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" Jessica Sanchez and Phillip Phillips have been voted the best performers on this week&amp;#039;s American Idol by Digital Spy users.  The 15-year-old Sanchez blew away the competition despite throat problems with her intense rendition of Jennifer Hudson&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Love You I Do&amp;#039;, earning 35.2%. She beat out Hollie Cavanagh&amp;#039;s 17.6% of the vote for her version of the Christina Aguilera ballad &amp;#039;Reflection&amp;#039;. Skylar Laine and Elise Testone tied in third place with 10.4%, and rounding out the top half of the women were Shannon Magrane with 7% for her &amp;#039;Go Light the World&amp;#039; Chris Rice cover and Hallie Day with 4.8% for the ever-popular Nina Simone classic &amp;#039;Feeling Good&amp;#039;.   Less popular performances for the girls were Chelsea Sorrell&amp;#039;s take on Carrie Underwood&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Cowboy Casanova&amp;#039;, which got 1.4% of votes. Brielle Von Hugel sang &amp;#039;Sitting on the Dock of the Bay&amp;#039; by Percy Sledge - a cover that got good comments from the judges but gained her only 1.2% from poll voters.  Hayley Johnsen&amp;#039;s attempt at &amp;#039;Sweet Dreams&amp;#039; by The Eurythmics put her dead last with only 0.7%. Judge Randy Jackson described her performance as &amp;quot;a bit of a nightmare... instead of a dream&amp;quot;.  Phillip Phillips came out on top with 25.6% in the men&amp;#039;s poll, impressing viewers and judges alike with a smooth cover of Phil Collins&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;In the Air Tonight&amp;#039;.  Not far behind him were Joshua Ledet with 16.4%, for his performance of &amp;#039;You Pulled Me Through&amp;#039; by Jennifer Hudson, and Colton Dixon with 12.3%, who gave his piano take on &amp;#039;Decode&amp;#039; by Paramore.  Heejun Han got the number four spot, awarded 11.4% by voters who liked his version of Robbie Williams&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Angels&amp;#039;. Reed Grimm rounds out the top five men at 6.6%, singing Maroon 5&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Moves Like Jagger&amp;#039;, which the judges called a &amp;quot;great choice&amp;quot;.   Lower on the poll is Eben Franckewitz&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Set Fire to the Rain&amp;#039;, which seemed to do little justice to Adele, taking only 2.3%.  Despite receiving the first standing ovation of the night for covering the Jackson 5 version of &amp;#039;Never Can Say Goodbye&amp;#039;, Aaron Marcellus received just 2% from Digital Spy voters.  Chase Likens played up his country boy charm, singing &amp;#039;Storm Warning&amp;#039; by Hunter Hayes. Judges complimented his good looks and charisma, but has proven unpopular in last place with just 1.9%.  Tune into American Idol on Fox tonight at 8/7c to find out who goes home!  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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