''Singer'' 2018 is the sixth season of Chinese television series ''Singer'', a rebranded version of '' I Am a Singer'' that aired on Hunan Television. It is produced by Hong Tao, and its music director is Hong Kong senior musician Kubert Leung. The first episode was recorded in the Hunan Broadcasting System Radio and Television Center, Changsha, Hunan on December 28, 2017 and premiered on January 12, 2018 and ended on April 20, 2018. For the first time this series, YouTube provided English captions for the show. On April 13, 2018, British singer

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was declared winner of Singer 2018, and J was the first non-Chinese and foreign singer to win ''I Am a Singer''. Chinese singers Hua Chenyu and Wang Feng were placed second and third, respectively.

Competition rules

As like the previous seasons of ''I Am a Singer'' and ''Singer 2017'', ''Singer 2018'' was divided into four rounds of three stages, and seven singers performed for a 500-member audience each week. Similar to the previous series, the total votes cast from both Qualifiers and Knockouts determined which singer was eliminated from the competition. This series features a modification to the Challenge rounds, with the Challenger entering the competition starting at the Knockout rounds instead of Challenge round (where a new substitute singer would enter the competition instead). Challengers must avoid last place on their first week in addition to finishing in the top four on the second week (in a combination of both knockout and challenge rounds) to be declared safe; failing either challenge instantly eliminates the singer from the competition. A new pre-voting introduced in the season, Pre-Audience Voting, replaces the Singer Voting which debuted in season 3. Midway after the fourth performance, the audience were asked to make early predictions on which three singers would receive the most votes after the remaining performances of that episode. Similar to Singer Voting, Pre-audience voting has no impact onto the outcome of the competition (with one exception, see

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) and does not count towards the audience's vote count. The announcement of results was also changed, with only the results for the top four revealed during the Qualifiers, while the remaining results (bottom three) would not be revealed until the Knockouts; in most cases, they could choose their performance order by ballot for the next night.

Contestants

The following ''Singer 2018'' contestants are listed in alphabetical order (singers without a placement for the final is listed as finalist; singers eliminated before the finals are listed as non-finalist; singers withdrew were listed as withdrawn): Key: : – Winner : – Runner-up : – Third place : – Other finalist : – Withdrew

Future appearances

Hua Chenyu would appear as a contestant on the eighth season in 2020.

Results

Competition details

First Round

Qualifying

*Taping Date: January 3, 2018 *Airdate: January 12, 2018

: a. Ranked first in the Pre-Audience Voting : b. GAI's performance was edited out from the episode re-runs and in video-sharing websites, due to his withdrawal.

Knockout

*Taping Date: January 11, 2018 *Airdate: January 19, 2018 The first challenger of the season was Juno Su. Due to Beijing's sudden ban on hip-hop culture, GAI withdraw from the competition; footage on GAI's performances from both episodes (and re-runs) were edited out, and clips of his involvement in the competition were also subsequently removed from video-sharing websites as well. His appearance was neither mentioned nor shown in the later episodes, thus effectively confirming his withdrawal from the competition.