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Blake Shelton left his coach's chair on The Voice on Tuesday to perform his new single as the field was narrowed from eight semifinalists to the final four. 

The season 11 finalists were set as Billy Gilman, Wé McDonald, Sundance Head and Josh Gallagher advanced.

They will battle it out in the finals next week for the top spot.

Country star: Blake Shelton showed the hopefuls how to do it on Tuesday's episode of The Voice as the field was reduced to the final four

Billy, who earned the number one spot on iTunes with his Monday night performance, was the first contestant through, while Josh won a Twitter vote to claim the final spot.

That meant the end of the road for Christian Cuevas, Ali Caldwell, Brendan Fletcher and Aaron Gibson who were voted off the hit NBC singing competition show.

Blake, 40, kicked off the show by telling host Carson Daly that he had high hopes for his only remaining contestant Sundance Head.

'He has laid out his path on his own, the guy has made his point, he has proven that he deserves to be somebody who is on the radio and who sells a lot of records,' said Blake.

New song: The country star performed his new single A Guy With A Girl from his latest album

Alicia Keys, 35, said that she had an 'incredible' experience working with Christian and Wé and hoped she had been a 'launching pad' for them.

Miley Cyrus, 24, said that she was honored to have two singers who had 'one in a bazillion' level talent.

Adam Levine said he was 'a psychic and a psycho' and had tried to do his best for the three remaining contestants on his team.

First season: Miley Cyrus failed to take any of her singers to the finals as Ali Caldwell and Aaron Gibson were eliminated

Unique singer: Adam Levine urged voters to support Josh Gallagher for his unique voice

One singer: Alicia Keys was headed into the finals with one singer

Great eight: The final eight singers awaited their fate on the NBC singing competition show

Carson told the audience that all eight singers had charted in the iTunes Top 50, with Billy Gilman landing the number one spot for his version of Celine Dion's I Surrender.

Carson gathered all eight contestants together on stage and announced that it was Gilman who had landed the first spot in the final.

Pop rock band One Republic then appeared to perform their new single 'Lets Hurt Tonight' before the contestants got a tour of the set of 'Hairspray Live!' with Jennifer Hudson.

First through: Billy Gilman was the first to make it to the finals and received a hug from coach Adam

Musical guest: OneRepublic performed during the one-hour elimination episode

Hudson told them 'their passion has to be bigger than your fear' and urged them 'to be good to work with.'

Carson then asked Sundance Head how it felt to achieve success.

'I have learned to trust myself and to trust other people that I don't always know the right thing and sometimes it is important to just be quiet and listen,' he said.

Live musical: Jennifer Hudson gave the singers a tour of the Hairspray Live! sets

Carson then told the group that the second finalist was Sundance himself, keeping Blake in the competition.

Former Voice finalist Hannah Huston then performed her new single I Alone Have Loved You.

Carson then told the remaining six artists that 17-year-old Wé of Team Alicia was through to the finale.

 Nailed it: Hannah Huston returned and performed her new single

Final six: Wé advanced to the finals without having to sing for survival

Proud coach: Alicia hugged Wé who is the youngest in the competition at age 17

Four-time winning coach Blake Shelton also took to the stage to perform his own new single A Guy With A Girl.

Carson then brought out the final five contestants and announced that Ali Caldwell of Team Miley, Josh of Team Adam and Christian Cuevas of Team Alicia would all sing for the final spot in the finale.

That meant it was the end of the road of Brendan Fletcher of Team Adam and Aaron Gibson of Team Miley.

Feeling it: Blake smiled while singing his fourth single from his latest album

Singing for survival: Ali learned that she would be singing for survival

Christian Cuevas did a version of I Can't Make You Love Me and Alicia Keys felt it was enough to keep him on the show.

'If you can't feel the soul that Christian brings every time he sings, an impure moment has never come out of his body,' she said.

'You speak your truth, your voice is incredible, you deserve to be here.'

Brought it: Christian Cuevas poured his soul into I Can't Make You Love Me as he sang for survival

Ali Caldwell then performed Sledgehammer with Miley saying she had done enough to get through.

'I am ready to pass out so I don't know how you handled yourself. This is a wall right now and you just pushed through it like I knew you would,' said an emotional Miley.

Country hopeful Josh Gallagher then took on I Drive Your Truck to try and secure his place in the finale.

Powerful voice: Ali performed Sledgehammer in a bid to remain on the show

Country singer: Josh sang I Drive Your Truck as his survival song

The host: Carson Daly kept the one-hour show moving

One spot: Christian, Ali and Josh waited to learn who was advancing to the finals

'I just want there to be something different in the finale and this guy has constantly getting better and better and charting higher and I feel that you have so much more to give that people haven't seen yet,' said Adam.

An instant Twitter vote saw Josh saved while Ali and Christian were sent home.

The Voice will return on Monday with the final four performing in part one of the two-part season 11 finale. 

The moment: Carson announced that Josh was saved by Twitter voting

Hard to believe: Josh looked stunned as he learned he was a finalist