Produce 101 Season 7 (Fake)

***Produce 101 Season 7*** (Korean: 프로듀스 101 시즌 7) was a 2023 boy group survival reality show on Mnet, and is the seventh season of the original South Korean version of the franchise. The public (called 'national producers') "produces" a boy group by choosing 11 members among 101 trainees from 47 entertainment companies through online voting and live voting with multiple elimination rounds. The public also chose the group's concept, debut song and group name. In the season finale on October 19, which was broadcast live, the show announced the final 11 members who would debut as 1&ON

## Concept

*Produce 101 Season 7* consisted of 101 male contestants, who were trainees under company labels or individual trainees in South Korea. Though most contestants were Korean, there were some foreign participants. In the final episode, 11 out of the top 20 contestants were chosen to form the show's group through a national fan voting system. The group will promote for 7 years with a chance of extension under the Rank #1's Label. The top 35 performed with the winning team at a finale concert.

## Promotions and Broadcast

On May 12, Mnet announced that Ok Taec-yeon would be taking the MC role for this season, replacing Jung Hae-in. He would be "acting as a messenger and a representative of the viewers". Later on the same day, the trainers were also announced. Mnet announced the official broadcast of the show which was revealed to be on August 10, 2023.

Soon after they had moved to their dorms on May 21, the participants started filming. A teaser video of who would be taking "center" (or lead role) for the first song was later revealed.

The contestants of *Produce 101 Season 2* appeared for the first time on Episode 514 of *M! Countdown* on March 9, 2017. The group was presented by Ok Taec-yeon, and the members performed the theme song "주목! (Attention!)". The "center" role was given to Maroo Entertainment's Kang Haon.

On March 31, the participants performed their single "주목! (Attention!)" at the Gocheok Sky Dome ahead of a baseball game between the LG Twins and the Nexen Heroes. In addition, Kang Haon threw the ceremonial first pitch to Baek Seung, at bat.

## Staff Members

* **Vocal Trainers:**
	+ Kim Young Min
	+ Lee Gyeol
	+ Kim Seung Eun
* **Dance Trainers:**
	+ Bae Yoon-jeong
	+ Choi Young Jun
	+ Son Sung Deuk
* **Rap Trainers:**
	+ Simon Dominic
	+ Yoon Mi Rae
* **Special MC's:**
	+ Jeon Somi (Ep. 1, 5, 11)
	+ Lee Dae Hwi (Ep. 1, 8, 11)
	+ Jeong Chaewon (Ep. 1, 11)
	+ Hana Kim (Ep. 1, 11)
	+ Kim Jaehyun (Ep. 1, 11)
	+ Woodz (Ep. 11)

## Contestants

*Main Article:* List of Produce 101 Season 7 (Fake) Contestants

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## Episodes

### Episode 1 (October 3, 2023)

The trainees from each company enter the studio, where seats are arranged in a pyramid with chairs numbered from 1 to 101. Each contestant chooses his preferred seat. Then contestants perform in a group or individually according to their company for evaluation. Some participants are asked to showcase any dancing, singing, or rapping skills for individual evaluation. Each trainee is judged on his potential and judges grade and assigned them into temporary groups for training: A, B, C, D, and F (with A being the highest and F the lowest). At the end of the episode, the popularity vote revealed Starship Entertainment's Noh Jaeyun at 1st place.

### Episode 2 (October 10, 2023)

After a few more evaluations, the trainees are assigned to dorms by their evaluation grades, and Ok Taec-yeon announces that they will be performing on *M! Countdown* with their single "주목! (Attention!)"; they introduce the lyrics and choreography, and are told that they have three days to memorize the choreography and lyrics for a video evaluation. Line distribution and stage placement are determined by their final letter grade; A will have the most lines while F will be backup dancers who stand on the floor by the stage. The trainees film themselves individually performing the song while their fellow grade members watch. Each video is evaluated by the mentors. After the re-evaluation, they are given their new grades and are asked to move to their new rooms by rank.

### Episode 3 (October 17, 2023)

After the announcement of the new batch of A ranked trainees, A rankers are given an hour to prepare a stage to appeal to the other trainees. The trainees, including those in the A group, have to vote for who they believe would be the best for the center position. Brand New Music's Lee Dae-hwi of group A is voted to be the center with Lee Woojin received the second most votes. After their live performance, Ok Taec-yeon announced that the 40 contestants who would receive the lowest ranks would be eliminated in the first elimination.

