You gotta love an hour-long American Idol episode where the entire hour is actually devoted to results.

Host Ryan Seacrest began reading the names of the 10 singers who received the most votes this week. As audience members shouted out names of their favorite singers, he quipped, "Sounds like we're playing The Price Is Right here.

Here they are, in the order in which Seacrest called their names:

  1. Malaya Watson
  2. Ben Briley
  3. Emily Piriz
  4. Alex Preston
  5. Jessica Meuse
  6. Dexter Roberts
  7. Caleb Johnson
  8. Majesty Rose
  9. MK Nobilette
  10. Sam Woolf

The judges chose five of the 10 remaining singers to perform again: C.J. Harris, Jena Irene, Spencer Lloyd, Bria Anai and Kristen O'Connor.

Harris, still wearing that brown hat from Wednesday's performance, rendered Sam Cook's Bring It on Home to Me soulfully, despite some rough edges in the pitch department. I like him a lot, but his immaturity as a singer is beginning to show. "I don't know which I should address first, that the band screwed it up, or that you screwed it up," Harry Connick Jr. said. Jennifer Lopez said she still heard the specialness in his voice, but Keith Urban said, "You've got to stay emotionally connected to the song."

Jena Irene went back to the piano, her Hollywood strong suit, according to the judges and sang her original Unbreakable Me — much, much better than her Tuesday night performance. Urban responded enthusiastically: "That was a really good use of that moment."

When it comes to handsome guys singing original songs, Woolf has it all over Lloyd, who gave a weak, inconsistent performance. "We wanted to give you another chance because we saw something in you from the very beginning," Jennifer Lopez said, leaving the "and you blew it" almost unspoken.

Bria Anai revived her version of James Brown's It's a Man's, Man's, Man's World, using her second chance to show off her vocal chops. She's got pipes, for sure, but she's also got significant control issues. Connick said so: "Bria, it was all over the place," he said. He found it passionate but believed she overshot her mark.

O'Connor chose Katy Perry's Unconditionally for her survival song. It wasn't a great choice for her the first time she sang, and it wasn't any better this time. But it was better than some of the other play-in performances. Keith Urban said the key needed to be a little higher, which would have allowed her to take advantage of the adrenaline rush, which she seemed to fight the whole time.

The three wild-card picks?

  1. Jena Irene
  2. Kristen O'Connor
  3. C.J. Harris

We say goodbye to Lloyd and Anai, as well as Marrialle Sellers, Emmanuel Zidor, Malcolm Allen, George Lovett and Briana Oakley.

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