"The Voice" is BIG Competition for "American Idol"

The Voice & American Idol
This weekend, I discovered an interesting article focusing on the stats from the new reality music series called “The Voice” versus the popular series “American Idol”. The Voice is similar to American Idol, but the show focuses more on the contestant’s voice rather than their appearance. In the beginning of the series the four judges, Cee-Lo Green, Christina Aguilera, Adam Levine, and Blake Sheldon were in competition to get the best singers on their team and have the teams compete in a series of “sing offs”. The judges’ chairs were turned away from the stage while the contestants sang. If one of the judges liked the contestant’s voice, they hit a button and the chair turned around meaning that the judge wants them on their team. If more than one judge turned around then the contestant had to choose what judge they wanted to work with.

Who Won the Billboard Chart Battle?
In my opinion this was a very nice twist on the traditional music reality shows and in this article, 'American Idol' Vs. 'The Voice': Who Won the Billboard Chart Battle, the numbers prove that many others feel the same. American Idol is running it’s 10th season and the winner this year was, Scott McCreery whose first week download sales were 171,00 for the song entitled, “I Love You This Big”. The runner up was Lauren Alaina and her song “Like My Mother Does”, had 121,000 downloads in the first week. Both of them combined had a total of 292,000 downloads. The winners of “The Voice”, was Javier Colon who had 145,000 downloads in the first week for the song, “Stitch by Stitch”. The runner up was Dia Frampton and her single, “Inventing Shadows”, was downloaded 137,000 times in the first week. So the combined total of downloads was 282,000. There was only a 10,000 difference between the two and this is amazing because this is only the first season the “The Show”. The judges on, “The Voice” outsold the judges on “Idol” when it came their released singles. Christina Aguilera and Blake Sheldon outsold Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler 352,000 to 277,000 with sales increases of (100+)%.

The Voice versus American Idol on TV Views
These numbers prove that people are definitely tuning into, “The Voice” but “American Idol” still dominates the new show with 26.2 million viewers vs. 13.3 million for “The Voice”. These statistics shows a shift in the way music is being sold today and reality music shows are gaining the numbers much faster than traditional trends.


http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/tv-film/american-idol-vs-the-voice-who-won-the-1005268192.story