X Factor Malta | |
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Genre | Reality competition |
Created by | Simon Cowell |
Directed by | Jeremy Dalli Mark Vassallo |
Presented by | Gianni Zammit (4–) Ben Camille (1–3) |
Judges | Howard Keith Debono Ira Losco Gianluca Bezzina (4–) Amber Bondin (4–) Ray Mercieca (1–2) Alexandra Alden (1–2) Ivan Grech (3) Philippa Naudi (3) |
Country of origin | Malta |
Original languages | English Maltese |
No. of seasons | 4 |
Production | |
Executive producers | Anton Attard Mark Grech |
Producers | Gordon Bonello Olwyn Jo Saliba Peter Carbonaro Annalise Azzopardi Eileen Spiteri Nicky Aquilina |
Editors | Neville Grech Chantal Fenech Ruben Cassar Sam Dalli Gary Bugeja |
Original release | |
Network | TVM |
Release | October 7, 2018 – present |
Related | |
X Factor Malta is the Maltese version of the British television music competition The X Factor , created by Simon Cowell. [1] The first season premiered on 7 October 2018 and has since been broadcast on Television Malta. The show was used to determine the artist that would represent Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2019 and 2020. [2] In July 2020, it was announced that the show would be replaced by Malta's Got Talent, [3] but after a one-year hiatus, a third season began in October 2021. [4] Season four started on 8 October 2023.
To date, four seasons have been broadcast, as summarised below.
Contestant in "Ray Mercieca"
Contestant in "Alexandra Alden"
Contestant in "Howard Keith Debono"
Contestant in "Ira Losco"
Contestant in "Ivan Grech"
Contestant in "Philippa Naudi"
Contestant in "Gianluca Bezzina"
Contestant in "Amber Bondin"
Season | Start | Finish | Winner | Runner-up | Third place | Fourth place | Winning mentor | Main host | Main judges |
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1 | 7 October 2018 | 26 January 2019 | Michela Pace | Owen Leuellen | Nicole Frendo | Petra Zammit | Howard Keith Debono | Ben Camille | Howard Keith Debono Ira Losco Alexandra Alden Ray Mercieca |
2 | 6 October 2019 | 8 February 2020 | Destiny Chukunyere | Justine Shorfid | F.A.I.T.H | Kyle Cutajar | Ira Losco | ||
3 | 3 October 2021 | 12 February 2022 | Ryan Hili | Drakard | Lisa Gauci | Cheryl Balzan | Howard Keith Debono | Howard Keith Debono Ira Losco Ivan Grech Philippa Naudi | |
4 | 8 October 2023 | 11 February 2024 | Richard Aquilina | Shanice Micallef | Lapes & Nadine | Amelia Kalabic | Howard Keith Debono | Gianni Zammit | Howard Keith Debono Ira Losco Gianluca Bezzina Amber Bondin |
In each season, each judge is allocated a category to mentor and chooses three acts to progress to the live finals. This table shows, for each series, which category each judge was allocated and which acts he or she put through to the live finals.
Key:
Season | Howard Keith Debono | Ira Losco | Alexandra Alden | Ray Mercieca |
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1 | Girls Michela Pace Nicole Frendo Kelsey Bellante | Boys Owen Leuellen Luke Chappell Norbert Bondin | Groups 4th Line Xtreme Kayati | Overs Petra Zammit Ben Purplle Franklin Calleja |
2 | Groups F.A.I.T.H Bloodline Yazmin & James | Girls Destiny Chukunyere Justine Shorfid Jasmine Abela | Overs Celine Agius Paul Anthony Ed Abdilla | Boys Kyle Cutajar Karl Schembri Dav. Jr |
Season | Howard Keith Debono | Ira Losco | Philippa Naudi | Ivan Grech |
3 | Boys Ryan Hili Aidan Drakard Kevin Paul | Overs Cheryl Balzan Audrienne Fenech Jimmy Tyrrell | Groups Ceci & Kriss Soul Tide Beyond | Girls Lisa Gauci Timea Farr Shauna Vassallo |
Season | Howard Keith Debono | Ira Losco | Amber Bondin | Gianluca Bezzina |
4 | Overs Richard Aquilina Rose Marielle Mamaclay Sean Kamati | Groups Lapes & Nadine XO Kelsie & Martina | Boys Isaac Tom Kodin Camilleri Mattia Adduocchio | Girls Shanice Micallef Amelia Kalabic Kristy Spiteri |
On 2 July 2018, it was announced that Ben Camille was selected to host the show. [5]
The full judges' panel was revealed on 31 July 2018, and was composed of music producer Howard Keith Debono, The Rifffs' frontman Ray Mercieca, Maltese singer and songwriter Alexandra Alden, and singer/star Ira Losco. Confirmed X factor judge lovinmalta.com Retrieved 9 October 2019
The first appeal for applicants was made on 26 June 2018, with the launch of the online submission form. Auditioning artists were also able to send a video audition via the WhatsApp messaging platform. [6] In addition, a number of pop-up booths were set up around Malta in early July to encourage people to enter. [7]
Producers auditions were held from 13 to 15 July at Fort St Elmo. There the show's producers assessed the auditioning acts and determined who would progress to the judges auditions. [8]
The auditionees chosen by the producers were invited back to the last set of auditions that took place in front of the judges. These auditions were filmed at Fort St Angelo from 1 to 8 August and broadcast from 7 October, as well as short daily extra auditions on the X Factor Malta YouTube channel and on the Facebook page of Vodafone Malta.
