The Voice (Russian: Голос) is a Russian singing competition television series broadcast on Channel One. Based on the original The Voice of Holland, it has aired eight seasons and aims to find currently unsigned singing talent (solo or duets, professional and amateur) contested by aspiring singers, age 17 or over, drawn from public auditions. The winner is determined by television viewers voting by telephone, SMS text, and The Voice App.
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| Russian | Голос |
| Genre | Music program |
| Created by | John de Mol Roel van Velzen |
| Developed by | Talpa Content |
| Directed by | Ildous Kurmaleev Andrey Sychev |
| Presented by | Dmitry Nagiyev, Yana Churikova |
| Judges | |
| Opening theme | This Is The Voice |
| Country of origin | Russia |
| Original language | Russian |
| No. of seasons | 12 |
| No. of episodes | 169 |
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| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 120–150 minutes |
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| Original release | |
| Network | Channel One |
| Release | October 5, 2012 – present |
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The winners of the twelve seasons have been: Dina Garipova, Sergey Volchkov, Alexandra Vorobyova, Hieromonk Fotiy, Darya Antonyuk, Selim Alakhyarov, Petr Zakharov, Asker Berbekov, Yana Gabbasova, Alexander Volkodav, Viktoria Solomakhina, and Bogdan Shuvalov.
The series employs a panel of four coaches who critique the artists' performances and guide their teams of selected artists through the remainder of the season. They also compete to ensure that their act wins the competition, thus making them the winning coach. The original panel featured Dima Bilan (seasons 1–3, 5–6, 10), Pelageya (seasons 1–3, 6, 10), Alexander Gradsky (seasons 1–4, 6, 10), and Leonid Agutin (seasons 1–3, 5–6, 10). The coaching panel for the upcoming thirteen season will featuring Basta (seasons 4, 7, 9, 11, 13-), Polina Gagarina (seasons 4-5, 8-9, 11-), Hibla Gerzmava (season 13-) and Anton Belyaev (seasons 11-). Other coaches from previous seasons include Grigory Leps (seasons 4–5), Ani Lorak (season 7), Konstantin Meladze (seasons 7–8), Sergey Shnurov (seasons 7–9), Valeriy Syutkin (seasons 8-9), Vladimir Presnyakov (seasons 11-12), and Zivert (season 12).
The Voice began airing on October 5, 2012, as an autumn-winter TV season program. The show proved to be a hit for Channel One. So far, the series has aired for twelve seasons.
Conception
editAn adaptation of the Dutch show The Voice of Holland, Channel One announced the show under the name Голос (The Voice).
In each season, the winner receives ₽1,000,000 (≈$16,000) and a record deal with Universal Music Group.
Selection process and format
edit- Blind auditions
Each season begins with the "Blind Auditions," where coaches form their team of artists (12 artists in season 1 and since season 7, 14 artists in seasons 2–6) whom they mentor through the remainder of the season. (There was a rule in seasons 3–5 that coach who complete his/her team firstly can add to his/her team still one artist). The coaches' chairs are faced towards the audience during artists' performances; those interested in an artist press their button, which turns their chair towards the artist and illuminates the bottom of the chair to read "Я выбираю тебя" ("I Want You"). At the conclusion of the performance, an artist either defaults to the only coach who turned around or selects his or her coach if more than one coach expresses interest. Eleventh season features block button which will prevent a coach from being chosen by the contestant.
- Battles
In the "Battle Rounds," each coach pairs two of his or her team members to perform together, then chooses one to advance in the competition. In season 1, coaches were assisted by celebrity mentors. In the first season, coaches sit alongside their respective advisors in the battle stage. A new element was added in season two; coaches were given two "steals", allowing each coach to select two individuals who were eliminated during a battle round by another coach. However, since the seventh season (just like in the first season) each coach can't steal artists.
- Knockouts
In the Knockout Rounds, a pair of artists within a team are selected to sing individual performances in succession. They are not told until a few minutes prior to their performances who their partner is. At the conclusion of the performances, coaches would decide which one of each pair gets to advance to the next round. Starting with season two each coach pairs three artists into one knockout with two contestants from the trio advance to the next round. However, since season 7 only one contestant from the trio advances to the Top 12. But the coaches were given one "steal" (just like in the previous seasons' Battles).
