X Factor | |
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Season 2 | |
Hosted by | Alketa Vejsiu |
Judges | Pandi Laço Altuna Sejdiu Soni Malaj Alban Skënderaj |
Winner | Arilena Ara |
Runner-up | Aldo Bardhi |
Release | |
Original network | Klan Television |
Original release | 28 October 2012 – 31 March 2013 |
Season chronology |
X Factor is an Albanian television music competition to find new singing talents. The second season began on 28 October 2012 on TV Klan.
Based on the British format, the competition consists of auditions, in front of producers and then the judges with a live audience; bootcamp; judges' houses and then the live finals. [1] Auditions for the show began in August and concluded in September 2011. The show is hosted by Albanian singer Alketa Vejsiu, while the judging panel consists of the biggest Albanian artists. Albanian famous writer, composer and TV presenter Pandi Laço, Albanian Macedonian pop singer Altuna Sejdiu, Soni Malaj and the Albanian superstar Alban Skënderaj. The season was won by Arilena Ara of the Girls category.
This year, Juliana Pasha and Vesa Luma were replaced by the new judges, Altuna Sejdiu and Soni Malaj. The reason that Pasha and Luma did not continue their mentoring job, was generally due to their music commitment. Altuna Sejdiu, the new judge, was a part of last year's X Factor auditions in Tirana, replacing Vesa Luma. After the withdrawal of Pasha and Luma, it was rumoured that Altuna Sejdiu will be a part of the show. Together with her, Kosovo-based Albanian singer, Eliza Hoxha was also rumoured to be a judge. However, a few days before the show aired, TV Klan held a press conference explaining the procedure and the new judges. Bojken Lako was also a guest-judge in the auditions.
The 13 eliminated acts were:
After the judges' houses stage, Arilena Ara and Kanita Suma were put into the live shows as wildcards.
The top 18 contestants were confirmed as follows;
Key:
Category (mentor) | Acts | ||||
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Boys (Malaj) | Aldo Bardhi | Herri Beluli | Petro Xhori | Sardi Strugaj | |
Girls (Sejdiu) | Antonela Çekixhi | Arilena Ara | Elisa Salla | Shkelqesa Sadiku | Xhina Kelmendi |
No Limit (Laço) | Egzona Ademi | Ina Torba | Kanita Suma | Rezart Saliasi | Suela Malasi |
Groups (Skënderaj) | Foxy Ladies | KSAL | Natyral | Soul Sisters | |
– | Contestant was in the bottom two/three and had to sing again in the final showdown |
– | Contestant was in the bottom three but received the fewest votes and was immediately eliminated |
– | Contestant received the most public votes |
Contestant | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9 | Week 10 | Week 11 | Week 12 | Week 13 | Week 14 | Week 15 | Week 16 | |
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Round One | Round Two | ||||||||||||||||
Arilena Ara | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Winner (week 16) |
Aldo Bardhi | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Safe | 3rd | Safe | Runner-Up (week 16) |
Natyral | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | 3rd | Eliminated (week 16) |
Kanita Suma | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | 4th | 4th | Eliminated (week 15) | |
Antonela Çekixhi | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Safe | 5th | Eliminated (week 14) | ||
KSAL | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | 7th | Safe | Bottom two | Eliminated (week 13) | |||
Sardi Strugaj | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | 12th | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Eliminated (week 12) | ||||
Egzona Ademi | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | 8th | Eliminated (week 11) | |||||
