X Factor (Albanian season 3)
X Factor is an Albanian television music competition to find new singing talents. The third season began on 15 September on TV Klan. Based on the UK format, the competition consists of auditions, in front of producers and then the judges with a live audience; bootcamp; judges' houses and then the live finals. The producers' auditions for the show began in April 2013 in Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia. The winners were later called back to perform in front of the judges, held from May 19–21 in Tirana. However, the auditions were broadcast in September, when  the show started airing. The show will be hosted once again by Albanian singer Alketa Vejsiu, while the judging panel consists of pop singer Altuna Sejdiu, Alban Skenderaj, Soni Malaj and Pandi Laço. This year, the producers have decided to give more attention to the live shows, extending it to 15 weeks, and not airing bootcamp. The auditions were aired in three shows only, and then the show passed to the judges houses, airing only the finalists' bootcamp performance and result. Thus, to make the live shows longer to give the contestants more time to perform. The other difference this  year, is that there is a variety of contestants who come from different places. Sarah Memmola is from Italy, who challenged herself to take part in the X Factor Albania. There are six contestants from Macedonia this year. There is no soloist from Kosovo this year, and there is a singer from Serbia, Donika Nuhiu, for the first time in the show. Judges' houses. The 15 eliminated acts were: Contestants. The top 16 contestants were confirmed as follows; Key: Live shows. Live show details. Week 2 (3 November 2013). Judges' votes to eliminate Week 3 (10 November 2013). Group performance : "You Are Not Alone" Judges' votes to eliminate Week 4 (17 November 2013). Judges' votes to eliminate With the acts in the bottom two receiving two votes each, the result was deadlocked and reverted to the earlier public vote. Leka was eliminated as the act with the fewest public votes. Week 5 (24 November 2013). Judges' votes to eliminate Week 6 (8 December 2013). Judges' votes to eliminate Week 7 (15 December 2013). Judges' votes to eliminate With the acts in the bottom two receiving two votes each, the result was deadlocked and reverted to the earlier public vote. Rexho  was eliminated as the act with the fewest public votes. Week 8 (22 December 2013). Judges' votes to eliminate Week 9 (5 January 2014). Judges' votes to eliminate Week 10 (12 January 2014). Judges' votes to eliminate Week 11 (19 January 2014). Judges' votes to eliminate Week 12 (26 January 2014). Judges' votes to eliminate Week 13 (2 February 2014). Judges' votes to eliminate Week 15: Semi-Final (16 February 2014). Judges' votes to eliminate