The Voice nudged towards the two million viewer mark yesterday, steamrollering its timeslot rivals in the Sunday night reality TV battle.
A total of 1.967 million fans tuned in across Australia's five metro areas to see the second-to-last night of blind auditions in the singing competition on Nine.
The Voice left Seven's House Rules and Ten's MasterChef Australia in its wake, as they won audiences of 1.335 million and 924,000 respectively.
As a result, Nine won the biggest free-to-air audience share by far, taking 36.3%. Seven followed with 26.5%, followed by Ten with 16.2% and the ABC with 16.1%.
All three reality programs, however, were up on the previous Sunday's audience numbers when they faced off against the Eurovision Song Contest. Last Sunday The Voice won 1.894 million, House Rules took 1.058 million and MasterChef Australia won 770,000 viewers.
Seven's A Place to Call Home and the ABC's Inspector George Gently were the other non-news programs to make the top 10, according to preliminary overnight ratings figures from OzTam.
A Place to Call Home won 851,000 viewers and Inspector George Gently won 791,000, putting them in eighth and tenth spots.
Nine's The Mentalist just missed out on making the top 10, finishing 11th with 733,000 viewers.
Completing the top 10 was Nine's 60 Minutes, second place with an audience of 1.732 million, Nine News, third with 1.5 million, Seven News, fourth with 1.335 million, Seven's Sunday Night, sixth with 926,000 and ABC News, ninth with 826,000.
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