X Factor was the Icelandic version of the popular British television show The X Factor. It premiered in Reykjavík on November 17, 2006, with actress Halla Vilhjálmsdóttir hosting the show.[1] The judges were the talent agent and businessman Einar Bárðarson, rock musician Elínborg Halldórsdóttir and pop singer Paul Oscar.[2] Previously, both Einar and Páll Óskar had been judges in Idol stjörnuleit, the Icelandic version of Pop Idol.
In the finals of X Factor held in Vetrargarðinum, Smáralind, a large shopping center in Iceland, singer and hair dresser Jógvan Hansen from Faroe Islands was the winner.[3]
Key:
– Winner
– Runner-up
– Third place
| Category (mentor) | Acts | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16-24s (Halldórsdóttir) | Sigurbjörg Tinna Gunnarsdóttir | Guðbjörg Hilmarsdóttir | Gylfi Víðisson | Jóhanna M. Wiklund | |
| Over 25s (Bárðarson) | Sigurður Ingimarsson | Alan Jones | Inga Sæland | ||
| Groups (Oscar) | Fjórflétta | Gís | Hara | Já | |
| - | Contestant was in the bottom two and had to sing again in the final showdown | |
| - | Contestant received the fewest public votes and was immediately eliminated (no final showdown) | |
| - | Contestant received the most public votes |
| Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9 | Week 10 | Week 11 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jógvan Hansen | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Winner 70% | |
| Hara | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Runner-up 30% | |
| Guðbjörg Hilmarsdóttir | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Safe | 3rd | Eliminated (week 10) | |
| Gís | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Bottom two | Safe | Bottom two | Safe | 4th | Eliminated (week 9) | ||
| Inga Sæland | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Eliminated (week 8) | |||
| Gylfi Víðisson | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Eliminated (week 7) | ||||
| Alan Jones | Safe | Bottom two | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Eliminated (week 6) | |||||
| Jóhanna M. Wiklund | Bottom two | Safe | Bottom two | Safe | Bottom two | Eliminated (week 5) | ||||||
| Sigurður Ingimarsson | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Eliminated (week 4) | |||||||
| Fjórflétta | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Eliminated (week 3) | ||||||||
| Já | Safe | Bottom two | Eliminated (week 2) | |||||||||
| Sigurbjörg Tinna Gunnarsdóttir | Bottom two | Eliminated (week 1) | ||||||||||
| Final showdown | Jóhanna M. Wiklund, Sigurbjörg Tinna Gunnarsdóttir | Alan Jones, Já | Fjórflétta, Jóhanna M. Wiklund | Gís, Sigurður Ingimarsson | Gís, Jóhanna M. Wiklund | Alan Jones, Hara | Gís, Gylfi Víðisson | Guðbjörg Hilmarsdóttir, Inga Sæland | No final showdown or judges' votes; results were based on public votes alone | |||
| Bárðarson's vote to eliminate | Já | Fjórflétta | Gís | Jóhanna M. Wiklund | Hara | Gylfi Víðisson | Guðbjörg Hilmarsdóttir | |||||
| Halldórsdóttir's vote to eliminate | Já | Fjórflétta | Sigurður Ingimarsson | Gís | Alan Jones | Gís | Inga Sæland | |||||
| Oscar's vote to eliminate | Alan Jones | Jóhanna M. Wiklund | Sigurður Ingimarsson | Jóhanna M. Wiklund | Alan Jones | Gylfi Víðisson | Inga Sæland | |||||
| Eliminated | Sigurbjörg Tinna Gunnarsdóttir ? of 3 votes Majority | Já 2 of 3 Votes Majority | Fjórflétta 2 of 3 votes Majority | Sigurður Ingimarsson 2 of 3 votes Majority | Jóhanna M. Wiklund 2 of 3 votes Majority | Alan Jones 2 of 3 votes Majority | Gylfi Víðisson 2 of 3 votes Majority | Inga Sæland 2 of 3 votes Majority | Gís Public vote to save | Guðbjörg Hilmarsdóttir Public vote to save | Hara Public vote to win | |