The Voice continued to sing high notes for Nine with 2.19 million viewers tuned in last night, as the program dominated the narrative on Twitter with 1,300 tweets a minute.
The singing competition series commanded an average audience of 2.19 million metro viewers, according to preliminary overnight figures from OzTam. While its ratings were still very impressive, last night's episode is down from the previous week's 2.32 million viewers and the week before that, which had 2.61 million people.
On Twitter, The Voice commanded an average 1,300 tweets per minute, totalling 70,000 tweets across the two-hour live broadcast. There are five more episodes of the series left for 2012, all of which will be live.
Nine's new local drama series Tricky Business debuted to a solid 1.16 million average audience. The show benefited from having had The Voice as its lead-in and peaked at 2.40 million viewers, although it's unclear what time the peak was.
The Block had 1.27 million viewers while Nine News netted 1.36 million people.
MasterChef was the ninth most watched program with 1.04 million viewers.
Seven's regular Monday night line-up, including US drama Revenge, was missing from the airwaves last night, replaced by movie National Treasure: Book of Secrets which had 215,000 viewers. Its regular programming is scheduled to return next week.
Other programs in the top 20 were Seven News, Today Tonight (Seven), A Current Affair (Nine), ABC News, Hot Seat (Nine), Ten News, Home and Away (Seven), Australian Story (ABC), Deal or No Deal (Seven), the 6:30 portion of The Project (Ten), Four Corners (ABC), Q&A (ABC), 7:30 (ABC) and Bondi Vet (Ten).
Across the main channels, Nine overwhelmingly won the night with 33.5% of audience share, almost double that of Seven which had 17.0%. Ten was almost pipped for third by the ABC with the two channel attracting 13.2% and 13% of audience share respectively. SBS had 2.8% audience share.
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