X Factor | |
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Season 7 | |
Hosted by | Răzvan Simion Dani Oțil (A1) |
Judges | Delia Matache Horia Brenciu Ștefan Bănică, Jr. Carla's Dreams Crina Mardare (guest) |
Winner | Jeremy Ragsdale |
Winning mentor | Horia Brenciu |
Runner-up | Ad Libitum |
Release | |
Original network | Antena 1 |
Original release | September 10 – December 22, 2017 |
Season chronology |
X Factor is a Romanian television music competition that aims to find a new music talent to become a star. The seventh season will started airing on 10 September 2017 on Antena 1. [1]
The hosts are the same as in the first six seasons: Răzvan Simion and Dani Oțil, who are also known for hosting a well known morning show on Antena 1. Delia Matache, Horia Brenciu, Carla's Dreams and Ștefan Bănică, Jr. returned to the judging panel. [2]
Jeremy Ragsdale won the competition, making Horia Brenciu's second win as a mentor.
Delia Matache is a famous Romanian eurobeat singer-songwriter, TV celebrity, dancer, philanthropist, former model, fashion designer. She has started her stage music activity in 1999 in N&D music band with Nicolae Marin and had released 4 albums, and after the split off in 2003 she had released another two solo albums.
Horia Brenciu is a Romanian singer, television host for the Romanian version of Dancing with the Stars, successful entertainer, and philanthropist. He studied at National College Andrei Şaguna from Braşov, then he continued to Şcoala Populară de Artă Braşov, at piano and canto class, and in 1998 he graduated The Theater Academy in Bucharest.
Ștefan Bănică, Jr. is a Romanian entertainer, of Roma people origin on his father side, TV presenter, one of the most important Romanian TV personality, the son of actor Ștefan Bănică. He is well known in Romanian for presenting the Romanian version of “Dancing with the Stars”, the largest dance competition ever aired in Romania, broadcast on Pro TV.
Carla's Dreams is a Moldavian musical project which was initiated by Dobra Robert in 2012. The band is an anonymous group of singers and composers who sing in Romanian, Russian and English. During concerts the band's vocalist wears hood, sunglasses and a masked to hide his identity.
Established in Chișinău, Carla's Dreams combines several musical styles, including hip hop, jazz, rock and pop. The first song produced by Carla's Dreams was Dă-te ("Get Off"). Carla's Dreams has launched in Romania in 2013, along with Inna with the song P.O.H.U.I., later to sing with Loredana "Lumea Ta" ("Your World"), and in 2015 with Delia, releasing songs "Cum Ne Noi" ("How We Us") and "Da, Mamă" ("Yes, Mother").
Audition process was based on the British and American version. First up were "The Producer's Audition", where the producers chose singers to proceed to the second phase which was "The Audition before the Judging panel".
City | Auditions date |
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Craiova | May 5, 2017 |
Arad | May 7, 2017 |
Cluj Napoca | May 9, 2017 |
Sibiu | May 12, 2017 |
Iași | May 14, 2017 |
Galați | May 17, 2017 |
Chișinău | May 18, 2017 |
Bucharest | May 21, 2017 |
The auditions were broadcast from 8 September 2017 until 17 November 2017. The auditions consisted in 11 episodes.
This season, there will be four categories : Boys (14–24 years), Girls (14–24 years), Over 24s and the Groups.
Brenciu will mentor the Over 24s, Bănică the Boys, Carla's Dream the Groups and Matache will mentor the Girls. [3] [4] [5]
Complete Teams
Category (mentor) | Top 41 acts | |||||
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Boys (Bănică) | Anton Banaghan | Pierluca Salvatore | Alin Buruiană | Gabriel Haralambie | Viorel Grecu | Cristian Porcari |
Sebastian Hădărean | Lilian Dobândă | Simone Venditti | Radu Mitrea | |||
Girls (Matache) | Alina Mocanu | Teodora Sava | Ioana Mîrți | Francesca Nicolescu | Costina Crăciun | Ana Nica Văcari |
Isabela Chitoșcă | Ioana Savu | Narcisa Stănescu | Mikayla Kachur | Geanina Mîndrescu | ||
Over 24s (Brenciu) | Katerina Biehu | Jeremy Ragsdale | Alexandra Crăescu | Vlad Gliga | Armando Drăgan | Georgi Simeonov |
Cristi Nistor | Maria Gogu | Miruna Ionescu | Mike Obinna | |||
Groups (Carla's) | Ad Libitum | Flashback | 18:27 | Dream Girls | X Fusion | Daudia |
Random | Artizan | Debu & Vasâi | Denisa & Rebeca |
This season, the categories will face the four-chair challenge. From the 41 acts competing (the Girls category had an extra act), at the end of this round, only 16 acts will go further in the competition. [6] [7]
The four-chair challenge were broadcast from 23 November 2017 until 7 December 2017. This consisted in 4 episodes, one for each group.
