The fourth season of the American
reality talent show ''
The Voice'' premiered on March 25, 2013, on
NBC and was hosted by
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'', ...
, while
Christina Milian
Christine Marie Flores (born September 26, 1981), better known as Christina Milian (), is an American actress and singer. Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, but raised in Maryland, she signed a contract with Murder Inc. Records at the age of 19. ...
returned as the social media correspondent. Coaches
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 returned as coaches, both for their fourth season.
CeeLo Green and
Christina Aguilera appeared as performers instead of coaches. Two new coaches
Shakira and
Usher
Usher may refer to:
Several jobs which originally involved directing people and ensuring people are in the correct place:
* Usher (occupation)
** Church usher
** Wedding usher, one of the male attendants to the groom in a wedding ceremony
** Fiel ...
served as replacement coaches for Aguilera and Green, leaving Levine & Shelton the only coaches remaining from the inaugural season. The team sizes were trimmed back down to 12 per team (
season two Season 2 may refer to:
* ''Season 2'' (Infinite album)
* ''2econd Season
''2econd Season'' is the second and most recent album by Atlanta-based rapper Unk.
Release
It was released on November 4, 2008.
Guest Performers
The album features gu ...
's team size), with each coach having two 'steals' in the Battle Rounds.
Danielle Bradbery
Danielle Simone Bradbery (born July 23, 1996) is an American country pop singer. She won season 4 of NBC's ''The Voice'' in 2013, becoming the youngest artist to win the competition at age 16. Bradbery's record has since been eclipsed by Sawyer F ...
, a 16-year-old country singer (then-youngest winner of the series) from
Cypress, Texas won the season, marking Blake Shelton's third win as a coach.
Auditions, coaches, hosts, and team sizes
Auditions were held from January 12 to February 17, 2013, in Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Houston and New York City.
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'', ...
hosted for his fourth consecutive season, while
Christina Milian
Christine Marie Flores (born September 26, 1981), better known as Christina Milian (), is an American actress and singer. Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, but raised in Maryland, she signed a contract with Murder Inc. Records at the age of 19. ...
returned for her third season as social media correspondent. The judges' line-up saw a change for the first time since the inception of the show. Joining coaches
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 were
Usher
Usher may refer to:
Several jobs which originally involved directing people and ensuring people are in the correct place:
* Usher (occupation)
** Church usher
** Wedding usher, one of the male attendants to the groom in a wedding ceremony
** Fiel ...
and
Shakira.
CeeLo Green and
Christina Aguilera were substituted in order to focus on their music careers. However, Green and Aguilera would be returning in the following season.
This season's advisers for the Battle Rounds were
Hillary Scott (lead singer of
Lady Antebellum),
Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and actress. Her music incorporates elements of rock, pop, country, folk, and blues. She has released eleven studio albums, five compilations and three li ...
,
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
Joel Madden (lead singer of
Good Charlotte and coach on
Australian version) as advisers of Levine, Shelton, Usher, and Shakira's teams respectively. All advisers except Madden returned to coach on their respective teams during week three of the live shows, so Shakira brought in Green to help coach her team.
Teams
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Blind auditions
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Episode 1 (March 25)
The coaches performed a cover of "
Come Together" at the start of the show.
Episode 2 (March 26)
Episode 3 (April 1)
Episode 4 (April 2)
Episode 5 (April 8)
Episode 6 (April 9)
The Battles
The Battle Rounds were broadcast from Monday, April 15, 2013, to Tuesday, April 23, 2013.
The 'Steals' (adopted in season 3) have been retained, and each coach has two uses to be used throughout the Battle rounds. Six battles (or the outcomes thereof) were included in each episode of the Battle Rounds. For this season's advisers, Adam Levine has picked
Hillary Scott from
Lady Antebellum, Blake Shelton has chosen
Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and actress. Her music incorporates elements of rock, pop, country, folk, and blues. She has released eleven studio albums, five compilations and three li ...
, Shakira is assisted by
Joel Madden and Usher brought in
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 ...
.
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The Knockouts
The Knockout Rounds aired on Monday, April 29, 2013, and Tuesday, April 30, 2013.
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Live shows
Prior to the start of the Live shows, a special episode called "The Road to the Live Shows" was aired for one hour on Wednesday, May 1, 2013, recapping some of the best moments of the blind auditions, battle rounds and knockout rounds.
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Week 1: Live playoffs (May 6, 7 & 8)
The live playoffs aired from Monday, May 6, 2013, through Wednesday, May 8, 2013.
