The eleventh season of the American

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'' premiered on September 19, 2016, on

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. A 30-minute preview episode aired following NBC's broadcast of the

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on August 21, 2016.

Adam Levine Adam Noah Levine (; born March 18, 1979) is an American singer and songwriter. He serves as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the pop rock band Maroon 5. Levine began his musical career in 1994 with the band Kara's Flowers, of which ...

and

Blake Shelton Blake Tollison Shelton (born June 18, 1976) is an American country music singer and television personality. In 2001, he made his debut with the single " Austin". The lead-off single from his self-titled debut album, "Austin" spent five weeks at ...

both returned for their eleventh season as coaches.

Alicia Keys Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), known professionally as Alicia Keys, is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. A classically trained pianist, Keys started composing songs when she was 12 and was signed at 15 years old by Col ...

and

Miley Cyrus Miley Ray Cyrus ( ; born Destiny Hope Cyrus on November 23, 1992) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known for her distinctive raspy voice, her music spans across varied styles and genres, including pop, country, rock, hip hop ...

joined the panel replacing

Pharrell Williams Pharrell Lanscilo Williams (; born April 5, 1973) is an American record producer, rapper, singer, and songwriter. Alongside close colleague Chad Hugo, he formed the hip hop and R&B production duo the Neptunes in the early 1990s, with whom he ...

and

Christina Aguilera Christina María Aguilera (; ; born December 18, 1980) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and television personality. Known for her four-octave vocal range and ability to sustain high notes, she has been referred to as the " Voice of ...

making it the first season with two female coaches.

Carson Daly Carson Jones Daly (born June 22, 1973) is an American television host, radio personality, Television producer, producer, and celebrity, television personality. Prior to 2003, Daly was a VJ (media personality), VJ on MTV's ''Total Request Live'', ...

returned as the show's host.

Sundance Head Jason "Sundance" Head (born July 9, 1978) is an American Country music, country-soul music, soul singer and songwriter. He is the son of American singer Roy Head. In 2007, he was a semi-finalist on the American Idol (season 6), sixth season of th ...

was named the winner of the season, marking Blake Shelton's fifth win as a coach.

Coaches and hosts

There were two changes to the coaching panel from season ten. Coaches

and

are joined by

and

, who respectively replaced

and

, thus making it the first season to have two female coaches.

returned for his 11th season as host. This is Alicia Keys's second appearance on the show after being the advisor for Team Pharrell in the Battle rehearsals in

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. This is also Miley Cyrus's second appearance on the show after being key advisor for the Knockout rehearsals in season 10, making her the youngest ever coach in any of the national versions of The Voice franchise worldwide at that time at the age of 24 (until

Tini Stoessel Martina Stoessel Muzlera (; born 21 March 1997), known professionally as Tini (stylised in all caps), is an Argentine singer, songwriter, actress, dancer and model. She began her career by appearing on the Argentine children's television series ...

coach '' La Voz... Argentina'' at the age of 21 in 2018). The mentors for the Battle Rounds this season were:

Sammy Hagar Samuel Roy Hagar (born October 13, 1947), also known as the Red Rocker, is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He rose to prominence in the early 1970s with the hard rock band Montrose and subsequently launched a successful solo car ...

for Team Adam,

Bette Midler Bette Midler (;''Inside the Actors Studio'', 2004 born December 1, 1945) is an American singer, actress, comedian and author. Throughout her career, which spans over five decades, Midler has received List of awards and nominations received by Be ...

for Team Blake,

Charlie Puth Charles Otto Puth Jr. (; born December 2, 1991) is an American singer and songwriter. His initial exposure came through the viral success of his song videos uploaded to YouTube. Puth initially signed with the record label eleveneleven after pe ...

for Team Alicia, and

Joan Jett Joan Jett (born Joan Marie Larkin, September 22, 1958) is an American singer, guitarist, record producer, and actress. Jett is best known for her work as the frontwoman of her band Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, and for earlier founding and per ...

for Team Miley.

Tim McGraw Samuel Timothy McGraw (born May 1, 1967) is an American country singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He has released 16 studio albums (11 for Curb Records, four for Big Machine Records and one for Arista Nashville). 10 of those album ...

and

Faith Hill Audrey Faith McGraw (; born September 21, 1967), known professionally as Faith Hill, is an American singer and actress. She is one of the most successful country music artists of all time, having sold more than 40 million albums worldwide. Hill' ...

served as key advisors for all four teams.

Teams

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Blind auditions

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Episode 1 (Sept. 19)

The coaches performed " Dream On" at the start of the show, as a tribute to former contestant

Christina Grimmie Christina Victoria Grimmie (March 12, 1994 – June 10, 2016) was an American singer and YouTuber. In 2009, she began posting covers of popular songs onto YouTube. After releasing her debut EP, '' Find Me'' (2011), her YouTube channel reached ...

who was killed on June 10, 2016 (occurred after the finals of the previous season).

Episode 2 (Sept. 20)

Episode 3 (Sept. 26)

Episode 4 (Sept. 27)

Episode 5 (Oct. 3)

Episode 6 (Oct. 4)

This episode covered the Best of the Blind Auditions and a sneak peek of the next stage of competition, the Battle Rounds.

