The ninth season of the American

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The Voice The Voice may refer to: Fictional entities * The Voice or Presence, a fictional representation of God in DC Comics * The Voice (''Dune''), a fictional ability in the ''Dune'' universe * The Voice, a character in the American TV series ''Cleo ...

'' premiered on September 21, 2015 on

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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 ...

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 ...

, and

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 ...

returned as coaches for the season.

Gwen Stefani Gwen Renée Stefani (; born October 3, 1969) is an American singer, songwriter, fashion designer and actress. She is a co-founder, lead vocalist, and the primary songwriter of the band No Doubt, whose singles include "Just a Girl", "Spiderwebs ...

returned after a one-season absence.

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'', ...

continued as host. The season introduced a "Coach Comeback" where each coach bring back one artist from the Battle or Knockout rounds to perform again in the Live Playoffs, and single elimination rounds during the Live Shows (except for the Semifinals). Jordan Smith was named winner of the season, marking Adam Levine's third and final win as a coach.

Coaches

and

returned for their ninth season as coaches;

, his third; and

, her second season, after a

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hiatus. The advisors for this season included

Missy Elliott Melissa Arnette Elliott (born July 1, 1971), better known as Missy Elliott or Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliot, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. She embarked on her music career with R&B girl group Sista in the earl ...

for Team Pharrell,

John Fogerty John Cameron Fogerty (born May 28, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. Together with Doug Clifford, Stu Cook, and his brother Tom Fogerty Thomas Richard Fogerty (November 9, 1941 – September 6, 1990) was an American mu ...

for Team Adam,

Brad Paisley Bradley Douglas Paisley (born October 28, 1972) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Starting with his 1999 debut album ''Who Needs Pictures'', he has released eleven studio albums and a Christmas compilation on the Arista Nashvil ...

for Team Blake, and

Selena Gomez Selena Marie Gomez ( ; born July 22, 1992) is an American singer, actress and producer. Gomez began her acting career on the children's television series ''Barney & Friends'' (2002–2004). As a teenager, she rose to prominence for starring a ...

for Team Gwen.

Rihanna Robyn Rihanna Fenty ( ; born February 20, 1988) is a Barbadian singer, actress, and businesswoman. Born in Saint Michael and raised in Bridgetown, Barbados, Rihanna auditioned for American record producer Evan Rogers who invited her to the ...

served as an advisor for all teams during the Knockouts.

Teams

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Blind auditions

The first phase of the competition, the Blind Auditions, taped on June 29–30 and July 7–8, 2015, and began airing when the season premiered on September 21, 2015. ;Color key

Episode 1 (Sept. 21)

The four coaches performed a medley of each other's songs, including "

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", "

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", "

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" and " Get Lucky", which were sung by

, and

, respectively.

Episode 2 (Sept. 22)

Episode 3 (Sept. 28)

Episode 4 (Sept. 29)

Episode 5 (Oct. 5)

Episode 6 (Oct. 6)

Episode 6, titled "The Best of The Blind Auditions," recalled the Blind Auditions this season.

The Battles

The Battles (episodes 7 to 10) consisted of two 2-hour episodes and two 1-hour episodes each on October 12, 13, 19 and 20, 2015. Season nine's advisors are

for Team Pharrell,

for Team Adam,

for Team Blake, and

for Team Gwen. As like the previous battle rounds since

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, each coach can exercise a use of two steals to save two losing artists from opposing coaches to put through to the Knockouts. At the end of the Knockouts, each coach reinstate a previously eliminated artist from either the Battles or Knockouts to participate in the Live Playoffs. Color key:

The Knockouts

For the Knockouts,

was assigned as a mentor for contestants in all four teams. As in previous seasons, the coaches can steal one losing artist. The top 20 contestants will then move on to the Live Shows. Color key: ¹ Chance Peña is on Team Adam for the Live Shows.

Live shows

The Live Shows is the final phase of the competition. It consists of six weeks of live shows starting with the playoffs and ending on the season finale. The traditional iTunes multiplier bonus begins with the Live Playoffs and continues through the end of the semi-finals. The Instant Save feature applies starting on the top 12 week until the semi-finals. For the first time in the show's history, a "Coach Comeback" feature was introduced where each coach reinstated one previously eliminated artist from the Battles or Knockouts to perform in the Live Playoffs with the top 20 and will get a chance to move on to the live shows as part of the top 12. Color key:

Week 1: Live Playoffs (Nov. 9, 10 & 11)

The Live Playoffs comprises episodes 15, 16, and 17 (the results show). The top 24 artists perform, with the two artists per each team advances via public vote, while the bottom four artists compete for the coaches' save in the results show. The Monday broadcast featured Teams Adam and Gwen, while the Tuesday broadcast featured Teams Pharrell and Blake. Jordan Smith's "Halo" reached #3 on iTunes and Emily Ann Roberts' "In The Garden" peaked at #6; both received iTunes bonus multipliers in their respective voting windows.

Week 2: Top 12 (Nov. 16 & 17)

In-lieu of the bottom three and the double elimination in contrast of previous seasons, this week feature single elimination until week four. The two artists with the lowest votes then performed in the Instant Save and faced the Twitter's votes. iTunes bonus multipliers were awarded to Jordan Smith (#1), Amy Vachal (#6), and

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(#9).

