Idols South Africa 3 was a competition held from August to November in 2005. The voting results were released on 1 December 2005.
Contents
- Group 1 30 August 2005
- Group 2 6 September 2005
- Group 3 12 September 2005
- Group 4 19 September 2005
- Top 12 26 September 2005
- Top 11 3 October 2005
- Top 10 11 October 2005
- Top 9 17 October 2005
- Top 8 24 October 2005
- Top 8 31 October 2005
- Top 6 7 November 2005
- Top 5 14 November 2005
- Top 4 21 November 2005
- Grand Final 27 November 2005
- References
M-Net has followed up on its promise to release voting details for Idols 2005, which saw 11 contestants fall by the wayside and eventually revealed Karin Kortjé as the winner. Over 10 million votes were cast this season, making Idols III the most successful in 2005. M-Net has also released the audited voting numbers after previous seasons of the competition, in exactly the same fashion. The results which appear below are based on votes received from the public via SMS, IVR and on the Idols website, together with the judges’ rankings. The judges ranked the contestants directly after the show on a Sunday, long before 18:35 on Mondays, when the public voting lines closed.
Carl Fischer, Head of Local Productions at M-Net believes that this information will put a variety of rumours regarding the voting - generated by a minority of viewers - to rest. "We can confirm that winner Karin topped the public voting throughout the Top 12 phase of the competition, justifying her position as winner of Idols III," he says. The statistics for the competition from the Group phase, through to the Final, appear below. Each contestant’s number of votes is represented by a percentage of the total, with the total number of votes received for each voting period reflected in the total for each week.
Votes were accepted via a 08622777+ phone number, voting of the contestant name via SMS to 33676 & finally an online voting option via the official website. During the semi finals, the top 2 vote getters advanced to the finals.
It is not sure if the release factored the 49% leverage of the judges' votes or are viewer votes only.
Group 1 (30 August 2005)
Total votes: 306,827
Group 2 (6 September 2005)
Total votes: 342,853
Group 3 (12 September 2005)
Total votes: 211,629
Group 4 (19 September 2005)
Total votes: 199,838
Ayanda Mpama, Jamie-Lee Blokdyk, Bonolo Molosiwa & Veronique De Lange were explicitly by the judges to advance to the finals of the competition, this was minutes after the Group 4 results. As a conflict of name Veronique Lalouette had chosen V as her stage name & Veronique De Lange chose Nicky, this applied primarily to SMS votes.
Top 12 (26 September 2005)
Total votes: 398,008
Top 11 (3 October 2005)
Total votes: 456,535
Top 10 (11 October 2005)
Total votes: 659,809
Top 9 (17 October 2005)
Total votes: 598,919
Top 8 (24 October 2005)
Total votes: 723,906
Top 8 (31 October 2005)
Total votes: 758,659
Top 6 (7 November 2005)
Total votes: 818,046
Top 5 (14 November 2005)
Total votes: 1,074,568
Top 4 (21 November 2005)
Total votes: 1,788,291
Grand Final (27 November 2005)
Total votes: 1,894,395
Total season votes: 10,232,283