[Matt]

Shocking ratings news - for the first time The Voice has beaten Britain's Got Talent!

The Voice added another half a million viewers (it's now up over a million from its first show), attracting an average of 9.54million viewers - while Got Talent had slightly less with 9.43million (excluding ITV1+1)

And in the twenty minutes they both clashed, The Voice had 10million viewers - 3.7million more than any other channel

I'd love to be a fly on the wall in Cowell Towers this morning

[Black Dagger]

It's doing so well, and deserves to.

Can't wait for Battle Rounds, it's going to really start kicking in.

[Lewis.]

probably because it's so much better.

[Jords]

Fantastic!

[Patrick]

don't even watch either of them but YAY.

[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by Matt

Shocking ratings news - for the first time The Voice has beaten Britain's Got Talent!

The Voice added another half a million viewers (it's now up over a million from it's first show), attracting an average of 9.54million viewers - while Got Talent had slightly less with 9.43million (excluding ITV1+1)

And in the twenty minutes they both clashed, The Voice had 10million viewers - 3.7million more than any other channel

I'd love to be a fly on the wall in Cowell Towers this morning

Shocked at this. I'm actually enjoying BGT this time around because of the rapport between Simon and David, it's far more enjoyable.

I didn't like the format of the Voice, plus I really can't stand Will. i am. so that made me switch off and over. It just seemed one massive publicity plug all the time.

[Matt]

Simon's tweeted about it

A slightly irritated congrats to Danny [Cohen, controller of BBC One] and the BBC. But you didn’t have a dancing dog!

http://twitter.com/simoncowell

[Jords]

Originally Posted by Matt

Simon's tweeted about it



http://twitter.com/simoncowell

Gritted teeth

[Maia]

Excellent

[Smithy]

I think a lot of people are jumping on the anticowell bandwagon when it comes to the voice tbh

I enjoy both shows but yeah, im bored of the hate for BGT/XF/Anything SC related

[GypsyGoth]

To be fair the Voice is a refreshing show to look at. BGT is fun but it's nothing new.

[Flamingjoe]

Brilliant news!

[Jordan.]

BGT is getting pushed back now to avoid the clash, talk about walking off with their tail between their legs

[Marc]

They're wise to notice the competition.

[Vanessa]

I love both The Voice and BGT !

[Jordan.]

It won again

Saturday's final blind auditions were seen by 10.68m (45.5%) between 7pm and 8.20pm, attracting a huge peak of 12m (45.7%) in the final 15 minutes.

Britain's Got Talent pulled in 10.04m (39.5%) between 8pm and 9.15pm, peaking with 11.3m (44.7%) and adding 541k (2.3%) on ITV1 +1.

[Matt]

So it's gone up another million in just one week

Also should be noted that in the twenty minutes both shows clashed, The Voice averaged 11.8million, more than DOUBLE BGT's 5.8million. I know The Voice has an advantage by being on first, but it must be painful for Cowell that the gap is as wide as 6million viewers.

The Voice's success has been nothing short of unprecedented - so pleased for it

[Niall]

Hopefully this is the beginning of the end for BGT and XF.

[GiRTh]

Great news.

Hopefully Mr cowell will realise that despite the scripted responses, the obvious journeys and the laughable dross, he needs to throw some quality at the viewing public.

[bbfan1991]

Originally Posted by Smithy

I think a lot of people are jumping on the anticowell bandwagon when it comes to the voice tbh

I enjoy both shows but yeah, im bored of the hate for BGT/XF/Anything SC related

This, why can't people just be satisfied with watching whatever show they want to. Luckily they won't clash anymore starting from next week.

I am glad that TV is doing well, although i've not watched and watch a bit too much shows as it is.

[Black Dagger]

Yay <3.

Bit disappointing that my favourites didn't even make battle rounds, but there is enough talent for me to get over it

[joeysteele]

I still like both but the Voice is fresh and new and I have really enjoyed it, it will be interesting to see how it goes now the auditions are over.

I am fairly pleased at Simon back on BGT but I cannot be bothered with his stopping an act just as they start singing, saying, he has heard such and such song so many times, what else have they got, just let them do the one they first chose to do and let the show flow for goodness sake.
He gets plenty of time to speak afterwards.

[Maia]

Yes yes yes! Brilliant news. I'm glad The Voice is doing so well, it's an absolutely amazing show and it's good to see something so refreshing after so many years of all the same formats being churned out time and time again.

[Marc]

The Voice

[Marc]

I think the fact that it has ONLY good people is a good selling point for it, people get bored of the idiots and the 'funny' people who can't sing