- Live shows
In the final live performance phase of the competition, artists perform in weekly shows, where public voting and coaches' decision s narrow to a final group of artists and eventually declares a winner. In season one the coaches have the power to save one artist that had not received the public's vote in the Quarterfinal. In later seasons artists were saved by Votes' summa (Public's vote + Coach's vote). In deciding who moves on to the final four phase, the television audience and the coaches have equal say. With one team member remaining for each coach, the contestants compete against each other in the finale, where the outcome is decided solely by public vote. One contestant from each team would advance to the final four.
- Addition
Since season 7, alongside the determining of the winner, television viewers vote for the Best coach using The Voice App and HbbTV option in their TV sets.
Coaches and presenter
editCoaches timeline
edit| Timeline of coaches | |||||||||||||
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| Coach | Seasons | ||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | |
| Dima Bilan | |||||||||||||
| Pelageya | |||||||||||||
| Alexander Gradsky † | |||||||||||||
| Leonid Agutin | |||||||||||||
| Basta | |||||||||||||
| Polina Gagarina | |||||||||||||
| Grigory Leps | |||||||||||||
| Ani Lorak | |||||||||||||
| Sergey Shnurov | |||||||||||||
| Konstantin Meladze | |||||||||||||
| Valeriy Syutkin | |||||||||||||
| Vladimir Presnyakov | |||||||||||||
| Anton Belyaev | |||||||||||||
| Zivert | |||||||||||||
| Hibla Gerzmava | |||||||||||||
- Coaches gallery
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Pelageya (2012–2014, 2017, 2021) -
Alexander Gradsky† (2012–2015, 2017, 2021) -
Leonid Agutin (2012–2014, 2016–2017, 2021) -
Basta (2015, 2018, 2020, 2023, 2025) -
Polina Gagarina (2015–2016, 2019—2020, 2023-) -
Grigory Leps (2015–2016) -
Ani Lorak (2018) -
Sergey Shnurov (2018—2020) -
Konstantin Meladze (2018–2019) -
Valeriy Syutkin (2019—2020) -
Vladimir Presnyakov (2023-2024) -
Anton Belyaev (2023-) -
Zivert (2024) -
Hibla Gerzmava (2025-)
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Presenter
edit| Timeline of presenter | |||||||||||||
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| Presenter | Seasons | ||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | |
| Dmitry Nagiev | |||||||||||||
| Yana Churikova | |||||||||||||
- Presenters
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Dmitry Nagiev (2012-2021) -
Yana Churikova (2023―)
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Series overview
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| Season | Premiere | Final | Winner | Runner-up | Third place | Fourth place | Winning Coach | Best Coach | Presenters | Coaches (chair's order) | |||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||||||||
| 1 | October 5, 2012 | December 29, 2012 | Dina Garipova | Elmira Kalimullina | Anastasiya Spiridonova | Margarita Pozoyan | Alexander Gradsky | The public didn't determine the best coach until season 7 | Dmitry Nagiev | Dima Bilan | Pelageya | Alexander Gradsky | Leonid Agutin |
| 2 | September 6, 2013 | December 27, 2013 | Sergey Volchkov | Nargiz Zakirova | Gela Guralia | Tina Kuznetsova | |||||||
| 3 | September 5, 2014 | December 26, 2014 | Alexandra Vorobyova | Yaroslav Dronov | Alexander Bon | Mariam Merabova | Leonid Agutin | Dima Bilan | |||||
| 4 | September 4, 2015 | December 25, 2015 | Hieromonk Fotiy | Mikhail Ozerov | Olga Zadonskaya | Era Kann | Grigory Leps | Basta | Polina Gagarina | Grigory Leps | |||
