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  • Sonic Spring Singing Contest – Week 4

    The Sonic Clashers know their singers!

    Weepy Didi Benami was the far and away favorite to go home last week if you listen to our readers.   The teary-eyed blonde was named on 100% of all ballots cast for The Bottom Two last week.

    Do you know how hard it is to get 100% of people to agree on anything musical, much less picking a name out of multiple artists?  Here’s how hard:  we’ve polled Sonic Clash readers before and some have said The Beatles’ music was just all right, that there were better rock bands in the mid 1960s.  I wouldn’t be surprised to see only 97% agree that the name of our planet is Earth.

    So when Benami went buh-bye fast, I knew the judges wouldn’t even think of saving her.  Nicely done, Clashers!  And tw0-thirds of you added Tim Urban not-Cowboy to The Bottom Two so you really nailed the competition.

    The interesting thing:  of the 33% of you who picked someone other than Didi Benami or Tim Urban in The Bottom Two, no one picked Katie Stevens.   You watched the show “back”.  You know the teenager with the really low register was in the bottom three for the second straight week.

    Don’t forget to PLAY THIS WEEK’S SINGING CONTEST. Your answers MUST be in by the time the results show airs on the East Coast.  The deadline is not your local time, but when the show goes live.  And if you haven’t played yet, this is your last chance to pick The Final Three and The Winner before the point totals drop to their lowest value of 4 points each.

    Sonic Singing Contest Leaderboard

    MT is our overall leader with 7 points!

    Hea Jin is a close second with 6 points

    Yoel, Bridget and Cindy each have 4 points.

    And nipping at their heels are Shantel, Monica and Michelle each with 3 points.   And don’t forget Joe F and his point.  If he gets the Bottom Two and the person going home right this week, he wins 4 points and is right back in the race.

    You could be in the race for a $25 Amazon gift card too. PLAY THIS WEEK’S SINGING CONTEST and show us your judging talent!

  • Didi Benami’s Brokenhearted Night

    If Sonic Clashers got this one right, look for Tim Urban and Didi Benami to be swiveling in stools after Ryan Seacrest announces they’re in the bottom three.

    And look for the teary contestant (who evokes the name or memory of her freshman college roommate Rebecca Lear more than Danny mentioned his recently deceased wife last year) to go home tonight.

    The Sonic Clash Spring Singing Contest entries are in (but you still have until the results show begins airing on the East Coast tonight to enter this week’s contest).

    Every vote put Didi Benami in the bottom two.   More than half of the voters selected her to go home tonight.   Benami butchered Jimmy Ruffin’s What Becomes of the Brokenhearted last night and may have saved moptopped Tim Urban.   The boy who has nine lives was called out as tonight’s loser on all of the ballots that did not select Benami.

    This week’s biggest surprise?    As the competition tightens, the buzz around marginal contests is beginning to evaporate.   Aaron Kelly and Siobhan Magnus both received “bottom two” votes.  Magnus has all fallen from favor as the winning singer after front-runner Crystal Bowersox played against type last night by dressing up, playing the piano and singing Midnight Train to Georgia.

    Mamasox now has been selected as the contest winner by 50% of Sonic Clash voters.

  • Bieber-Mania Is Running Wild

    Just Bieber - My World 2.0
    Just Bieber – My World 2.0
    It isn’t terribly big news that Justin Bieber’s 2.0 version of his first album went number one this week on the album charts. It was pretty much expected that the youngster would reign supreme this week. What’s newsworthy is that the original version My World, which was released six months ago, shot up the charts as well and sits at number five.

    According to Rolling Stone’s online website, My World is now at its highest point ever on the album charts.

    In fact, Bieber was on such a roll, sales of My World are up 50 percent from the previous week as either hardcore fans or misinformed parents bought the two albums together. My World finished the week at Number Five, its highest point in 19 weeks on the charts, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

    Has this ever happened before? Has an artist who has released an updated version of an album which charted in the top ten, also had the original album chart in the top 10 at the same time? I don’t remember this happening before, but I could be wrong.

    It’s not like releasing second versions of an album happens often either. What about Lady Gaga? If anyone knows, shoot me a comment.