The Battles

The Battles round started with episode 7 and ended with episode 10 (broadcast on October 10, 11, 17, 18, 2016). Season eleven's advisors include:

for Team Adam,

for Team Miley,

for Team Alicia and

for Team Blake. As like previous seasons, each coaches can steal two losing artists from another coach. Color key:

The Knockouts

For the Knockouts,

and

were assigned as partner husband-and-wife duo mentors for contestants in all four teams. Like previous Knockouts, each coaches can each steal one losing artist. The top 20 artists will then move on to the "Live Shows." Color key:

Live shows

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Week 1: Live Playoffs (Nov. 7)

For the first time in ''

'' history, playoff results were voted on in real-time, exclusively through Twitter and ''The Voice'' app. All 20 artists sang live and eight were eliminated by the end of the night. The Live Playoffs all aired in one episode due to coverage of the 2016 Presidential Election the next day.

Week 2: Top 12 (Nov. 14 & 15)

The Top 12 performed on Monday, November 14, 2016, with the results following on Tuesday, November 15, 2016. For the live shows this week,

Garth Brooks Troyal Garth Brooks (born February 7, 1962) is an American country music singer and songwriter. His integration of pop and rock elements into the country genre has earned him popularity, particularly in the United States with success on the co ...

was assigned as a mentor for final 12 contestants in all four teams. For this week, the bottom two artists compete for the Instant Save and one artist was eliminated. None of the artists reached the top 10 on iTunes, so no bonuses were awarded.

Week 3: Top 11 (Nov. 21 & 22)

The Top 11 performed on Monday, November 21, 2016, with the results following on Tuesday, November 22, 2016. iTunes bonus multiplier was awarded to Sundance Head (#9).

Week 4: Top 10 (Nov. 28 & 29)

The Top 10 performed on Monday, November 28, 2016, with the results following on Tuesday, November 29, 2016. This week featured a double elimination and a bottom three Instant Save. iTunes bonus multipliers were awarded to Head (#1), Brendan Fletcher (#2),

Billy Gilman William Wendell Gilman III (born May 24, 1988) is an American singer. Starting as a young country artist, he is known for his debut single " One Voice", a top 40 hit on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and a top 20 hit on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country ...

(#4), Christian Cuevas (#6) and Wé McDonald (#9). For the first time since the inclusion of the Instant Save in

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, a contestant was saved three consecutive weeks.

Week 5: Semifinals (Dec. 5 & 6)

The Top eight performed on Monday, December 5, 2016, with the results following on Tuesday, December 6, 2016. This week, the three artists with the most votes made it straight to the finals, the two artists with the fewest votes were immediately eliminated and the middle three contended for the remaining spot in the finals via Instant Save. In addition to their individual songs, each artist performed a duet with another artist in the competition, though these duets were not available for purchase on iTunes. iTunes bonus multipliers were awarded to Gilman (#1), Head (#2), Josh Gallagher (#3) and Cuevas (#4). With the eliminations of

Ali Caldwell Ali Caldwell (born June 28, 1988) is an American singer from Woodbridge, New Jersey. She began her career as a member of Xhale, a three-person R&B group. In 2016, Caldwell auditioned for Season 11 of the US edition of ''The Voice'' and compete ...

and Aaron Gibson, Miley Cyrus no longer has any artists remaining on her team. With the advancement of McDonald to the finale, Alicia Keys becomes the second new coach to successfully get an artist on her team to the finale on her first attempt as a coach, the first being

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, who coached

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all the way to the finale of the fourth season.

Week 6: Finale (Dec. 12 & 13)

The Top four performed on Monday, December 12, 2016, with the final results following on Tuesday, December 13, 2016. Finalists performed a solo cover song, a duet with their coach, and an original song. iTunes bonus multipliers were awarded to Head (#1, #2 and #7), Gilman (#3 and #4), Gallagher (#6) and McDonald (#10). All iTunes votes received for the five weeks leading up to the finale were cumulatively added to online and app finale votes for each finalist.

Elimination chart

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Team

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Artists who appeared on other shows or seasons

* Darby Walker appeared as herself in nine episodes of the television sitcom "

Girl Meets World ''Girl Meets World'' is an American comedy television series created by Michael Jacobs and April Kelly that premiered on Disney Channel on June 27, 2014. The series ran for three seasons, consisting of 72 episodes, and concluded on January 2 ...

". * Sundance Head was on the sixth season of ''

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'' and was eliminated during Top 16 Week. * Lauren Diaz appeared on the second season of ''

America's Most Talented Kid ''America's Most Talented Kid'' was an American television series that premiered on NBC on March 28, 2003. In each round, three age groups (3-7, 8-12, 13-16) of talented children would perform songs, dance numbers, magic, and other forms of ente ...

''. * Nolan Neal auditioned for the tenth season of ''

'' but did not score a chair turn. Later On, He later competed on 15th season of ''

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'', and was eliminated in the Quarter-Finals. * Elia Esparza later on auditioned for the sixth season of La Voz México joining Team Laura Pausini, and also appeared on sixteenth season of ''

'' and eliminated at the end of Hollywood Week. * Preston James also auditioned on the sixteenth season of American Idol and got cut at Hollywood week. * Jason Warrior later appeared on the first season of '' The Four: Battle For Stardom'' and was eliminated in Week 5 and made it to the Top 24 on the 19th season of

. *

later appeared on the second season of '' The Four: Battle for Stardom'' and was eliminated in Week 7. *Chris Cron had major success with his band

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with the song “Built To Last” in the late-2000s * Kylie Rothfield would later appear on the second season of

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. * Natasha Bure is the daughter of the actress of

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and Fuller House,

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Ratings

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Voice (American season 11), The Season 11 2016 American television seasons