| 5 | September 2, 2016 | December 30, 2016 | Darya Antonyuk | Alexander Panayotov | Kayrat Primberdiev | Sardor Milano | Leonid Agutin | Dima Bilan | Leonid Agutin | ||||
| 6 | September 1, 2017 | December 29, 2017 | Selim Alakhyarov | Timofey Kopylyov | Ladislav Bubnar | Yang Ge | Alexander Gradsky | Pelageya | Alexander Gradsky | Leonid Agutin | |||
| 7 | October 12, 2018 | January 1, 2019 | Petr Zakharov | Amirkhan Umaev | Rushana Valieva | Shaen Oganesyan | Konstantin Meladze | Sergey Shnurov | Basta | Ani Lorak | Sergey Shnurov | Konstantin Meladze | |
| 8 | October 11, 2019 | January 1, 2020 | Asker Berbekov | Anton Tokarev | Iv Nabiev | Arsen Mukendi | Valeriy Syutkin | Polina Gagarina | |||||
| 9 | October 9, 2020 | December 30, 2020 | Yana Gabbasova | Oleg Akkuratov | Dmitry Vengerov | Vasily Pasechnik | Polina Gagarina | Basta | Basta | Valeriy Syutkin | |||
| 10 | October 8, 2021 | December 30, 2021 | Alexander Volkodav | Alisher Karimov | Ernar Sadirbaev | Elina Pan | Pelageya | No best coach | Dima Bilan | Pelageya | Alexander Gradsky | Leonid Agutin | |
| 11 | March 3, 2023 | June 2, 2023 | Viktoria Solomakhina | Elmira Divaeva | Irina Syshchikova | Lyudmila Serebryakova | Polina Gagarina | Basta | Yana Churikova | Vladimir Presnyakov | Polina Gagarina | Basta | Anton Belyaev |
| 12 | January 19, 2024 | April 27, 2024 | Bogdan Shuvalov | Georgy Russkikh | Alexey Sulima | Anastasia Sadkovskaya | Polina Gagarina | Zivert | |||||
| 13 | January 2025 | TBA | Basta | Hibla Gerzmava | |||||||||
Best coach
edit| Season | Best coach | |||||||
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| First place | % | Second place | % | Third place | % | Fourth place | % | |
| 1-6, 10 | From seasons 1 through 6 and 10, the public didn't determine the Best coach. | |||||||
| 7 | Sergey Shnurov | 34% | Konstantin Meladze | 30% | Basta | 24% | Ani Lorak | 12% |
| 8 | 40% | 28% | Polina Gagarina | 19% | Valeriy Syutkin | 13% | ||
| 9 | Basta | 31% | Sergey Shnurov | 23% | 18% | |||
| 11 | 47% | Polina Gagarina | 23% | Vladimir Presnyakov | 20% | Anton Belyaev | 10% | |
| 12 | Polina Gagarina | 32% | Vladimir Presnyakov | 31% | Anton Belyaev | 23% | Zivert | 14% |
Reception
edit| Season | Episode number | Average | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | |||
| 1 | 5.5 | 6.9 | 7.0 | 7.8 | 8.8 | 8.4 | 8.0 | 8.4 | 7.7 | 7.4 | 7.7 | 9.2 | 7.7 | – | 7.73 | |||||
| 2 | 9.5 | 8.6 | 8.9 | 9.4 | 9.5 | 10.0 | 9.4 | 9.1 | 9.1 | 8.3 | 9.4 | 9.0 | 8.5 | 9.1 | 9.2 | 9.5 | 9.8 | – | 9.19 | |
| 3 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 8.8 | 8.6 | 8.6 | 9.4 | 8.7 | 7.8 | 6.5 | 7.8 | 8.4 | 7.4 | 7.6 | 6.3 | 6.7 | 7.6 | 8.2 | – | 7.9 | |
| 4 | 8.4 | 7.3 | 7.2 | 6.6 | 7.0 | 7.7 | 7.5 | 7.2 | 6.8 | 6.5 | 6.5 | 6.5 | 6.1 | 5.7 | 5.5 | 6.0 | 6.6 | – | 6.77 | |
| 5 | 6.8 | 7.1 | 7.3 | 7.7 | 8.6 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 7.7 | 6.3 | 7.1 | 6.9 | 6.8 | 6.6 | 5.8 | 6.2 | 6.0 | 6.3 | 7.08 | |
| 6 | 6.5 | 6.2 | 5.8 | 5.8 | 6.3 | 6.2 | 6.6 | 6.4 | 6.0 | 5.9 | 5.7 | 5.4 | 5.5 | 5.8 | 5.3 | 5.3 | 5.2 | 5.5 | 5.86 | |
| 7 | 5.2 | 4.7 | 4.9 | 5.2 | 5.9 | 5.5 | 4.7 | 4.5 | 4.7 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 3.9 | 5.3 | – | 4.87 | |||||
| 8 | 5.9 | 5.2 | 5.4 | 5.0 | 5.6 | 5.3 | 5.1 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 4.8 | – | 5.02 | |||||
| 9 | 5.0 | 4.8 | 5.0 | 5.1 | 5.1 | 5.1 | 4.7 | 4.9 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.5 | – | 4.78 | |||||
Seasons average: Ratings
editThe first season premiered on October 5, 2012 with a 5.5 rating in the 18-49 demographic. For its average season rating, the show was in the Top 5 at a 7.73 ranking.