Episode | Category (mentor) | Act | Order | Song | Mentor's decision | Switched with |
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Episode 12 (23 November) | Boys (Bănică) | Radu Mitrea | 1 | "Shape of You" | Eliminated | — |
Alin Buruiană | 2 | "Ave Maria" | Put in chair 1 | — | ||
Cristian Porcari | 3 | "Let Her Go" | Put in chair 2 | Viorel Grecu | ||
Anton Banaghan | 4 | "Say You Won't Let Go" | Put in chair 3 | — | ||
Simone Venditti | 5 | "I Believe I Can Fly " | Eliminated | — | ||
Gabriel Haralambie | 6 | "A Song for You" | Put in chair 4 | — | ||
Lilian Dobândă | 7 | "Too Close" | Eliminated | — | ||
Sebastian Hădărean | 8 | "Cine Ești?" | Eliminated | — | ||
Viorel Grecu | 9 | "1000 RPM" | Put in chair 2 | Pierluca Salvatore | ||
Pierluca Salvatore | 10 | "A Sky Full of Stars" | Put in chair 2 | — | ||
Episode 13 (24 November) | Girls (Delia) | Alina Mocanu 1 | 1 | "All I Could Do Was Cry" | Put in chair 3 | Teodora Sava |
Geanina Mîndrescu | 2 | "Attention" | Eliminated | — | ||
Mikayla Kachur | 3 | "Je veux" | Eliminated | — | ||
Costina Crăciun | 4 | "Chain of Fools" | Put in chair 2 | Francesca Nicolescu | ||
Ana Nica Văcari | 5 | "Tired" | Put in chair 3 | Alina Mocanu | ||
Narcisa Stănescu | 6 | "Bang Bang" | Eliminated | — | ||
Ioana Savu | 7 | "Rug" | Put in chair 4 | Ioana Mîrți | ||
Ioana Mîrți | 8 | "When We Were Young" | Put in chair 4 | — | ||
Teodora Sava | 9 | "Firework" | Put in chair 1 | — | ||
Isabela Chitoșcă | 10 | "Sweet Talker" | Eliminated | — | ||
Francesca Nicolescu | 11 | "Jealous" | Put in chair 2 | — | ||
Episode 14 (1 December) | Over 24s (Brenciu) | Cristi Nistor | 1 | "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" | Put in chair 1 | Jeremy Ragsdale |
Georgi Simeonov | 2 | "I Can't Make You Love Me" | Put in chair 2 | Alexandra Crăescu | ||
Maria Gogu | 3 | "Irreplaceable" | Put in chair 3 | Katerina Biehu | ||
Mike Obinna | 4 | "Wake Me Up" | Put in chair 4 | Vlad Gliga | ||
Vlad Gliga | 5 | "Dancing on My Own" | Put in chair 4 | — | ||
Miruna Ionescu | 6 | "Sunt vagabondul vieții mele" | Eliminated | — | ||
Katerina Biehu | 7 | "If I Were a Boy" | Put in chair 3 | — | ||
Jeremy Ragsdale | 8 | "I Have Nothing" | Put in chair 1 | — | ||
Alexandra Crăescu | 9 | "One" | Put in chair 2 | — | ||
Armando Drăgan | 10 | "Paradise" | Eliminated | — | ||
Episode 15 (7 December) | Groups (Carla's) | Artizan | 1 | "Like I'm Gonna Lose You" | Put in chair 1 | Ad Libitum |
Denisa & Rebeca | 2 | "Million Reasons" | Eliminated | — | ||
18:27 | 3 | "Beggin'" | Put in chair 2 | — | ||
Daudia | 4 | "All of Me" | Put in chair 3 | Flashback | ||
Random | 5 | "Bird Set Free" | Put in chair 4 | X Fusion | ||
Debu & Văsâi 2 | 6 | "Thinking Out Loud" | Eliminated | — | ||
Ad Libitum | 7 | "That's Amore" | Put in chair 1 | — | ||
X Fusion | 8 | "Addicted to You" | Put in chair 4 | Dream Girls | ||
Flashback | 9 | ""/"Radioactive" | Put in chair 3 | — | ||
Dream Girls | 10 | "Little Me" | Put in chair 4 | — |
Notes
At the end of this round there will be 8 acts remaining, two for each category. The duels were broadcast on 8 December 2017.
