X Factor | |
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Season 12 | |
Hosted by | Sofie Linde Ingversen (TV 2) |
Judges |
Thomas Blachman Oh Land Ankerstjerne |
Winner | Kristian Kjærlund |
Winning mentor | Thomas Blachman |
Runner-up | Benjamin Rosenbohm |
Finals venue | Forum Horsens |
Release | |
Original network |
TV 2 TV 2 Zulu (Z Factor) |
Original release | January 4 April 12, 2019 | –
Season chronology |
X Factor is a Danish television music competition to find new singing talent. This season will be the first season broadcast on TV2. [1] after DR1 announced on August 16, 2017, that Season 11 is the final season broadcast on their channel. [2] Kristian Kjærlund won the competition and Thomas Blachman became the winning mentor for the 3rd time and the 2nd judge to win 2 seasons in a row.
Sofie Linde Lauridsen returned as the main host of the show for the 4th time. Thomas Blachman returned as a judge for the 11th time while Remee and Sanne Salomonsen decided to quit. Oh Land and Ankerstjerne replaced them as judges.
Auditions took place in Copenhagen, Aarhus and Odense.
The 5 Chair Challenge returns for season 12. Ankerstjerne will mentor the 15-22s, Blachman has the Over 23s and Oh Land has the Groups/Bands.
The 15 successful acts were:
The 6 eliminated acts were:
Key:
Act | Age(s) | Hometown | Category (mentor) | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
Kristian Kjærlund | 23 | Horsens | Over 23s (Blachman) | Winner |
Benjamin Rosenbohm | 16 | Copenhagen | 15-22s (Ankerstjerne) | Runner-up |
Live Vogel | 15 | Espergærde | 15-22s (Ankerstjerne) | 3rd place |
Echo | 15-21 | Various | Groups (Oh Land) | 4th place |
Maria & Bea | 18 | Haderslev & Sønderborg | Groups (Oh Land) | 5th place |
Patrick Smith | 18 | Rødby | 15-22s (Ankerstjerne) | 6th place |
Gina Michaells | 43 | Brande | Over 23s (Blachman) | 7th place |
Andrea Brøndsted | 29 | Copenhagen | Over 23s (Blachman) | 8th place |
Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne | 59-70 | Various | Groups (Oh Land) | 9th place |
– | Contestant was in the bottom two and had to sing again in the Sing-Off |
– | Contestant received the fewest public votes and was immediately eliminated (no Sing-Off) |
– | Contestant received the most public votes |
– | Contestant withdrew from the competition |
Contestants' colour key:
– 15-22s (Ankerstjerne's contestants) |
– Over 23s (Blachman's contestants) |
– Groups (Oh Land's contestants) |
Contestant | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st round | 2nd round | |||||||||
Kristian Kjærlund | 5th 10.8% |
2nd 16.6% |
2nd 17.2% |
1st 24.8% |
Safe | 2nd 30.7% |
1st 47.7% |
Winner 54.3% | ||
Benjamin Rosenbohm | 2nd 14.3% |
1st 17.2% |
1st 18.1% |
2nd 21.8% |
Safe | 1st 34.0% |
2nd 37.8% |
Runner-Up 45.7% | ||
Live Vogel | 1st 17.1% |
3rd 15.0% |
4th 13.8% |
4th 14.0% |
Safe | 3rd 18.6% |
3rd 14.5% |
Eliminated (Week 7) | ||
Echo | 7th 10.2% |
6th 11.1% |
7th 11.4% |
6th 11.8% |
Safe | 4th 16.6% |
Eliminated (Week 6) | |||
Maria & Bea | 3rd 13.9% |
5th 13.0% |
3rd 14.2% |
3rd 15.6% |
Withdrew | Withdrew (Week 5) | ||||
Patrick Smith | 8th 6.0% |
7th 7.4% |
5th 13.8% |
5th 12.0% |
Eliminated (Week 4) | |||||
Gina Michaells | 4th 13.0% |
4th 13.6% |
6th 11.4% |
Eliminated (Week 3) | ||||||
Andrea Brøndsted | 6th 10.5% |
8th 6.2% |
Eliminated (Week 2) | |||||||
Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne | 9th 4.1% |
Eliminated (Week 1) | ||||||||
Sing-Off | Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne, Patrick Smith |
Patrick Smith, Andrea Brøndsted |
Gina Michaells, Echo |
Patrick Smith, Echo |
— | The act that received the fewest public votes was automatically eliminated. | ||||
