Produce X101 Season 2 (Fake)

**Produce X 101 Season 2** (Korean: 프로듀스 X 101 시즌 2) is a 2021 South Korean boy group survival reality show on Mnet and the fifth season of the Produce 101 franchise. The public, referred to as "national producers", "produces" a boy band by choosing 11 members among the 101 trainees from 47 different entertainment companies through online voting and live voting with multiple elimination rounds. The public will also choose the group's concept, debut song, and group name. The show aired from October 25, 2021 to January 10, 2022. The group from this show was named ONEX.

## Promotions and Broadcast

On August 13, 2021 , Mnet announced that the debuting group under the show will promote for 7 years with a chance of a contract extension.

Filming for the show began on August 25, 2021. On the same day, the trainers were announced, as well as Park Seo-joon announced as MC role. The trainees were first revealed through a runway show on September 10, 2021. On September 11, 2021, their first performance of their title track, "X1-MA" (Korean: \_지마) was revealed on M Countdown later that day, revealing Theo Gray of BigHit Music as the center.

The show premiered on October 25, 2021, on Mnet in South Korea, Mnet Japan and TV Asahi in Japan. iQiyi in China, ABS-CBN in the Philippines, JOOX in Thailand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Indonesia. It also airs on tvN Asia in Brunei, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and Thailand 18 hours after release with English, Chinese, Malay, Thai, and Indonesian subtitles. It also live-streamed through YouTube and VLive in the rest of the world.

## Staff Members

* **Vocal Trainers**
	+ Kim Young Min
	+ Kim Seung Eun
	+ Soyou (Guest Appearance)
* **Dance Trainers**
	+ Choi Young Jun
	+ Shim Jae Won
	+ Son Sung Deuk
* **Rap Trainer**
	+ Simon Dominic
	+ Yoon Mi Rae
	+ Jessi
* **Special MC's:**
	+ Kang Daniel (Ep. 5, 12)
	+ Kim Sejeong (Ep. 8, 12)
	+ Jeong Chaewon (Ep. 11, 12)
* **Special Performers:**
	+ Chungha (Ep. 1)
	+ Seventeen (Ep. 1)
	+ BTS (Ep. 12)
	+ G(I)-dle (Ep. 12)
	+ Enhypen (Ep. 12)
	+ Itzy (Ep. 12)
	+ Brave Girls (Ep. 12)

## Contestants

*Main Article: List of Produce X 101 Season 2 Contestants (Fake)*

**Color Key**

## Episodes

### Episode 1 (October 25, 2021)

Each contestant enters the studio chooses his preferred seat among chairs numbered 1 to 101, before being informed about several changes that will be applied in this season. Contestants then perform according to their company for evaluation. At the ending, the popularity ranking is shown with Starship Entertainment's Cha Min-kyu taking 1st place.

### Episode 2 (November 1, 2021)

The trainees react to the first episode along with Park Seo-joon. The evaluation from Episode 1 continues until all the trainees are evaluated. The trainees are taken to the dormitories and are given roommates and uniforms. They are told that they will be training and performing the theme song, "X1-MA", on *M! Countdown*. Each contestant records video evaluations for the song. The episode ends with the popularity ranking showing BigHit Music's Theo Gray in 1st place.

### Episode 3 (November 8, 2021)

The trainees film themselves individually performing "X1-MA." Each video is watched by the mentors, who then reevaluate the trainees. Afterwards, the trainees are given their new grade and move into their new rooms corresponding to their rank. Following the reorganization, they are told that the center position of the "X1-MA" performance will be instead chosen by audience vote instead of trainee vote. BigHit Music's Theo Gray, YG Entertainment's Kim Jaehyun, and RBW's Jaegal Yeon are shown to be the Top 3, with Theo Gray winning.

The trainees begin the Group X Battle, where they compete with a group's debut song and their hit song. The teams are: NCT Dream's "Chewing Gum" v. "Hot Sauce", BTS's "No More Dream" v. "Dynamite", Highlight's "Bad Girl" v. "Fiction", Seventeen's "Adore U" v. "Clap", Got7's "Girls, Girls Girls" v. "Just Right" ,Wanna One's "Energetic" v. "BOOMERANG", and NCT U's "The 7th Sense" v. "Boss". All songs are performed live and each member is voted on by the audience individually. The group with the highest score among the two wins and gains a benefit of 3000 bonus votes for each of its members, with the highest-ranked member, will gain an extra benefit of having his score multiplied by 10 in addition of the 3000 bonus votes. The group with the highest votes will later perform on *M! Countdown*. Rehearsals and performances of "Chewing Gum", "Hot Sauce" and "No More Dream" are shown. The episode ends with the current rankings, with BigHit Music's Theo Gray maintaining his 1st-place position.

