'American Idol' narrows twelfth-season female contestants during Hollywood Week

American Idol narrowed its pool of 162 twelfth-season female Hollywood Week hopefuls during Wednesday night's Fox broadcast of the week's initial elimination rounds.
Last night's episode began with all the season's successful female auditioners arriving to Hollywood and being told the news that -- as many of the girls had suspected after hearing rumors of the men's prior Hollywood Week -- in an Idol first, only the women would be competing against each other in the first two days of Hollywood Week for judges Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj, Keith Urban, and Randy Jackson.
Each hopeful was allowed to give a single a capella performance while standing in a line of 10 women total onstage in a round called "sudden death." After all 10 contestants sang, the judges decided whether they would advance to the week's subsequent group round or be eliminated immediately.

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