- Artist won the Duel and advanced to the Live shows
- Artist lost the Duel and was eliminated
Episode | Category (mentor) | Duel | Act | Order | Song | Result |
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Episode 16 (8 December) | Boys (Bănică) | Duel 1 | Pierluca Salvatore | 1 | "Writing's on the Wall" | Finalist |
Alin Buruiană | 2 | "Copacul" | Eliminated | |||
Duel 2 | Anton Banaghan | 9 | "Supermarket Flowers" | Finalist | ||
Gabriel Haralambie | 10 | "Hero | Eliminated | |||
Girls (Matache) | Duel 1 | Teodora Sava | 11 | "The Voice Within" | Finalist | |
Alina Mocanu | 12 | "All I Ask" | Finalist | |||
Duel 2 | Francesca Nicolescu | 3 | "Lay Me Down" | Eliminated | ||
Ioana Mîrți | 4 | "Eyes Shut" | Eliminated | |||
Over 24s (Brenciu) | Duel 1 | Katerina Biehu | 7 | "Skin" | Finalist | |
Alexandra Crăescu | 8 | "All by Myself" | Eliminated | |||
Duel 2 | Vlad Gliga | 15 | "Love My Life" | Eliminated | ||
Jeremy Ragsdale | 16 | "Rolling in the Deep" | Finalist | |||
Groups (Carla's) | Duel 1 | Ad Libitum | 13 | "Nunta" | Finalist | |
Flashback | 14 | "Numb/Encore" | Finalist | |||
Duel 2 | 18:27 | 5 | "Human" | Eliminated | ||
Dream Girls | 6 | "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" | Eliminated |
In this season, like season 6, the public will have the chance to save one of the acts that competed in the Auditions. The most voted act will go directly to the Live Shows. In the first live show if one of the mentor decides to take him in his team, then he will go further in the competition, otherwise he will be sent home.
The winner of this season selected by the public was Francesca Nicolescu, from the Girls Category.
The nine finalists will compete in the Live Shows.
Category (mentor) | Acts | ||
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Boys (Bănică) | Anton Banaghan | Pierluca Salvatore | |
Girls (Matache) | Alina Mocanu | Francesca Nicolescu | Teodora Sava |
Over 24s (Brenciu) | Katerina Biehu | Jeremy Ragsdale | |
Groups (Carla's) | Ad Libitum | Flashback | |
– | Contestant was announced as the winner. |
– | Contestant has returned in the competition. |
– | Contestant was not saved by its mentor and had to sing again in the duel. |
– | Contestant received the fewest public votes and was immediately eliminated, no duel. |
Contestant | Live Show 1 | Live Show 2 | Live Show 3 | ||||
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Wildcard | Elimination | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 1 | Round 2 | ||
Jeremy Ragsdale | — | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Winner | |
Ad Libitum | — | Duel | Safe | Safe | Safe | Runner-Up | |
Francesca Nicolescu | Returned Gala 1 | Duel | Safe | Safe | 3rd | Eliminated (Gala 3) | |
Pierluca Salvatore | — | Duel | Safe | Safe | 4th | Eliminated (Gala 3) | |
Anton Banaghan | — | Safe | Safe | 5th | Eliminated (Gala 2) | ||
Teodora Sava | — | Safe | Safe | 6th | Eliminated (Gala 2) | ||
Flashback | — | Safe | 7th | Eliminated (Gala 2) | |||
Katerina Biehu | — | 8th | Eliminated (Gala 1) | ||||
Alina Mocanu | — | 9th | Eliminated (Gala 1) | ||||
Brenciu's vote to save | None | Ragsdale | None | ||||
Matache's vote to save | Sava | ||||||
Bănică's vote to save | Banaghan | ||||||
Carla's vote to save | Flashback | ||||||
Eliminated | Alina Mocanu by public vote | Flashback by public vote | Teodora Sava by public vote | Pierluca Salvatore by public vote | Ad Libitum by public vote | ||
Katerina Biehu by public vote | Anton Banaghan by public vote | Francesca Nicolescu by public vote | Jeremy Ragsdale by public vote | ||||
Reference(s) | [9] | [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] | [16] | [17] [18] | [19] [20] | [21] |
Act | Order | Song | Result |
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Francesca Nicolescu | 1 | "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" | Duel |
