RuPaul's Drag Race | |
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Season 16 | |
Hosted by | RuPaul |
Judges | |
No. of contestants | 14 |
Winner | Nymphia Wind |
Runner-up | Sapphira Cristál |
Miss Congeniality | |
Companion show | RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked! |
No. of episodes | 16 |
Release | |
Original network | MTV |
Original release | January 5 – April 19, 2024 |
Season chronology | |
The sixteenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race premiered on January 5, 2024. The reality competition series, broadcast on MTV in the United States, showcases fourteen drag queens competing for the title of "America's Next Drag Superstar" and a cash prize of $200,000.
This season introduced a LaLaPaRuZa Lip-Sync Smackdown competition for the eliminated queens that took place before the finale. Morphine Love Dion, who placed fifth in the main competition, won the smackdown and the title of Queen of She Done Already Done Had Herses.
The winner of season 16 was Nymphia Wind, the first ever East Asian winner, with Sapphira Cristál as the runner up and the series' first tied winner of Miss Congeniality, shared with Xunami Muse.
In August 2023, the competition series and its companion series, RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked , were officially renewed and would remain on MTV. RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars was also renewed for a ninth season by Paramount+. [1] In November, a teaser was released from MTV featuring RuPaul in various promos from past seasons. [2] Sasha Colby, the winner of season fifteen, presented the Meet the Queens via the series official YouTube channel on December 6, 2023. The Meet the Queens video included an 8-minute clip from the season premiere, where the fourteen contestants entered the Werk Room set. [3]
Ages, names, and cities stated are at time of filming.
Contestant | Age | City | Outcome |
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Nymphia Wind | 27 | New York City, New York | Winner |
Sapphira Cristál | 34 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Runner-up [a] |
Plane Jane | 25 | Boston, Massachusetts | 3rd place |
Q | 26 | Kansas City, Missouri | 4th place |
Morphine Love Dion | 26 | Miami, Florida | 5th place [b] |
Dawn | 25 | New York City, New York | 6th place |
Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige | 34 | Miami, Florida | 7th place |
Plasma [c] | 24 | New York City, New York | 8th place |
Xunami Muse | 34 | New York City, New York | 9th place [a] |
Megami [d] | 33 | New York City, New York | 10th place |
Geneva Karr | 30 | Brownsville, Texas | 11th place |
Amanda Tori Meating | 26 | Los Angeles, California | 12th place |
Mirage [e] | 29 | Las Vegas, Nevada | 13th place |
Hershii LiqCour-Jeté | 32 | Los Angeles, California | 14th place |
Legend:
Contestant | Episode | ||||||||||||||||
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1 [4] | 2 [5] | 3 [6] | 4 [7] | 5 [8] | 6 [9] | 7 [10] | 8 [11] | 9 [12] | 10 [13] | 11 [14] | 12 [15] | 13 [16] | 14 [17] | 15 [18] | 16 [19] | ||
Nymphia Wind | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | IMM | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | Guest | Winner | ||
Sapphira Cristál | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | IMM | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | WIN | WIN | BTM | SAFE | Guest | R-up | Miss C | |
Plane Jane | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | WIN | BTM | Guest | Eliminated | ||
Q | TOP2 | SAFE | SAFE | BTM | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | ELIM | LOSS | Guest | ||
Morphine Love Dion | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | BTM | SAFE | TOP2 | BTM | BTM | ELIM | SDADHH | Guest | |||
Dawn | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | ELIM | LOSS | Guest | ||||
Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | BTM | BTM | SAFE | BTM | SAFE | ELIM | LOSS | Guest | |||||
Plasma | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | ELIM | LOSS | Guest | |||||||
Xunami Muse | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | ELIM | LOSS | Miss C | ||||||||
Megami | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | SAFE | ELIM | TOP2 | Guest | |||||||||
Geneva Karr | TOP2 | BTM | BTM | WIN | ELIM | LOSS | Guest | ||||||||||
Amanda Tori Meating | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | ELIM | LOSS | Guest | |||||||||||
Mirage | SAFE | SAFE | ELIM | LOSS | Guest | ||||||||||||
Hershii LiqCour-Jeté | SAFE | ELIM | LOSS | Guest |
Legend:
Episode | Contestants | Song | Winner | ||