The 120 successful contestants then progressed to the bootcamp round.
The bootcamp round was filmed at the Hilton Malta Conference Centre from 9 to 12 September and broadcast on 11 and 18 November. [9]
Contestants were given three performance challenges. On the first day, the 120 contestants were split into the four category groups - Boys, Girls, Overs and Groups. Acts in each category were given one song to sing a cappella: "A Million Reasons" (Girls), "See You Again" (Boys), "Don’t Let the Sun Go Down On Me" (Overs) "My Girl" (Groups). After the performances, the judges sent home 30 acts.
For the second challenge, the remaining acts each selected a song from the Wall of Songs, which they had to perform with three others who had selected the same song. Contestants were either put through to the next stage, or went to the Waiting Room, where they later had the possibility of being called on to be part of a newly formed group.
In the final challenge, the remaining acts - including newly formed groups - performed a song of their own choice. The jury then selected 12 participants from each category to go through to the Six Chair Challenge.
The Six Chair Challenge was filmed at the Malta Fairs & Conventions Centre (MFCC) in Attard on 11 and 12 October 2018. [10]
The 24 successful acts were:
The Judges' Houses episodes were broadcast on 23 and 30 December 2018.
Judge | Category | Assistant | Contestants eliminated |
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Losco | Boys | Joseph Calleja | Mark Anthony Bartolo, Aidan Cassar, Claudio Zammit |
Debono | Girls | Mike Hedges | Karin Duff, Danica Muscat, Jade Vella |
Mercieca | Overs | Matthew James Borg | Anna Azzopardi, Anna Faniello, Vanessa Lee Sultana |
Alden | Groups | Carlo Borg Bonaci | Horizon, Prism, Systm12 |
Key:
Category (mentor) | Acts | ||
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Boys (Losco) | Norbert Bondin | Luke Chappell | Owen Leuellen |
Girls (Debono) | Kelsey Bellante | Nicole Frendo | Michela Pace |
Overs (Mercieca) | Franklin Calleja | Ben Purplle | Petra Zammit |
Groups (Alden) | 4th Line | Kayati | Xtreme |
The live shows began on Sunday, 6 January 2019. They were filmed at the Malta Fairs & Conventions Centre (MFCC) in Attard, Malta. [11] Dance groups contracted for all live shows were The Unit Collective (Deedee Clark, Kimberly Lowell, Nicole Schembri), Southville Dancers (Christian Scerri), Kinetic Dance Academy (Clayton Mifsud, Daphne Gatt) and Annalise Dance Studio (Annalise Ellul).
Contestant | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | |||
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Round One | Round Two | Round One | Round Two | Round Three | |||
Michela Pace | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Winner |
Owen Leuellen | Safe | Safe | Safe | 4th | Safe | Safe | Runner-Up |
Nicole Frendo | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | 3rd | Eliminated (week 4) |
Petra Zammit | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | 4th | Eliminated (week 4) | |
Luke Chappell | Safe | Safe | Safe | 5th | Eliminated (week 3) | ||
Norbert Bondin | Safe | Safe | Safe | 6th | Eliminated (week 3) | ||
Ben Purplle | Safe | 8th | 7th | Eliminated (week 3) | |||
Kelsey Bellante | Safe | Safe | 8th | Eliminated (week 3) | |||
4th Line | Safe | 9th | Eliminated (week 2) | ||||
Xtreme | Bottom three | 10th | Eliminated (week 2) | ||||
Franklin Calleja | Bottom three | Eliminated (week 1) | |||||
Kayati | 12th | Eliminated (week 1) | |||||
Sing-Off | Franklin Calleja, Xtreme | 4th Line, Ben Purplle | No Sing Off or Judges Vote. The two acts with the fewest votes will leave the competition. | Owen Leuellen, Luke Chappell | No Sing Off or Judges Vote, the public votes decide who wins. | ||
Alden's vote to eliminate | Franklin Calleja | Ben Purplle | Owen Leuellen | ||||
Debono's vote to eliminate | Franklin Calleja | Ben Purplle | Owen Leuellen | ||||
Losco's vote to eliminate | Franklin Calleja | 4th Line | Luke Chappell | ||||
Mercieca's vote to eliminate | Xtreme | 4th Line | Luke Chappell | ||||
