One more talented artist was eliminated on The Voice, with the top nine contestants advancing to next week’s live semifinals.
The singers gave their best performances yet on the November 30 episode of The Voice, but December 1 brought another tough elimination, as one more contestant was sent packing.
Eight of those semifinalists automatically advanced, and one was selected by the audience's instant Twitter save. Seven of the artists broke into the iTunes top 10 this week.
Coach Adam Levine helped kick off the night by performing his hit “Locked Away” with R. City, but it was immediately time to get into some results right after that.
Emily Ann Roberts from Team Blake, along with Adam’s Jordan Smith, were the first to be announced safe.
In the next round of results, host Carson Daly announced that Gwen Stefani’s Jeffery Austin and Team Blake’s Barrett Baber were advancing automatically to the semifinals.
Austin set the bar very high as the first performer, and Baber closed out the night with an equally moving and technically sound performance.
And it wasn’t long before they would learn the next two advancing! Pharrell was able to breath a MAJOR sigh of relief when it was revealed that his final contestant, Madi Davis, was voted back to perform next week, keeping him in the competition, and Adam was able to keep another artist, Amy Vachal, around for another go.
After Sia gave an enthralling performance of her newest single, “Alive,” Daly returned to the results. America voted to save Team Blake’s Zach Seabaugh, which meant all of Shelton’s remaining artists automatically advanced to the semifinals.
America also saved Team Adam’s Shelby Brown, whose emotional performance of “Go Rest High on That Mountain” by Vince Gill was her best performance of the season.
Unfortunately for Gwen, that meant two singers, Braiden Sunshine and Korin Bukowski, would have to sing for the Instant Save, and she’d automatically lose one.
While waiting for the results to come in, Stefani got emotional about having to lose one of her artists. Ultimately, America instantly saved Sunshine, and the vote finally didn’t go Bukowski’s way.