Anton Banaghan | 2 | "Zece" | Safe |
Pierluca Salvatore | 3 | "The House of the Rising Sun" | Duel |
Katerina Biehu | 4 | "I'd Rather Go Blind" | Duel |
Jeremy Ragsdale | 5 | "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" | Safe |
Ad Libitum | 6 | "Can't Help Falling in Love" | Duel |
Flashback | 7 | "Stressed Out" | Safe |
Alina Mocanu | 8 | "Bird Set Free" | Duel |
Teodora Sava | 9 | "Purple Rain" | Safe |
Duel details | |||
Alina Mocanu | 1 | "Figures" | Eliminated |
Pierluca Salvatore | 2 | "Hold Back the River" | Safe |
Ad Libitum | 3 | "Adagio" | Safe |
Francesca Nicolescu | 4 | "People Help the People" | Safe |
Katerina Biehu | 5 | "Nici o stea" | Eliminated |
Act | Order | Song | Result |
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Round 1 | |||
Teodora Sava | 1 | "Listen" | Safe |
Flashback | 2 | "Written in the Stars" | Eliminated |
Anton Banaghan | 3 | "Who You Are" | Safe |
Jeremy Ragsdale | 4 | "Tu eşti primăvara mea" | Safe |
Pierluca Salvatore | 5 | "Recovery" | Safe |
Francesca Nicolescu | 6 | "I Am Changing" | Safe |
Ad Libitum | 7 | "Perfect" | Safe |
Round 2 | |||
Teodora Sava | 1 | "Alive" | Eliminated |
Jeremy Ragsdale | 2 | "Unchained Melody" | Safe |
Anton Banaghan | 3 | "Tears in Heaven" | Eliminated |
Francesca Nicolescu | 4 | "Joyful, Joyful" | Safe |
Ad Libitum | 5 | "Nessun dorma" | Safe |
Pierluca Salvatore | 6 | "Caruso" | Safe |
Act | Order | First Song (duet with special guest) | Order | Second Song (duet with mentor) | Result |
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Ad Libitum | 1 | "A fost o nebunie" (with Alina Eremia) | 8 | "Sub Pielea Mea (#Eroina)" (with Carla's Dreams) | Safe |
Pierluca Salvatore | 2 | "Runnin' (Lose It All)" (with Nicoleta Nucă) | 5 | "Imagine" (with Ștefan Bănică Jr.) | 4th place |
Jeremy Ragsdale | 3 | "I Got You (I Feel Good)" (with Santa Claus ) | 7 | "What a Wonderful World " (with Horia Brenciu) | Safe |
Francesca Nicolescu | 4 | "Smells Like Teen Spirit " (with Liviu Teodorescu) | 6 | "Mulțumesc, iubită mamă" (with Delia Matache) | 3rd place |
Act | Order | Song | Result |
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Ad Libitum | 1 | "Bohemian Rhapsody" | Runner-Up |
Jeremy Ragsdale | 2 | "When a Man Loves a Woman" | Winner |
Ep | Title | Date | National | Urban | 18-49 | Source | |||
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Average (thousands) | Rating (%) | Average (thousands) | Rating (%) | Average (thousands) | Rating (%) | ||||
1 | Auditions 1 | 10 September 2017 | 1 048 | 5.8 | 646 | 6.6 | 300 | 13.1 | [22] |
2 | Auditions 2 | 15 September 2017 | 890 | 5.0 | 481 | 4.9 | 250 | 5.6 | [23] |
3 | Auditions 3 | 22 September 2017 | 1 116 | 6.2 | 542 | 5.6 | 301 | 6.7 | [24] |
4 | Auditions 4 | 29 September 2017 | 967 | 5.4 | 557 | 5.7 | 291 | 6.4 | [25] |
5 | Auditions 5 | 6 October 2017 | 1 091 | 6.1 | 570 | 5.9 | 298 | 6.6 | [26] |
6 | Auditions 6 | 13 October 2017 | 925 | 5.1 | 484 | 5.0 | 257 | 5.7 | [27] |
7 | Auditions 7 | 20 October 2017 | 1 106 | 6.1 | 602 | 6.2 | 319 | 7.1 | [28] |
8 | Auditions 8 | 27 October 2017 | 1 066 | 5.9 | 608 | 6.2 | 316 | 7.0 | [29] |
9 | Auditions 9 | 3 November 2017 | 1 027 | 5.7 | 568 | 5.8 | 314 | 7.0 | [30] |
10 | Auditions 10 | 10 November 2017 | 906 | 5.0 | 468 | 4.8 | 263 | 5.9 | [31] |
11 | Auditions 11 | 17 November 2017 | 826 | 5.0 | 480 | 4.9 | 261 | 5.8 | [32] |
12 | Four-chair Challenge 1 | 23 November 2017 | Unknown | ||||||
13 | Four-chair Challenge 2 | 24 November 2017 | 943 | 5.2 | 531 | 5.5 | 289 | 6.4 | [33] |
14 | Four-chair Challenge 3 | 1 December 2017 | 787 | 4.4 | 429 | 4.5 | 235 | 5.3 | [34] |
15 | Four-chair Challenge 4 | 7 December 2017 | |||||||
16 | The Duels | 8 December 2017 | |||||||
17 | Live Show 1 | 15 December 2017 | |||||||
18 | Live Show 2 | 17 December 2017 | |||||||
19 | Live Show 3 | 22 December 2017 |
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