Ankerstjerne voted out | Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne | Andrea Brøndsted | Gina Michaells | Echo | — | |||||
Oh Land voted out | Patrick Smith | Andrea Brøndsted | Gina Michaells | Patrick Smith | — | |||||
Blachman voted out | Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne | Patrick Smith | Echo | Patrick Smith | — | |||||
Eliminated | Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne 9th |
Andrea Brøndsted 8th |
Gina Michaells 7th |
Patrick Smith 6th |
Maria & Bea 5th |
Echo 4th |
Live Vogel 3rd |
Benjamin Rosenbohm Runner-Up | ||
Kristian Kjærlund Winner |
Act | Order | Song [3] | Result |
---|---|---|---|
Echo | 1 | "High Five" | Safe |
Kristian Kjærlund | 2 | " Sweet Dreams, TN" | Safe |
Benjamin Rosenbohm | 3 | " When You Love Someone" | Safe |
Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne | 4 | "Hvorfor sku' vi synge" (Original song) | Bottom two |
Gina Michaells | 5 | "Keep Lying" | Safe |
Patrick Smith | 6 | "Entertaineren" | Bottom two |
Andrea Brøndsted | 7 | " Poison" | Safe |
Maria & Bea | 8 | " Bad Girls" | Safe |
Live Vogel | 9 | " When the Party's Over" | Safe |
Sing-Off details | |||
Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne | 1 | "Nattens Sang" (Original song) | Eliminated |
Patrick Smith | 2 | "Det si'r sig selv" | Safe |
Act | Order | Song [4] | Result |
---|---|---|---|
Live Vogel | 1 | " White Flag" | Safe |
Maria & Bea | 2 | " Freestyler" | Safe |
Patrick Smith | 3 | "De er meget interesserede i"/"Du kan gøre hvad du vil" | Bottom two |
Andrea Brøndsted | 4 | " Eternal Flame" | Bottom two |
Benjamin Rosenbohm | 5 | " Cry Me a River" | Safe |
Gina Michaells | 6 | " I'm Not in Love" | Safe |
Echo | 7 | " Clocks" | Safe |
Kristian Kjærlund | 8 | " Common People" | Safe |
Sing-Off details | |||
Patrick Smith | 1 | "Quang's Sang" | Safe |
Andrea Brøndsted | 2 | " Don't Know Why" | Eliminated |
Act | Order | Song [5] | Result |
---|---|---|---|
Maria & Bea | 1 | " I Like It" | Safe |
Benjamin Rosenbohm | 2 | " Be My Mistake" | Safe |
Kristian Kjærlund | 3 | "Electrified" | Safe |
Live Vogel | 4 | " God Is a Woman" | Safe |
Echo | 5 | "Blur" | Bottom two |
Gina Michaells | 6 | " Hope Is a Dangerous Thing for a Woman like Me to Have – but I Have It" | Bottom two |
Patrick Smith | 7 | "Sort Tulipan" | Safe |
Sing-Off details | |||
Gina Michaells | 1 | " I Hope You Dance" | Eliminated |
Echo | 2 | " A Thousand Years" | Safe |
Act | Order | Song [6] | Movie | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
Patrick Smith | 1 | "Barndommens Gade" | Barndommens Gade | Bottom two |
Echo | 2 | " Chiquitita" | Mamma Mia! | Bottom two |
Kristian Kjærlund | 3 | " Blood in the Cut" | XXX: Return of Xander Cage | Safe |
Live Vogel | 4 | " Life on Mars?" | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | Safe |
Maria & Bea | 5 | " Gangsta's Paradise" | Dangerous Minds | Safe |
Benjamin Rosenbohm | 6 | " Earned It" | Fifty Shades of Grey | Safe |
Sing-Off details | ||||
Patrick Smith | 1 | "Fra mark til by" (Original song) | Eliminated | |
Echo | 2 | " Comfortably Numb" | Safe |
Act | Order | Song [7] | Result |
---|---|---|---|
Benjamin Rosenbohm | 1 | "Crazy Love" | Safe |
Echo | 2 | " When I Grow Up" | Safe |
Live Vogel | 3 | "Alle skuffer over tid" | Safe |
Kristian Kjærlund | 4 | "Youth Knows No Pain" | Safe |
Maria & Bea | N/A | "Født i dag" | Withdrew |
Maria & Bea withdrew from the competition because of personal reasons, one of them being that Bea's father died, so this week there will be no elimination. However, there will still be a voting but all the publics votes will go through to next week.
