Chris' hometown figured out streaming, but if you look at the country streaming statistics overall, they're terrible. And I mean that for all country artists not named Luke Combs. It's just not how country fans generally listen to music.
Going first of four was a massive disadvantage :shrug: It's why Adam always did better in the twitter IS.
That said, my guess is Blake is surprised. and no, they haven't found the app yet. Not surprising, they also haven't found streaming.
Blake picked contestant who didn't do well last night, but has previously: IDF Blake trash. Gwen picks artist who had best performance, over artist who did well previously: IDF Gwen trash
(Kelly I got nothing, it was a trash pick)
This is also accurate, but Blake has saved artists before who ended up making top 4. Top 2 on Blake's team is hard. Otoh, Gracee was his save. Blake might have just thought it was a bad performance by Cali
I think people on this board tend to underestimate the nerves of the first lives shows + first in-ear performance. Plenty of artists have turned in terrible performances at their first live tv shows, who later have turned in excellent performances