American Idol 8 – Group 1 Results

The 3 from Group 1 advancing to the Top 12:

Alexis Grace, Michael Sarver, Danny Gokey

So here we are patiently awaiting the results – the three that will advance are the guy and girl who got the most votes and then the next highest vote getter… So as usual we get the regular banter from Ryan…

This is new – we get group one performing together… I don’t know if its me but the sound falls flat. The guys sounded better than the girls and OMG is Tatiana such a diva!

Ryan called last night’s show – very raw – you can say that again! Jackie, Ricky and Michael are grouped as the way the night had started out strong with them. Stevie, Casey, Stephan and Brent are put together as the group that cracked. Then Ryan goes to say that Tatiana turned the night around folloed by Anoop, and finished of with Alexis with gushing comments about her. Finally Danny Gokey – well he was amazing!!!!

Ryan did bring it up that Tatiana made a plea and she replies that she hopes they listened to her. And oh please she says she is humbled to be there.

• Casey is the first up – not in the top 12
• Stephen – not in Top 12
• Alexis – in the Top 12 and she gets to sing her song again!
• Rickey – not in the Top 12
• Jackie – not in the Top 12
• Anoop – not in the Top 12 (only 20,000 votes separated him from Michael!)
• Michael – going thru to the Top 12

Carly Smithson and Michael Johns appear to perform a duet together! They do sound great together… a fast shot of Simon and he looks so bored LOL

• Ann Marie – not in the Top 12
• Stevie – not in the Top 12
• Brent – not in the Top 12
• Tatiana – not in the Top 12 YAY!!!! And what a Diva and what a show she is putting on, as if she would faint right there…
• Danny – Top 12!!!!! – VIDEO
  

So the 3 that advance are: Alexis Grace, Michael Warner and Danny Gokey. So next week is Group 2… The only thing I am curious is how will the wild card work…

I got this from here on how the wild card will work:

But how will the singers in the wild card round be selected?  Warwick explained, “And then the viewers at home will put the top three through from those three weeks, which gives us nine, and we need a top twelve.  So then we’re having a wild card show, where three of the kids will be the fourth highest vote.  So from each week, you’ll get the top boy, the top girl and the next highest vote through.  And then when we get to the wild card show, the fourth from those three shows will go through and then the judges can add to it, anybody they like that they thought maybe they knew was better and was just off form.  Maybe they picked the wrong song.  Whatever reason they choose, they can make that fourth show up to probably about nine or ten people, I haven’t quite decided yet.  And then, they will decide who the final three will be.”

So hopefully the fourth highest vote from group 1 was Anoop and not Tatiana – I think so since Ryan said that only 20,000 votes separated Anoop from Michael. So hopefully we will see Anoop again in the wild card round…