### Episode 4 (November 15, 2021)

The rehearsals and performances of the remaining teams are shown. Monsta X's Jooheon appears as a special trainer. After the last performance, trainees are shown their rankings based on the audience and bonus votes. BigHit Music's Theo Gray places 1st in individual votes. His team, BTS's "Dynamite" (composed of Theo Gray, Cha Minkyu, Nam Baek Hyeon, Kang Hyeongjun, Ahn Dongkyu, Lim Taehyun, and Yeom Taeyang) also earned the most points in the group battle competition, earning the opportunity to perform a special *M! Countdown* stage.

### Episode 5 (November 22, 2021)

The first elimination round begins with the remaining 99 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 and a hidden camera prank. A poll for 'Top Visual' was also conducted, in which BigHit Music's Theo Gray was ranked 1st. During the ceremony, trainees from rank 1 to 60 will move on to the next round while trainees from rank 61 to 99 will be eliminated from the competition. YG Entertainment's Kim Jaehyun takes 1st place in the first elimination round. Park Hongseok finishes 60th place, narrowly escaping elimination. The episode ends with the contestants comforting the eliminated trainees.

### Episode 6 (November 29, 2021)

Park Seo-joon meets with the trainees once again to announce the next challenge. The trainees are tasked to perform live in groups based on positions they want to debut in: vocal, dance, rap, or "X". "X" is a new position that requires trainees to perform two of the three aforementioned positions simultaneously. There are three songs for vocals (Lee Mujin's "Traffic Light", Hwasa's "Twit", and Bolbbalgan4's "To My Youth"), three songs for dance (Billie Eillish "Bad Guy", Bruno Mars's "Finesse", and Post Malone's "Wow"), two songs for rap (SMTM4's "Turtle Ship" and Haon, Vinxen's "Barcode"), and two songs for "X" (Charlie Puth's "Cheating on You", for vocal x dance, and Jay Park's "All I Wanna Do", for rap x dance). Each song has a member limit and would be picked by each trainee based on their ranks: Kim Jaehyun who ranked 1st from the first elimination round would have the privilege of choosing the song he wants to perform first. The winner from each performance in the vocal, dance, and rap positions will receive 100 times their votes while the winner among all songs of each category will receive 100,000 votes. For the "X" position, the winner from each performance will receive 200 times their votes while the overall winner will receive 200,000 votes. After each performance, they are ranked in their groups first and then overall in the category. Park Seo-joon also announces that only the top 30 trainees will remain in the next round. Only five groups are covered this week.

### Episode 7 (December 6, 2021)

The remaining 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. Park Chanyoung, Keum Taeyoung, and Kim Jaehyun emerged as the overall winners of the vocal, dance, and rap positions, respectively, each of them earning 100,000 votes along with their audience votes times 100. Theo Gray emerged as the overall winner of the "X" position, earning 200,000 votes along with his audience votes times 200.

### Episode 8 (December 13, 2021)

Park Seo-joon announces the beginning of the next evaluation prior to the second round of eliminations, meaning that all 60 boys that have survived so far will continue to practice for the performances, but not all of them may get to perform. The evaluation is revealed to be a concept evaluation where viewers chose group formations from a poll online. Park Seo-joon introduces the six songs: Dancepop "Pretty Girl" (Bumzu, Woozi), Ballad "Goodbye" (Frants, Yoo Young-jin), Mainstream Pop "10,000 Hours" (Black Eyed Pilseung), R&B, Dance House "7 Days" (Zico), Moombahton "Teenage" (Shinsadong Tiger, Leez), and Future Funk "Victory" (Brave Brothers). The second round of eliminations takes place during the second half of the episode with the remaining 60 contestants from each company are seen entering the main studio. Names of the top 30 trainees are called by Park Seo-joon one by one starting from rank 29. The contenders for 1st place were Theo Gray, Bae Seongmin, Kim Jaehyun, and Keum Taeyoung. It is then announced that Theo Gray ranked at 1st place. Meanwhile, the contenders for 30th place were Choi Jaehyuk, Kim Seung, Louis Cheng, and Shin Jaeyoung It is announced that Choi Jaehyuk ranked on the 30th.