Act | Order | First song (One Hit Wonders) [8] | Order | Second song (Duet with a Special Guest) [8] | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kristian Kjærlund | 1 | " You Get What You Give" | 6 | " Wish You Were Gay" (With Chili) | Safe |
Live Vogel | 2 | " Stand by Me" | 5 | "2000 meter i frit fald" (With Katinka Bjerregaard) | Safe |
Benjamin Rosenbohm | 3 | " A Girl Like You" | 8 | "Planets" (With Nicklas Sahl) | Safe |
Echo | 4 | " All the Things She Said" | 7 | "Fjerne slægtninge" (With Bisse) | Eliminated |
The semi-final did not feature a sing-off and instead the act with the fewest public votes, Echo, were automatically eliminated.
This week's publics votes were combined from last weeks votes.
After Echo were eliminated they performed " Somewhere Only We Know" by Keane
Act | Order | Judge's Choice Song [9] | Order | Producer's Choice Song [9] | Producer | Order | Winner's single [10] | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Benjamin Rosenbohm | 1 | " Be Alright" | 4 | " Lost" | Malthe Rostrup | 8 | "Worth a Broken Heart" | Runner-Up |
Kristian Kjærlund | 2 | " Do I Wanna Know?" | 5 | " Green Light" | Nicolai Kornerup | 7 | " Lost and Profound" | Winner |
Live Vogel | 3 | "Finale på et filmset" | 6 | "Special" | Malthe Rostrup | N/A | N/A (Already eliminated) | 3rd Place |
X Factor | |
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Season 12 | |
Hosted by | Sofie Linde Ingversen (TV 2) |
Judges |
Thomas Blachman Oh Land Ankerstjerne |
Winner | Kristian Kjærlund |
Winning mentor | Thomas Blachman |
Runner-up | Benjamin Rosenbohm |
Finals venue | Forum Horsens |
Release | |
Original network |
TV 2 TV 2 Zulu (Z Factor) |
Original release | January 4 April 12, 2019 | –
Season chronology |
X Factor is a Danish television music competition to find new singing talent. This season will be the first season broadcast on TV2. [1] after DR1 announced on August 16, 2017, that Season 11 is the final season broadcast on their channel. [2] Kristian Kjærlund won the competition and Thomas Blachman became the winning mentor for the 3rd time and the 2nd judge to win 2 seasons in a row.
Sofie Linde Lauridsen returned as the main host of the show for the 4th time. Thomas Blachman returned as a judge for the 11th time while Remee and Sanne Salomonsen decided to quit. Oh Land and Ankerstjerne replaced them as judges.
Auditions took place in Copenhagen, Aarhus and Odense.
The 5 Chair Challenge returns for season 12. Ankerstjerne will mentor the 15-22s, Blachman has the Over 23s and Oh Land has the Groups/Bands.
