Checking the Overnight Statistics!

It is always amazing to see what numbers are coming out of DialIdol after each performance. You can definitely see whose fans are using their PC modems to mass vote the system. If you check the raw vote numbers for last night, for example, Siobhan Magnus actually received more votes than Crystal Bowersox (18K to about 16K), despite her not so stellar performance. Even more amazingly Tim Urban received almost as many votes as Lee Dewyze (both around 10,000 votes.) In terms of their performance Tim was not even close to performing at Lee's level. I sure hope that does not mean that Tim is staying around yet another week. In terms of total votes on DialIdol the lowest voted contestant was Big Mike with about 5,000 votes, who was definitely not the worst performance of the evening (although I do not personally like his singing as much as the judges do). How on earth did Tim receive twice as many votes as Big Mike? Is VoteForTheWorst that powerful? I even just checked USA Today's Idol Meter, and was surprised to see who they put up on top -- Big Mike tied with Lee Dewyze! Somehow he ended up with the same score as Lee and above Crystal. Go figure.

Next checking WhatNotToSing, their ratings has Lee on top as expected with a score of 89 with Crystal right behind him with an 81. One of my biggest surprises there are how much Siobhan fell so that her rating last night was a 28, the same as Didi and much lower than Katie at 44. On the other side is Andrew who was rated at a 65, almost as high as Casey with a 70. Just because Andrew was a lot better last night than he had been in the previous two weeks does not place him in the same league as Casey. At least he did not end up near Lee or Crystal which would have just been crazy.