NBC singing competitors The Voice is gearing up for its twenty seventh season starting Monday, February third, with Adam Levine returning as a coach. However will the present’s subsequent champ develop into a chart-topping star?
To date, just one winner of The Voice, Season 1 victor Javier Colon, has reached the highest 20 of the Billboard Sizzling 100. Rival singing competitors American Idol, in the meantime, made superstars out of Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson, and Carrie Underwood in its first few seasons.
Winners of The Voice land Common Music Group recording contracts by means of the present, however previous champs instructed the New York Submit in 2021 that they felt unsupported as soon as the cameras stopped rolling.
“It was form of like, ’I obtained this report deal, however what do I do now?’” Alisan Porter stated. “When you win, they’re on to the subsequent season inside two months, and also you’re a has-been.”
Added Sawyer Fredericks: “All people thinks that the individual must be set. That’s not the case.”
Even Shelton and former Voice decide Adam Levine have referred to as out Common’s therapy of the winners. “Yr after 12 months … they win this report cope with Common, and so many instances, the ball’s been dropped,” Shelton stated on Leisure Tonight in 2020, per the Submit. Levine, for his half, instructed Howard Stern in 2015 that he and the opposite coaches do “a lot nice s—t for these singers, after which they go to a report label … that f—ks it up.”
By our calculations, solely the primary 13 of the present’s 22 winners to date have reached the Sizzling 100 — and normally, they’ve solely finished so throughout their time on The Voice. Listed here are these singers, their top-performing tracks, and people tracks’ peak positions on the chart.