Who Is Left on the 2024 Season of American Idol?

Each season of American Idol comes with its justifiable share of shockers and brutal eliminations, which is a part of what makes the sequence so endlessly watchable. In 2024, Season 22 is right down to the ultimate seven contestants, which has left many questioning who stays within the competitors and who has been eradicated.

Followers after all like to root for his or her favorites, however additionally they wish to be outraged when the unsuitable particular person is shipped dwelling or when somebody stays longer than they most likely ought to. This is who’s left on the present as we head into the highest seven.

Headed into the highest eight, this yr’s contestants have been requested to compete within the Judges’ Track Contest when all three judges picked a track for every contestant to carry out. Katy Perry gained that little facet competitors, as extra contestants picked her track suggestion than anybody else’s. That victory gave Katy the facility to save lots of one of many two remaining contestants from elimination on the finish of the evening, which got here in helpful.

On the finish of the evening, six contestants have been voted into the following spherical and two have been liable to going dwelling.

Kaibrienne and McKenna Religion Breinholt have been on the backside, and Katy finally selected to save lots of McKenna, who carried out “In every single place I Go” by Lissie through the episode. That meant that it was the top of the street for Kaibrienne, whereas McKenna is certainly one of simply seven remaining contestants on the present.

This is the total record of who’s left within the competitors:

• Will Moseley, 23, from Hazlehurst, Ga.
• Jack Blocker, 25, from Dallas, Texas
• Abi Carter, 21, from Indio, Calif.
• Julia Gagnon, 21, from Cumberland, Maine
• Triston Harper, 15, from McIntosh, Ala.
• Emmy Russell, 25, from Nashville, Tenn.
• McKenna Religion Breinholt, 25, from Gilbert, Ariz.

Though a part of the purpose of American Idol is that folks get mad about who will get eradicated, there was a very acute controversy this season. Lots of the contestants of coloration have been despatched dwelling through the earlier rounds, forsaking a slate of contestants that’s tilted towards white folks.

After all, there’s solely a lot that the present itself can do to manage this state of affairs, largely as a result of it leaves who will get despatched dwelling as much as viewers at dwelling. Nonetheless, some folks suppose that the present wants extra mechanisms like Katy’s save which give the judges extra say as to who will get despatched dwelling, partially as a result of it is changing into more durable to belief viewers at dwelling to vote.

Now that we’re down to simply seven remaining contestants, it is onerous to say who may emerge victorious. Abi has been one of many frontrunners since early within the season, and her efficiency this week positively urged that she is not going wherever anytime quickly. Whether or not she finally wins or is supplanted by another person, solely time will inform.