Eliminated | Kayati Public vote Franklin Calleja 3 of 4 votes Majority | Xtreme Public vote 4th Line 2 of 4 votes Deadlock | Kelsey Bellante Public vote Ben Purplle Public vote | Norbert Bondin Public vote Luke Chappell 2 of 4 votes Deadlock | Michela Pace | ||
Owen Leuellen | |||||||
Nicole Frendo | |||||||
Petra Zammit | |||||||
Act | Order | Song | Result |
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4th Line | 1 | "Survivor" | Safe |
Luke Chappell | 2 | "Overthinking" (original song) | Safe |
Nicole Frendo | 3 | "Too Good at Goodbyes" | Safe |
Franklin Calleja | 4 | "Jealous" | Bottom three |
Xtreme | 5 | "Side to Side"/"Woman Like Me" | Bottom three |
Michela Pace | 6 | "Lost on You" | Safe |
Norbert Bondin | 7 | "Say Something" | Safe |
Kayati | 8 | "Nobody's Perfect" | Eliminated |
Ben Purplle | 9 | "Dancing On My Own" | Safe |
Owen Leuellen | 10 | "Can't Hold Us" | Safe |
Petra Zammit | 11 | "What's Up?" | Safe |
Kelsey Bellante | 12 | "Chained to the Rhythm" | Safe |
Final showdown details | |||
Act | Order | Song | Result |
Franklin Calleja | 1 | "Clown" | Eliminated |
Xtreme | 2 | "Take Me Home" | Safe |
Act | Order | Song | Result |
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Xtreme | 1 | "They Don't Care About Us" | Eliminated |
Kelsey Bellante | 2 | "Could You Be Loved" | Safe |
Owen Leuellen | 3 | "Boom! Shake the Room" | Safe |
Ben Purplle | 4 | "Yesterday" | Bottom three |
4th Line | 5 | "It's Raining Men" | Bottom three |
Petra Zammit | 6 | "I Just Want to Make Love to You" | Safe |
Luke Chappell | 7 | "Hey There Delilah" | Safe |
Nicole Frendo | 8 | "Purple Rain" | Safe |
Norbert Bondin | 9 | "The Wild Boys" | Safe |
Michela Pace | 10 | "The Power of Love" | Safe |
Final showdown details | |||
Act | Order | Song | Result |
Ben Purplle | 1 | "Iris" | Safe |
4th Line | 2 | "Queen of the Night" | Eliminated |
With the acts in the sing-off receiving two votes each, the result went to deadlock and reverted to the earlier public vote. 4th Line was eliminated as the act with the fewest public votes.
Act | Order | First Song | Result | Order | Second Song | Result | |
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Owen Leuellen | 1 | "Gangsta's Paradise" | Safe | 13 | "What Did You Expect" (original song) | Bottom three | |
Ben Purplle | 2 | "Oh, Pretty Woman" | Eliminated | N/A (Already eliminated) | |||
Nicole Frendo | 3 | "Skyfall" | Safe | 14 | "Scared to Be Lonely" | Safe | |
Norbert Bondin | 4 | "Never Enough" | Safe | 11 | "Empty Space" | Eliminated | |
Michela Pace | 5 | "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" | Safe | 12 | "Shallow" | Safe | |
Luke Chappell | 6 | "Heathens" | Safe | 9 | "What Do You Mean?" | Bottom three | |
Kelsey Bellante | 7 | "Pray for Me" | Eliminated | N/A (Already eliminated) | |||
Petra Zammit | 8 | "We Don't Need Another Hero" | Safe | 10 | "Set Fire to the Rain" | Safe | |
Final showdown details | |||||||
Act | Order | Song | Result | ||||
Owen Leuellen | N/A | Safe | |||||
Luke Chappell | N/A | Eliminated |
With the acts in the sing-off receiving two votes each, the result went to deadlock and reverted to the earlier public vote. Luke Chappell was eliminated as the act with the fewest public votes.
In this semi-final, the eight qualified finalists performed at least once. The two acts with the fewest public votes after the first round left the competition, with Kelsey Bellante, gaining the fewest votes overall, and Ben Purplle gaining the second fewest votes. The top six performed again, with the top three acts automatically progressing to the final. The remaining three faced elimination. Of these three, Norbert Bondin received the fewest votes and was thus immediately eliminated. The remaining two, Owen Leuellen and Luke Chappell, faced the tiebreaker, which was to be decided by the judges. However, as the tie was not resolved by the end of the judges' vote, the deadlock - once again decided by the public vote - had to be used. As Owen Leuellen received more votes then Luke Chappell, the former progressed to the final.