Soul Sisters | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | 11th | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Eliminated (week 10) | ||||||
Petro Xhori | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Bottom two | Eliminated (week 9) | |||||||
Elisa Salla | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Eliminated (week 8) | ||||||||
Xhina Kelmendi | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | 12th | Eliminated (week 7) | |||||||||
Herri Beluli | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | 13th | Eliminated (week 6) | ||||||||||
Suela Malasi | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Eliminated (week 5) | |||||||||||
Shkelqesa Sadiku | Safe | Bottom two | Safe | Bottom two | Eliminated (week 4) | ||||||||||||
Foxy Ladies | Bottom three | Bottom two | Eliminated (week 2) | ||||||||||||||
Ina Torba | Bottom three | Eliminated (week 1) | |||||||||||||||
Rezart Saliasi | 18th | Eliminated (week 1) | |||||||||||||||
Final showdown | Foxy Ladies Ina Torba | Foxy Ladies Shkelqesa Sadiku | Elisa Salla Shkelqesa Sadiku | Herri Beluli Suela Malasi | Herri Beluli Sardi Strugaj | Soul Sisters Xhina Kelmendi | Elisa Salla Petro Xhori | Antonela Çekixhi Petro Xhori | Natyral Soul Sisters | Egzona Ademi KSAL | Antonela Çekixhi Sardi Strugaj | Aldo Bardhi KSAL | Antonela Çekixhi Kanita Suma | Aldo Bardhi Kanita Suma | No final showdown or judges' vote: results are based on public votes alone | ||
Judges voted to eliminate: | Eliminate | ||||||||||||||||
Skënderaj's vote to eliminate: | Ina Torba | Shkelqesa Sadiku | — | — | Suela Malasi | Herri Beluli | Xhina Kelmendi | Elisa Salla | Petro Xhori | Soul Sisters | Egzona Ademi | Sardi Strugaj | Aldo Bardhi | Kanita Suma | Kanita Suma | ||
Sejdiu's vote to eliminate: | Ina Torba | Foxy Ladies | — | Shkelqesa Sadiku | Suela Malasi | Sardi Strugaj | Soul Sisters | Petro Xhori | Petro Xhori | Soul Sisters | Egzona Ademi | Sardi Strugaj | KSAL | Kanita Suma | Aldo Bardhi | ||
Malaj's vote to eliminate: | Ina Torba | Foxy Ladies | — | Shkelqesa Sadiku | Suela Malasi | Sardi Strugaj | Xhina Kelemendi | Elisa Salla | Antonela Çekixhi | Soul Sisters | KSAL | Antonela Çekixhi | KSAL | Antonela Çekixhi | Kanita Suma | ||
Laço's vote to eliminate: | Foxy Ladies | Foxy Ladies | — | Shkelqesa Sadiku | Herri Beluli | Herri Beluli | Soul Sisters | Elisa Salla | Petro Xhori | — | KSAL | Sardi Strugaj | KSAL | Antonela Çekixhi | Aldo Bardhi | ||
Eliminated | Rezart Saliasi Public Vote | Foxy Ladies 3 of 4 votes Majority | None | Shkelqesa Sadiku 3 of 4 votes Majority | Suela Malasi 3 of 4 votes Majority | Herri Beluli 2 of 4 votes Deadlock | Xhina Kelmendi 2 of 4 votes Deadlock | Elisa Salla 3 of 4 votes Majority | Petro Xhori 3 of 4 votes Majority | Soul Sisters 3 of 4 votes Majority | Egzona Ademi 2 of 4 votes Deadlock | Sardi Strugaj 3 of 4 votes Majority | KSAL 3 of 4 votes Majority | Antonela Çekixhi 2 of 4 votes Deadlock | Kanita Suma 2 of 4 votes Deadlock | Natyral Third Place | Aldo Bardhi Runner-Up |
Ina Torba 3 of 4 votes Majority | Arilena Ara Winner |
Act | Order | Song | Result | |
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Soul Sisters | 1 | "Purple Rain" | Safe | |
Elisa Salla | 2 | "All I Could Do Was Cry" | Safe | |
Sardi Strugaj | 3 | "Here Without You" | Safe | |
Kanita Suma | 4 | "Someone like You" | Safe | |
Arilena Ara | 5 | "Man Down" | Safe | |
KSAL | 6 | "Beggin'" | Safe | |
Ina Torba | 7 | "The Boy Does Nothing" | Bottom three | |
Petro Xhori | 8 | "Callin' U" | Safe | |
Rezart Saliasi | 9 | "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" | Eliminated | |
Shkelqesa Sadiku | 10 | "Beautiful" | Safe | |
Suela Malasi | 11 | "We Are" | Safe | |
Aldo Bardhi | 12 | "I Believe I Can Fly" | Safe | |