The 15 successful acts were:
The 6 eliminated acts were:
Key:
Act | Age(s) | Hometown | Category (mentor) | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
Kristian Kjærlund | 23 | Horsens | Over 23s (Blachman) | Winner |
Benjamin Rosenbohm | 16 | Copenhagen | 15-22s (Ankerstjerne) | Runner-up |
Live Vogel | 15 | Espergærde | 15-22s (Ankerstjerne) | 3rd place |
Echo | 15-21 | Various | Groups (Oh Land) | 4th place |
Maria & Bea | 18 | Haderslev & Sønderborg | Groups (Oh Land) | 5th place |
Patrick Smith | 18 | Rødby | 15-22s (Ankerstjerne) | 6th place |
Gina Michaells | 43 | Brande | Over 23s (Blachman) | 7th place |
Andrea Brøndsted | 29 | Copenhagen | Over 23s (Blachman) | 8th place |
Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne | 59-70 | Various | Groups (Oh Land) | 9th place |
– | Contestant was in the bottom two and had to sing again in the Sing-Off |
– | Contestant received the fewest public votes and was immediately eliminated (no Sing-Off) |
– | Contestant received the most public votes |
– | Contestant withdrew from the competition |
Contestants' colour key:
– 15-22s (Ankerstjerne's contestants) |
– Over 23s (Blachman's contestants) |
– Groups (Oh Land's contestants) |
Contestant | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st round | 2nd round | |||||||||
Kristian Kjærlund | 5th 10.8% |
2nd 16.6% |
2nd 17.2% |
1st 24.8% |
Safe | 2nd 30.7% |
1st 47.7% |
Winner 54.3% | ||
Benjamin Rosenbohm | 2nd 14.3% |
1st 17.2% |
1st 18.1% |
2nd 21.8% |
Safe | 1st 34.0% |
2nd 37.8% |
Runner-Up 45.7% | ||
Live Vogel | 1st 17.1% |
3rd 15.0% |
4th 13.8% |
4th 14.0% |
Safe | 3rd 18.6% |
3rd 14.5% |
Eliminated (Week 7) | ||
Echo | 7th 10.2% |
6th 11.1% |
7th 11.4% |
6th 11.8% |
Safe | 4th 16.6% |
Eliminated (Week 6) | |||
Maria & Bea | 3rd 13.9% |
5th 13.0% |
3rd 14.2% |
3rd 15.6% |
Withdrew | Withdrew (Week 5) | ||||
Patrick Smith | 8th 6.0% |
7th 7.4% |
5th 13.8% |
5th 12.0% |
Eliminated (Week 4) | |||||
Gina Michaells | 4th 13.0% |
4th 13.6% |
6th 11.4% |
Eliminated (Week 3) | ||||||
Andrea Brøndsted | 6th 10.5% |
8th 6.2% |
Eliminated (Week 2) | |||||||
Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne | 9th 4.1% |
Eliminated (Week 1) | ||||||||
Sing-Off | Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne, Patrick Smith |
Patrick Smith, Andrea Brøndsted |
Gina Michaells, Echo |
Patrick Smith, Echo |
— | The act that received the fewest public votes was automatically eliminated. | ||||
Ankerstjerne voted out | Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne | Andrea Brøndsted | Gina Michaells | Echo | — | |||||
Oh Land voted out | Patrick Smith | Andrea Brøndsted | Gina Michaells | Patrick Smith | — | |||||
Blachman voted out | Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne | Patrick Smith | Echo | Patrick Smith | — | |||||
Eliminated | Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne 9th |
Andrea Brøndsted 8th |
Gina Michaells 7th |
Patrick Smith 6th |
Maria & Bea 5th |
Echo 4th |
Live Vogel 3rd |
Benjamin Rosenbohm Runner-Up | ||
Kristian Kjærlund Winner |
Act | Order | Song [3] | Result |
---|---|---|---|
Echo | 1 | "High Five" | Safe |
Kristian Kjærlund | 2 | " Sweet Dreams, TN" | Safe |
Benjamin Rosenbohm | 3 | " When You Love Someone" | Safe |
Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne | 4 | "Hvorfor sku' vi synge" (Original song) | Bottom two |
Gina Michaells | 5 | "Keep Lying" | Safe |
Patrick Smith | 6 | "Entertaineren" | Bottom two |
Andrea Brøndsted | 7 | " Poison" | Safe |
Maria & Bea | 8 | " Bad Girls" | Safe |
Live Vogel | 9 | " When the Party's Over" | Safe |
Sing-Off details | |||
Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne | 1 | "Nattens Sang" (Original song) | Eliminated |
