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Why aren't any of the winners famous

posted 8 years ago by skane110-1
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I'm asking this as a person who does not watch this show but, I haven't ever watched American Idol either and I know the names of many of their winners, even the ones who who weren't very successful after the show like Taylor Hicks and Ruben Studdard. I even know of contestants who didn't win like Chris Daughtry and Clay Aiken, and I know of singers on that show that weren't very good like Sanjaya.

With "The Voice", I find it interesting that it's such a popular and highly rated show and yet I couldn't name a single contestant that's been on the show except for a girl whose last name was Martinez and she always had crazy hair, and of course Christina Grimmie after her very tragic death. The main reason why I am asking is because I know a few people who watch the show and I heard them talking about it without mentioning the names of any of the singers, they just used adjective words like "the really short cute blonde".

What happens after they win? Don't they get a recording contract? Shouldn't they record an album and start releasing music? I'm honestly wondering as an outsider looking in why it is that this show has been so successful but, hasn't created an actually famous singer yet. Why do you guys think that is?

[–] M_Exchange 8 years ago

You named Melanie Martinez. Yes.
Cassadee Pope is on the home screen of "Stage It" right now, and she isn't exactly unknown.
So..... I mean... wtf?

EDIT: I also want to add that Melanie didn't even win. She came in fourth place, mostly because she was so young. I have no doubt that if she had a couple of years of seasoning she would have beaten Cassadee Pope.
But anyway...

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[–] bwgood77 8 years ago

Being a hit artist isn't about singing ability only, it's about how good of songs you can write or have people write for you. There are hundreds of thousands of great singers. Until one great songwriter that has written a hit song decides to give a song to a Voice winner over an established star who can pay 10x or 100x more for the rights to that song, it won't happen.

The winner who will become popular will HAVE TO BE A GOOD SONGWRITER. Or have a coach vested SO much, they will purchase the song for them, and perhaps take a bit of the royalties. But that is also a risky proposition for the coach.

It's just unlikely to happen. At the heights of idol, there were 30 million or more people watching, and people loved those people and they had more writers attracted to them.

It's just oversaturated with these guys. I forget about the contestants from previous seasons to a large degree when the next season starts.