Week 3: Top 11 (Nov. 23 & 24)

iTunes bonus multipliers were awarded to Vachal (#4), Smith (#8) and Emily Ann Roberts (#10).

Week 4: Top 10 (Nov. 30 & Dec. 1)

iTunes bonus multipliers were awarded to Smith (#2),

Barrett Baber Barrett Hankins Baber (born May 18, 1980) is an American country musician, where he plays alternative country and country rock music, and who was a contestant on NBC's ''The Voice'', where he auditioned and got a four chair turn during season n ...

(#3),

Madi Davis Madi Anne Davis (born January 23, 1999) is an American singer-songwriter, who was a contestant on NBC's ''The Voice''. She was a semi-finalist season nine and the longest-standing member of team Pharrell Williams. Her song, "Girls Just Want to H ...

(#4), Ann Roberts (#5), Austin (#7), Amy Vachal (#8) and Shelby Brown (#9).

Week 5: Semifinals (Dec. 7 & 8)

Five artists were eliminated on the semifinals. During the results, the top three artists with the most votes were immediately advanced the finals, the bottom three artists with the fewest votes were eliminated immediately, and the middle three artists were eligible for the Instant Save. iTunes bonus multipliers were awarded for the most number of artists (eight, surpassing seven on the previous week) in a single week of shows in ''The Voice'' history, those being Smith (#1), Austin (#3), Ann Roberts (#4), Davis (#5), Vachal (#6), Braiden Sunshine (#7), Zach Seabaugh (#8) and

(#9). With the elimination of Davis, Williams no longer has any more artists left on his team.

Week 6: Finale (Dec. 14 & 15)

The Final four performed on Monday, December 14, 2015, with the final results following on Tuesday, December 15, 2015. Finalists performed a solo song, a duet with their coach, and a Christmas song. As per usual, no iTunes bonuses are awarded for Finale performances, with all season's iTunes votes for each artist counted cumulatively. The contestant's song choices reach the top 10 on iTunes for Jordan Smith (#1, #3 and #5), Emily Ann Roberts (#2 and #6),

(#7),

(#9).

Elimination chart

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Team

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Performances by guests/coaches

Ratings

The season nine premiere was watched by 12.37 million viewers with a 3.5 rating in the 18–49 demographic. It was down from last season's premiere by .48 million viewers.

Artists' appearances in other media

Darius Scott Darius Scott, also known as DIXSON, is an American singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, best known for a Season 9 live playoffs appearance on ''The Voice'' (with Team Pharrell), and his co-written and co-produced Academy Awa ...

moved into songwriting, co-writing 9 songs on

Chance the Rapper Chancelor Johnathan Bennett (born April 16, 1993), known professionally as Chance the Rapper, is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer. Born and raised in Chicago, Bennett released his debut mixtape '' 10 Day'' in 2012. He ...

's '' The Big Day''. He was subsequently signed to a record deal with

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, releasing his album ''004DAISY'' under the DIXSON moniker in 2022, and also co-wrote "

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" with

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for the film '' King Richard'', receiving nominations for a Grammy, Academy Award, and Golden Globe. His written contributions to

's ''

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'' are currently nominated for Album of the Year at the

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. *Ivonne Acero sang in the blind auditions for season eight, but failed to turn any chairs. She later appeared in the first season of the American-Spanish version of this show, and was eliminated during the battle rounds. *Manny Cabo later appeared in the first season of the American-Spanish version of this show, but was eliminated in the Live Playoffs. *

Keith Semple Keith Semple (born 20 September 1981) is a Northern Irish singer and musician. He originally had his own band Keith Semple Band. In 2002, he took part and was a winner in ''Popstars: The Rivals'', consequently becoming a member of the boyband ...

lost his "golden ticket" on the ninth season of ''American Idol'' due to his legal status and residency considerations and was a winner on '' Popstars: The Rivals'', a British singing competition; consequently, he became a member of the boyband

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(OTV) in 2002. *

Viktor Király Dov Viktor Király (born March 29, 1984) is a Hungarian American, Hungarian-American singer and songwriter. In 2006, he was part of the Hungarian band Twinz with his twin brother Benjamin. In 2008, he became the fourth winner of the Hungarian mu ...

previously competed to represent

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in the

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, an international song contest in Europe, 2 times in

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(with his siblings, including another well-known singer in Hungary

Linda Király Linda Király (born 28 February 1983) is a Hungarian-American singer and songwriter. She sings both in English and in Hungarian. She is the older sister of singer Viktor Király. Biography Linda Király is the second eldest of four children of ...

) and

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, and both times nearly winning the competition. He has also won the 4th season of

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, a show similar to

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. *

Caleb Lee Hutchinson Caleb Lee Hutchinson (born March 2, 1999) is an American singer-songwriter, and runner-up on the sixteenth season of ''American Idol''. Early life Caleb Lee Hutchinson was born in Dallas, Georgia, to William and Piper Hutchinson. He has a broth ...

who scored no chair turns this season appeared on the 16th season of ''

'' and became the runner-up of the competition. * Jordan Smith appeared on ''

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'' representing Kentucky and finished in 3rd Place.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Voice (American season 9), The Season 09 2015 American television seasons