Act | Order | First Song | Order | Second Song | Order | Third Song | Order | Fourth Song | Result |
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Petra Zammit | 1 | "You Don't Own Me" | 5 | "Be My Guest" (with Ray Mercieca) | N/A (Already eliminated) | 4th Place | |||
Nicole Frendo | 2 | "Russian Roulette" | 7 | "Just Give Me a Reason" (with Matthew James) | 10 | "Kemm hu Sabiħ" (New Cuorey) | N/A (Already eliminated) | 3rd Place | |
Owen Leuellen | 3 | "One Day" (Original Song) | 6 | "Hey Now" (with Ira Losco) | 9 | "Aħseb fit-tifel" (Shazam) | 12 | "Believe" (Original Song) | Runner-up |
Michela Pace | 4 | "Total Eclipse of the Heart" | 8 | "Perfect" (with Joseph Calleja) | 11 | "Inti Djamant" (The Tramps) | 13 | "Shallow" | Winner |
Episode | Air date |
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Auditions 1 | 7 October 2018 |
Auditions 2 | 14 October 2018 |
Auditions 3 | 21 October 2018 |
Auditions 4 | 28 October 2018 |
Auditions 5 | 4 November 2018 |
Bootcamp 1 | 11 November 2018 |
Bootcamp 2 | 18 November 2018 |
Six Chair Challenge 1 (Girls) | 25 November 2018 |
Six Chair Challenge 2 (Boys) | 2 December 2018 |
Six Chair Challenge 3 (Overs) | 9 December 2018 |
Six Chair Challenge 4 (Groups) | 16 December 2018 |
Judges Houses 1 (Girls and Overs) | 23 December 2018 |
Judges Houses 2 (Boys and Groups) | 30 December 2018 |
Live Show 1 | 6 January 2019 |
Live Show 2 | 13 January 2019 |
Live Show 3 | 20 January 2019 |
Live Show 4 | 26 January 2019 |
The second season premiered on 6 October 2019. [12] As with the inaugural season, the format continued to serve as the Maltese national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest. The winner of the second season of X Factor Malta would have represented the island nation at the 2020 contest in Rotterdam, Netherlands, but the contest was cancelled due to COVID-19. [13]
The 24 successful acts were:
The Judges' Houses episodes were broadcast on 22 and 29 December 2019.
Judge | Category | Assistant | Contestants eliminated |
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Mercieca | Boys | Amelia Lily | Matt Blxck, Giovanni, Jurgen Volkov |
Losco | Girls | Louisa Johnson | Gail Attard, Marija Bellia, Karin Duff |
Alden | Overs | The New Victorians | Chantal Catania, Kersten Graham, Jozi |
Debono | Groups | Lil' Eddie | Chord, Reign, Sweet Chaos |
Key:
Category (mentor) | Acts | ||
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Boys (Mercieca) | Kyle Cutajar | Dav. Jr | Karl Schembri |
Girls (Losco) | Jasmine Abela | Destiny Chukunyere | Justine Shorfid |
Overs (Alden) | Ed Abdilla | Celine Agius | Paul Anthony |
Groups (Debono) | Bloodline | F.A.I.T.H | Yazmin & James |
The live shows began on Sunday, 12 January 2020. They were filmed at the Malta Fairs & Conventions Centre (MFCC) in Attard, Malta. Dance groups contracted for all live shows were The Unit Collective (Deedee Clark, Kimberly Lowell, Nicole Schembri), Southville Dancers (Christian Scerri), Kinetic Dance Academy (Clayton Mifsud, Daphne Gatt) and Annalise Dance Studio (Annalise Ellul).
Contestant | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | |||
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Round One | Round Two | Round One | Round Two | Round Three | ||||
Destiny Chukunyere | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Winner |
Justine Shorfid | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Runner-up |
F.A.I.T.H | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | 3rd | Eliminated (week 5) |
Kyle Cutajar | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | 4th | Eliminated (week 5) | |
Bloodline | Safe | Safe | Bottom three | Safe | 5th | Eliminated (week 4) | ||
Yazmin & James | Safe | 8th | Safe | 6th | Eliminated (week 4) | |||
Celine Agius | Bottom three | Safe | Bottom three | Eliminated (week 3) | ||||
Karl Schembri | Safe | Safe | 8th | Eliminated (week 3) | ||||
Dav. Jr | Safe | 9th | Eliminated (week 2) | |||||
Jasmine Abela | Safe | 10th | Eliminated (week 2) | |||||
Paul Anthony | Bottom three | Eliminated (week 1) | ||||||
Ed Abdilla | 12th | Eliminated (week 1) | ||||||
Sing-Off | Celine Agius, Paul Anthony | Dav. Jr, Yazmin & James | Bloodline, Celine Agius | No Sing Off or Judges Vote. The two acts with the fewest votes will leave the competition. | No Sing Off or Judges Vote, the public votes decide who wins. | |||
Alden's vote to eliminate | Paul Anthony | Yazmin & James | Bloodline | |||||
Debono's vote to eliminate | Paul Anthony | Dav. Jr | Celine Agius | |||||
Losco's vote to eliminate | Paul Anthony | Dav. Jr | Celine Agius | |||||
Mercieca's vote to eliminate | Paul Anthony | Yazmin & James | Celine Agius | |||||
