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None of the other Top 5 contestants, meanwhile, had even cracked the Top 100.<\/p>\n<p>The ballad, which ended up peaking at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100, was launched into ubiquity when AGBW and collaborator Christina Aguilera delivered a live rendition on &#8220;The Voice.&#8221;  It later served as the defining performance for Alex &#038; Sierra, who won the third season of the US &#8220;X Factor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Preston&#8217;s version probably will not soar as high as the Alex &#038; Sierra rendition, which hit #1 on iTunes, it is clearly resonating with &#8220;Idol&#8221; fans and music buyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1048],"tags":[1175,1191,1991,19,639,1269],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Idol&#039;&quot;s Alex Preston Climbs iTunes with &quot;Say Something&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Update: Alex Preston&#039;s rendition of &quot;Say Something&quot; had ascended to #44 by press time. 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