Paxton Fielies, a friend's audition and a song picked the night before

The Season 13 clip of the Cape Town singer who came along only to support someone else is past 116,000 views in two weeks.

Channel: IdolsSA Story of October 8, 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.

She Wasn’t Even Planning to Audition…Then THIS Happened 😳 #idolssa

Old auditions, new crowd. IdolsSA, the official channel of South Africa's long-running singing competition, is mining its archive, and the clip pulling hardest is a story about an accident of timing.

Paxton Fielies went to the Cape Town auditions of Season 13 to support a friend. The description says she chose her song, Tori Kelly's "Confetti", only the night before, and walked out as the first Cape Town contestant that season to win a Golden Ticket. Fans of the show know how that run ended: Paxton went on to win Season 13 in 2017. The clip is two weeks old and drawing around twice the daily views of the channel's next busiest video.

That runner-up is another winner's first step: Noma Khumalo's audition, the start of the journey that ended with the Season 12 crown.

The week's only new upload goes back to Season 12 as well. Melody Ndlovu, a singer with albinism and a striking blonde afro, won over Somizi Mhlongo, Unathi Nkayi, Randall Abrahams and Gareth Cliff for four yeses and a ticket to Theatre Week. It began more gently than the others, and its comments mostly ask for one thing: her Theatre Week solo.

Overall the channel is running a little above its usual pace, adding about 1,000 subscribers to reach 434,000. Among talent and reality channels near its size, Food Club and EastEnders are having the busier weeks, while Big Brother is well below its normal rhythm.

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The videos drawing views on IdolsSA right now

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The numbers

Here is how IdolsSA's week looks in figures.

views gained this week, compared with similar channels

AdvntrNest

8,868,579

Food Club

2,021,122

Emmerdale

1,801,110

Real Life Rescue

1,028,243

EastEnders

814,568

Big Brother

813,632

IdolsSA

473,644

SurvivorOnCBS

468,169

Wipeout

325,211

subscribers

434,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days

total views

174,278,345

views per day

60,876

typical day: 50,928

this week's videos (first-day views)

Her Style Had the Judges Saying YES Bef…

3,254

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

Food Club

540,000

Real Life Rescue

528,000

SurvivorOnCBS

495,000

AdvntrNest

452,000

Emmerdale

449,000

EastEnders

438,000

IdolsSA

434,000

Big Brother

408,000

Wipeout

356,000

As of October 8, 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.

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