Eliminated | Ed Abdilla Public vote Paul Anthony 4 of 4 votes Majority | Jasmine Abela Public vote Dav. Jr 2 of 4 votes Deadlock | Karl Schembri Public vote Celine Agius 3 of 4 votes Majority | Yazmin & James Public vote | Bloodline Public vote | Destiny Chukunyere | ||
Justine Shorfid | ||||||||
F.A.I.T.H | ||||||||
Kyle Cutajar | ||||||||
Act | Order | Song | Result |
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Jasmine Abela | 1 | "Crazy in Love" | Safe |
Kyle Cutajar | 2 | "Writing's on the Wall" | Safe |
Yazmin & James | 3 | "Señorita" | Safe |
Celine Agius | 4 | "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" | Bottom three |
Justine Shorfid | 5 | "Always Remember Us This Way" | Safe |
Ed Abdilla | 6 | "Devil's Robe" (Original song) | Eliminated |
F.A.I.T.H | 7 | "That's My Girl" | Safe |
Karl Schembri | 8 | "Smalltown Boy" | Safe |
Dav. Jr | 9 | "Life is Good" (Original song) | Safe |
Paul Anthony | 10 | "Feel" | Bottom three |
Bloodline | 11 | "My Favorite Things"/"Lovely" | Safe |
Destiny Chukunyere | 12 | "Higher Love" | Safe |
Final showdown details | |||
Act | Order | Song | Result |
Celine Agius | 1 | "Valerie" | Safe |
Paul Anthony | 2 | "Forget You" | Eliminated |
Act | Order | Song | Result |
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F.A.I.T.H | 1 | "Wannabe" | Safe |
Celine Agius | 2 | "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" | Safe |
Jasmine Abela | 3 | "Material Girl" | Eliminated |
Dav. Jr | 4 | "Umbrella" | Bottom three |
Justine Shorfid | 5 | "Dance Monkey" | Safe |
Bloodline | 6 | "Forever Young" | Safe |
Yazmin & James | 7 | "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" | Bottom three |
Kyle Cutajar | 8 | "Never Gonna Give You Up" | Safe |
Destiny Chukunyere | 9 | "I Will Survive" | Safe |
Karl Schembri | 10 | "I'll Fly with You" | Safe |
Final showdown details | |||
Act | Order | Song | Result |
Yazmin & James | 1 | "Homesick" | Safe |
Dav. Jr | 2 | "Your Song" | Eliminated |
With the acts in the sing-off receiving two votes each, the result went to deadlock and reverted to the earlier public vote. Dav. Jr was eliminated as the act with the fewest public votes
Act | Order | Song | Movie | Result |
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Destiny Chukunyere | 1 | "He Lives in You" | The Lion King II: Simba's Pride | Safe |
Celine Agius | 2 | "What a Wonderful World" | Good Morning, Vietnam | Bottom three |
Yazmin & James | 3 | "You're the One That I Want" | Grease | Safe |
Karl Schembri | 4 | "Nessun Dorma" | Turandot | Eliminated |
Bloodline | 5 | "Swan Song" | Alita: Battle Angel | Bottom three |
Justine Shorfid | 6 | "I Will Always Love You" | The Bodyguard | Safe |
Kyle Cutajar | 7 | "Kiss from a Rose" | Batman Forever | Safe |
F.A.I.T.H | 8 | "Man in the Mirror" | Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story | Safe |
Final showdown details | ||||
Act | Order | Song | Result | |
Bloodline | 1 | "Lost on You" | Safe | |
Celine Agius | 2 | "I Put a Spell on You" | Eliminated |
Act | Order | First Song | Result | Order | Second Song | Result |
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Bloodline | 1 | "Diamonds Are Forever" | Safe | 10 | "Euphoria" | Eliminated |
Kyle Cutajar | 2 | "Feelin' Good" | Safe | 7 | "River" | Safe |
Destiny Chukunyere | 3 | "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" | Safe | 9 | "This Is Me" | Safe |
Yazmin & James | 4 | "Fever" | Eliminated | N/A (Already eliminated) | ||
F.A.I.T.H | 5 | "Candyman" | Safe | 11 | "Runnin' (Lose It All)" | Safe |
Justine Shorfid | 6 | "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" | Safe | 8 | "Spirit" | Safe |
Act | Order | First Song (original song) | Order | Second Song (guest duet) | Order | Third Song (Maltese classic song) | Order | Fourth Song (best moment song) | Result |
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Destiny Chukunyere | 1 | "Save the Hero" | 5 | "River Deep – Mountain High" (with Amelia Lily) | 11 | "Fejn Staħbejtli" | 13 | "He Lives in You" | Winner |
F.A.I.T.H | 2 | "We Are F.A.I.T.H" | 6 | "Don't Start Now" (with Owen Leuellen) | 9 | "Viva Malta" | N/A (Already eliminated) | 3rd Place | |
Justine Shorfid | 3 | "Bittersweet" | 7 | "Alone" (with Louisa Johnson) | 10 | "L-Aħħar Bidwi" | 12 | "All I Want" | Runner-Up |
Kyle Cutajar | 4 | "Rise" | 8 | "Shallow" (with Michela Pace) | N/A (Already eliminated) | 4th Place |
The third season premiered on 3 October 2021. This time around, the winner would not receive the rights to represent Malta at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Italy.
The 24 successful acts were:
The Judges' Houses episodes were broadcast on 19 December 2021 and 2 January 2022.
