The Voice (U.S. season 5)

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 ◀ Late 2013 ▶

The **fifth season** of the American reality talent show *The Voice* premiered on September 23, 2013 on NBC. Adam Levine and Blake Shelton returned as coaches for their fifth season, while CeeLo Green and Christina Aguilera returned after being replaced by Usher and Shakira in season four. The team sizes for the season are 12 members. The season is also the first to feature steals in the knockout rounds. Carson Daly returned to host the show, but Christina Milian did not return as the social media correspondent. In February 2014, Green announced he would not return to *The Voice*, making this his final season. This season is also notable for being the only season in which Blake Shelton did not place an artist into the finale.

James Harrison was announced as the winner of the season, marking Adam Levine's second win as a coach. Harrison remains the only non-American to win a US competition show.

## Teams

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* Runner-up
* Third place
* Eliminated in the Live shows
* Eliminated in the Live playoffs

* Eliminated in the Knockout rounds
* Artist was stolen by another coach at the Battle rounds
* Eliminated in the Battle rounds

### **Episode 1 (Sept. 23)**

The two-hour season five premiere aired on Monday, September 23, 2013. The coaches performed "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" at the start of the show.

### **Episode 2 (Sept. 24)**

The second two-hour episode was broadcast on Tuesday, September 24, 2013.

### **Episode 3 (Sept. 30)**

The third two-hour show aired on Monday, September 30, 2013.

### **Episode 4 (Oct. 1)**

The fourth two-hour show aired on Tuesday, October 1, 2013.

### **Episode 5 (Oct. 7)**

The fifth two-hour show aired on Monday, October 7, 2013.

## The Battles

The Battle rounds (episodes 7 to 10) comprised two 2-hour episodes and two 1-hour episodes each on October 14, 15, 21 and 22, 2013 with six battles in each episode. The coaches once again utilized mentors during this round and each has enlisted the help of the following: Adam Levine brought in OneRepublic's lead singer, Ryan Tedder; CeeLo Green brought in Miguel; Christina Aguilera brought in Ed Sheeran; and finally, Blake Shelton brought in Cher. Continuing with the format introduced in Season three, the coaches can steal two losing artists from another coach.

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## The Knockouts

This season, the steal ability has been carried over to the Knockouts, which allows the coach to take one losing artist from another coach. There were 16 Knockout matchups in two 2-hour episodes and only 20 artists advanced on to the Live Shows.

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## Live shows

The live shows is the final phase of the competition. It consists of the playoffs, five weekly shows and the season finale.

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### **Week 1: Live playoffs (Nov. 4, 5 & 7)**

Teams Adam and Blake performed in the Playoff round on November 4, with Teams CeeLo and Christina following November 5. The results were revealed November 7, with two artists from each team eliminated. For this season, producers again modified iTunes voting during the show's live rounds: if a competitor's performance charts within the Top 10 of the iTunes "Top 200 Singles Chart" at the close of a specific episode's voting "window" (generally from the end of the episode to 10 AM Eastern time the following morning), it will be given an iTunes bonus that multiplies iTunes votes made in that voting window by five.

Non-competition performances
 14.1
 15.1
 15.2
 15.3
 15.4

### **Week 2: Top 12 (Nov 11 & 12)**

The Top 12 performed on Monday, November 11, 2013 and received the results on Tuesday, November 12, 2013.

Another added interactive feature, the Instant Save, was introduced with the elimination episode this week, to be carried through live elimination episodes on November 19, November 26, and December 3. During the designated/announced five-minute voting window, Twitter users (with public accounts only) may vote to save one artist in each week's bottom three by tweeting the artist's voting keyword along with the show's designated hashtag. Viewers in the Eastern and Central time zones vote during the live broadcasts, while viewers in the Mountain and Pacific time zones are cued to vote to save artists on the show's official Twitter account during the live East coast broadcast. For this week's voting, Matthew Schuler from Team Christina received the iTunes bonus multiplier for his performance of "Hallelujah," which peaked at #2 within the voting window. However, it later reached #1 after the Top 12 Recap show that aired before the Top 12 Results show. It remained in the iTunes Top 200 chart throughout the remainder of the season.

Non-competition performances
 17.2
 17.3
 17.4

### **Week 3: Top 10 (Nov 18 & 19)**

The Top 10 performed on Monday, November 18, with results following on Tuesday, November 19.

Non-competition performances
 19.1
 19.2
 19.3
 19.4

### **Week 4: Top 8 (Nov 25 & 26)**

The Top 8 performed on Monday, November 25, with results following on Tuesday, November 26. With the elimination of Caroline Pennell, CeeLo Green no longer has any artists on his team.

### **Week 5: Quarterfinals (Dec 2 & 3)**

The Top 6 performed 2 songs each, one chosen by their coach and one chosen by them dedicated to someone in their lives, on Monday, December 2, 2013 with the results following on Tuesday, December 3.

With the advance of James Wolpert, Adam Levine was the first coach managing to bring all three contestants to the Semifinals in The Voice history.

Non-competition performances
 23.2
 23.3
 23.4
 23.5

### **Week 6: Semifinals (Dec 9 & 10)**

The Top 5 performed on Monday, December 9, 2013 with the results following on Tuesday, December 10. Three of the five artists charted within the iTunes top 10. James Harrison (#1), Jacquie Lee (#6), and Will Champlin (#10) received the iTunes bonus multiplier for their respective chart positions at the close of voting, with Chin becoming the first contestant to achieve the top chart position at the end of an applicable voting window this season. With the elimination of Cole Vosbury, Blake Shelton no longer has any artists on his team, thus breaking his three-season winning streak. This also marks the first (and, thus far, only) season in which Shelton does not have an artist representing him in the finale.

Non-competition performances
 25.1
 25.2
 25.3
 25.4

### **Week 7: Finale (Dec 16 & 17)**

The final performance show aired on Monday, December 16, 2013, with the winner declared on the following results show Tuesday, December 17. In this phase of the competition, the contestants performed a duet with their respective coaches, a solo song, and the song that they performed during the Blind Auditions phase.

* Although five songs reached the iTunes Top 10 (James Harrison at #1 and #3, Jacquie Lee at #9, and Will Champlin #8 and #10), no “iTunes Bonus” was implemented.