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1 [4] | Q | vs. | Sapphira Cristál | "Break My Soul" (Beyoncé) | Sapphira Cristál |
2 [5] | Geneva Karr | vs. | Plane Jane | "Shower" (Becky G) | Plane Jane |
Episode | Contestants | Song | Eliminated | ||
3 [6] | Geneva Karr | vs. | Hershii LiqCour-Jeté | "Maybe You're the Problem" (Ava Max) | Hershii LiqCour-Jeté |
4 [7] | Geneva Karr | vs. | Mirage | "Dark Lady" (Cher) | Mirage |
5 [8] | Amanda Tori Meating | vs. | Q | "Emergency" (Icona Pop) | Amanda Tori Meating |
6 [9] | Geneva Karr | vs. | Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige | "Control" (Janet Jackson) | Geneva Karr |
7 [10] | Megami | vs. | Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige | "Flowers" (Miley Cyrus) | Megami |
8 [11] | Morphine Love Dion | vs. | Xunami Muse | "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" (Whitney Houston) | Xunami Muse |
9 [12] | Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige | vs. | Plasma | "Bloody Mary (Wednesday Dance TikTok Version)" (Lady Gaga) | Plasma |
Episode | Contestants | Song | Winner | ||
10 [13] | Morphine Love Dion | vs. | Sapphira Cristál | "Made You Look" (Meghan Trainor) | Sapphira Cristál |
Episode | Contestants | Song | Eliminated | ||
11 [14] | Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige | vs. | Morphine Love Dion | "Dim All the Lights" (Donna Summer) | Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige |
12 [15] | Dawn | vs. | Morphine Love Dion | "Body" (Megan Thee Stallion) | Dawn |
13 [16] | Morphine Love Dion | vs. | Sapphira Cristál | "Miss Me More" (Kelsea Ballerini) | Morphine Love Dion |
14 [17] | Plane Jane | vs. | Q | "Better Be Good to Me" (Tina Turner) | Q |
Episode | Eliminated contestants | Song | Winner | ||
15 [18] | Amanda Tori Meating | vs. | Dawn | "Damaged" (Danity Kane) | Amanda Tori Meating |
Megami | vs. | Q | "What About" (Janet Jackson) | Megami | |
Geneva Karr | vs. | Morphine Love Dion | "Million Dollar Baby" (Ava Max) | Morphine Love Dion | |
Hershii LiqCour-Jeté | vs. | Mirage | "Alone 2.0" (Kim Petras, Nicki Minaj) | Mirage | |
Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige vs. Plasma vs. Xunami Muse | "Milkshake" (Kelis) | Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige | |||
Amanda Tori Meating | vs. | Megami | "The Shoop Shoop Song" (Cher) | Megami | |
Mirage | vs. | Morphine Love Dion | "This Time I Know It's for Real" (Donna Summer) | Morphine Love Dion | |
Megami | vs. | Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige | "We Got the Beat" (The Go-Go's) | Megami | |
Megami | vs. | Morphine Love Dion | "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" (C+C Music Factory) | Morphine Love Dion | |
Episode | Finalists | Song | Winner | ||
16 [19] | Nymphia Wind | vs. | Sapphira Cristál | "Padam Padam" (Kylie Minogue) | Nymphia Wind |
Guests who appeared in episodes, but did not judge on the main stage.
Episodes 1–2
Episode 6
Episode 7
Episode 8
Episode 10
Episode 12
Episode 14
Episode 16
No. overall | No. in series | Title | Original air date | |
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208 | 1 | "Rate-A-Queen" | January 5, 2024 | |
The first seven queens of the season enter the Werk Room. For this episode's main challenge, the queens must perform in the "MTV's Spring Break" talent show.
On the runway, category is RuVeal Yourself. Amanda Tori Meating, Dawn, Mirage Morphine Love Dion, Q, Sapphira Cristál and Xunami Muse receive the judges critiques. The queens rank each other using Rate-A-Queen. It is announced that Q and Sapphira Cristál received the highest placements, making them the top two queens of the week who will lip-sync for the win. They lip-sync to "Break My Soul" by Beyoncé. After the lip-sync, it is announced that Sapphira Cristál is the winner.
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209 | 2 | "Queen Choice Awards" | January 12, 2024 | |
The next seven queens of the season enter the Werk Room. For this episode's main challenge, the queens must perform in the "Queen Choice Awards" talent show.
On the runway, category is Made You Look. Geneva Karr, Nymphia Wind, Plane Jane, Hershii LiqCour-Jeté, Megami, Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige and Plasma receive the judges critiques. The queens rank each other using Rate-A-Queen. It is announced that Geneva Karr and Plane Jane received the highest placements, making them the top two queens of the week who will lip-sync for the win. They lip-sync to "Shower" by Becky G. After the lip-sync, it is announced that Plane Jane is the winner.
