Blake Shelton has his dream team on The Voice this season: a final three loaded completely with country artists. BFTV recently caught up with one of those artists, Baylor marching band star Holly Tucker, to get to know her better.

"I always expected big things because I've seen the show on TV and it just looks larger than life," Holly said of her Voice experience so far. "That's exactly what I got and more."

Speaking of big things, America has watched Holly blow the doors off the Voice studio with her powerful performances of LeAnn Rimes' "How Do I Live" and Martina McBride's "Broken Wing...

You can't go one week without hearing a ridiculous story involving some of your favorite celebrities. Thankfully, the Starpulse Rumor Patrol is here to sort out what's real and what's fake.

Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Returning To The Voice? Are two of the original Voice judges returning to their big red seats? Shakira and Usher are departing... or are they?

Verdict: True, and Shakira and Usher are staying. In an interesting movie, The Voice is going into a rotation of judges for the next two seasons. Shakira and Usher are getting a break and will be focusing on family and music while C...

NBC has confirmed that "The Voice" is bringing back all four original judges - Christina Aguilera, CeeLo Green, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton - for its fifth season in the fall.

Shelton, Levine, Green and Aguilera were the coaches for the first three seasons. Season six will pair Levine and Shelton with Shakira and Usher, who are judges on the current fourth season.

Carson Daly will remain as the host.

Paul Telegdy, president of alternative andl ate night programming at NBC, explained: "We locked in a plan several months ago to have the outstanding Christina Aguilera and CeeLo Green rejo...

Colombian singer Shakira is stepping down from her role as a mentor on reality TV show The Voice to concentrate on motherhood.

The new mom, who welcomed son Milan with boyfriend Gerard Pique in January, replaced Christina Aguilera in the judge's chair earlier this year and now she has confirmed she'll be leaving the competition series after just one season to focus on her parenting duties and the completion of her eighth studio album.

The Hips Don't Lie hit-maker tells UsMagazine.com, "I'm not going to be able to do next season because I have to get back to my motherhood and also get ba...

Shakira will be leaving music talent competition The Voice after one year at the judges' table to take care of her 4-month-old son, Milan Pique Mebarak - and a familiar face could be replacing her.

"I was so happy to do 'The Voice' but at the same time, I was really struggling with the fact I had to leave my nest with my little baby," Shakira told Access Hollywood.

Shakira joined The Voice this season along with Usher, to replace departing judges Cee Lo Green and Christina Aguilera. The departing judges cited ongoing projects taking up too much time to be a part of the show. Producer Mark...

The second week of live playoffs on The Voice was just as crazy as the one before it - but at the end, it came down to one of the most important things in the singing competition: song choice.

Monday's Top 12 performance show had more than a few eyebrow-raising moments. A heat wave knocked out the Los Angeles studio's air conditioning, forcing everyone to sweat their way through half the show until it could be repaired. At one point, host Carson Daly found out that if the temperature rose too high, the lights could go out. "That'll be fun for America," he quipped.

But perhaps the most sur...

Christina Aguilera is set to return to her red mentor's chair on The Voice for the show's fifth season.

The "Genie In A Bottle" singer and fellow judge Cee Lo Green both left the show after its third season last fall to spend time working on other projects -- Christina toured to promote her latest album "Lotus" while Cee Lo worked on new album "Girl Power."

Both stars are expected to return, with Cee Lo in "advanced negotiations" and Aguilera having already inked a new deal for $12.5 million, according to The Wrap. In fact, Christina could potentially make well over that depending on how ...

Host Carson Daly opened Wednesday's The Voice results show by announcing that there had been "inconsistencies" found during the first round of live playoff voting, but assured fans that the situation did not affect the outcome.

Daly brought on stage Jason George, the CEO of Telescope - the company which oversees voting for not only The Voice, but other reality competitions as well. Daly then revealed, "We noticed some inconsistencies in this week's texting and online voting."