Foxy Ladies | 13 | "Just Dance" | Bottom three | |
Xhina Kelmendi | 14 | "Love You Like a Love Song" | Safe | |
Herri Beluli | 15 | "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" | Safe | |
Egzona Ademi | 16 | "You Know I'm No Good" | Safe | |
Antonela Çekixhi | 17 | "Proud Mary" | Safe | |
Natyral | 18 | "End of Time" | Safe | |
Final showdown details | ||||
Ina Torba | 1 | "You Lost Me" | Eliminated | |
Foxy Ladies | 2 | "DNA" | Safe |
Judges' votes to eliminate
Act | Order | Song | Result | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Natyral | 1 | "All I Want for Christmas Is You" | Safe | |
Arilena Ara | 2 | "Walking on Sunshine" | Safe | |
Petro Xhori | 3 | "Jingle Bells" | Safe | |
Elisa Salla | 4 | "We Will Rock You"/"The Show Must Go On" | Safe | |
KSAL | 5 | "What Goes Around... Comes Around" | Safe | |
Shkelqesa Sadiku | 6 | "Firework" | Bottom two | |
Kanita Suma | 7 | "Hallelujah" | Safe | |
Suela Malasi | 8 | "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" | Safe | |
Xhina Kelmendi | 9 | "Kiss Me" | Safe | |
Foxy Ladies | 10 | "Buttons" | Bottom two | |
Herri Beluli | 11 | "This Christmas" | Safe | |
Sardi Strugaj | 12 | "Eye of the Tiger" | Safe | |
Soul Sisters | 13 | "Crazy" | Safe | |
Aldo Bardhi | 14 | "Silent Night" | Safe | |
Antonela Çekixhi | 15 | "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" | Safe | |
Egzona Ademi | 16 | "Amazing Grace" | Safe | |
Final showdown details | ||||
Shkelqesa Sadiku | 1 | "Suus" | Safe | |
Foxy Ladies | 2 | "Black Heart" | Eliminated |
Judges' votes to eliminate
Act | Order | Song | Result | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Arilena Ara | 1 | "It's Raining Men" | Safe | ||
Herri Beluli | 2 | "Wild World" | Safe | ||
Soul Sisters | 3 | "Respect" | Safe | ||
Kanita Suma | 4 | "Nobody's Perfect" | Safe | ||
Egzona Ademi | 5 | "Big Spender" | Safe | ||
Shkelqesa Sadiku | 6 | "At Last" | Safe | ||
Suela Malasi | 7 | "Hot Stuff" | Safe | ||
Natyral | 8 | "Roc' the Life" | Safe | ||
Xhina Kelmendi | 9 | "My Only Wish (This Year)" | Safe | ||
Sardi Strugaj | 10 | "Run Rudolph Run" | Safe | ||
KSAL | 11 | "Your Song" | Safe | ||
Petro Xhori | 12 | "Pop" | Safe | ||
Elisa Salla | 13 | "River Deep – Mountain High" | Safe | ||
Aldo Bardhi | 14 | "Read All About It" | Safe | ||
Antonela Çekixhi | 15 | "I Will Follow Him" | Safe | ||
No Final Showdown |
Act | Order | Song | Result | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Soul Sisters | 1 | "One" | Safe | |
Xhina Kelmendi | 2 | "Skinny Love" | Safe | |
Petro Xhori | 3 | "Airplanes" | Safe | |
Shkelqesa Sadiku | 4 | "Perfect" | Bottom two | |
Aldo Bardhi | 5 | "When I Get You Alone" | Safe | |
Kanita Suma | 6 | "Girl on Fire" | Safe | |
Suela Malasi | 7 | "Sober" | Safe | |
Antonela Çekixhi | 8 | "Survivor" | Safe | |
Herri Beluli | 9 | "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" | Safe | |
Natyral | 10 | "Another Way to Die" | Safe | |
Elisa Salla | 11 | "I Have Nothing" | Bottom two | |
Egzona Ademi | 12 | "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" | Safe | |
KSAL | 13 | "Rule the World" | Safe | |
Arilena Ara | 14 | "Always" | Safe | |
Sardi Strugaj | 15 | "We Could Be the Same" | Safe | |
Final showdown details | ||||
Shkelqesa Sadiku | 1 | "Euphoria" | Eliminated | |
Elisa Salla | 2 | "Lovin' You" | Safe |
Judges' votes to eliminate
Act | Order | Song | Result | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Natyral | 1 | "One and Only" | Safe | |
Arilena Ara | 2 | "Satellite" | Safe | |
Egzona Ademi | 3 | "Ancora ancora ancora" | Safe | |
Aldo Bardhi | 4 | "Impossible" | Safe | |
Xhina Kelmendi | 5 | "Hey There Delilah" | Safe | |
Soul Sisters | 6 | "Total Eclipse of the Heart" | Safe | |
