Down to Six Contestants and my Latest Facebbok Fan Graph

 Now that "Idols Gives Back" is over I thought it was time for my next graph! I am still tracking Andrew and Katie (along with the recently departed Tim) just because I can . When Ryan said the show was going to run late, I did not imagine it would be THAT late, but it seemed mean to not let Tim sing a final farewell song. He kept on smiling though, since that is what he does best. Looking at the numbers from early Tuesday to today, Tim actually was still gaining fans well, adding almost 2,000 in that time (from 19,424 to 21,351). He was still gaining the third highest number of new fans, behind only Lee (gaining about 3,000 going from 34,052 to 37,118) and Crystal Bowersox, of course, who tacked on nearly 7,000 new Facebook fans in two days (from 66,252 to 73,174). Crystal gained more new fans in the past two days than Big Mike Lynch has in total. I noticed some of the other contestants have pretty much stopped gaining many new fans which does not look good for them if Lee keeps increasing steadily and Crystal adds new fans by leaps and bounds. For example, the now departed Andrew and Katie added 300-400 new fans, and Aaron and Casey each only gained about 500. Siobhan did gain almost 900 (from 22,435 to 23,315) but Mike only added 150 (from 6275 to 6425). Since Big Mike was not in the bottom three, however, I am just guessing his fan base is not populated by a lot of Facebook users! I was a bit surprised by Casey being in the bottom three since I thought he had a ton of fans, but then again so did Andrew.

Since I love numbers I also investigated the final web rankings on WhatNotToSing, where the rankings this week actually perfectly selected the bottom three and Tim's elimination as well. Crystal scored another very high ranking of 90 this week, which means after only 9 performances Bowersox has scored 8 "five star" ratings. In terms of five star performances, Mamasox is already in third place on WhatNotToSing's list of top contestants of all time which is pretty staggering. Her average web ranking of 84.1 puts her number 1 of all contestants and she has never scored below four stars (her lowest score is a 78). I will be curious to see if she can continue this impressive streak for her remaining time on Idol, which hopefully will be until the finale, but with the voting patterns of America, you never know for sure.