The remaining 4 Artists will now prepare to perform in The Voice Grand Finale Sunday 10 July 2016 at 7:00pm on Channel Nine.
Team Delta
Alfie Arcuri
Adam Ladell
Team Jessie
Ellen Reed
Team Ronan
Tash Lockhart
Depends if her fans are also fans of the urban sound.
As I thought, the single only made it to 33 but the good news is that Delta’s album has topped the chart this week. Worth noting again how the judges have more success on this show than the contestants ever do.
The Veronicas who were guest judges last week, have had their single rise to number 1.
http://www.ariacharts.com.au/charts/singles-chart
While Delta Goodrem has hit number 1 on the album chart.
http://www.ariacharts.com.au/charts/albums-chart
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Especially considering Ellie Drennan’s single dropped from no 41 to 68 in it’s second week.
ALFIE ARCURI CROWNED WINNER OF THE VOICE 2016
Alfie Arcuri, a 28-year-old architect from Sydney, is the winner of The Voice 2016.
Tonight Australia crowned Alfie over the other finalists – Ellen Reed, Adam Ladell and Tash Lockhart – to give his coach, Delta Goodrem, her first winner of The Voice in a nailbiting live decider that had everyone in the arena on the edge of their seats.
Alfie performed three songs throughout the night: Catapult, Beneath Your Beautiful, a duet with Delta Goodrem, and his winner’s single, Cruel, which brought the house down. Cruel will be available immediately on iTunes and all other download and streaming services from midnight, and his debut album is expected to be released on July 29 through Universal Music Australia. The pre-order for the album will be made available tonight on iTunes.
Delta Goodrem said: “Alfie was a very special artist from the start. He has a real gift and beautiful charisma which shines every time he sings,” Delta said. “I am so proud and honoured to have shared this journey with him as his coach on Team Delta and The Voice season five. I couldn’t be more proud that Australia has voted for Alfie. It’s been an incredible season, and I look forward to seeing Alfie develop as an artist who will always have my support.”
“We are very proud of all four finalists and delighted for Alfie. He was the very first artist we saw in the Blind Auditions and went all the way to win,” said John Walsh, Executive Producer, Channel Nine.
George Ash, President, Universal Music Asia Pacific, added: “We are thrilled to welcome Alfie Arcuri to the Universal Music family and are excited once again to be part of such a great season of The Voice here in Australia. We congratulate all the artists and coaches on a great year and look forward to working with Alfie on his new single and upcoming album.”
As the winner of The Voice, Alfie Arcuri receives the grand prize of $100,000 in cash, a new Mazda3 and a recording contract with Universal Music Australia.
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Meanwhile, The Daily Telegraph is as classy as ever and focuses on a nip slip. 
The Voice frees the nipple live on air when contestant has wardrobe malfunction
The Daily Telegraph
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Delta fans were delighted when Ellen and then Tash were eliminated, as it meant Delta would be guaranteed as the winning coach. It capped off a great weekend for her after Wings of the Wild debuted at #1 on ARIA charts.
Alfie’s debut single received mixed reactions on social media after release, according to TV Tonight.
Congrats to Alfie. Out of the final four he would be the most marketable one in the long run, but yes the song is rather ordinary.
Universal need to get more involved (not that I have any idea how involved they are) because the acts just don’t connect with the buying public. The winner’s single gets one performance and then released, there is not even a winner’s performance. Sadly the song has only made it to No. 42 on the iTunes chart whereas all the X Factors winners singles were No 1 by now. Even Good Charlotte and Fifth Harmony haven’t made it to the Top 10 with their performance songs either.
Continuing from the July 10 ratings thread. SydneyCityTV asked:
The biggest selling point of The Voice has been blind auditions and the battles. If the show is to be relaunched without either format (or both) it will be just like The X Factor. Also any change will require the approval of ITV Studios which now owns the franchise outside the Netherlands.
I do wonder how the show would have fared on Ten had it outbid Nine back in 2011 for the rights? Could it have generated huge ratings like it did on Nine in 2012? Had Ten’s bid been successful James Warburton would still be the network’s CEO today.
As if.
The Voice Australia 2016 finale ratings slump: Is Channel 9 losing its Voice?
Sydney Morning Herald
The Voice closes with lowest grand final audience ever
The Australian
Could this spell the end for The Voice? Show pulls in lowest finale audience EVER… but still beats MasterChef in ratings war
Daily Mail
Interesting headline comparison to Media Spy’s
Ratings: 1.5 million for The Voice final, lowest ever audience
The biggest downfall of The Voice is that none of the contestants seem to have any real level of success post the show, which is bizarre to me because often the guests who perform on the show then see an instant boost on the itunes charts. E.g. The Veronicas In My Blood debut was pretty weak on ARIA charts and then straight after The Voice performance went to #1 on itunes (where it has remained since). Even Delta’s performance last week saw Enough go into the top 10 and her album to #1. So it will be interesting to see where the winner lands.
Sadly it isn’t looking good for Alfie, His single has only made it no 23 so far on iTunes, as a bit of a guide, Ellie Drennan’s performance of Hard Love a couple of weeks ago made it as high as no 4 on iTunes but only got to no 41 on Aria for that week. There is a good chance that if nothing improves he won’t even make the ARIA top 50 which will bring even worse headlines for the show.
The news ended up being as bad as it could be as Cruel only managed to debut at no 89 this week. There are going to be some vicious headlines in the morning.
Yikes!
Meanwhile The Veronicas stayed at number one with their single and Delta just dropped to number two with her album.
It only sold 1458 copies which is horrendous considering the launch it received.
Comparing that to Cyrus with Stone last year which sold just under 17,000 copies in three days to Cruel’s four.
That is just embarrassing and makes you wonder why anyone would waste their time trying out for the show next year. The Voice just does not seem to really boost anyone’s career post show (Karise Edens minor success is a small exception). At least every X Factor winner had a hit after the show, and you still hear of names like Dami Im and Samantha Jade years on. The Voice audience is clearly much older and just do not listen to pop music. Delta still seems to manage to use the show as a good platform to launch new singles and albums (and it works) and guests seem to get a boost in sales. So it just shows the format of The Voice doesn’t work where this such limited time to get to know contestants enough.
ITV Studios Australia and Paul Franklin’s Eureka Productions will take over production of The Voice from 2017, ITV now having the ownership of the franchise after buying Talpa in March last year.