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210 | 3 | "The Mother of All Balls" | January 19, 2024 | |
At the beginning of the episode reveals the twist of the season: as the winners of the first two episodes, Plane Jane and Sapphira Cristál will hold the power of the Immunity Potions. This power can only be used once during the competition, the owner will be able to decide whether to use immunity to save themselves or another one of the queens. For the main challenge, the queens walk the Mother of All Ball, presenting two looks brought from home and one made in the work room. Categories are Mother Goose, Significant Mother, and Call Me Mother/Father Eleganza. After the runway, the queens rank each other using Rate-A-Queen. Nymphia Wind, Q and Sapphira Cristál receive positive critiques, with Nymphia Wind winning the challenge. Geneva Karr, Hershii LiqCour-Jeté and Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige receive negative critiques, with Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige being declared safe. Geneva Karr and Hershii LiqCour-Jeté lip-sync to "Maybe You're the Problem" by Ava Max. Geneva Karr wins the lip-sync and Hershii LiqCour-Jeté is eliminated.
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211 | 4 | "RDR Live!" | January 26, 2024 | |
For this episode's main challenge, the queens put their sketch comedy skills to the test in "RDR Live!" comedy show filmed in one take, parodying Saturday Night Live in a challenge returning by “popular demand”, having first appeared in All Stars season 8. On the runway, category is Everything Every-Cher All at Once. From this challenge onwards, the queens are judged by the judging panel rather than using Rate-A-Queen. Plane Jane, Plasma and Q receive positive critiques, with Plasma winning the challenge. Geneva Karr, Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige and Mirage receive negative critiques, with Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige being declared safe. Geneva Karr and Mirage lip-sync to "Dark Lady" by Cher. Geneva Karr wins the lip-sync and Mirage is eliminated.
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212 | 5 | "Girl Groups" | February 2, 2024 | |
For this episode's mini challenge, the queens are tasked with creating a front cover and author biography for a bestselling book. Sapphira Cristál wins the mini challenge. For this episode's main challenge, the queens are tasked to write and perform verses for RuPaul songs from his album Black Butta in groups of four. Geneva Karr, Plasma and Sapphira Cristál are the team captains.
On the runway, category is Faster Pussycat, Wig, Wig. Team Thicc & Stick is the winning team, with Geneva Karr, Megami, Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige and Nymphia Wind all winning the challenge. Team Q.D.S.M. and Team Lovah Girlz are the losing teams. Amanda Tori Meating and Q receive the negative critiques, and are announced as the bottom two, while the rest of the queens are declared safe. Amanda Tori Meating and Q lip-sync to "Emergency" by Icona Pop. Q wins the lip-sync and Amanda Tori Meating is eliminated.
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213 | 6 | " Welcome to the DollHouse " | February 9, 2024 | |
For this episode's main challenge, the queens must design their own dolls based on their drag personas. On the Runway category is Welcome to the DollHouse. Sapphira Cristál chooses to drink her immunity potion and is declared safe before critiques begin. Dawn, Plane Jane and Q receive positive critiques with Q winning the challenge. Geneva Karr, Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige and Plasma receive negative critiques with Plasma being declared safe. Geneva Karr and Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige then lip-sync to "Control" by Janet Jackson. Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige wins the lip-sync and Geneva Karr is eliminated.
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214 | 7 | "The Sound of Rusic" | February 16, 2024 | |
For this week's main challenge, the queens must perform the rusical The Sound of Rusic, inspired by the musical The Sound of Music and its film adaptation. The queens' roles are as follows:
On the runway, category is I Can Buy Myself Flowers. Plasma, Q, and Sapphira Cristál receive positive critiques, with Plasma winning the challenge. Megami, Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige, and Morphine Love Dion receive negative critiques, with Morphine Love Dion being declared safe. Megami and Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige lip-sync to "Flowers" by Miley Cyrus. Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige wins the lip-sync and Megami is eliminated.
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215 | 8 | "Snatch Game" | February 23, 2024 | |
For this week's main challenge, the queens play the Snatch Game. The queens' impersonation subjects are as follows:
On the runway, category is Dancing Queen. Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige, Plane Jane, and Sapphira Cristál receive positive critiques, with Plane Jane winning the challenge. Morphine Love Dion, Nymphia Wind, and Xunami Muse receive negative critiques, with Nymphia Wind being declared safe . Morphine Love Dion and Xunami Muse lip-sync to "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" by Whitney Houston. Morphine Love Dion wins the lip-sync and Xunami Muse is eliminated.
