[NEWS] THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER UNVEILS 2013'S REALITY TV HEAT LIST

The $10 Million+ Music Mentor Club

This story first appeared in the April 12 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. The specialized skill of judging talent is not one every megastar can manage, but for those who succeed, the pay is handsome. Just ask Simon Cowell, who pockets north of $35 million a year as judge and co-creator of The X Factor, or radio jock Howard Stern, who brings in a reported $15 million salary for America's Got Talent. It's a good gig for guys who, unlike the other club members, don't have music talent to fall back on.

Mariah Carey, American Idol The diva co-wrote/co-produced dozens of songs from a catalog of 60-plus singles. Album sales: 61.5 million Most recent hit song: Her 2011 collaboration with Justin Bieber on “All I Want for Christmas Is You (SuperFestive!)” Grammys: 5 Ratings impact: Since Carey joined Idol in season 12, the Fox show has seen an 18 percent drop in ratings.

Christina Aguilera, The Voice The former Mickey Mouser-turned-vocal powerhouse sat pretty for three seasons. Album sales: 50 million Most recent hit song: Pitbull’s “Feel This Moment,” featuring her, hit No. 8 in March on Billboard’s Hot 100. Grammys: 5 Ratings impact: Aguilera helped viewership jump in 2010, from 12.3 million in season one to 15.6 million in season two.

Adam Levine, The Voice He’s the full-time frontman for rock-pop band Maroon 5 and an actor/heartthrob. Album sales: 9.5 million Most recent hit song: The platinum-selling “Daylight,” released in November, is No. 12 on Billboard’s Hot 100. Grammys: 3 Ratings impact: One of two original coaches, he’s kept a loyal legion of viewers (even while touring!) and hosted SNL.

Source: THR

[NEWS] 'THE VOICE' TOPS MONDAY NIGHT'S RATINGS, UP 2% FROM LAST WEEK

NBC was number one with adults 18-49, while ABC won with total viewers.

On NBC,the final night of blind auditions on The Voice scored a 4.5 adults 18-49 rating, up 2% from last week's 4.4.

Source: TVByTheNumbers

[VIDEO] X FACTOR (AUSTRALIA) CONTESTANT PERFORMS 'BEAUTIFUL'

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Editor's Note:

I liked this version of 'Beautiful'. This girl's voice, tone, and understated approach to singing it was different and unique. I also liked her signature voice... can't say I've heard anyone that sounds similar. Hope you enjoy! Let us know what you think in the comments! - Joel

[NEWS] 'THE VOICE' TOPS TUESDAY NIGHT'S RATINGS, ADJUSTED UP, WINS DEMO

The Voice was adjusted up two tenths and Dancing with the Stars, Ben & Kate, and New Girl (both at 8 & 9) were adjusted up a single tenth among adults 18-49 versus the preliminary Tuesday broadcast ratings.
 

Source: TVByTheNumbers

[NEWS] 'THE VOICE' TOPS MONDAY NIGHT'S RATINGS, ADJUSTED UP

Our readers predicted that The Voice would be the highest-rated show of the night with adults 18-49, while I flipped a coin and went with 2 Broke Girls. Our readers > coin toss! The Voice drew a 4.2 adults 18-49 rating between 8-10p vs. the 3.7 adults 18-49 rating for 2 Broke Girls.


Source: TVByTheNumbers

[VIDEO] X FACTOR CONTESTANT PERFORMS 'ANOM' + BRITNEY MENTIONS XTINA IN TWEET

[SMART-PHONE FRIENDLY] As soon as the performance was over a Britney Spears fan took to twitter to tweet about the performance to Britney and in response she replied mentioning Christina Aguilera.

 Here is what she tweeted:

@reivallejo I was worried for this girl but she turned it around with a little help from my friend Xtina. Talented girl!
— Britney Spears (@britneyspears) September 20, 2012

[NEWS] 'THE VOICE' TOPS TUESDAY NIGHT'S RATINGS, CONTINUES TO CLIMB 13%

The really good news for NBC: The Voice is continuing its upward trend, rising 13 percent this week compared to last Tuesday’s performance. The one-hour Voice had 13.3 million viewers and a 4.5 rating among adults 18-49. After last week’s softer-than-hoped-for return of the music competition series, NBC has to be pretty thrilled that both Monday and Tuesday editions posted gains, gathering strength before next week’s deluge of premieres.

Source: EW

[NEWS] CARSON DALY SPEAKS OUT ABOUT 'THE VOICE' VS. 'X FACTOR' & SHUTS DOWN SIMON

If you’ve been keeping tabs on Simon Cowell lately, then you’re aware he’s none too pleased with The Voice.

