“Hallelujah” is not Hudson’s only performance video to draw attention on YouTube. Another popular recording features her rendition of “The Impossible Dream (The Quest),” sung while she was working as a coach on The Voice UK. The Cohen composition itself has become a regular part of her repertoire at major events, rather than a selection confined to the Royal Albert Hall appearance.

Hudson also sang “Hallelujah” during the 2017 season of The Voice. That year represented her coaching debut on the television competition. Her involvement with televised singing contests, however, followed the breakthrough that first brought her widespread recognition more than a decade earlier.

In 2004, Hudson appeared as a finalist in the third season of American Idol. She finished the competition in seventh place. Four years later, she released Jennifer Hudson, her first studio album. The self-titled record reached the second position on the Billboard 200 after its 2008 release.

From 2017 through 2019, Hudson held coaching roles on both the United States and United Kingdom editions of The Voice. During the 2017 season of The Voice UK, Mo Adeniran competed as a member of her team and won the show. His victory made Hudson the program’s first female coach to guide an artist to the title.