Contestants were asked to sing a stripped-down version of a song in order to concentrate on the competition. The Monday performances featured Teams Adam and Usher, while Tuesday's shows featured Teams Blake and Shakira. On Wednesday, the two artists per team will advance by public vote, and a third artist would be saved by the coach. Special guests in the audience included
Savannah Guthrie and
Al Roker of ''
The Today Show''.
Week 2: Top 12 (May 13 & 14)
The Top 12 performed on Monday, May 13, 2013, and received the results on Tuesday, May 14, 2013.
Usher brought in his choreographer, Aakomon Jones, to help coach the artists on his team. During the performance episode's second hour, host Carson Daly mentioned on the changes made to the
iTunes
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multiplier bonus (which remained at tenfold if the artist's single peaked at the top 100 during the voting period), where only ''one'' download of an artist's eligible song per registered iTunes account during the designated voting window will count as a vote towards that week's results. The change was contemporaneously added to the "Vote Help" section of the show's NBC.com voting page. None of the artists reached the top 10 on iTunes, so no bonuses were awarded this week. He also mentioned that the iTunes bonus is only given to those in the Top 10 at the close of voting (10am EST).
Week 3: Top 10 (May 20 & 21)
The Top 10 performed for two hours on Monday, May 20, 2013, with results broadcast on Tuesday, May 21, 2013.
Advisers from the Battles (
Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and actress. Her music incorporates elements of rock, pop, country, folk, and blues. She has released eleven studio albums, five compilations and three li ...
,
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
Hillary Scott from
Lady Antebellum) return to coach on their respective teams. CeeLo Green takes the place of Joel Madden due to Madden's prior commitments to ''
The Voice Australia
''The Voice'' is an Australian singing competition television series. It premiered on the Nine Network on 14 April 2012, before moving to the Seven Network in 2021. Based on the original ''The Voice of Holland'', and part of ''The Voice '' ...
''. The results show featured a performance dedicated to the people who lost their lives from an
EF5 tornado in
Moore, Oklahoma. Special guests in the audience included
Michelle Rodriguez and
Vin Diesel from ''
Fast & Furious 6''.
This week's iTunes bonus multipliers was awarded to Bradbery.
Week 4: Top 8 (May 27 & 28)
The Top 8 performed on Monday, May 27, 2013, and received the results on Tuesday, May 28. A special preview for the
upcoming season of ''
America's Got Talent
''America's Got Talent'' (often abbreviated as ''AGT'') is a televised American talent show competition, and is part of the global ''Got Talent'' franchise created by Simon Cowell. The program is produced by Fremantle (as well as distribut ...
'' was shown during the broadcast of the results show.
None of the artists reached the top 10 on iTunes, so no bonuses were awarded; Bradbery's performance single however, did peak at the Top 10 only after the voting window ended, thus the bonus was not applied.
Week 5: Quarterfinals (June 3 & 4)
Top 6 performed two songs each on Monday, June 3, 2013, and received the results on Tuesday, June 4, 2013. Each contestant sang two songs, one of their choice, and one of the coach's choice. Only one contestant was eliminated this week instead of the usual two.
Taylor Swift attended Michelle Chamuel's rehearsal for "
I Knew You Were Trouble". Amber Carrington had forgotten the lyrics to "I Remember You" during her performance, though it was not commented on by any of the coaches.
The iTunes bonus multipliers was awarded for Chamuel.
Week 6: Semifinals (June 10 & 11)
The Top 5 performed two songs each on Monday, June 10, 2013, and received the results on Tuesday, June 11, 2013. One song is chosen by their coach, and the other is chosen by the contestant as a dedication to another (The Swon Brothers dedicated their band members past and present, Allen for her children, Carrington for her best friends, Bradbery for her parents and best friend, and Chamuel for her coach, Usher)
With the eliminations of Allen and Carrington, Levine and Shakira no longer have any remaining artists on their teams, with the latter being the first contestant to reach the Top 10 of iTunes and to be eliminated in the same week, and also the first time a pair of contestants who pitted together in a Battle round eliminated on the same week. It also marked the first time that a new coach has coached an artist competing in the finale on his first attempt, as Usher had Chamuel available on his team.
Week 7: Finale (June 17 & 18)
The Top 3 performed on Monday, June 17, 2013, with the announcement of the winner on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. This week, the contestants performed three times: a "defining moment" from a previous performance, a duet with their coach, and a solo.
Six performances reached top 10 on iTunes as follows Danielle Bradbery (#2 & #9), Michelle Chamuel (#3 & #8) and The Swon Brothers (#4 & #7).