"For complete fairness, votes cast via text and online were not included in the voting results," he went on to sta...

After Team Adam and Team Usher performed on last night's The Voice, it's time for Team Blake and Team Shakira. Blake is overjoyed that he has a team of all country artists, restating his dream of bringing a country artist to the grand finale. Shakira, on the other hand, is nervous and comparing herself to a mama bird. Usher and Adam are asked to reflect on how their teams did the night before, and dole out the usual amount of praise, as if Carson expects that one of them is going to go on live television and say something negative about their artists.

Team Blake starts the show, with a cli...

Starting The Voice live shows - and first to sing for your vote -  are Team Adam and Team Usher. Fans know that anything can happen during live playoffs, especially on the first night. So how did the introductory chapter of season four go?

First of all, Team Usher has their own labeled sweatshirts. Their coach has brought them to the gym in order to get them in gear for their first group performance, which surprises Josiah, who didn't expect to be working out for a singing competition. He finds out that singing and exercising simultaneously is difficult. Carson makes a slightly corny Floyd...

Team Blake and Team Usher, it's your turn! After Team Adam and Team Shakira had their ranks thinned last night on The Voice, now it's time to see who's left standing from the other two squads.

It's Team Blake that goes first, and Blake pairs up early favorite Savannah Berry with the guy who shocked us all in battles, Justin Rivers. This could potentially be disaster for him, as both these artists are not to be trifled with. Savannah decides to sing Justin Bieber's "As Long As You Love Me." Blake wonders if Savannah could be his Justin Bieber. Um, what? Justin picks "The Climb" by Miley Cyr...

It's now time for knockout rounds on The Voice: that last step before live shows, where 32 hopefuls will be narrowed down to the 16 artists who will represent the four teams for America's vote. The first two rosters to get cleaved in half are Team Adam and Team Shakira.

Team Adam begins the night, with Adam assigning Amber Carrington to face off against Midas Whale. The knockouts allow the artists to choose their own music, and Amber selects Avril Lavigne's "I'm With You" for her performance, which Adam approves of. He's well aware of just how surprising she can be. The quirky dudes known ...

Tony Lucca announced on Monday a slate of new tour dates that will have the talented singer-songwriter on the road from late July to mid-August.

Lucca, who was the finalist for Team Adam on season two of NBC's The Voice, subsequently signed with coach Adam Levine's 222 Records and is currently preparing his first post-show album.

It's not the first big move for Lucca, who's been working hard since his time on national TV ended. He previously embarked upon the nationwide "Chapter Two" tour last fall, released a new music video for his song "Like Love" in November, and returned to The Voice...

On The Voice, Team Adam has established itself as the team to beat. Before they head into knockout rounds, BFTV caught up with three of Adam's strong female artists - the phenomenal Sarah Simmons (pictured), surprising Amber Carrington and not-as-yet-unleashed Amy Whitcomb - to get to know them a little bit better.

Sarah told us that her four-chair blind audition "just completely wrecked my soul in a beautiful way. It was deeply humbling, overwhelming, and I know I'm only 23, but it's been a hard life for me in ways growing up, and [I] just can't believe this is happening. [I'm] blown away...

As if it weren’t obvious enough, ‘American Idol’ has been officially dethroned. For the first time, NBC’s ‘The Voice’ was the number one show last week (and number two, too), while ‘American Idol’ had to settle for 5th and 7th place, respectively. The Thursday edition was even clobbered in the 18-49 demo by a ‘Big Bang Theory’ rerun.

Otherwise, it was business as usual in a quiet week. With lots of reruns, shows like ‘Dancing With the Stars’ dominated the Top 5. CBS had shows peppered through the Top 20, including ‘The Good Wife,’ ‘Person of Interest,’ ‘Survivor’ and both versions of ‘NCIS...

Can you believe we're halfway through The Voice already? After tonight, only knockout rounds and live shows remain. But first, it's time for some more abbreviated battles.

