The Voice Kids (Russian TV series)

The Voice Kids Голос. Дети
Genre	Music program
Created by	John de Mol Roel van Velzen
Developed by	Talpa Content
Directed by	Ildous Kurmaleev Andrey Sychev
Presented by	Dmitry Nagiev Natalia Vodianova Anastasia Chevazhevskaya Valeria Lanskaya Svetlana Zeinalova Agata Muceniece Aglaya Shilovskaya
Judges	Dima Bilan Pelageya Maxim Fadeev Leonid Agutin Nyusha Valery Meladze Basta LOBODA Polina Gagarina Egor Kreed
Opening theme	This is The Voice Kids
Country of origin	Russia
Original language	Russian
No. of seasons	7
No. of episodes	75
Production
Producers	Yury Aksyuta Marina Andrusenko Andrey Sergeev Natalya Shamiladze Larisa Sinelschikova (2014–2015) Ilya Krivitskiy (2014–2015)
Production locations	Moscow, Liza Chaykina's St.1 (2014–2016) Moscow oblast, Glavkino (2017) Moscow, Mosfilm (2018–)
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	120–135 minutes
Production companies	Channel One (2016–) Krasny Kvadrat (2014–2015)
Release
Original network	Channel One Carousel (2014—2015)
Picture format	16:9
Audio format	Dolby Digital 5.1
Original release	February 28, 2014 (2014-02-28) – present
Chronology
Preceded by	The Voice (Russia)
Followed by	The Voice Senior (Russia)
Related shows	The Voice The Voice Kids (Netherlands)

The Voice Kids is a Russian reality television singing competition broadcast on Channel One. Based on the original The Voice Kids of Holland, the concept of the series is to find currently unsigned singing talent (solo or duets, professional and amateur) contested by aspiring singers, age 7 to 14, drawn from public auditions. The winner is determined by television viewers voting by SMS text and The Voice Kids App.

The winners of the seven seasons have been: Alisa Kozhikina, Sabina Mustaeva, Danil Pluzhnikov, Elizaveta Kachurak, Rutger Garecht, 9 finalists of the sixth season, Olesya Kazachenko, and Vladislav Tyukin.

The series employs a panel of three coaches who critique the artists' performances and guide their teams of selected artists through the remainder of the season. They also compete to ensure that their act wins the competition, thus making them the winning coach. The original panel featured Dima Bilan (seasons 1–4), Pelageya (seasons 1–3, and 5–6), and Maxim Fadeev (seasons 1–2). The panel for the upcoming eighth season features Basta (seasons 5, and 7–8), LOBODA (seasons 6 and 8), and Egor Kreed (season 8). Other coaches include Leonid Agutin (season 3), Nyusha (season 4), Valery Meladze (seasons 4–7), and Polina Gagarina (season 7).

The Voice Kids began airing on February 28, 2014, as a winter-spring TV season programme. The show proved to be a hit for Channel One. The series will premiere its eighth season in February 2021.

Conception[]

An adaptation of the Dutch show The Voice Kids, Channel One announced the show under the name Голос. Дети (The Voice Kids).

In each season, the winner receives ₽500,000 (about $8,000) and a record deal with Universal Music Group.

Selection process and format[]

Blind auditions

Each season begins with the "Blind Auditions," where coaches form their team of artists (15 artists in each team) whom they mentor through the remainder of the season. The coaches' chairs are faced towards the audience during artists' performances; those interested in an artist press their button, which turns their chair towards the artist and illuminates the bottom of the chair to read "Я выбираю тебя" ("I WANT YOU"). At the conclusion of the performance, an artist either defaults to the only coach who turned around or selects his or her coach if more than one coach expresses interest.

Battles

In the Battle Rounds, each coach groups three of his or her team members to perform together then chooses one to advance in the competition.

Sing-offs

In the Sing-off Rounds, five artists within a team sing individual performances in succession. The artists get to sing their "Blind Auditions" songs in this round. At the conclusion of the performances, coaches would decide which two of five artists get to advance to the next round.

Life Playoffs

But as with season 2, each coach bring back three artists who were eliminated in the Sing-offs. These artists advance to the special stage – "Live Playoffs". Three artists from each team sing live and two of them eliminate by the end of the night. One saved by the Public's vote artist advances to the Final in each team.

Final

In the Final of the competition, 6 artists from all teams (9 artists since season 2) perform in the live show, where public voting narrows to a final group of three artists from all teams and eventually declares a winner.

Addition

Since season 6, alongside the determining of the winner, television viewers vote for the Best coach using The Voice Kids App and HbbTV option in their TV sets.

Coaches and presenters[]

Coaches[]

• Coaches gallery
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  Dima Bilan (2014–2017)

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  Pelageya (2014–2016, 2018–2019)

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  Maxim Fadeev (2014–2015)

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  Leonid Agutin (2016)

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  Nyusha (2017)

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  Valeriy Meladze (2017—2020)

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  Basta (2018, 2020—2021)

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  LOBODA (2019, 2021)

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  Polina Gagarina (2020)

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  Egor Kreed (2021—)

Presenters[]

• Presenters
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  Dmitry Nagiyev

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  Natalia Vodianova (2014)

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  Anastasia Chevazhevskaya (2015)

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  Valeriya Lanskaya (2016)

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  Svetlana Zeinalova (2017)

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  Agata Muceniece (2018, 2020—)

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  Aglaya Shilovskaya (2019)

Series overview[]

Best coach[]

Reception[]

Seasons average: Ratings[]

The first season premiered on February 28, 2014 with an 8.6 rating in the 18-49 demographic. For its average season rating, the show was in the Top 3 at an 8.76 ranking.

The second season premiered on February 13, 2015 with an 8.6 in the 18–49 demographic. It wasn't up/down from last season's premiere.

The third season premiered on February 20, 2016 with an 8.9 in the 18-49 demographic. It was up from last season's premiere by .2 rating scores.

The fourth season premiered on February 17, 2017 with an 8.1 in the 18-49 demographic. It was down from last season's premiere by .8 rating scores.

The fifth season premiered on February 2, 2018 with a 6.7 in the 18-49 demographic. It was down from last season's premiere by 1.4 rating scores.

The sixth season premiered on February 15, 2019 with a 6.3 in the 18-49 demographic. It was down from last season's premiere by .4 rating scores.

The seventh season premiered on February 14, 2020 with a 5.3 and was viewed by 3.78 million people in the 4-49 demographic. It was down from last season's premiere by 1.0 rating scores. This is the lowest rated season premiere to date.

The eighth season will premiere in February 2021.

Each Russian network television season starts in late August and ends in late May.

Notes[]

References[]

External links[]

• Official website (in Russian)