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Surprise! 'Voice' voters went country, again.




Didn't call that one!

We thought the odds were in favor of sensitive rocker Matt McAndrew to win Season 7 of The Voice. After all, he had the No. 1 song on iTunes and was trending on Twitter the morning before the singing competition's final results show. But America went country. Again.



It was down to Team Adam's McAndrew, soulful crooner Damien and falsetto king Chris Jamison, and Team Blake's country boy Craig Wayne Boyd. McAndrew came in second, but Boyd emerged victorious. Our Bill Keveney reports that Boyd almost quit music before he auditioned for the show:
"I remember a little more than a year ago sitting in a pickup outside of a club after I had played to basically no one and talking to my drummer and saying, 'Listen, I may have to quit because it's not paying my bills and I'm losing my house.' I lost my pickup. I didn't know what I was going to do. And him telling me, 'Dude, you can't do that,'" the singer said Tuesday during a post-finale press conference with his coach, Blake Shelton, and host Carson Daly.
Here's his new single:



In retrospect, it's easy to say we should've known that country fans would turn up for Boyd, because they've also crowned pop-country vocalist Cassadee Pope in Season 2 and country singer Danielle Bradbery in Season 3. Though McAndrew's song Wasted Love is more popular on YouTube right now, Boyd has a few Voice videos with well over 500K plays, including his semifinal performance that has 1.4M views:



Boyd's big moment, however, seemed to come when he sang Walk the Line.



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