Team Shakira leads off the night, teaming up Brandon Roush with Shawna P in a battle of youth versus experience. Shakira has selected the Janis Joplin hit "Piece of My Heart," and she and advisor Joel Madden meet the pair, who were somewhat expecting to compete against each other. Shakira's looking for the artist who most connects with the sentiment in the song, which seems at first like it might be easier for Shawna, bu...

It's time for the second half of battles on The Voice, with plenty of strong artists left to perform and four steals still to be had.

The first matchup of Monday night comes from Team Usher: it's his final pick, Jessica Childress, versus Vedo. Usher has chosen the Bruno Mars hit "Locked Out of Heaven" for them, the choice of which makes Jessica "a little bit apprehensive," especially when she hears Vedo. However, advisor Pharrell Williams tells Jessica he thinks she's wrong about her range, which bolsters her confidence. In second rehearsal, it's Vedo who's impressed by what Jessica can do...

After a successful residency in Las Vegas, Cee Lo Green has confirmed he'll be returning as a mentor on "The Voice."

The singer took a hiatus from the singing competition this season to focus on his music career and his Sin City spectacular at Planet Hollywood. Green hopes to extend his residency and return to "The Voice" at the same time.

He explained, "It was a seven-week run at Planet Hollywood and it was a success and it went so well that they've already offered to extend the stay, so we may come later on in the year, like October. But I start back for season five for The Voice in Jun...

Once again, CBS was dominant in the ratings race, landing 13 of the Top 20 shows last week. It didn’t hurt that it broadcast the NCAA championship game, which yielded 23.43 million viewers as the week’s top program. Otherwise, ‘NCIS’ and its spinoff ‘NCIS: Los Angeles’ were typically terrific. Other shows from CBS in the Top 20 included ’60 Minutes,’ ‘The Good Wife’ and ‘The Big Bang Theory.’ The impressive part? Some of those were reruns.

ABC performed fine with ‘Dancing With the Stars’ and ‘Modern Family,’ while NBC’s ‘The Voice’ outperformed FOX’s ‘American Idol’ yet again. The bad news...

After last night's six battles, The Voice is back tonight with six more  - or in actuality, three and three others condensed into about a minute and a half. Who moved onto the knockout rounds? Who went home? And did anyone get one of the five precious steals remaining in the competition?

Team Adam starts the night for the second evening in a row, with Michael Austin competing against Warren Stone. Michael turned two chairs with his audition, while Warren has the distinction of being the first country artist to have become a member of Team Adam after he spun three coaches. Now they're facin...

It's time for The Voice to go to battle: head-to-head competition, the button-slamming steals, spotting Paul Mirkovich everywhere, and those graphics that make things look like Street Fighter. Anything can happen in the battle rounds - last season, although Amanda Brown lost her battle as a member of Team Cee Lo, she was stolen by Adam Levine and ended up making it all the way to the top six. No wonder why Blake calls this "the scariest part of the show."

The first matchup of the night is from Team Adam: Amber Carrington, who was Adam's last pick, versus Sasha Allen, who got four chairs to...

What fan of The Voice wouldn't want to meet Adam Levine backstage before the show? Now you can enter to win a chance to do just that - simply by contributing to a good cause.

Adam has partnered with Omaze to create a dream experience for any member of Team Adam: to be flown to Los Angeles, where you and a friend will meet him backstage before a taping of The Voice during next month's Season 4 live shows. It's a great gesture to support one of Maroon 5's charities of choice, Aid Still Required.

How do you get to be that lucky fan? Anyone 18 and over is eligible to win, simply by going to t...

Here it is: one last night of The Voice blind auditions, and only four spots - one per team - left in season four. Who will make the final cut?