Herri Beluli | 7 | "Diamonds" | Bottom two | |
Suela Malasi | 8 | "Black Velvet" | Bottom two | |
Sardi Strugaj | 9 | "Hard Rock Hallelujah" | Safe | |
Elisa Salla | 10 | "Stop!" | Safe | |
Kanita Suma | 11 | "Valsi i lumturisë" | Safe | |
Petro Xhori | 12 | "Bleeding Love" | Safe | |
KSAL | 13 | "Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely" | Safe | |
Antonela Çekixhi | 14 | "The Best" | Safe | |
Final showdown details | ||||
Herri Beluli | 1 | "Sleepwalker" | Safe | |
Suela Malasi | 2 | "Karma" | Eliminated |
Judges' votes to eliminate
Act | Order | Song | Result | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Soul Sisters | 1 | "Do You Love Me" | Safe | |
Egzona Ademi | 2 | "Family Portrait" | Safe | |
Arilena Ara | 3 | "Titanium" | Safe | |
Kanita Suma | 4 | "Russian Roulette" | Safe | |
Sardi Strugaj | 5 | "I Don't Want to Talk About It" | Bottom two | |
Elisa Salla | 6 | "Bound to You" | Safe | |
Natyral | 7 | "We Are Young" | Safe | |
Xhina Kelmendi | 8 | "Soon We'll Be Found" | Safe | |
Petro Xhori | 9 | "4 Minutes" | Safe | |
Herri Beluli | 10 | "Shpirti im Binjak" | Bottom two | |
Aldo Bardhi | 11 | "Hello" | Safe | |
Antonela Çekixhi | 12 | "Dirty Diana" | Safe | |
KSAL | 13 | "Gambling Man" | Safe | |
Final showdown details | ||||
Sardi Strugaj | 1 | "Smells Like Teen Spirit" | Safe | |
Herri Beluli | 2 | "Whataya Want from Me" | Eliminated |
Judges' votes to eliminate
Act | Order | Song | Result | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Petro Xhori | 1 | "Tonight (I'm Lovin' You)" | Safe | |
Kanita Suma | 2 | "Because You Loved Me" | Safe | |
KSAL | 3 | "As Long as You Love Me" | Safe | |
Elisa Salla | 4 | "Je suis malade" | Safe | |
Arilena Ara | 5 | "Broken-Hearted Girl" | Safe | |
Soul Sisters | 6 | "Breathe Easy" | Bottom two | |
Xhina Kelmendi | 7 | "Monday Morning" | Bottom two | |
Aldo Bardhi | 8 | "Et si tu n'existais pas" | Safe | |
Egzona Ademi | 9 | "GoldenEye" | Safe | |
Natyral | 10 | "Where Have You Been" | Safe | |
Antonela Çekixhi | 11 | "You Lost Me" | Safe | |
Sardi Strugaj | 12 | "You Give Love a Bad Name" | Safe | |
Final showdown details | ||||
Xhina Kelmendi | 1 | "The A Team" | Eliminated | |
Soul Sisters | 2 | "I Will Always Love You" | Safe |
Judges' votes to eliminate
Act | Order | Song | Result | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Soul Sisters | 1 | "I Will Survive"/"Survivor" | Safe | |
Antonela Çekixhi | 2 | "Something's Got a Hold on Me" | Safe | |
Petro Xhori | 3 | "Ain't No Sunshine" | Bottom two | |
Kanita Suma | 4 | "Because of You" | Safe | |
Elisa Salla | 5 | "My Heart Is Refusing Me" | Bottom two | |
Sardi Strugaj | 6 | "I Don't Want to Be" | Safe | |
Natyral | 7 | "If I Ain't Got You" | Safe | |
Aldo Bardhi | 8 | "Battle Scars" | Safe | |
Egzona Ademi | 9 | "Nobody's Wife" | Safe | |
Arilena Ara | 10 | "Wild Dances" | Safe | |
KSAL | 11 | "Jailhouse Rock" | Safe | |
Final showdown details | ||||
Petro Xhori | 1 | "Fire" | Safe | |
Elisa Salla | 2 | "I See You" | Eliminated |
Judges' votes to eliminate
Act | Order | Song | Result | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Natyral | 1 | "You're the One That I Want" | Safe | |
Aldo Bardhi | 2 | "It Will Rain" | Safe | |
Kanita Suma | 3 | "Oh Mother" | Safe | |
Egzona Ademi | 4 | "Sweet Dreams"/"Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" | Safe | |
Soul Sisters | 5 | "Without You" | Safe | |
Petro Xhori | 6 | "Bye Bye Bye" | Bottom two | |
KSAL | 7 | "Hero" | Safe | |
Antonela Çekixhi | 8 | "Think" | Bottom two | |
Arilena Ara | 9 | "Jar of Hearts" | Safe | |
Sardi Strugaj | 10 | "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" | Safe | |
Final showdown details | ||||