Judge | Category | Contestants eliminated |
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Debono | Boys | Nathan Psaila, Rheez, Isaac Tom |
Grech | Girls | Mariah Gerada, Kristy Spiteri, Hannah Theuma |
Losco | Overs | Janice Azzopardi, Dean Barton, Jastene Pacis |
Naudi | Groups | Daryl & Dale, Jasmine, Anna & Jana, Wish Me Lack |
Key:
Category (mentor) | Acts | ||
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Boys (Debono) | Aidan Drakard | Ryan Hili | Kevin Paul |
Girls (Grech) | Timea Farr | Lisa Gauci | Shauna Vassallo |
Overs (Losco) | Cheryl Balzan | Audrienne Fenech | Jimmy Tyrrell |
Groups (Naudi) | Beyond | Ceci & Kriss | Soul Tide |
The live shows began on Sunday, 16 January 2022. They were filmed at the Malta Fairs & Conventions Centre (MFCC) in Attard, Malta. Dance groups contracted for all live shows were The Unit Collective (Deedee Clark, Kimberly Lowell, Nicole Schembri), Southville Dancers (Christian Scerri), Kinetic Dance Academy (Clayton Mifsud, Daphne Gatt) and Annalise Dance Studio (Annalise Ellul).
Contestant | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | |
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Round One | Round Two | |||||
Ryan Hili | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Winner |
Lisa Gauci | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Runner-up |
Aidan Drakard | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Third Place |
Cheryl Balzan | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | 4th | Eliminated (week 5) |
Ceci & Kriss | Safe | Safe | Safe | 5th | Eliminated (week 4) | |
Timea Farr | Safe | Bottom three | Bottom three | 6th | Eliminated (week 4) | |
Kevin Paul | Safe | Safe | Bottom three | Eliminated (week 3) | ||
Audrienne Fenech | Safe | Safe | 8th | Eliminated (week 3) | ||
Soul Tide | Safe | Bottom three | Eliminated (week 2) | |||
Beyond | 10th | 10th | Eliminated (week 2) | |||
Jimmy Tyrrell | 11th | Eliminated (week 1) | ||||
Shauna Vassallo | 12th | Eliminated (week 1) | ||||
Sing-Off | Beyond, Jimmy Tyrrell | Soul Tide, Timea Farr | Kevin Paul, Timea Farr | No Sing Off or Judges Vote. The two acts with the fewest votes will leave the competition. | No Sing Off or Judges Vote, the public votes decide who wins. | |
Debono's vote to eliminate | Beyond | Soul Tide | Timea Farr | |||
Grech's vote to eliminate | Jimmy Tyrrell | Soul Tide | Kevin Paul | |||
Losco's vote to eliminate | Beyond | Soul Tide | Kevin Paul | |||
Naudi's vote to eliminate | Jimmy Tyrrell | Timea Farr | Kevin Paul | |||
Eliminated | Shauna Vassallo Public vote Jimmy Tyrrell 2 of 4 votes Deadlock | Beyond Public vote Soul Tide 3 of 4 votes Majority | Audrienne Fenech Public vote Kevin Paul 3 of 4 votes Majority | Timea Farr Public vote Ceci & Kriss Public vote | Cheryl Balzan Public vote | Ryan Hili Winner |
Aidan Drakard Runner-up | ||||||
Lisa Gauci Third place |
Act | Order | Song | Result |
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Ryan Hili | 1 | "Impossible" | Safe |
Shauna Vassallo | 2 | "Blinding Lights" | Eliminated |
Jimmy Tyrrell | 3 | "Dancing On My Own" | Bottom three |
Beyond | 4 | "Love Runs Out" | Bottom three |
Kevin Paul | 5 | "Hurt" (Original song) | Safe |
Audrienne Fenech | 6 | "Ex's & Oh's" | Safe |
Timea Farr | 7 | "Control" | Safe |
Ceci & Kriss | 8 | "Higher Power" | Safe |
Aidan Drakard | 9 | "Mercy" | Safe |
Soul Tide | 10 | "Don't Go Yet" | Safe |
Cheryl Balzan | 11 | "Just Like a Pill" | Safe |
Lisa Gauci | 12 | "Run" | Safe |
Final showdown details | |||
Act | Order | Song | Result |
Beyond | 1 | "I Just Called to Say I Love You" | Safe |
Jimmy Tyrrell | 2 | "Purple Rain" | Eliminated |
With the acts in the sing-off receiving two votes each, the result went to deadlock and reverted to the earlier public vote. Jimmy Tyrrell was eliminated as the act with the fewest public votes.
