The Voice 5 – Live Playoffs Part 1 – iTunes and Poll Rankings – Who is Going Home?

The Voice - Season 5

Here are the iTunes rankings as of 11 ET. The chart placement is a little different than the iTunes site. I’m using the RSS feed, which tends to be updated more often.

#5 – James Wolpert – Team Adam – A Case of You
#27 – Tessanne Chin – Team Adam – Many Rivers to Cross
#31 – Will Champlin – Team Adam – Secrets
#35 – Austin Jenckes – Team Blake – She Talks to Angels
#38 – Ray Boudreaux – Team Blake – Home
#39 – Cole Vosbury – Team Blake – Maggie May
#82 – Preston Pohl – Team Adam – Nothin’ On You
#111 – Nic Hawk – Team Blake – Blurred Lines
#119 – Shelbie Z – Fancy

Grey’s “Still Into You” is outside of the Top 300.

Really surprised by the popularity of James “A Case of You”–probably because I’m a Joni Mitchell stan and familiar with the original and the many covers to come along over the years. James rendition was nice, but not great by comparison. But considering that James has introduced this wonderful song to many new ears–maybe it’s not so surprising.

James was the only contestant to hit the iTunes Top 10. His iTunes votes will be multiplied by 5. He’s so so so safe this week.

There’s a big gap until Tessanne’s beautiful and powerful “Many Rivers to Cross.” But will she be safe, with Will Champlin right behind her at #31? Preston Pohl is at the bottom of the iTunes pack, but do those votes necessarily correlate to phone, text and web votes. Adam’s team is extremely hard to predict right now. He may be faced with Sophie’s choice-like decision on Thursday

Definitely going home from Team Adam: Grey. She needed a grand slam last night in order to compete in Adam’s talent-stuffed team. She was only mediocre, and her iTunes ranking reflects that. Adam is NOT going to save her.

On Team Blake: Unless Nic Hawk’s army of 13 year old girls come through for him, he’s probably going home too. And maybe Shelbie Z who performed first. I can’t imagine Blake sending any one of Cole, Ray or Austin home, unless he can’t bear to part with the only country and female singer on his team.

How did YOU vote? As of 12 pm et, OUR poll looks like this (percentages rounded):

Team Adam:

1. Tessanne Chin – 32%
2. James Wolpert – 30%
3. Will Champlin – 26%
4. Grey – 7%
5. Preston Pohl – 6%

Team Blake

1. Ray Boudreaux – 37%
2. Cole Vosbury – 25%
3. Shelbie Z – 17%
4. Austin Jenkes – 11%
5. Nic Hawk – 9%

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