Cassadee Pope won for Blake Shelton. Only his winners have gone gold
Cassadee Pope and Danielle Bradbery are the only Voice winners who went gold. Both sang for Blake Shelton, coach of a record 9 winners.

Cassadee Pope at a USO performance, undisclosed location · July 5, 2019
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Blake Shelton coached 9 of The Voice’s 29 winners, more than twice as many as any other coach. Cassadee Pope and Danielle Bradbery, two of his, are the only Voice winners with a gold record released after their finale. Here is what each coach’s singers did next, and what a coach did for them after the show.
Blake Shelton
Shelton’s 9 wins and 3 gold singers
Shelton coached finalists in 23 seasons, 68 in all, more than any other coach. Cassadee Pope’s Wasting All These Tears (2013) went Platinum; Danielle Bradbery’s The Heart of Dixie (2013) went Gold; Corey Kent White, a season 8 finalist, went 3× Platinum with Wild as Her (2022).
30 of Shelton’s 68 finalists released a studio album after the finale. CeeLo Green’s finalists, all from 2011 to 2013, had the highest share: 9 of 12.
Blake Shelton coached 9 winners and 3 of the 6 singers who went gold after the show
One mark per Voice winner, by coach. A gold mark: the winner has a record released after the finale that went Gold or higher. Faces: every finalist of the team who went gold.
Blake Shelton (68 finalists): 9 winners (Jermaine Paul, Cassadee Pope, went gold, Danielle Bradbery, went gold, Craig Wayne Boyd, Sundance Head, Chloe Kohanski, Todd Tilghman, Cam Anthony, Bryce Leatherwood); went gold: Cassadee Pope, Wasting All These Tears (2013), Platinum, Danielle Bradbery, The Heart of Dixie (2013), Gold, Corey Kent White, Wild as Her (2022), 3× Platinum.
Adam Levine (53 finalists): 4 winners (Javier Colon, Tessanne Chin, Jordan Smith, Alexia Jayy); went gold: Melanie Martinez, Carousel (2014), Platinum.
Kelly Clarkson (29 finalists): 4 winners (Brynn Cartelli, Chevel Shepherd, Jake Hoot, Girl Named Tom); went gold: none.
Niall Horan (7 finalists): 3 winners (Gina Miles, Huntley, Aiden Ross); went gold: none.
Michael Bublé (7 finalists): 2 winners (Sofronio Vasquez, Adam David); went gold: none.
Pharrell Williams (12 finalists): 1 winner (Sawyer Fredericks); went gold: Koryn Hawthorne, Won't He Do It (2017), Platinum.
Usher (6 finalists): 1 winner (Josh Kaufman); went gold: Vedo, You Got It (2020), 2× Platinum.
5 more coaches (Alicia Keys, Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani, John Legend, Reba McEntire): 5 winners (Chris Blue, Alisan Porter, Carter Rubin, Maelyn Jarmon, Asher HaVon); went gold: none.
Profiles: Cassadee Pope · Danielle Bradbery · Corey Kent White · Melanie Martinez · Koryn Hawthorne · Vedo
Blake Shelton
Shelton lent Pope his venue for an album party
Cassadee Pope told Us Weekly in October 2021 that Blake Shelton had let her use Ole Red for her Stages album release party. Pope had won the third season of The Voice on Shelton’s team in December 2012.
“he let me use his venue for that”
Cassadee Pope. Speaking about the Stages release party; interview on 13 October 2021, published by Us Weekly on 14 October.
Adam Levine
Melanie Martinez went out in the Top 6
Adam Levine coached 4 winners: Javier Colon, Tessanne Chin, Jordan Smith and Alexia Jayy. Melanie Martinez, on his team in season 3, went out in the Top 6. She has 3 million certified album units and 6.5 million certified single units, more than any Voice winner on either measure.
In a February 2016 report, Jordan Smith said Adam Levine checked in by text while Smith recorded his debut album. Smith had won the ninth season of The Voice with Levine as his coach in December 2015.

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Kelly Clarkson
Cartelli opened for Clarkson after her Voice win
Kelly Clarkson coached 4 winners: Brynn Cartelli, Chevel Shepherd, Jake Hoot and Girl Named Tom.
Brynn Cartelli won the fourteenth season of The Voice with Kelly Clarkson as her coach in May 2018. A September 2018 announcement of Clarkson’s Meaning of Life Tour named Kelsea Ballerini and Cartelli as special guests.
By March 2019, Cartelli was on her first nationwide tour, opening for Clarkson with 20-minute sets.

T-Mobile Center, Kansas City, then named Sprint Center · photo from 2008
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Simon Cowell
Syco counted Fifth Harmony among its artists
Simon Cowell was Fifth Harmony’s mentor in the second season of The X Factor, where the group finished third in December 2012. In April 2013, a Disney Music Group announcement described Syco Entertainment as a joint venture between Cowell and Sony Music, with Fifth Harmony among Syco Music’s artists.
In July 2017, Sony carried the announcement of Fifth Harmony’s third album, planned for 25 August through Syco/Epic Records.

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Photo credits (7 photos)
- Cassadee Pope: Chief National Guard Bureau from USA · CC BY 2.0 · Photo source · cropped.
- Danielle Bradbery: Justin Higuchi · CC BY 2.0 · Photo source · cropped.
- Melanie Martinez: DeShaun Craddock · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Photo source · cropped.
- Koryn Hawthorne: Gabriel Brooks · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Photo source · cropped.
- Clay Aiken: Judy Butler (mystuff1) · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Photo source.
- Historic recording console: Thank You (22 Millions+) views from Los Angeles, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Photo source · cropped.
- Jennifer Hudson singing at the Concert for Valor: DoD News · Public domain · Photo source · cropped.