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216 | 9 | "See You Next Wednesday" | March 1, 2024 | |
For this week's mini challenge, the queens perform spit-takes. Nymphia Wind wins the mini challenge. For this episode's main challenge, the queens must design and create a "neo-goth" look from scratch. On the runway, category is See You Next Wednesday. Dawn, Nymphia Wind, Q and Sapphira Cristal receive positive critiques, with Q winning the challenge. Plane Jane receives mixed critiques. Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige, Morphine Love Dion, and Plasma receive negative critiques, with Morphine Love Dion declared safe. Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige and Plasma lip-sync to "Bloody Mary (Wednesday Dance TikTok Version)" by Lady Gaga. Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige wins the lip-sync and Plasma is eliminated.
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217 | 10 | "Werq the World" | March 8, 2024 | |
For this week's main challenge the queens write and perform verses on the song "Power." On the runway, category is True Colours. Plane Jane chooses to gift her immunity potion to Nymphia Wind; Nymphia is declared safe before critiques begin. Dawn, Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige, Morphine Love Dion and Sapphira Cristal receive positive critiques, with Morphine Love Dion and Sapphira Cristál being announced as the top 2. Plane Jane and Q receive mixed critiques but are ultimately announced as Safe. Morphine and Sapphira lip-sync to "Made You Look" by Meghan Trainor. Sapphira wins the lip sync and no one is eliminated.
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218 | 11 | "Corporate Queens" | March 15, 2024 | |
For this week's mini challenge, the queens vote in rounds to assign superlatives to their fellow contestants. The queens voting with the majority in each round earn money. Sapphira Cristál earns the most money and wins the mini challenge. For this episode's main challenge, the queens must write and deliver a drag awareness employee seminar. The queens' assigned groups and topics are as follows:
On the runway, category is Flashback: DragCon 1980. Nymphia Wind and Sapphira Cristál receive positive critiques, with Sapphira Cristál winning the challenge. Plane Jane and Q receive largely positive critiques and are declared safe. Dawn, Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige and Morphine Love Dion receive negative critiques, with Dawn declared safe. Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige and Morphine Love Dion lip-sync to "Dim All the Lights" by Donna Summer. Morphine Love Dion wins the lip-sync and Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige is eliminated.
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219 | 12 | "Bathroom Hunties" | March 22, 2024 | |
For this week's mini challenge, the queens imprint a full beat of makeup onto a T-shirt using only their face. Plane Jane wins the mini challenge. For this week's main challenge, the queens must design a bathroom and present it on the spoof design show Bathroom Hunties. The queens' groups and design concepts are as follows:
On the runway, category is Chain Reaction. Plane Jane and Sapphira Cristál receive positive critiques, and are both declared the winners of the challenge. Dawn, Morphine Love Dion, Nymphia Wind and Q receive largely negative critiques, with Nymphia Wind and Q declared safe. Dawn and Morphine Love Dion lip-sync to "Body" by Megan Thee Stallion. Morphine Love Dion wins the lip-sync and Dawn is eliminated.
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220 | 13 | "Drag Race Vegas Live! Makeovers" | March 29, 2024 | |
For this week's main challenge, the queens must give drag makeovers to Pit Crew dancers from RuPaul's Drag Race Live! . The pairs must also choreograph and perform a dance to a remix of RuPaul's song "Super Queen". On the runway, category is Drag Family Resemblance. Nymphia Wind, Plane Jane and Q receive positive critiques, with Plane Jane winning the challenge. Morphine Love Dion and Sapphira Cristál receive negative critiques and are the bottom two. Morphine Love Dion and Sapphira Cristál lip-sync to "Miss Me More" by Kelsea Ballerini. Sapphira Cristál wins the lip-sync and Morphine Love Dion is eliminated.
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221 | 14 | "Booked and Blessed" | April 5, 2024 | |
For this week's mini challenge, the queens must give a lip sync performance underwater to RuPaul's song "Kitty Girl". Sapphira Cristál wins the mini challenge. For this episode's main challenge, the queens must write a memoir, pose for the cover, and participate in a podcast interview.
