American Idol Ratings: Lowest Performance Final Ever
TV Week is reporting that last night’s performance final was the lowest rated in the history of the show:
Tuesday nightà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“American Idolà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ was the seriesà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ lowest-rated final performance night ever.
Last nightà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s episode drew an 8.3 rating/24 share among adults 18-49, according to preliminary Nielsen Media Research figures. About 23.1 million viewers tuned in to see Adam Lambert and Kris Allen give their final performances before a winner is crowned tonight.
Compared with last yearà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s live-plus-same-day numbers, last nightà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Idolà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ dropped 18% in the demo and 15% in total viewers.
Week to week, à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Idolà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ posted a 4% increase, but that bump pales in comparison to the 12% weekly increase for the comparable episodes last year. In total viewers, this yearà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s final performance saw a 2% weekly increase, while last year there was a 9% increase.
Just for a fun comparison, let’s check out the performance final ratings for Seasons 5-7.
- Season 5 – 32 million viewers – 12.3 rating/24 share
- Season 6 – 25.3 million viewers – 9.7 rating/27 share
- Season 7 – 27.1 million viewers – 10.1 rating/28 share
There’s a caveat, last night’s numbers are preliminary. The final numbers are expected to reflect a bump in à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Idolà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢sà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ performance once the showà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s three-minute overrun into the 9 p.m. hour is taken into consideration, maxing out at an 8.4 or 8.5 rating in the demo.
Dancing with the Stars, on the other hand, drew 20.1 million viewers, holding onto its audience from last year.
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130 Responses to “American Idol Ratings: Lowest Performance Final Ever”
and i know plenty of folks that only have one tv (and some people that dont have cable….ahh, the horror!)
A public show is not only for AI fans\teenager\twentysomeà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦Ãƒ ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦,The extar number of audience is just for killing time to watch AI. They may even don’t know much about music nor fashion.
So, probably they just can’t bear Adam’s screech
So you said if America didn’t like Joanna they could have voted her out? Well they voted and they voted the first chance they got for Kris.
Nope, not me. I’ll take the David Cook trajectory any day over the ’sprang fully-formed star” like Adam, and the pimping that surrounded Adam and Gokey. Although I did enjoy Kris’ consistently good performances.
So much for the theory that Adam was here to save the franchise. And I’m quite sure that if the ratings had gone up, many of you would have credited Mr. Lambert.