With only the Christmas Carol episode left before the end of the first half of Season 4, I thought it would be interesting to see how the singing parts had been distributed among the cast members so far. Taking the information from Wikipedia, the table below shows how many times each cast member has been involved as a lead in a song as part of a solo/duet/trio in the first column, then featured in a group number where there were more than 3 "lead" singers (eg "The Scientist) in the second column, and then finally used as a back-up singer (eg Santana & Brittany in "Come See About Me") as denoted by "with" in the Wikipedia list of Season 4 songs, in column 3. Some songs have "WITH New Directions", indicating all cast members were backup singers in the song. But since not all cast members were in every episode, I haven't bothered to assign a backup point to everyone in those cases, as I can't be bothered to figure who was in that particular number. I've then arbitrarily assigned 5 points for a solo/duet/trio, 3 points for a group of more than 3, and 1 point for a back-up singer, to give a point total in Column 4. So, here are the results:
Rachel 9, 3, 0, 54 pts
Blaine 8, 4, 0, 52 pts
Marley 8, 3, 0, 49 pts
Brittany 4, 3, 4, 33 pts
Sam 5, 1, 1, 29 pts
Finn 2, 5, 1, 26 pts
Jake 4, 1, 1, 24 pts
Tina 3*, 2, 2, 23 pts
Ryder 3, 2, 1, 22 pts
Kurt 3, 2, 0, 21 pts
Wade 3, 1, 2, 20 pts
Santana 2, 2, 2, 18 pts
Kitty 3, 0, 2, 17 pts
Quinn 1, 1, 0, 8 pts
Mercedes 0, 2, 1, 7 pts
Joe 1, 0, 2, 7 pts
Artie 1, 0, 1, 6 pts
Mike 0, 1, 3, 6 pts
Noah 0, 1, 0, 3 pts
Will 0, 1, 0, 3 pts
Sugar 0, 0, 3, 3 pts
I put an (*) next to Tina's solo/duet/trio total because Wikipedia lists "Gangnam Style" as Tina's solo. I would disagree with this as she mostly spoke Korean, and the actual "singing" was distributed among the whole New Directions group. Anyways, the shocking thing to me is the low number of numbers Artie has been in! I was hoping that this season, a lot of attention would be directed towards Artie, Tina, Sam & Brittany, the seniors. Brittany and Sam have done well, but Tina & Artie have been very under utilized. This list also makes me wonder if we're ever going to hear Sugar's voice!
