Second week is fine with me. And yes, literally do or die in terms of the club.
I do have an idea which could place our characters together. Will could discover one of the judges is a lover of duets, and thus sets a challenge for duets. However, they're placed together instead of picking themselves (or like they did in the show, names out of a hat).
I also didn't know if you'd be all right with GIF pictures, so going to edit mine as I have oodles of them stored. I have also added my characters audition songs, and the voices of said artist is similar to what I had in mind for those characters.