should have won -  not come in 4th.  Really edgy cool people can never win these talent shows.

    I feel sorry for this girl.  How sad to win a big show like that then sell no tickets.

  • http://twitter.com/facenfield David Facenfield

    It’s the top 8 contestants you feel most sorry for.

    I agree with the comments from several posters that the fact there are few live shows means it’s difficult to form a connection with the audience and build a fan base.

    Can only speak for the UK, but think the reason that the economy will also be a factor in the whether these tours do/don’t sell tickets.

    What we also don’t get over here is a tally on number of votes (on AI you often get RyRy advising how many 10s of millions of votes were cast), so I would wonder with likes BGT, if they know voting numbers were much lower than previous years, then ticket sales for tours are likely to also be low – hence no tour (economy plus low vote numbers etc…).

    I wonder if this is also true for the Voice UK?

  • http://twitter.com/ladymctech ladymctech

    TheGreatXL, very good points. But, here’s the thing. I am in the baby boomer generation and sometimes like to find artists who are new but who do the kind of music I grew up with. I don’t necessarily want to buy music that the many of the “current” artists put out because, well, I just don’t like it. I know people in my generation who feel the same way. But I guess there aren’t enough of us willing to give the newer artists/older styles a chance? I don’t know, it’s very frustrating.

  • Anonymous

    But sadly, your generation just doesn’t buy music in droves like the younger generations. At least not in this current market.

     
    I understand from a personal stand point what you mean. But from a business stand point, It’s just smarter to cater to audiences where the money is.

  • hcpoirot

    The rating for The VOICE UK is very good considering this is their first season.

    But they start with 11 million viewers and then down to around 5 millions viewers. But 5 million viewers is very good in UK.

    Because UK population are only over 60 million people. And US had over 310 million people.

    So the 5 millions viewers in UK is like 30 million viewers in US.

    But yes, even the UK of The Voice version had to tweak the VOice to hold on their rating for second season.