The singing competition, hosted by 97.1 AMP/Los Angeles’ very own Carson Daly, decided to extend its premiere week to 3 days, which means it overlapped with last night’s premiere of the revamped X Factor.

Cowell has gone on an all-out media blitz to voice his frustration, telling TMZ, “This is a cynical, cold-hearted, unprofessional way of doing business…Britney’s not going to appreciate the fact that Christina, who has been a bit of a rival, isn’t allowing Britney to have a night of her own.”

For the most part, The Voice has chosen to stay out of the fray, but Carson felt the need to address the elephant in the room on his radio show Thursday morning.

“I wanted to watch X Factor last night. I think you can’t deny that there was some buzz on this show…I was very curious to see how my old friend Britney Spears was….what she was going to be like and when she speaks in full sentences, was it going to seem sort of medicated or was she going to spring a new personality that I haven’t seen?”

[NEWS] 'THE VOICE' TOPS MONDAY NIGHT'S RATINGS, CLIMBS 10% & SCORES BEST NUMBERS

On NBC, The Voice scored a 4.6 adults 18-49 rating, up 10% from a 4.2 for last week's premiere on Monday and scoring its best numbers since Monday, March 19, 2011.
Source: TVByTheNumbers

[NEWS] USHER & SHAKIRA SWAP PLACES WITH CEE LO GREEN & CHRISTINA AGUILERA FOR SEASON 4

The Voice is shaking up its judges panel.

The NBC reality hit has hired R&B singer Usher and Latin singer Shakira as “coaches” for the upcoming spring edition of the series. They’ll replace Cee Lo Green and Christina Aguilera, who are expected to return to the show next fall. The new additions are part of a plan by NBC and producers to develop an ongoing tent of talent for The Voice that can be mixed and matched as needed. Given the judges’ level of success and tour schedules, it’s difficult to have any of them appear on the show all season now that NBC has decided to run the series in the fall and spring.

“Having award-winning artists as coaches means they need to be able to tour,” said executive producer Mark Burnett. “Whether in the red chair or on tour, our coaches have their chairs for life. This is exactly why, after three seasons, we needed to allow them to rotate out so they can get on the road amongst their fans. Meanwhile, we’re incredibly excited to have singular artists like Usher and Shakira joining the fold.”

Aguilera is releasing a new album and going on tour. CeeLo is developing new music plus working on a scripted comedy series for NBC based on his life. Blake Shelton and Adam Levine will continue on The Voice this spring (and you make your own snarky assumptions about that). The Voice recently returned for its third season and though its ratings were down from previous seasons, it still managed to outshine the Britney-fueled second season premiere of Fox’s The X Factor.

[NEWS] HOW CHRISTINA AGUILERA CHANGED JUDGING OF REALITY TV MUSIC COMPETITIONS

Be a star, then you can judge.

Years from now, Christina Aguilera will be remembered for her glamour, her scandalous take on femme-pop and her Brobdingnagian voice. But she should also be remembered as the person who almost single-handedly reshaped music-competition reality programming. Her legacy as a judge on “The Voice,” on NBC, may well turn out to be deeper and more profound than the one she’s forged in her music career.

Securing Ms. Aguilera in 2011 was a coup for a show that needed to differentiate itself from Fox’s “American Idol,” which had just signed Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez as judges. But for all their fame, Mr. Tyler and Ms. Lopez were past their fertile period as hitmakers. Ms. Aguilera, though not quite in her prime, had been in the Billboard Top 10 as recently as 2008. Of the four mentor-judges of “The Voice,” she was the one most obviously slumming it on this television gig, even though she was coming off a bumpy professional period: a flop album, “Bionic”; an awkward and sloppy rendition of the national anthem at the 2011 Super Bowl; and an arrest on a charge of public intoxication.

But Ms. Aguilera was an undeniable contemporary pop star, and her presence elevated those around her: Blake Shelton, a country star largely unknown outside that world; Adam Levine, the frontman of a popular but ineffectual band, Maroon 5; and Cee Lo Green, accidentally, and briefly, a pop star as part of Gnarls Barkley.

Broadly speaking, it’s because of Ms. Aguilera that on Sunday, after weeks of speculation, it was announced that Nicki Minaj and Keith Urban, contemporary hitmakers both, would become part of the “Idol” judge panel. (They effectively replace Mr. Tyler and Ms. Lopez.) They join Mariah Carey, who signed on in July and is now the panel’s unlikely éminence grise, and Randy Jackson, the lone holdover from “Idol” 1.0.

