This week’s American Idol preliminary Nielsen ratings:
Tuesday’s ratings were down 3% from last week and 9% from Season 5 (28.4 million, 11.4/32):
“Idol” averaged 25.9 million viewers and a 9.9 rating/27 share in adults 18-49, outpacing anything else in the hour. It was down, however, week to week (26.8 million, 10.3/29).
Wednesday’s results show was down 1% from last week (28.6 million, 11.1/27) , but up 2% from the Season 5 Top 7 Results show. (27.6 million, 11.3/30) :
From 9 to 10 p.m., “American Idol” averaged a 10.9 rating/27 share in adults 18-49 and 28.2 million viewers overall, beating the next five highest-rated nets combined in most categories.
Ryan didn’t mention the vote totals during last year’s Top 7 Results show. This year, Ryan announced there were more than 38 million votes, up 9% from last week’s 35 million.
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Ryan did say that it was the “biggest top 7 vote in Idol history”. MJ, I took that as a personal shout-out to you and your stats showing voting has been down this year. LOL. Okay, probably not, but I thought it was an interesting way to phrase it.
I have a hard time believing that the ratings are down but voting is up. I realize that my own personal experience/anecdotal evidence does not a fact make, but I haven’t picked up the phone to vote once this year–last year was the only year I did so.
I’m voting way more than I did last season mostly because of my favorite only placing 4th. I now vote for Blake the whole 2 hrs and never split votes unlike last season when I assumed Chris was safe.
I haven’t voted at all this season, but will this coming week. I like the idea of causing various members of corporate America to cough up some cash. That’s my motivation though so I won’t be voting after this week. Wonder if there will be a drop after this week?