The trainees started their second mission: group performances in front of a live audience. 14 teams are formed to compete for 14 songs given: Super Junior's "Sorry Sorry" vs. "Mr. Simple", Seventeen's "Very Nice" vs. "Mansae", GOT7's "Just Right" vs, "Lullaby", BTS' "Blood, Sweat, and Tears" vs. "Boy With Luv", NCT Dream's "Hot Sauce" vs. "Ridin'", MONSTA X's "Love Killa" vs. "Shoot Out", and Taemin's "Idea" vs. "Criminal" The 14 team founders are chosen by random draw. Each group consists of 6-7 members. The team founders then compete for songs individually through a race: only 7 can secure their desired songs and choose their opponent from the remaining 7 teams who lose in the race. The episode later showed the groups rehearsing and assigning roles of the 'leader', 'center', 'main vocalist', 'sub vocalists', and 'rappers'. Each song is then performed live by the two groups and each member is voted on separately by the live audience. The winning team among the two is determined by combining the individual scores. Members of the winning group would gain an extra 3000 points each, to be included into the ranking announcement of the week after. The group with the highest overall points would later perform on M! Countdown. Only four teams were covered this week.

### Episode 4 (October 24, 2023)

The remaining 10 teams performed their respective songs and rehearsals for the groups are shown. After the last performance, the contestants are shown their ranking based purely on individual live votes and the additional 3000 points for the contestants of the winning teams: Kang Haon takes the 1st place. "Sorry Sorry" team (composed of Baek Seung, Kim Mingyu, Noh Jaeyun, Yoon Seobin, Shin Jaeyoung, Park Junghoon, Lee Hyuk, and Lim Hyunwoo), also score the highest, and are able to perform a special stage on *M! Countdown*.

### Episode 5 (October 31, 2023)

The episode opens with the remaining 101 contestants entering the main studio by company. In between announcements of each trainee's ranking, events leading up to the elimination are shown, such as their dorm life, exercise and a hidden camera prank. PRIZM's Park Haemin and Jung Gaeul met with the trainees and hosted a dance battle among the trainees, in which Sohn Jaewon was crowned "Dancing King". A poll for 'Top Visual' was also conducted, in which Huh Suchan was ranked 1st. Kang Haon also retained his first place in the rankings announcement. After announcing the top 59 trainees, Ok Taec-yeon announces that the last trainee to be saved from elimination is Ham Seojin, ranking 60th. At the end of the episode, Ok Taec-yeon announces that the team formation for the 4th mission, which is position evaluation, will be decided by online voting.

### Episode 6 (November 7, 2023)

Ok Taec-yeon once again meets with the trainees to announce the next challenge. The trainees are tasked to perform live in groups based on positions they want to debut in: vocal, dance or rap. There are four songs for vocals (BTS' "Pied Piper", Lee Hongki ft. Yoo Hweseung's "Still With You", ONEX's Habit, and Bolbbalgan4's "Some") three songs for dance (Billie Eillish's Bad Guy, Post Malone's Better Now, and Charlie Puth's "Cheating on You") and three songs for rap (Mino ft. Taeyang's "Fear", SMTM9's "VVS", and Ash Island's "Paranoid"). Each song has a member limit and would be picked by each trainee based on their ranks: Kang Haon who ranked 1st (*center*) from the first elimination round would have the privilege of choosing the song he wants to perform first. Ok Taec-yeon also announces that only 35 trainees will remain in the next round and that the winner from each position category will receive 100,000 votes while the winner from each group will receive 10,000 votes. After each performance, they are ranked in their groups first and then overall in the category. Only six groups are covered this week.

### Episode 7 (November 14, 2023)

The remaining seven teams perform their respective stages and rehearsals for the groups are shown. After the last performance, the contestants are shown their overall ranking based on their positions. The additional 10,000 points are given to 12 contestants for receiving the highest points on their respective group and the extra 100,000 points to Huh Suchan, Baek Seung, and Issei Hosaka for receiving the highest points in vocal, dance, and rap position respectively.

### Episode 8 (November 21, 2023)

The episode opens with Ok Taec-yeon treating the contestants to pizza during the Position Evaluation filming. Sometime after the performances and before the ranking announcement, Ok Taec-yeon gathers the boys informing them about the coming elimination round (where contestants ranking 36 onwards would get eliminated). She then introduces the next challenge: Concept Evaluation. She introduces the five songs: Kiggen's "Kaleidoscope" (Synthpop), Bumzu & Woozi's "Magnificent Love" (Moombahton), Moon Kim's "Ding Ding Ding" (Deep House), KENZIE & Hwang Hyun's "Twisted" (Hip Hop), and Bae Seongmin's "Love So Sweet" (Pop Ballad). Group formations are based on the viewers' poll which was first introduced at the end of Episode 5. The top 12 trainees voted for each song are assigned to the songs first. After they are given their designated songs, the formed groups started to rehearse.

The second elimination round takes place during the second half of the episode with the remaining 60 contestants from each company are seen entering the main studio by company. Names of the top 35 trainees are called by Ok Taec-yeeon one by one starting from rank 34. Ahn Woochan receives the 1st place in the ranking announcement while Hwang Euiseop ranks 35th, just escaping elimination.

## Ratings

In the table below, **blue numbers** represent the lowest ratings and **Red numbers** represent the highest ratings.