On the runway, category is Fandango. Nymphia Wind and Sapphira Cristál receive positive critiques, with Nymphia Wind winning the challenge. Plane Jane and Q receive negative critiques and are the bottom two. Plane Jane and Q lip-sync to "Better Be Good to Me" by Tina Turner. Plane Jane wins the lip-sync and Q is eliminated.
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222 | 15 | "Lip Sync LaLaPaRuza Smackdown – Reunited" | April 12, 2024 | |
This week, the eliminated queens participate in a Lip Sync LaLaPaRuza Smackdown, the winner of which will be crowned as "Queen of She Done Already Done Had Herses" with a $50,000 prize. For most of the lip-syncs a queen is chosen at random who gets to select their opponent. Their opponent then gets to choose the lip sync song. First, Dawn chooses to lip sync against Amanda Tori Meating, who chooses "Damaged" by Danity Kane. Amanda Tori Meating wins the lip-sync and advances to round 2. In the second lip-sync, Q chooses Megami as her opponent, who chooses "What About" by Janet Jackson. Megami wins and advances to round 2. In the third lip-sync, Morphine Love Dion chooses Geneva Karr as her opponent, who chooses "Million Dollar Baby" by Ava Max. Morphine Love Dion wins and advances to round 2. In the fourth lip-sync, Mirage chooses Hershii LiqCour-Jeté as her opponent, who chooses "Alone 2.0" by Kim Petras and Nicki Minaj. Mirage wins and advances to round 2. As the last three remaining queens, Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige, Plasma and Xunami Muse must lip-sync. Mh'iya Iman Le'Paige is randomly selected to pick the song and chooses "Milkshake" by Kelis. Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige wins and advances directly to round 3. In the first lip-sync of round 2, Amanda Tori Meating chooses Megami as her opponent, who chooses "The Shoop Shoop Song" by Cher. Megami wins and advances to round 3. In the second lip-sync of round 2, the two remaining queens, Mirage and Morphine Love Dion, must lip-sync. Morphine Love Dion is randomly selected to pick the song and chooses "This Time I Know It's for Real" by Donna Summer. Morphine Love Dion wins and advances to round 3. Before the third round, RuPaul reveals a twist: one of the remaining queens will be selected at random and that queen must choose their opponent. The queen who is not chosen will advance directly to the final round. Megami is selected, and she chooses to lip-sync against Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige. Thus, Megami and Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige lip sync to the remaining song "We Got the Beat" by The Go-Go's. Megami wins and advances to the final round. In the final round Megami and Morphine Love Dion lip-sync to "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" by C+C Music Factory. Morphine Love Dion wins the lip sync and the title of "Queen of She Done Already Done Had Herses".
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223 | 16 | "Grand Finale" | April 19, 2024 | |
In elimination order the eliminated queens and the finalists walk the runway on the finale stage. Each finalist – in order: Nymphia Wind, Plane Jane and Sapphira Cristál – perform an original solo number and get interviewed by RuPaul. After a video highlighting her life and appearances on Drag Race, RuPaul presents the "Giving Us Life-time Achievement Award" to Cassandra Peterson. RuPaul announces that Nymphia and Sapphira will move forward to the final lip sync; Plane Jane receives a tip of $25,000. In a video all contestants of the season celebrate their mothers. Last season's winner Sasha Colby performs "Her" by Megan Thee Stallion and gets interviewed by RuPaul. All eliminated queens perform together on stage. Last season's Miss Congeniality Malaysia Babydoll Foxx announces this year's Miss Congeniality - which for the first time in Drag Race herstory is a tie: Sapphira Cristál and Xunami Muse, who both receive $10,000. Nymphia Wind and Sapphira Cristál lipsync to "Padam Padam" by Kylie Minogue. RuPaul announces as the winner Nymphia Wind. She receives the crown and scepter from Sasha Colby and $200,000; Sapphira Cristál receives $25,000.
