The three grand finalists all posted on Instagram this afternoon.
Dylan:
Oh what a night! Feeling on top of the world today. From the bottom of my heart, thank you all so so much for your incredible support throughout my entire @australianidol journey, it has been absolutely overwhelming and I couldn’t have done it without you.
To my family and close friends, you guys are amazing. To Georgia and my two beautiful girls, this is for you. Let the next chapter begin
Amy:
And that’s a wrap!!
What an incredible journey it’s been, I’m so grateful to everyone that has supported me these last few months. Theres no way I could’ve gotten to the end of this without you. Huge congratulations to @dylanwrightmusic for taking this thing out!!! So bloody well deserved, you’re incredible and I can’t wait to see what you do next Dyl 🫶🏼 And to my girl Denny @denvah_music_ I’m so proud of you and everything you do, thank you for being so authentically DENVWAHHHH I’ve met some really incredible people during this time. Could not feel more blessed x
This isn’t the end, this is just the beginning
Stay tuned, and all my love
Amy from Broome xxx
Denvah:
Dear Dylan,
If I could sum up last night in one picture it would be this one. You did it, like I always knew you would and I am so astronomically proud of you. The most deserving and the most humble - go take over the world Dyl, I’ll be in the front row watching
Also need to consider that the national ratings number this year includes regional areas that weren’t included in ratings in the past so an exact year-on-year national comparison is difficult.
Probably because this show makes no sense in terms of current industry movements and music discovery. Especially if you are trying to fashion a ‘pop star’
Well 5 of the top 6 contestants were all from regional towns - so not surprising. I guess it’s one of the few shows where regional Australia has felt really well represented.
Never going to happen.
Yeah back in the day when both contestants sang the winners song before the finale, you kind of already knew it by the time they won. Hearing a short version after Dylan won just didn’t sound very good or memorable to me.
On the Good Friday Appeal, Ivana did another rendition of Rihanna’s Diamonds in the afternoon, and also caught up with a couple of top 30 contestants (it is on her Instagram), while Dylan was on the panel earlier tonight.
Although this season seemed more well perceived compared to last year (better judges, and some better singers in the top 12), it’s a shame that the Singles Sales aren’t that good.
Before the votes went to 10 person per person in the last two or so episodes, and the voting was unlimited, the judges said that “millions had voted” and “records keep on breakings”. If so… why didn’t these people buy the song?
People don’t buy songs anymore they would stream the song on Spotify or Apple Music. The winner’s song Paper Heart is not that great but it does have over 10k plays on YouTube Music, I prefer Spotify but it does not seem to provide me with that information easily. Angels Brought Me Here was far better and also something probably not helping things is there was no video clip either that I could find on YouTube only Dylan’s performance on the finale.
I’ve met some really incredible people during this time. Could not feel more blessed x