The second season premiered on September 6, 2013 with a 9.5 in the 18–49 demographic. It was up from last season's premiere by 4.0 rating scores.
The third season premiered on September 5, 2014 with a 7.9 in the 18-49 demographic. It was down from last season's premiere by 1.6 rating scores.
The fourth season premiered on September 4, 2015 with an 8.4 in the 18-49 demographic. It was up from last season's premiere by .5 rating scores.
The fifth season premiered on September 2, 2016 with a 6.8 in the 18-49 demographic. It was down from last season's premiere by 1.6 rating scores.
The sixth season premiered on September 1, 2017 with a 6.5 in the 18-49 demographic. It was down from last season's premiere by .3 rating scores.
The seventh season premiered on October 12, 2018 with a 5.2 in the 18-49 demographic. It was down from last season's premiere by 1.3 rating scores.
The eighth season premiered on October 11, 2019 with a 5.9 in the 18-49 demographic. It was up from last season's premiere by .7 rating scores.
The ninth season premiered on October 9, 2020 with a 5.0 in the 18-49 demographic. It was down from last season's premiere by .9 rating scores. This is the lowest rated season premiere to date.
- Each Russian network television season starts in late August and ends in late May.
| Season | Timeslot (MSK (UTC+3)) | # Ep. | Premiered | Ended | TV season | Viewers (ratings) | ||
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| Date | Premiere viewers (ratings) |
Date | Final viewers (ratings) | |||||
| 1 | Friday 9:30 pm (eps. 1–4, 6–9, 11–12)
Sunday 9:20 pm (ep. 5) Friday 7:50 pm (ep. 10) Saturday 9:30 pm (Final) |
13 | October 5, 2012
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5.5 | December 29, 2012
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7.7 | 2012–2013 | 7.73 |
| 2 | Friday 9:30 pm (eps. 1–5, 7–17)
Saturday 9:20 pm (ep. 6) |
17 | September 6, 2013
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9.5 | December 27, 2013
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9.8 | 2013–2014 | 9.19 |
| 3 | Friday 9:45 pm (eps. 1–13)
Friday 9:35 pm (eps. 14–17) |
September 5, 2014
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7.9 | December 26, 2014
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8.2 | 2014–2015 | 7.9 | |
| 4 | Friday 9:30 pm | September 4, 2015
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8.4 | December 25, 2015
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6.6 | 2015–2016 | 6.77 | |
| 5 | 18 | September 2, 2016
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6.8 | December 30, 2016
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6.3 | 2016–2017 | 7.08 | |
| 6 | September 1, 2017
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6.5 | December 29, 2017
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5.5 | 2017–2018 | 5.86 | ||
| 7 | Friday 9:30 pm (eps. 1–12)
Tuesday 8:00 pm (Final) |
13 | October 12, 2018
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5.2 | January 1, 2019
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5.3 | 2018–2019 | 4.87 |
| 8 | Friday 9:30 pm (eps. 1–12)
Wednesday 8:00 pm (Final) |
October 11, 2019
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5.9 | January 1, 2020
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4.8 | 2019–2020 | 5.02 | |
| 9 | Friday 9:30 pm
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October 9, 2020
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5.0 | December 30. 2020
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4.5 | 2020–2021 | 4.78 | |