Petro Xhori | 1 | "Wherever You Will Go" | Eliminated | |
Antonela Çekixhi | 2 | "Mamma Knows Best" | Safe |
Judges' votes to eliminate
Act | Order | Song | Result | |
---|---|---|---|---|
KSAL | 1 | "Breathing" | Safe | |
Arilena Ara | 2 | "Objection (Tango)" | Safe | |
Sardi Strugaj | 3 | "Sex on Fire" | Safe | |
Kanita Suma | 4 | "Eyes on me" | Safe | |
Antonela Çekixhi | 5 | "All the Man That I Need" | Safe | |
Soul Sisters | 6 | "Rumour Has It"/"Someone Like You" | Bottom two | |
Natyral | 7 | "Free Your Mind" | Bottom two | |
Egzona Ademi | 8 | "All That Jazz" | Safe | |
Aldo Bardhi | 9 | "When a Man Loves a Woman" | Safe | |
Final showdown details | ||||
Soul Sisters | 1 | "All by Myself" | Eliminated | |
Natyral | 2 | "My Kind of Love" | Safe |
Judges' votes to eliminate
Act | Order | Song | Result | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Sardi Strugaj | 1 | "You Can Leave Your Hat On" | Safe | |
Egzona Ademi | 2 | "Margherita" | Bottom two | |
Kanita Suma | 3 | "Fallin'" | Safe | |
KSAL | 4 | "Apologize" | Bottom two | |
Antonela Çekixhi | 5 | "Earth Song" | Safe | |
Arilena Ara | 6 | "Stay" | Safe | |
Natyral | 7 | "Let It Be" | Safe | |
Aldo Bardhi | 8 | "Runaway Baby" | Safe | |
Final showdown details | ||||
Egzona Ademi | 1 | "Hurt" | Eliminated | |
KSAL | 2 | "Incomplete" | Safe |
Judges' votes to eliminate
Act | Order | Song | Result | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Kanita Suma | 1 | "Price Tag" | Safe | |
Aldo Bardhi | 2 | "The Big Bang" | Safe | |
Sardi Strugaj | 3 | "Break On Through (To the Other Side)" | Bottom two | |
KSAL | 4 | "Umbrella" | Safe | |
Arilena Ara | 5 | "She Said" | Safe | |
Antonela Çekixhi | 6 | "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" | Bottom two | |
Natyral | 7 | "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" | Safe | |
Final showdown details | ||||
Sardi Strugaj | 1 | "Somebody Told Me" | Eliminated | |
Antonela Çekixhi | 2 | "Love on Top" | Safe |
Judges' votes to eliminate
Act | Order | Song | Result | |
---|---|---|---|---|
KSAL | 1 | "Hot n Cold" | Bottom two | |
Antonela Çekixhi | 2 | "New York, New York" | Safe | |
Aldo Bardhi | 3 | "Halo" | Bottom two | |
Kanita Suma | 4 | "Don't You Remember" | Safe | |
Arilena Ara | 5 | "Written in the Stars" | Safe | |
Natyral | 6 | "The Voice Within" | Safe | |
Final showdown details | ||||
KSAL | 1 | "Sweet Home Chicago" | Eliminated | |
Aldo Bardhi | 2 | "Bound to You" | Safe |
Judges' votes to eliminate
Act | Order | First song | Order | Second song | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Antonela Çekixhi | 1 | "Lady Marmalade" | 6 | "Listen" | Bottom two |
Natyral | 2 | "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" | 7 | "Flashdance... What a Feeling" | Safe |
Aldo Bardhi | 3 | "When I Was Your Man" | 8 | "One Way or Another" | Safe |
Kanita Suma | 4 | "I Will Love Again" | 9 | "My Immortal" | Bottom two |
Arilena Ara | 5 | "Alone" | 10 | "Billie Jean" | Safe |
Final showdown details | |||||
Antonela Çekixhi | 1 | "Who You Are" | Eliminated | ||
Kanita Suma | 2 | "If I Were a Boy" | Safe | ||
Judges' votes to eliminate
Act | Order | First song | Order | Second song | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Arilena Ara | 1 | "Try" | 5 | "Addicted to Love" (with Juliana Pasha) | Safe |
Kanita Suma | 2 | "My Kind of Love" | 6 | "My Heart Will Go On" (with Olta Boka) | Bottom two |
Aldo Bardhi | 3 | "Georgia on My Mind" | 7 | "Unfaithful" (with Sheila Haxhiraj) | Bottom two |
Natyral | 4 | "The Silence" | 8 | "" (with Ardit Gjebrea) | Safe |
Final showdown details | |||||
Kanita Suma | 1 | "" | Eliminated | ||
Aldo Bardhi | 2 | "Impossible" | Safe |
Judges' votes to eliminate
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