Carrie Underwood gets a ballroom invitation on American Idol

Sasha Farber shares the upload shelf with Jordan McCullough's Mariah Carey cover and an Alicia Keys performance.

Channel: American Idol Story of October 17, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Will Sasha Farber ever get Carrie Underwood to the ballroom?! 🪩

Singing isn't the only talent on American Idol's agenda. Its most-watched new upload asks, "Will Sasha Farber ever get Carrie Underwood to the ballroom?! 🪩", bringing a Dancing with the Stars professional into the orbit of a singer who won Idol herself in 2005.

The ballroom invitation drew roughly 18,000 views, the largest total among six uploads this week. The musical side offered Jordan McCullough singing a Mariah Carey classic and a look back at Alicia Keys performing with the Top 3. Neither title names the song, but both put the performances front and center.

Those two musical uploads are also gathering the most daily views right now, with the Alicia Keys clip attracting the busiest audience. The Benson Boone upload we covered earlier remains active too, now approaching 700,000 views.

Across the channel, the week brought about two million views while subscribers held steady. Daily viewing is modestly above its usual level. Elsewhere in the talent-and-entertainment neighborhood, Taskmaster had a particularly busy week, while Little Big Shots also held steady on subscribers.

Idol's newest clips sit beside a catalog with considerable staying power: Iam Tongi's 2023 audition of "Monsters" remains its most-watched regular video. His later duet with the song's writer, James Blunt, gives viewers another version of the performance that became such a defining part of his Idol story.

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The videos drawing views on American Idol right now

No note missed on this Mariah Carey classic by Jordan McCullough!13,256 views · 2026-10-14 Heck yeah, brother!12,869 views · 2026-10-11 Who could ever forget this Alicia Keys + Top 3 performance!? 🩵8,965 views · 2026-10-15 Seriously, what about Britani Bateman!?4,306 views · 2026-10-12 We can’t wait to see Jayson Arendt and the Texas Tailgaters in the B…1,975 views · 2026-10-10 Was Benson Boone scared or having the time of his life!? 🫪695,528 views

The numbers

Here is American Idol's week in views and subscribers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Taskmaster

26,568,103

BondiRescue

16,428,971

Family Feud

11,905,610

The X Factor USA

3,978,017

Keeping Up With The Karda…

3,491,335

MasterChef World

2,800,775

Little Big Shots

2,306,728

American Idol

2,097,770

Idols Global

0

subscribers

3,930,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

705,762,944

views per day

365,246

typical day: 306,218

first-day views of each video posted this week

Will Sasha Farber ever get Carrie Under…

11,040

No note missed on this Mariah Carey cla…

8,505

Heck yeah, brother!

8,047

Who could ever forget this Alicia Keys …

7,845

Seriously, what about Britani Bateman!?

2,682

We can’t wait to see Jayson Arendt and …

1,131

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

The X Factor USA

4,810,000

Family Feud

4,530,000

American Idol

3,930,000

BondiRescue

3,300,000

Idols Global

3,060,000

Little Big Shots

2,630,000

MasterChef World

2,500,000

Taskmaster

2,370,000

Keeping Up With The Karda…

2,340,000

As of October 17, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.