Act | Order | Song | Result |
---|---|---|---|
Cheryl Balzan | 1 | "The Best" | Safe |
Timea Farr | 2 | "Iris" | Bottom three |
Kevin Paul | 3 | "Right Here Waiting" | Safe |
Beyond | 4 | "I'm Still Standing" | Eliminated |
Soul Tide | 5 | "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" | Bottom three |
Lisa Gauci | 6 | "Believe" | Safe |
Ceci & Kriss | 7 | "L-Aħħar Bidwi f’Wied il-Għasel" | Safe |
Ryan Hili | 8 | "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" | Safe |
Audrienne Fenech | 9 | "Tainted Love" | Safe |
Aidan Drakard | 10 | "Freedom! '90" | Safe |
Final showdown details | |||
Act | Order | Song | Result |
Timea Farr | 1 | "The Night We Met" | Safe |
Soul Tide | 2 | "I Will Survive" | Eliminated |
Act | Order | Song | Result |
---|---|---|---|
Kevin Paul | 1 | "My Life Is Going On" | Bottom three |
Ceci & Kriss | 2 | "Let it Be" | Safe |
Lisa Gauci | 3 | "Holding Out for a Hero" | Safe |
Aidan Drakard | 4 | "Mad World" | Safe |
Audrienne Fenech | 5 | "Friend Like Me" | Eliminated |
Timea Farr | 6 | "Yellow" | Bottom three |
Ryan Hili | 7 | "Somewhere Only We Know" | Safe |
Cheryl Balzan | 8 | "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" | Safe |
Final showdown details | |||
Act | Order | Song | Result |
Timea Farr | 1 | "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You" | Safe |
Kevin Paul | 2 | "If You're Not the One" | Eliminated |
Act | Order | Song | |
---|---|---|---|
Ryan Hili | 1 | "Someone You Loved" | |
Ceci & Kriss | 2 | "Royals" | |
Lisa Gauci | 3 | "The Winner Takes It All" | |
Aidan Drakard | 4 | "Let Me Entertain You" | |
Timea Farr | 5 | "Easy on Me" | |
Cheryl Balzan | 6 | "We Are the Champions" | |
Sing-off showdown details | |||
Act | Order | Song | Result |
Lisa Gauci | 1 | "If I Were a Boy" | Safe |
Cheryl Balzan | 2 | "Always" | Safe |
Ceci & Kriss | 3 | "Drivers License" | Eliminated |
Aidan Drakard | 4 | "Anyone" | Safe |
Timea Farr | 5 | "Say Something" | Eliminated |
Ryan Hili | 6 | "Human" | Safe |
Act | Order | First Song | Order | Second Song (guest duet) | Order | Third Song (best moment song) | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aidan Drakard | 1 | "Leave a Light On" | 7 | "Wicked Game" (with Michela Pace) | 9 | "Freedom! '90" | 3rd Place |
Cheryl Balzan | 2 | "Here Comes the Rain Again" | 8 | "Beat It" (with Owen Leuellen) | N/A (Already eliminated) | 4th Place | |
Lisa Gauci | 3 | "Purple Rain" | 5 | "Rumour Has It" (with Justine Shorfid) | 10 | "Run" | Runner-ud |
Ryan Hili | 4 | "Falling" | 6 | "Stay With Me" (with Nicole Frendo) | 11 | "Somewhere Only We Know" | Winner |
The fourth season premiered on 8 October 2023.
The 24 successful acts were:
The Judges' Houses episodes were broadcast on 24 and 31 December 2023.
Judge | Category | Contestants eliminated |
---|---|---|
Bondin | Boys | Francesco Bonello, Aiden Cohen, Christian Grasso |
Bezzina | Girls | Marija Bellia, Mariah Fenech, Eliza Stellini |
Debono | Overs | Shenise Ghirxi, Cora Elizabeth Lewis, Joe Romano |
Losco | Groups | Freezap, Tonation, Zoe & Kuba |
Key:
Category (mentor) | Acts | ||
---|---|---|---|
Boys (Bondin) | Mattia Adduocchio | Kodin Camilleri | Isaac Tom |
Girls (Bezzina) | Amelia Kalabic | Shanice Micallef | Kristy Spiteri |
Overs (Debono) | Richard Aquilina | Sean Kamati | Rose Marielle Mamaclay |
Groups (Losco) | Kelsie & Martina | Lapes & Nadine | XO |
The live shows began on Sunday, 14 January 2024. They were filmed at the Malta Fairs & Conventions Centre (MFCC) in Attard, Malta.
Contestant | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Round One | Round Two | |||||
Richard Aquilina | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Winner |
Shanice Micallef | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Runner-up |
Lapes & Nadine | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Third Place |
Amelia Kalabic | Safe | Bottom three | Bottom three | Safe | 4th | Eliminated (week 5) |
Rose Marielle Mamaclay | Safe | Safe | Safe | 5th | Eliminated (week 4) | |
Sean Kamati | Bottom three | Safe | Safe | 6th | ||
XO | Safe | Safe | Bottom three | Eliminated (week 3) | ||
Isaac Tom | Safe | Safe | 8th | Eliminated (week 3) | ||
Kodin Camilleri | Safe | Bottom three | Eliminated (week 2) | |||
Kelsie & Martina | Safe | 10th | Eliminated (week 2) | |||
Kristy Spiteri | Bottom three | Eliminated (week 1) | ||||
Mattia Adduocchio | 12th | Eliminated (week 1) | ||||
Sing-Off | Sean Kamati, Kristy Spiteri | Kodin Camilleri, Amelia Kalabic | XO, Amelia Kalabic | No Sing Off or Judges Vote. The two acts with the fewest votes will leave the competition. | No Sing Off or Judges Vote, the public votes decide who wins. | |