Elimination chart
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Ratings
Season four premiered on March 25, 2013, and was watched by 13.64 million viewers with a 4.8 rating in the 18–49 demographic. It was up from the previous season's premiere by 1.36 million viewers (11%).
Controversies
Voting controversy
At the beginning of the results show for The Live Playoffs, Carson Daly announced that "inconsistencies" were found in the voting, so votes cast via text-messaging and online would be excluded from the vote count to ensure fairness.
Daly brought Jason George, CEO of Telescope, the company that manages the show's voting system, on stage to stress that the exclusion would not have affected the results either way.
Reported issues were that voting had closed on the Facebook app and website at 11.30 pm
PST (an hour and a half after the show's West Coast airing) when it should have ended at 10 am
EST the next day,
which may have been a result of too many users voting at the same time.
Adam Levine comment
Upon seeing that his team members Judith Hill and Sarah Simmons had not been saved, coach Adam Levine said, "I hate this country," right before the top 8 results were announced. This brought some angry responses on his Twitter page.
He then sent a series of Tweets with dictionary definitions of the words "joke," "humorless," "lighthearted," and "misunderstand" to state that it was merely a "heat of the moment" reaction.
Levine later provided an explanation: "Last night’s elimination of Judith and Sarah was confusing and downright emotional for me, and my comments were made based on my personal dissatisfaction with the results."
Artists' appearances in other media
*Garrett Gardner and Agina Alvarez sang in the blind auditions of
season three of ''
The Voice'' and failed to make a team.
*Rhian and Cara Morgan of The Morgan Twins, Colton Swon of
The Swon Brothers, Luke Edgemon, and Agina Alvarez made it to Hollywood Week on ''
American Idol'' seasons
two,
seven
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7 or seven may also refer to:
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* 7 BC, the seventh year before the AD era
* The month of
July
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,
nine, and
eleven
Eleven or 11 may refer to:
*11 (number), the natural number following 10 and preceding 12
* one of the years 11 BC, AD 11, 1911, 2011, or any year ending in 11
Literature
* ''Eleven'' (novel), a 2006 novel by British author David Llewellyn
*'' ...
respectively.
*
Jon Peter Lewis of Midas Whale finished in eighth place in
season three of ''American Idol''.
*Amy Whitcomb performed in
season one Season One may refer to:
Albums
* ''Season One'' (Suburban Legends album), 2004
* ''Season One'' (All Sons & Daughters album), 2012
* ''Season One'' (Saukrates album), 2012
See also
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*
* Season 2 (disambiguation)
* Season 4 (disambiguat ...
of ''
The Sing-Off'' as a member of
BYU Noteworthy, and again in
season three as a member of Delilah. They came in sixth place both seasons.
*
Sasha Allen was a contestant on
VH1
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's ''Born to Diva''.
*Mary Miranda was on
Estrella TV's ''Tengo Talento, Mucho Talento''.
* After failing to make a team,
Sam Alves became a contestant on
season two Season 2 may refer to:
* ''Season 2'' (Infinite album)
* ''2econd Season
''2econd Season'' is the second and most recent album by Atlanta-based rapper Unk.
Release
It was released on November 4, 2008.
Guest Performers
The album features gu ...
of ''
The Voice Brasil''. This time, Alves was able to turn all four chairs. He went all the way to the end, winning the competition on December 26, 2013.
* Agina Alvarez went on to compete on the fourth season of
La Voz... México, where she came in third place. She also appeared on ''
I Can See Your Voice
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History
In 2012, prod ...
'' as La Voz.
* Mark Andrew auditioned for
season 14 of ''American Idol''. He was eliminated in the Top 16.
* After failing to make a team, Sonika Vaid auditioned for
season fifteen of American Idol. She finished fifth place.
* Duncan Kamakana would participate in ''
EMA 2017'' in
Slovenia for the chance to represent Slovenia in the
Eurovision Song Contest 2017 in
Kyiv,
Ukraine. He failed to qualify for the national final.
* After failing to make a team, Brandon Diaz auditioned for
season sixteen of American Idol. He made it to the Top 24. He also made an appearance in Season 14 to support his girlfriend, Jackie Foster, in the playoffs.
* Ryan Innes would later appear on the second season of
Songland
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.
*
Julie Roberts appeared in a game show ''
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* ''The Wheel of Fortune'' (Burne-Jo ...
'' aired February 13, 2007 playing for her charity along with a contestant Peter Buccellato. Roberts won the $100,000 top prize during the bonus round, raising a total of $124,250 cash & prizes.
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