American Idol continues its winning ways:
“American Idol” was the night’s most-popular show and averaged 31 million viewers and a 12.9 rating/31 share in the adults 18-49 demographic, according to preliminary data released Wednesday by Nielsen Media Research.
Fox was in first place on the strength of Idol, which scored a 12.1/29 in the 9-10 slot.
Play along at home, kids. I’ll be keeping track of Idol season 6 ratings in yet another chart, which will be updated weekly and posted here. Coming soon: Season 5 and Season 4 ratings charts.
Last week’s “Best of The Rest” episode, while keeping Idol in first place, only attracted 27.9 million viewers vs. the 31-37 million viewers who tuned into the prior audition rounds.
Maybe that extra “Hollywood” episode would not have been such a bad idea after all.
ETA: I just finished the Season 5 chart. Compare and contrast!
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The “Best of the Rest” was the WORSE episode EVER!!!
And we can all watch the ratings go through the roof when we get that “surprise boot” right around final 4/5/6.
I love the ratings charts. Thanks for putting these together.
As always, thanks for the hard work, MJ.
A few thoughts.
1) Regarding the 2005 chart, I was curious about the Las Vegas audition (Taylor’s). Turned out, that was the lowest rated audition episode. I’m not surprised though. In my area (Cincinnati), that was postponed until Wed morning due to basketball game. I wonder how many cities had that episode postponed until a later time.
2) I think this was already mentioned, but both the Minneapolis and Seattle auditions had higher ratings than last year’s finale. Makes you wonder if this year’s finale will generate extraordinary ratings…even higher than the Super Bowl or Oscars (the two shows that rated higher than last year’s finale). However, this year’s Super Bowl had extraordinary ratings itself.