The Voice: Is Season 19's Winner Among Our Picks For The Best Blind Auditions?

Now that Gwen Stefani has fired off her last Team Gwen T-shirt, Kelly Clarkson has given out her last Team Kelly jacket, Blake Shelton has invited his last contestant to hug his cardboard likeness and John Legend has — thank goodness — for the last time wielded his hand on a stick, The Voice is moving on to Season 19's Battles. But before the NBC sing-off gets into them (Monday at 8/7c), we're going to take a second look — and listen — to the Blind Auditions, picking out the 10 vocalists that we think could be real contenders.

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Among our selections for the best of the best are an opera singer that Blake said "looks like James Bond standing up there," an R&B powerhouse whose voice is as flexible as a contortionist's body, a 14-year-old who belts with the finesse of someone three times his age, a literal showboater who out-Kelly'd Kelly, and a pastor who could easily follow Todd Tilghman's tracks into the winner's circle. And they're just the tip of the iceberg.

The contestant who came in at No. 1 in our ranking of the auditioners likeliest to go the distance and actually win Season 19 is... On second thought, you wouldn't want us to give you a hint, would you? Of course not. You'd rather peruse the entire Top 10. To do so, click on the photo gallery above — or go here for direct access — then hit the comments with the names of the singers you think we should have included in our list. Tilghman wasn't even in our Season 18 list of early frontrunners!