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No. | Title | Air date | Rating (18–49) | Viewers (millions) |
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1 | "Rate-A-Queen" | January 5, 2024 | 0.26 [20] | 0.708 [20] |
2 | "Queen Choice Awards" | January 12, 2024 | 0.21 [21] | 0.592 [21] |
3 | "The Mother of All Balls" | January 19, 2024 | 0.21 [22] | 0.589 [22] |
4 | "RDR Live!" | January 26, 2024 | 0.24 [23] | 0.598 [23] |
5 | "Girl Groups" | February 2, 2024 | 0.16 [24] | 0.470 [24] |
6 | "Welcome to the Doll House" | February 9, 2024 | 0.19 [25] | 0.482 [25] |
7 | "The Sound of Rusic" | February 16, 2024 | 0.17 [26] | 0.519 [26] |
8 | "Snatch Game" | February 23, 2024 | 0.21 [27] | 0.569 [27] |
9 | "See You Next Wednesday" | March 1, 2024 | 0.29 [28] | 0.632 [28] |
10 | "Werq the World" | March 8, 2024 | 0.23 [29] | 0.562 [29] |
11 | "Corporate Queens" | March 15, 2024 | 0.19 [30] | 0.516 [30] |
12 | "Bathroom Hunties" | March 22, 2024 | 0.21 [31] | 0.516 [31] |
13 | "Drag Race Vegas Live! Makeovers" | March 29, 2024 | 0.22 [32] | 0.567 [32] |
14 | "Booked & Blessed" | April 5, 2024 | 0.21 [33] | 0.498 [33] |
15 | "Lip Sync LaLaPaRuza Smackdown – Reunited" | April 12, 2024 | 0.24 [34] | 0.580 [34] |
16 | "Grand Finale" | April 19, 2024 | 0.31 [35] | 0.708 [35] |
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The thirteenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race premiered on January 1 and concluded on April 23, 2021. The cast was announced via Twitter on December 9, 2020. The competition is broadcast on VH1 in the United States and showcases 13 new queens competing for the title of "America's Next Drag Superstar". VH1 renewed both RuPaul's Drag Race and its spin-off RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars for a thirteenth and sixth season respectively on August 20, 2020. Casting calls for season 13 were opened in December 2019. In addition to airing on VH1, the premiere episode was simulcast across 5 other channels: Logo, MTV, MTV2, Pop, and The CW, becoming the most-watched episode in the franchise's history.
The first season of RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race premiered Friday, April 24, 2020, on VH1 (US). The four-part event series judging panel include RuPaul, Michelle Visage, Carson Kressley and Ross Mathews. The secret celebrities underwent a drag transformation and were mentored by Drag Race Royalty as "Queens Supremes".
The sixth season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars premiered on June 24 and concluded on September 2, 2021. The first two episodes of the season aired on the same day. On August 20, 2020, VH1 renewed both RuPaul's Drag Race and All Stars for its thirteenth and sixth season respectively. On February 24, 2021, ViacomCBS announced the sixth season of the show would move from VH1 to Paramount+, an online streaming service. However, the season is still broadcast by the same networks abroad.
The fourteenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race premiered on January 7, 2022. The reality competition series, broadcast on VH1 in the United States, showcases 14 new queens competing for the title of "America's Next Drag Superstar". Casting calls for season 14 were opened in November 2020, and the cast was officially revealed by season 13 winner Symone on VH1 on December 2, 2021. The season premiere received 738,000 viewers, making it the most-watched premiere since Season 10.
The seventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars premiered on Paramount+ on May 20 and concluded on July 29, 2022.
The first season of Drag Race Philippines premiered on August 17, 2022. The cast was announced on July 27, 2022. The winner of the first season of Drag Race Philippines was Precious Paula Nicole, with Marina Summers as the runner-up.
The fifteenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race premiered January 6, 2023. The reality competition series moved to MTV for broadcast, instead of VH1 in the United States.
"Lip Sync LaLaPaRuza Smackdown" is the eighth episode of the fifteenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race. It originally aired on February 17, 2023. The episode does not have any guest judges. It has the contestants participate a series of lip-syncs that culminates in the elimination of Jax.
RuPaul's Drag Race Global All Stars is a television series, which premiered on August 16, 2024 and ended on October 25, 2024.
The third season of Drag Race Philippines premiered on 7 August 2024. The season airs on HBO Go in Philippines and WOW Presents Plus internationally. The season was confirmed by World of Wonder on 17 October 2023.
The first series of RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs. the World began airing on BBC Three on 1 February 2022. RuPaul assumed the role of main host and head judge, and was joined on the judging panel by Michelle Visage, Alan Carr and Graham Norton, all of whom are judges on RuPaul's Drag Race UK.
The second series of RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs. the World began airing on BBC Three and BBC iPlayer on 9 February 2024. RuPaul returned to his role of main host and head judge, and again was joined on the judging panel by Michelle Visage, Alan Carr and Graham Norton, all of whom are judges on RuPaul's Drag Race UK.
The ninth season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars premiered on Paramount+ on May 17, 2024.