Ms. Aguilera’s shadow also extends over “The X Factor,” the Fox competition that last week gave its new judge-mentor panel its debut: the two older male executives, L. A. Reid and Simon Cowell, remain from Season 1, but the two women, Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger, have been replaced by more current names: the former Disney star Demi Lovato and the former Aguilera nemesis Britney Spears. Ms. Spears had a No. 1 album last year, and Ms. Lovato has had two Top 20 singles in the last 14 months.

[NEWS] NBC'S 'THE VOICE' (THE BEST. HANDS. DOWN.) TOPS 'THE X FACTOR'

Metered Market Wednesday Ratings
Fox "Wins," but The Voice on NBC Beats The X Factor

Wednesday 9/12/12
Metered Market Results

Household
Rating/Share
Fox 6.7/11
NBC 6.0/.10
CBS 4.1/ 7
ABC 2.5/ 4
CW 0.6/ 1

Ratings Breakdown:

Fox led this second Wednesday in September care of the two-hour season-premiere of The X Factor, which scored a very respectable 6.7 rating/11 share in the overnights from 8-10 p.m. (peaking at a 7.5/12 at 9:30 p.m.). But compared to its year-ago series-opener (8.7/14 on Wednesday 9/21/11), this was down by 23 percent.

And a one-hour edition of competing The Voice on NBC (7.3/13 from 8-9 p.m.) bested the first hour of The X Factor (6.1/10) by 20 percent.

Given all the hoopla of Britney Spears and Demi Lovato joining the judges table, the initial sampling could of…and should of…been higher. Keep in mind, that the 8.7 in the overnights last year translated into 12.49 million viewers and a 4.4/12 among adults 18-49 (based on the Live Plus Same Day results).

At 9 p.m., The X Factor moved into the top spot, with a four percent advantage over America’s Got Talent on NBC (7.4/12 vs. 7.1/12, which was a season-high on the night for AGT). America’s Got Talent concludes with a two-hour installment tonight. As a benchmark, here are the half-hour results for The X Factor:

The X Factor (Fox)
8:00 p.m.: 5.8/10 (#2)
8:30 p.m.: 6.4/10 (#2)
9:00 p.m.: 7.2/11 (#2)
9:30 p.m.: 7.5/12 (#1)

Sorry, Simon Cowell…The Voice is a stronger option in the overnights. Stay tuned for the demos.

Source: TVMediaInsights

UPDATE: 'THE VOICE' BEATS 'THE X FACTOR' VIA: TVBYTHENUMBERS.COM:

FOX was the number 1 network with adults 18-49, but NBC won with total viewers.

Update: in time zone adjusted fast nationals (basically, finals) The X Factor was adjusted up to a 3.4 adults 18-49 rating between 8-10p.

On FOX, the premiere of The X Factor earned a 3.3 adults 18-49 rating, down considerably from last years premiere 4.4 18-49 rating. Your predictions were way too optimistic For those interested, during the common hour The X Factor and The Voice shared, The X Factor notched a 2.7, effectively giving The Voice the win for the 8PM hour.

On NBC, The Voice scored a 3.3 adults 18-49 rating, down seven tenths from yesterday's 4.0 18-49 rating.

Source: TVByTheNumbers

[NEWS] 'THE VOICE' RECAP: EVERYBODY LOVES CHRISTINA AGUILERA

The Voice's epic first week came to an end last night, and the clear winner - aside from the contestants who actually get to move on - is Christina Aguilera.

Following Monday's The Voice Season 3 premiere and Tuesday night's hour-long episode, Wednesday again saw Xtina clean up against her fellow coaches.

Maybe she's just that popular, despite not winning either season? Or getting more screen time early on to blunt the impact of Britney Spears on X Factor?

Whatever the reason, she is picking up aspiring singing stars left and right in Season 3.

The Voice blind auditions continue next week! Enjoy!

Read more at the source.

Source: THG
Credits: Chez

[VIDEO] BRITNEY SPEARS DEFENDS CHRISTINA AGUILERA AND SAYS THEY ARE 'GOOD FRIENDS'

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UPDATE: Here's a slightly extended cut of Simon Cowell's & Britney Spears' interview (with Extra) in which she further elaborates on her relationship with Christina Aguilera indicating that she (Britney) 'loves (Christina) to death':

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[NEWS] BILLBOARD: 'THE OPPOSITIONAL VOICE'

[NEWS] BRITNEY SPEARS' FANS ARE SCARED SENSELESS ABOUT CHRISTINA AGUILERA'S 'Q AND A'

A Britney Spears fan site is bawling about Christina Aguilera's live Q&A on Twitter which is set to take place SIX HOURS before their coveted 'X-tina Factor' premiere. I guess Simon Cowell wasn't the only one taking NBC's third installment of 'The Voice' personally...

