Season 2 of NBC’s The Voice kicked off following the Super Bowl on Sunday night and thanks to the huge lead-in audience, the premiere scored the biggest ratings for a non-sports telecast on any network in 6 years. Although that statistic doesn’t mean quite as much since it was the biggest sporting event anywhere that preceded it.

37.6 million people stuck around after the game to see the first round of auditions for the singing competition. Original judges Christina Aguilera, Blake Shelton, Adam Levine and Cee Lo Green have returned for season 2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmp34Z8IEaY

Some of the performance highlights:

Chris Mann

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7Lfc5aiW20

Jesse Campbell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-zl8vw3o7A

Tony Lucca

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ8dMg_YMPk

If you saw the fancy, action-themed promo above, check out the behind-the-scenes “making of” video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu6hbU0fT4U

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