### Episode 9 (December 20, 2021)

After the Second Elimination, the 30 trainees move to Concept Evaluation Performance, and then Representative MC Lee Dong-wook announces that only 6 trainees are needed in each group and the trainees have to vote on who is staying.

After heading to the new groups, the teams head to the recording studio to meet with their Producers to record their song.

### Episode 10 (December 27, 2021)

Each concept stage was shown along with behind the scenes practices, training, and recording for each group. After each group performed, Park Seo-joon gathered the trainees and announced the rankings for each group and for each trainee among the groups. "Teenage" was announced to be the first place team, with trainee Naoki Kosaka of the "10,00 Hours" team taking the overall first rank spot, gaining the most benefit votes.

### Episode 11 (January 3, 2022)

Lee Dong-wook then announces the start of the 3rd elimination. He also reveals that only 20 trainees will survive. The trainees' Sports Games segment continued, with "Pretty Girl" team winning overall. Afterwards, the elimination announcement starts, starting from 19th place going up. The four candidates for 1st place are revealed, who are Bae Seongmin, Theo Gray, Kim Jaehyun, and Cha Minkyu. The segment for trainees choosing their fixed pick starts, and Won Isak takes first place for the most votes and wins a brand new Samsung phone. The announcement continues, and the ones battling for 1st place are Kim Jaehyun and Theo Gray, with 1st place ultimately going to Kim Jaehyun.

The candidates for 20th place are revealed, Park Sungchan, Nanon Kongthep, Shin Jooyeon, and Han Dohyun In 23rd and 22nd place is Park Sungchan and Nanon Kongthep, respectively. The two remaining trainees are called up to the stage and give their last speeches. The 20th place ends up going to Han Dohyun.

Afterwards, the remaining 20 trainees choose their debut evaluation song, "Together Again" (Shinsadong Tiger) or "Hurray!" (Black Eyed Pilseung) and choose their positions during as well. Higher ranked trainees have the advantage of kicking off other trainees in the position they want and move them to a lower position. The episode ends with the trainee's individual cards being flashed on screen and the official time of the final, which was changed to 8PM KST from 11PM to accommodate the younger trainees.

### Episode 12 (January 10, 2022)

The episode started off with the final trainees doing a final journal in a practice room. They talked about their adventure and progress on the show. Once voting was opened, the trainees perform the show's title song "X1\_MA". Park Seo-joon then revealed the name of the group, as was voted on by the public, "ONEX". "ONEX" is meant to represent the show's title song "X1\_MA" . They then showed some behind the scenes recording and practices for "Hurray!" and "Together Again", even teasing who the group centers would be. During the live performance following these clips, it was revealed that Kang Seon was chosen as the center for "Together Again" and Theo Gray was chosen as the center for "Hurray!". After the performances of each debut song all 20 trainees then performed the song "Beautiful" with some behind the scenes clips played beforehand. The ranking announcement started from the contestant who ranked at 11th place which was DSP Media's Jeon Dohyun followed by Beat Interactive's Park Chan at 10th, RBW's Choi Sangwon at 9th, High Up Entertainment's Park Chanyoung at 8th, Woollim Entertainment's Bae Seongmin at 7th, Starship Entertainment's Cha Minkyu at 6th, Avex's Naoki Kosaka at 5th, Yuehua Entertainment's Keum Taeyoung at 4th, and Belift Lab's Dylan Hong confirming them for debut. Then, YG Entertainment's Kim Jaehyun and BigHit Music's Theo Gray are called up as contenders for 1st, with Theo Gray taking the first place, confirming his position as X1's center. The contenders for the X place were SUBLIME's Liu Haoxiang, Woollim Entertainment's Shin Wonho, DSP Media's Han Jiung, and Dreamcatcher Company's Moon Jaejin. It was then announced that the X and final spot for ONEX went to Liu Haoxiang.

## Discography

### Singles

• Label : WAKEONE
• Formats : Digital Download
 **"Beautiful"** | • Released : January 10, 2022
• Label : WAKEONE
• Formats : Digital Download

 **"Together Again"** | 2022

## Ratings

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