The Voice (Russian TV series) explained

Native Name:
Genre:	Music program
Creator:	John de Mol Roel van Velzen
Developer:	Talpa Content
Director:	Ildous Kurmaleev Andrey Sychev
Presenter:	Dmitry Nagiyev,Yana Churikova
Opentheme:	This Is The Voice
Country:	Russia
Language:	Russian
Num Seasons:	12
Num Episodes:	169
Camera:	Multi-camera
Runtime:	120–150 minutes
Last Aired:	present

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.

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 most recent twelfth season featured Vladimir Presnyakov (seasons 11-), Polina Gagarina (seasons 4-5, 8-9, 11-), Zivert (Season 12-) 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 and 9) and Basta (seasons 4, 7, 9, 11).

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

An 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

Blind auditionsEach 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.

BattlesIn 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.

KnockoutsIn 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 showsIn 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.

AdditionSince 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

Coaches timeline

Timeline of coaches
Coach	Seasons
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
Dima Bilan					colspan=2
Pelageya				colspan=2
Alexander Gradsky †					colspan=2
Leonid Agutin					colspan=2
Basta
Polina Gagarina
Grigory Leps		colspan=7
Ani Lorak		colspan=5
Sergey Shnurov		colspan=3
Konstantin Meladze		colspan=4
Valeriy Syutkin		colspan=3
Vladimir Presnyakov
Anton Belyaev
Zivert

Presenter

Timeline of presenter
Presenter	Seasons
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
Dmitry Nagiev	colspan=2
Yana Churikova	colspan=2

Series overview

Team Pelageya

Team Alexander Gradsky

Team Leonid Agutin

Team Basta

Team Polina Gagarina

Team Grigory Leps

Team Sergey Shnurov

Team Konstantin Meladze

Team Valeriy Syutkin

Team Vladimir Presnyakov

Team Anton Belyaev

Team Zivert

Season	Year	Winner	Runner-up	Third place	Fourth place	Winning Coach	Best Coach	Presenters	Coaches (chair's order)
1	2	3	4
1	2012	Dina Garipova	Elmira Kalimullina	Anastasiya Spiridonova	Margarita Pozoyan	Alexander Gradsky	Dmitry Nagiyev	Dima Bilan	Pelageya	Alexander Gradsky	Leonid Agutin
2	2013	Sergey Volchkov	Nargiz Zakirova	Gela Guralia	Tina Kuznetsova
3	2014	Alexandra Vorobyova	Yaroslav Dronov	Alexander Bon	Mariam Merabova	Leonid Agutin	Dima Bilan
4	2015	Hieromonk Fotiy	Mikhail Ozerov	Olga Zadonskaya	Era Kann		Basta	Polina Gagarina	Grigory Leps
5	2016	Darya Antonyuk	Alexander Panayotov	Kairat Primberdiev	Sardor Milano	Leonid Agutin	Dima Bilan	Leonid Agutin
6	2017	Selim Alakhyarov	Timofey Kopylyov	Ladislav Bubnar	Yang Ge	Alexander Gradsky	Pelageya	Alexander Gradsky	Leonid Agustin
7	2018–2019	Petr Zakharov	Amirkhan Umaev	Rushana Valieva	Shaen Oganesyan	Konstantin Meladze	Sergey Shnurov	Basta	Ani Lorak	Sergey Shnurov	Konstantin Meladze
8	2019–2020	Asker Berbekov	Anton Tokarev	Iv Nabiev	Arsen Mukendi	Valery Syutkin	Polina Gagarina
9	2020	Yana Gabbasova	Oleg Akkuratov	Dmitry Vengerov	Vasily Pasechnik	Polina Gagarina	Basta	Basta	Valeriy Syutkin
10	2021	Alexander Volkodav	Alisher Karimov	Ernar Sadirbaev	Elina Pan	Pelageya		Dima Bilan	Pelageya	Alexander Gradsky	Leonid Agutin
11	2023	Viktoria Solomakhina	Elmira Divaeva	Irina Syshchikova	Lyudmila Serebryakova	Polina Gagarina	Basta	Yana Churikova	Vladimir Presnyakov	Polina Gagarina	Basta	Anton Belyaev
12	2024	Bogdan Shuvalov	Georgy Russkikh	Alexey Sulima	Anastasia Sadkovskaya	Polina Gagarina	Zivert

Best coach

Season	Best coach
First place	%	Second place	%	Third place	%	Fourth place	%
1-6, 10	colspan=8
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

Seasons average: Ratings

The 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)
Date	span style="width:10%; font-size:smaller; line-height:100%;"	Premiere viewers (ratings)	Date	span style="width:10%; font-size:smaller; line-height:100%;"	Final viewers (ratings)
1		13		5.5		7.7	2012–2013	7.73
2		17		9.5		9.8	2013–2014	9.19
3				7.9		8.2	2014–2015	7.9
4	Friday 9:30 pm			8.4		6.6	2015–2016	6.77
5	18		6.8		6.3	2016–2017	7.08
6			6.5		5.5	2017–2018	5.86
7		13		5.2		5.3	2018–2019	4.87
8				5.9		4.8	2019–2020	5.02
9				5.0		4.5	2020–2021	4.78

External links

• Official website