First, we have to see some obvious Kia product placement, before Carson arrives at Witzend - which all Voice fans know as a venue frequented by several artists including season two's very awesome Justin Hopkins of Team Cee Lo - to chat with our first artist of the night. Apparently, our host is a fan of Mark Lennon's band. Mark steps onto the stage with The Beatles' "Come Together," which as we know the coaches performed as a group number in this s...

There's a lot going on in tonight's fifth volume of The Voice blind auditions! The coaches have just 16 spots left on their four teams, and Adam Levine is about to be honored with a new award that he can soon produce any time Blake "just happens" to find his CMAs or ACMs or whatever else he has. Not to be outdone, Blake's officiating Kelly Clarkson's wedding, even as Kelly is about to tour with Maroon 5. It never ends with these coaches!

Our Fantastic Four are still on the lookout for more great singers. The search begins with golf cart-driving Jeff Lewis, who comes armed with Usher's "U G...

Vicci Martinez is still enjoying a newfound career success almost two years after she was a finalist on the first season of The Voice. Though the Seattle native was a talented musician well before the NBC series came into her life, the TV show vaulted her into the national spotlight, and Vicci has made the most of it. Universal Music Group, the record label affiliated with The Voice, offered her a deal after the show. She subsequently released her self-titled album, and now you can see the music video for the album's first single, "Come Along."

Big Red Chairs caught up with Vicci the day a...

The rosters are halfway full as we finish the second week of The Voice. Adam has 6 of his 12 artists, Blake 5 of 12, Shakira 7 of 12 and Usher 6 of 12. This has traditionally been the time when the coaches start to get more choosy, guarding their rosters so that they're not out of the game when someone fantastic comes along. Is that shift going to happen tonight?

As our coaches arrive, with Blake toting one of his many pointy awards and Adam grasping his ever-present coffee (you'd need it too if you were doing two concert tours and a TV show in the same year), we meet Audrey Karrasch, a on...

While The Voice is going full steam ahead, one of BFTV's very first favorites from the series is moving forward in his career as well. Tim Mahoney - the season one member of Team Adam that Adam Levine infamously thought was a woman when listening to his blind audition - not only has a new album out, but is broadening his teaching career, too. BFTV recently caught up with Tim to get the dish on everything he has going on.

Tim dropped his newest album, Shine Through, earlier this spring following a handful of individual songs, including his playful TV experience-inspired track, "Hey Adam Lev...

After last week's blind auditions brought The Voice its first 13 artists of Season 4, it's time to continue the search for the other 35. Adam (last seen announcing that Maroon 5 is headlining this year's Honda Civic Tour) has 9 spots left on his team, Blake (last seen in a chicken costume) needs 9 more for his roster, Shakira is looking for 8 more artists and Usher has 9 openings to fill. Who will they discover tonight?

First to hit the stage are The Swon Brothers, who like any good siblings, rib each other constantly through their before-audition interviews. They perform "American Girl," ...

Did you enjoy last week's premiere of The Voice? After we watched them make the coaches' chairs turn on Monday, BFTV spoke with several of the incoming artists from the blind auditions, so that you could get to know them a little better. Here are some words from Team Blake's Christian Porter, Team Usher's Jess Kellner, and Team Usher's Vedo.

"The experience is absolutely amazing, very surprising, but I’m very grateful to be where I’m at," said bar musician Christian, who can be found on Twitter at @porterchristian. "I never expected it to blow up on Twitter and Facebook and social media th...

CBS was tops in the ratings last week, thanks mostly to its most-watched program, ‘NCIS,’ which nabbed more than 19 million viewers and the number one slot. The Eye Network also had three of the top six programs, including ‘NCIS: Los Angeles.’ ‘The Big Bang Theory’ and other hits were in repeats.

Despite a lower-than-usual Spring start, ABC’s ‘Dancing With the Stars’ did well with more than 17 million viewers, besting both editions of FOX’s ‘American Idol’ by several million viewers. That show averaged 12.94 and 11.93 million viewers on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively. Remember the da...