Jordan Miller, the fan site's long-time founder is fuming because he and the rest of the Britney fanbase are intimidated by Christina Aguilera because they're convinced Christina will steal Britney's thunder after all.

'BRITNEY SHOULD FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE: Q&A 9/12'

One of the worst things in the world besides wide-spread hunger and war is pissing off Britney’s fanbase.

The Voice scheduled a new taping on September 12th, the day The X Factor premieres, and it’s caused quite the controversy. Now, Christina Aguilera is answering questions from fans on that day, as well as releasing her new single, “Your Body.”

She Tweeted:

Lets do a live Twitter Q&A next Wed. Send ?'s using #YourBody. Excited to chat w/ u! Details in photo so retweet!! twitter.com/TheRealXtina/s…
— Christina Aguilera (@TheRealXtina) September 6, 2012

Now it’s time for Team Britney to play up the fan-fueled rivalry and get Britney to answer some questions from fans around 2pm ET / 11am PT!

Who’s down? Is Britney?

Following suit, Jordan sounds just as pathetic and pressed as poor old Simon Cowell. Well, you know what they say, birds of a feather flock together.

Source: BreatheHeavy
Writing Credits: Joel Horton

[NEWS] SIMON COWELL TAKES BACK TRASH TALKING XTINA AND 'THE VOICE', CLAIMS HE WAS DRUNK

Exclusively brought to you by Aguilera Online!

Simon Cowell just did a live phone interview with TMZ about his nasty remarks regarding Christina Aguilera, NBC, and 'The Voice'.

When asked for clarification about his remarks that somehow Christina was behind NBC's third installment, Simon summed up that he was drunk when he issued his original statement.

"I may have had one or two beers before I said those things," Simon confessed.

How 'unprofessional'.

Credits: Joel Horton

[NEWS] CHRISTINA AGUILERA TO DELIVER KEYNOTE AT BILLBOARD/THR FILM & TV MUSIC CONFERENCE

Christina Aguilera will participate as a keynote speaker at the 2012 Billboard and Hollywood Reporter Film & TV Music Conference presented by First Entertainment Credit Union and being held at the W Hotel in Hollywood Oct. 24 and 25.

A five-time Grammy Award winner and one of the top-selling artists of all-time, Aguilera is in a unique position to discuss the connection between film, TV, and music. Her career started on television with "The Mickey Mouse Club," and today she is watched by millions every week as a coach on NBC's "The Voice." In this rare Q&A session, Aguilera will discuss her musical journey, her upcoming album, and of course the role television has played and continues to play in her life and career.

Besides Aguilera, Epic Records chairman and "X Factor" judge Antonio "L.A." Reid and composer Gustavo Santaolalla will deliver the two other keynote Q&As at the two-day conference that starts Oct. 24.

Now in its 11th year, this cutting-edge conference offers attendees the unique opportunity to learn from, network and expose their music directly to the industry's most influential executive and creative talents including award-winning composers and directors, key studio, network, record label and publishing professionals, VIPs from the advertising, gaming and commercial fields as well as the best music supervisors in the business.

"Music has always played an integral part in film and television and now with the ever-growing popularity of music competition shows, new doors are being opened for some of the biggest players in the industry" said Bill Werde, Billboard's editorial director. "Both Christina Aguilera and L.A. Reid's music careers have given them entrée into television, and we are thrilled to have them share their stories and perspectives on the impact of music."

Other conference highlights include a panel session titled Breaking Bad: Storytelling Through Music Supervision and Composing where the creator of the hit series on AMC, Vince Gilligan, will discuss the increasing importance of music on the show with composer Dave Porter and music supervisor Thomas Golubic.

Credits: Paddy
Source: Billboard

[VIDEO] THE CURRENT TREND OF SUPERSTAR JUDGES JOINING SINGING COMPETITIONS

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[NEWS] CHRISTINA AGUILERA HASN'T ANY TIME FOR CAT FIGHTS WITH ANY DIVAS

The legendary 'Genie In a Bottle' singer has been a success on the singing talent contest so far, and will be joining fellow judges Cee-Lo Green, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton for the show's third season.

Speaking to USA Today, Christina said that she is looking forward to "Welcom[ing] these very talented women."

She also took questions on the politics of working as a female singer in the pop industry, saying "You know this business, especially in my genre of pop, [people] pit us against one another and women against women and this and that."

"I'm not down for that. At this point in my life, I have no patience for it. So, I'm like, come in, the more the merrier."

Source: EntertainmentWise