Patrick Smith | 2 | "Det si'r sig selv" | Safe |
Act | Order | Song [4] | Result |
---|---|---|---|
Live Vogel | 1 | " White Flag" | Safe |
Maria & Bea | 2 | " Freestyler" | Safe |
Patrick Smith | 3 | "De er meget interesserede i"/"Du kan gøre hvad du vil" | Bottom two |
Andrea Brøndsted | 4 | " Eternal Flame" | Bottom two |
Benjamin Rosenbohm | 5 | " Cry Me a River" | Safe |
Gina Michaells | 6 | " I'm Not in Love" | Safe |
Echo | 7 | " Clocks" | Safe |
Kristian Kjærlund | 8 | " Common People" | Safe |
Sing-Off details | |||
Patrick Smith | 1 | "Quang's Sang" | Safe |
Andrea Brøndsted | 2 | " Don't Know Why" | Eliminated |
Act | Order | Song [5] | Result |
---|---|---|---|
Maria & Bea | 1 | " I Like It" | Safe |
Benjamin Rosenbohm | 2 | " Be My Mistake" | Safe |
Kristian Kjærlund | 3 | "Electrified" | Safe |
Live Vogel | 4 | " God Is a Woman" | Safe |
Echo | 5 | "Blur" | Bottom two |
Gina Michaells | 6 | " Hope Is a Dangerous Thing for a Woman like Me to Have – but I Have It" | Bottom two |
Patrick Smith | 7 | "Sort Tulipan" | Safe |
Sing-Off details | |||
Gina Michaells | 1 | " I Hope You Dance" | Eliminated |
Echo | 2 | " A Thousand Years" | Safe |
Act | Order | Song [6] | Movie | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
Patrick Smith | 1 | "Barndommens Gade" | Barndommens Gade | Bottom two |
Echo | 2 | " Chiquitita" | Mamma Mia! | Bottom two |
Kristian Kjærlund | 3 | " Blood in the Cut" | XXX: Return of Xander Cage | Safe |
Live Vogel | 4 | " Life on Mars?" | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | Safe |
Maria & Bea | 5 | " Gangsta's Paradise" | Dangerous Minds | Safe |
Benjamin Rosenbohm | 6 | " Earned It" | Fifty Shades of Grey | Safe |
Sing-Off details | ||||
Patrick Smith | 1 | "Fra mark til by" (Original song) | Eliminated | |
Echo | 2 | " Comfortably Numb" | Safe |
Act | Order | Song [7] | Result |
---|---|---|---|
Benjamin Rosenbohm | 1 | "Crazy Love" | Safe |
Echo | 2 | " When I Grow Up" | Safe |
Live Vogel | 3 | "Alle skuffer over tid" | Safe |
Kristian Kjærlund | 4 | "Youth Knows No Pain" | Safe |
Maria & Bea | N/A | "Født i dag" | Withdrew |
Maria & Bea withdrew from the competition because of personal reasons, one of them being that Bea's father died, so this week there will be no elimination. However, there will still be a voting but all the publics votes will go through to next week.
Act | Order | First song (One Hit Wonders) [8] | Order | Second song (Duet with a Special Guest) [8] | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kristian Kjærlund | 1 | " You Get What You Give" | 6 | " Wish You Were Gay" (With Chili) | Safe |
Live Vogel | 2 | " Stand by Me" | 5 | "2000 meter i frit fald" (With Katinka Bjerregaard) | Safe |
Benjamin Rosenbohm | 3 | " A Girl Like You" | 8 | "Planets" (With Nicklas Sahl) | Safe |
Echo | 4 | " All the Things She Said" | 7 | "Fjerne slægtninge" (With Bisse) | Eliminated |
The semi-final did not feature a sing-off and instead the act with the fewest public votes, Echo, were automatically eliminated.
This week's publics votes were combined from last weeks votes.
After Echo were eliminated they performed " Somewhere Only We Know" by Keane
Act | Order | Judge's Choice Song [9] | Order | Producer's Choice Song [9] | Producer | Order | Winner's single [10] | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Benjamin Rosenbohm | 1 | " Be Alright" | 4 | " Lost" | Malthe Rostrup | 8 | "Worth a Broken Heart" | Runner-Up |
Kristian Kjærlund | 2 | " Do I Wanna Know?" | 5 | " Green Light" | Nicolai Kornerup | 7 | " Lost and Profound" | Winner |
Live Vogel | 3 | "Finale på et filmset" | 6 | "Special" | Malthe Rostrup | N/A | N/A (Already eliminated) | 3rd Place |