Awesome / The Voice

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• In the Season Two finale, Team Blake's Jermaine Paul did a smooth performance of The Jackson 5 song, "I Want You Back", with other Season Two fan favorites Jamar Rogers, James Massone, and Pip.
• In Season 3's blind auditions, a contestant named VJ sang CeeLo's "Forget You" hoping to win him over. While no one turned around for the guy, it did inspire Cee Lo to sing the song with him. It could also be considered a Moment of Funny because of the way VJ sang it and Cee Lo accidentally singing the actual version of the song for a moment (which was censored of course).
• Also Season 3, Amanda Brown performing "Dream On" in the first round of the live playoffs. Holy shit can she wail that last part like Steven Tyler.
• In Season 3, Cassadee Pope's performance of Miranda Lambert's "Over You" turned into a Top 40 radio hit, the only time any song associated with the show has done that.
• Kelly Clarkson singing "Catch My Breath" with finalists Cassadee Pope and Terry McDermott.
• Kris Thomas with his falsetto singing COMPLETELY fool the male judges in season 4.
• There was skepticism to NBC playing Follow the Leader to American Idol years after the singing competition craze had died down, with CBS and ABC already having their own failures in that area. The Voice now beats Idol in weekly ratings by several million viewers.
• Taylor Swift showing up unexpectedly to help Michelle Chamuel rehearse "I Knew You Were Trouble". She just flew in because she heard that Michelle was singing her song.
• During the blind auditions for the first series of The Voice UK, Alys Williams was so nervous that her voice literally stopped in the middle of her song. The judges nevertheless applauded her for trying, gave her some friendly advice, and complemented her on what they were able to hear. She came back to audition for the second series, and this time, her performance of Mumford & Sons "The Cave" convinced all four of the coaches to push their buttons.
• This Battle Round competition between Mitchell Thompson and Fatai V on The Voice Australia. Their duet rendition of Rhianna's "Love the Way You Lie (Part II)".
• Every winner has at least one moment.
• Matthew Schuler's audition. He managed to turn all four chairs within seconds of singing. And while many people cried foul, he managed to prove that he deserved that response.
• During the first season of the Australian series, Karise Eden's powerful audition (singing "It's a Man's World") not only got all four chairs after the first line was done, all four chairs turned simultaneously. The coaches then stood in their chairs, slack-jawed in awe of the raw talent pouring out of Eden's voice. One television critic said that, in the first four seconds of her audition, Karise Eden won the competition that year.
  • The very next year, auditioner Imogen Brough caused all four coaches chairs to turn simultaneously when she hit the crescendo of "Never Let Me Go".
• Second season of the Australian series, Tim Moxey auditions with Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is". As he approaches the crescendo, coach Joel Madden says, "He'd better hit that note." When he not only hits it, but rides the wave crest all the way in, the crowd goes wild.
• Team Adam was near unstoppable in Season 5. Outside of the first round of the play-offs, Adam didn't lose a member until the semifinals where Christina's Jacquie Lee managed to get one of the three slots. The powerhouse trio of reggae goddess Tessanne Chin, eighties throwback rocker James Wolpert, and the genre-hopping Will Champlin maintained the longest streak of no eliminations since Team Blake in Season 3. Speaking of Blake, they receive credit for ending Blake's winning streak (his final contestant, bearded folk singer Cole Vosbury, was eliminated in the semifinals).
• Team Christina's season 5 medley of Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson songs. Carson and Adam both agreed it was the best team performance in the show's history.
• Out of Team Usher's original 12 in season 6, ten of them survived the first round of battles, either by means of wins or steals. Pharrell managed to pull the same stunt in season 8 and Alicia in season 11.
• Kat Perkins is officially the first contestant to survive more than a week after being Instant Saved... by being Instant Saved (beating out four four-chair artists over two weeks for the save!). Still, it has to start somewhere.
• Ruth Brown's triumphant 17-second note that got her on Team Tom and earned a standing ovation from the audience.
• One must pay tribute to one of the first people to ever get four chairs, and the first winner of The Voice, Javier Colon. Even though he's had virtually no commercial success, he's still incredibly talented, and he's still regarded as having one of the best auditions ever.
• Chris Jamison was the recipient of the Instant Save in Season 7 during week 4 of the live shows. The week after? He was the only artist to get BOTH of his performances in the top 10 of iTunes. Now that is what you call a comeback.
• Craig Wayne Boyd being stolen twice, outlasting both of his opponents, beating out all three of Adam's finalists and winning the whole thing.
• In the French version, Kendji Girac proudly sings Ma Philosophie and changes the lyrics to "Je suis gitan mais pas martyr" ("I am a gypsy but not a martyr"), earning a cheer from the crowd.
  • Kendji winning out of the four finalists with 51% of the votes would also probably count.
• In the Italian version, a Catholic nun auditions with an Alicia Keys song that meets an immediate standing ovation and gets two of the coaches to turn around. Their reactions are priceless, one of them even moved to tears by the end of the performance. They even convince the other coaches to turn their chairs as well.
  • The nun ended up being the winner of the season. Pretty badass.
• Hannah Kirby performing "We Don't Need Another Hero" from Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. The child dancers really sell it.
• Seven of Season 9's Top 10 artists (and eight of the Top 9) reaching the Top 10 on iTunes.
• The Cambodian version has a young teenaged singer who's soulful rendition of Celine Dion's "The Power of Love" convinces all of the judges to support her within twenty seconds of her first note. The official video also amasses over 2,000,000 views within a month.
• In the (original) Dutch version in 2014, we had one of the first non-solo/duo artists in the franchise to enter the competition, sister trio O'G3NE, who also went on to become the very first trio/group act in any version of The Voice to actually win the show!
  • They ended up representing the Netherlands in the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest, where they placed 11th in the finals. Pretty amazing for a Voice alum!
• Season 10 being the first season since the elimination of team quotas with all four coaches represented in the finale.
• Aaron Gibson getting saved three times.
• Chris Blue being the final person to audition for season 12… and going on to win the whole thing.
• Matt Johnson auditioning for every season before finally nabbing the last spot in season 15.
• From the UK edition: After a little coaxing from the other judges and the crowd, Sir Tom gives in and proves he can still belt out "It's Not Unusual" at 78 years old.

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