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 stands at a microphone with an acoustic guitar and one hand raised, with a large American flag behind her.

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 Shelton68 finalists

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 Levine53 finalists

Adam Levine (53 finalists): 4 winners (Javier Colon, Tessanne Chin, Jordan Smith, Alexia Jayy); went gold: Melanie Martinez, Carousel (2014), Platinum.

Kelly Clarkson29 finalists

Kelly Clarkson (29 finalists): 4 winners (Brynn Cartelli, Chevel Shepherd, Jake Hoot, Girl Named Tom); went gold: none.

Niall Horan7 finalists

Niall Horan (7 finalists): 3 winners (Gina Miles, Huntley, Aiden Ross); went gold: none.

Michael Bublé7 finalists

Michael Bublé (7 finalists): 2 winners (Sofronio Vasquez, Adam David); went gold: none.

Pharrell Williams12 finalists

Pharrell Williams (12 finalists): 1 winner (Sawyer Fredericks); went gold: Koryn Hawthorne, Won't He Do It (2017), Platinum.

Usher6 finalists

Usher (6 finalists): 1 winner (Josh Kaufman); went gold: Vedo, You Got It (2020), 2× Platinum.

5 more coachesAlicia Keys, Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani, John Legend, Reba McEntire

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.

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.

Melanie Martinez

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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.

The curved metal-and-glass exterior of T-Mobile Center in Kansas City.

T-Mobile Center, Kansas City, then named Sprint Center · photo from 2008

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Brynn Cartelli

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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.

Fifth Harmony

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