The Voice US Season 23 Episode 16 Description
Top 8 – Semifinals
For the first time this season, the Top 8 will perform live on Monday. The viewers will vote in real time to advance their favorite artists to the finale next week. There will be no instant save performances; instead, the public will vote to advance five artists to the finale, eliminating the remaining three from the competition.
This is the first time in Voice history that both first-time coaches have an artist in the finale. With the advancements of Sorelle and Gina Miles, Chance the Rapper and Niall Horan became the seventh and eighth new coach to bring their team to the finale, the first being Usher (Michelle Chamuel in season 4), the second being Alicia Keys (Wé McDonald in season 11), the third being Kelly Clarkson (Brynn Cartelli in season 14), the fourth being John Legend (Maelyn Jarmon in season 16), the fifth being Nick Jonas (Thunderstorm Artis in season 18), and the sixth being Camila Cabello (Morgan Myles in season 22).
This was the first time since the twentieth season that all four coaches were represented in the finale.
| Episode | Coach | Order | Artist | Song | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Episode 16 | Niall Horan | 1 | Ryley Tate Wilson | “Vienna” | Eliminated |
| Chance the Rapper | 2 | Ray Uriel | “Can You Stand the Rain” | Eliminated | |
| Kelly Clarkson | 3 | Holly Brand | “Rumor Has It” | Eliminated | |
| Blake Shelton | 4 | NOIVAS | “Skyfall” | Public’s vote | |
| Niall Horan | 5 | Gina Miles | “All I Want” | Public’s vote | |
| Chance the Rapper | 6 | Sorelle | “Fallin'” | Public’s vote | |
| Kelly Clarkson | 7 | D.Smooth | “Thinking Out Loud” | Public’s vote | |
| Blake Shelton | 8 | Grace West | “‘Til I Can Make It on My Own” | Public’s vote |
| Order | Performers | Song |
|---|---|---|
| 16.1 | Niall Horan | “Meltdown” |
| 16.2 | Chance the Rapper (with Kala Banham, Manasseh Samone, and Jamar Langley) | “Same Drugs” |
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The Voice US Show Summary
The Voice is an American singing reality competition television series broadcast on NBC. It premiered during the spring television cycle on April 26, 2011. Based on the original The Voice of Holland and part of The Voice franchise, it has aired twenty-one seasons and aims to find unsigned singing talent (solo or duets, professional and amateur) contested by aspiring singers, age 13 or over, drawn from public auditions.
The winner is determined by television viewers voting by telephone, internet, SMS text, and iTunes Store purchases of the audio-recorded artists’ vocal performances. They receive US$100,000 and a record deal with Universal Music Group for winning the competition. The winners of the twenty-one seasons have been: Javier Colon, Jermaine Paul, Cassadee Pope, Danielle Bradbery, Tessanne Chin, Josh Kaufman, Craig Wayne Boyd, Sawyer Fredericks, Jordan Smith, Alisan Porter, Sundance Head, Chris Blue, Chloe Kohanski, Brynn Cartelli, Chevel Shepherd, Maelyn Jarmon, Jake Hoot, Todd Tilghman, Carter Rubin, Cam Anthony, and Girl Named Tom.
The series employs a panel of four coaches who critique the artists’ performances and guide their teams of selected artists through the remainder of the season. They also compete to ensure that their act wins the competition, thus making them the winning coach. The original panel featured Christina Aguilera, CeeLo Green, Adam Levine, and Blake Shelton; the panel for the upcoming twenty-second season will feature Shelton, Gwen Stefani, John Legend and Camila Cabello. Other coaches from previous seasons include Shakira, Usher, Pharrell Williams, Miley Cyrus, Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson, Kelly Clarkson, Nick Jonas, and Ariana Grande. In the fifteenth season, Kelsea Ballerini was featured as an off-screen fifth coach for “Comeback Stage” contestants. Bebe Rexha took over as the “Comeback Stage” coach for the sixteenth season.