Debono's vote to eliminate | Kristy Spiteri | Kodin Camilleri | XO | |||
Losco's vote to eliminate | Kristy Spiteri | Kodin Camilleri | Amelia Kalabic | |||
Bondin's vote to eliminate | Kristy Spiteri | Amelia Kalabic | XO | |||
Bezzina's vote to eliminate | Sean Kamati | Kodin Camilleri | XO | |||
Eliminated | Mattia Adduocchio Public vote Kristy Spiteri 3 of 4 votes Majority | Kelsie & Martina Public vote Kodin Camilleri 3 of 4 votes Majority | Isaac Tom Public vote XO 3 of 4 votes Majority | Sean Kamati Public vote Rose Marielle Mamaclay Public vote | Amelia Kalabic Public vote | Richard Aquilina Winner |
Shanice Micallef Runner-up | ||||||
Lapes & Nadine Third place |
Act | Order | Song | Result |
---|---|---|---|
Shanice Micallef | 1 | "Jealous" | Safe |
Sean Kamati | 2 | "Lay Me Down" | Bottom three |
XO | 3 | "New Rules" | Safe |
Isaac Tom | 4 | "Arcade" | Safe |
Amelia Kalabic | 5 | "Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)" | Safe |
Kelsie & Martina | 6 | "Alive" | Safe |
Richard Aquilina | 7 | "In the Stars" | Safe |
Kodin Camilleri | 8 | "Roadhouse Blues" | Safe |
Kristy Spiteri | 9 | "Déjà Vu" | Bottom three |
Rose Marielle Mamaclay | 10 | "Who You Are" | Safe |
Mattia Adduocchio | 11 | "Feeling Good" | Eliminated |
Lapes & Nadine | 12 | Original song | Safe |
Final showdown details | |||
Act | Order | Song | Result |
Sean Kamati | 1 | "Purple Rain" | Safe |
Kristy Spiteri | 2 | "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You" | Eliminated |
Act | Order | Song | Result |
---|---|---|---|
Amelia Kalabic | 1 | "Nothing Compares 2 U" | Bottom three |
Rose Marielle Mamaclay | 2 | "What About Us" | Safe |
Isaac Tom | 3 | "Save Your Tears" | Safe |
Kelsie & Martina | 4 | "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" | Eliminated |
Sean Kamati | 5 | "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" | Safe |
Kodin Camilleri | 6 | "Uptown Funk" | Bottom three |
Lapes & Nadine | 7 | "Love the Way You Lie" (Maltese) | Safe |
Shanice Micallef | 8 | "Bridge over Troubled Water" | Safe |
XO | 9 | "Jolene" | Safe |
Richard Aquilina | 10 | "Shivers" | Safe |
Final showdown details | |||
Act | Order | Song | Result |
Kodin Camilleri | 1 | "California Dreamin'" | Eliminated |
Amelia Kalabic | 2 | "Killing Me Softly with His Song" | Safe |
Act | Order | Song | Result |
---|---|---|---|
XO | 1 | "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" | Bottom three |
Amelia Kalabic | 2 | "Bohemian Rhapsody" | Bottom three |
Sean Kamati | 3 | "Don't Stop Believin'" | Safe |
Lapes & Nadine | 4 | "Read All About It" (Maltese) | Safe |
Rose Marielle Mamaclay | 5 | "I Have Nothing" | Safe |
Shanice Micallef | 6 | "Yesterday" | Safe |
Richard Aquillina | 7 | "Angels" | Safe |
Issac Tom | 8 | "It's a Sin" | Eliminated |
Final showdown details | |||
Act | Order | Song | Result |
XO | 1 | "Drivers License" | Eliminated |
Amelia Kalabic | 2 | "I See Red" | Safe |
Act | Order | Song | Film | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
Rose Marielle Mamaclay | 1 | "Never Enough | The Greatest Showman | Safe |
Amelia Kalabic | 2 | "No Time to Die" | No Time to Die | Safe |
Richard Aquilina | 3 | "A Thousand Years" | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 | Safe |
Sean Kamati | 4 | "Kiss from a Rose" | Batman Forever | Eliminated |
Lapes & Nadine | 5 | "Now We Are Free" | Gladiator | Safe |
Shanice Micallef | 6 | "What Was I Made For?" | Barbie | Safe |
Final showdown details | ||||
Act | Order | Song | Result | |
Lapes & Nadine | 1 | "Lose Yourself (Maltese)" | Safe | |
Richard Aquilina | 2 | "Don't Give Up On Me" | Safe | |
Shanice Micallef | 3 | "Vampire" | Safe | |
Amelia Kalabic | 4 | "Cutting Ties (Original)" | Safe | |
Rose Marielle Mamaclay | 5 | "Bang Bang" | Eliminated |
Act | Order | First Song | Order | Second Song (guest duet) | Order | Third Song (best moment song) | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Amelia Kalabic | 1 | "Running in Circles (Original)" | 5 | "You Don't Own Me" (with Owen Leuellen) | N/A (Already eliminated) | 4th Place | |
Richard Aquilina | 2 | "Half a Man" | 6 | "Broken Strings" (with Lisa Gauci) | 9 | "In The Stars" | Winner |
Shanice Micallef | 3 | "As the World Caves In" | 7 | "Sabiħa" (with Gianluca Bezzina) | 10 | "Jealous" | 3rd Place |
Lapes & Nadine | 4 | "Ġo Gaġġa Kollha Lwien (Original Maltese)" | 8 | "Cannonball" (with Ira Losco) | 11 | "Now We Are Free" | Runner Up |
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