Sing! China (season 2)


The second season of the Chinese reality talent show Sing! China premiered on 14 July 2017 on Zhejiang Television. Jay Chou and Na Ying returned as coaches. Eason Chan and Liu Huan replaced Wang Feng and Harlem Yu as coaches. The show is hosted by Hu Qiaohua, who had previously hosted the finals in the last season and replaced Li Yong, who left after just one season.
On 8 October, Tashi Phuntsok 扎西平措 of Team Liu Huan was announced as the winner of the season, with Doris Guo 郭沁 of Team Na Ying as runner-up. Joanna Dong 董姿彦 of Team Jay finished in third place, while Team Eason's Ye Xiaoyue 叶晓粤 and Xiao Kaiye 肖凯晔 finished in fourth and fifth place respectively.

Coaches and hosts

On 24 November 2016, Jay Chou was confirmed to be returning for his second season. Eason Chan was also announced to join the show as a new coach, which effectively confirmed that there would be changes to the coaching panel with at least one of the coaches from the previous season exiting the show. On 8 December, it was claimed by an unknown media outlet that Liu Huan, who was formerly a coach on The Voice of China, would also be joining the show as a coach. Lu Wei, the show's publicity director, later refuted the claim. On 28 March 2017, Na Ying was confirmed to be returning for her second season. A month later, on 28 April, Wang Feng issued a statement via his management to announce his departure from the show to focus on his music career, but hinted a possibility of returning in the future seasons. On the same day following Wang's announcement, a photo showing a promotional banner that was claimed to have set up at one of the show's preliminary auditions began to circulate online. The banner in question revealed Liu as part of the coaching lineup, together with the other three coaches who have all been confirmed to join the show. With this, Liu was once again rumoured to be joining the show to fill the final seat on the coaching panel. Lu once again refuted the claim, stating that the promotional banner is "fake", and the team has yet to finalise on the selection of the final coach. However, despite the constant denial from Lu, Liu was announced on 19 May as the fourth coach to join the show, via one of the show's promotional video. Harlem Yu was therefore confirmed to have left the show.
Up till the airing of the premiere episode, it was not revealed who would take on the hosting role for the second season. It was previously rumoured that Li Yong would not return for his second season and be replaced by Shen Tao, a host from Zhejiang Television. On 14 July, Hu Qiaohua was revealed as the host on the premiere episode for the season, with Li exiting the show. The thirteenth and fourteenth episodes were hosted by Shen and Yi Yi.

Teams

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Blind auditions

The taping of the blind auditions began on 5 June and ended on 20 July. In the blind auditions, the coaches are to recruit nine artists to form a team of their own. Coaches may also recruit more than nine artists during the blind auditions, but to ensure equal representation across all the teams, they are required to cut their team down to nine artists before moving on to the Round-Robin Battle rounds. At the end of the blind auditions, Jay Chou and Na Ying each recruited nine artists to their teams, while 12 and 13 artists joined the teams of Eason Chan and Liu Huan respectively. Therefore, a total of seven artists were eliminated by their coaches and did not advance to the Round-Robin Battle rounds.
This season saw the introduction of the team badges and flags, which are specially designed by the coaches themselves. When an artist is defaulted or elected to join a coach's team, the respective coach's team flag would be lowered on stage, with the coach going forward to present the artist with the team badge as a signification of their addition to the team. The coach's respective victory songs would also be played in the background.
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Coach pressed his or her button
Artist defaulted to this coach's team
Artist elected to join this coach's team
Artist eliminated by coach before the Round-Robin Battle rounds
Artist eliminated with no coach pressing his or her button

Episode 1 (14 July)

The four coaches performed a medley of each other's songs – Eason Chan and Na Ying performed "天地在我心", Jay Chou & Liu Huan performed a medley of "一笑而过" and "你的背包", Chan & Chou performed a medley of "印第安老斑鸠" and "谢谢侬", Chou and Na performed "因为爱情", Chan and Liu performed "菊花台", Liu and Na performed "过把瘾" – and concluded the performances with "沧海一声笑".

Episode 2 (21 July)

Eason Chan auditioned as a joke with one of his signature songs "十年", with all three other coaches pressing their buttons for him.

Episode 3 (28 July)

Episode 4 (4 August)

Episode 5 (11 August)

The Round-Robin Battles

The post-blind auditions stage of the competition kicked off with the round-robin Battle rounds, a competition format modified from the Cross Fighting rounds featured in the previous season. Dubbed as the "six-dimensional round-robin battles", the competition would see all four coaches going head-to-head against one another in the all-play-all format, with each coach facing off with every other coach in separate Battle rounds. In each round, the two coaches involved would randomly pick an artist from their personal team. The two selected artists would then perform and receive votes of approval from a 51-person panel. The artist with the most votes in each Battle rounds would advance to the Playoffs, while the other would be eliminated. The eliminated artist would lose their personal team badge and had to pass it on to a surviving team member. The team flag of the winning artist would then be lowered on stage with the team's victory song playing in the background.
Each coach would be allowed to save one losing artist from their team by pressing the button on their chair before the artist leaves the stage. The saved artists would then perform again in the "coach's save" round, with the one receiving the most votes moving on to the Playoffs. Coach's saves that are not used by the coaches by the end of the three-week round-robin Battles would be forfeited.
The round-robin Battle rounds were taped on 7, 8, and 13 August.
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Artist won the Battle and advanced to the Playoffs
Artist lost the Battle but was saved by coach
Artist won the Battle in the "coach's save" round and advanced to the Playoffs
Artist lost the Battle and was eliminated

Results summary--

The Playoffs

The Top 19 performed in the Playoff rounds for a spot in the finals. The format of the Playoff rounds for this season was reverted to the one used for the first three seasons of The Voice of China, which saw the remaining artists competing against their fellow team members instead of artists from other teams. At the end of the Playoffs, each coach will crown one artist as their team winner, who will later represent them in the finals. Coach Eason Chan crowned two team winners, instead of one, as he had the most artists competing in the Playoffs. The competition was split into two rounds — the Knockouts and the Final Showdown.
In the Knockout rounds, the teams would be split into groups of two. Each Knockout pairing will see the artists competing against each other via duet performances with celebrity guests. The two artists will then receive votes of approval from a 51-person panel. The other three non-competitive coaches were also given two votes each, which they have to cast for one of the artists in the knockout pairing. The artist with the most votes will advance to the Final Showdown, while the other would be eliminated.
In the Final Showdown, the remaining artists will perform a solo song against their fellow team member. Similar to the Knockout rounds, the artists will receive votes of approval from a 51-person panel at the end of the performances. On top of the votes given by the panel, their respective coaches were also given 50 votes each, which they have to allocate to their own remaining artists at their discretion. The artist with the most votes will be crowned as the team winner and advance to the finals, while the other would be eliminated.
The Playoff rounds were taped on 29 August, 12, 13, and 14 September for Team Na Ying, Team Eason, Team Jay, and Team Liu Huan respectively.
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Artist received the highest accumulated votes in the knockouts
Artist received the highest accumulated votes in the final showdown and was crowned the winner of the team
Artist received the lowest accumulated votes and was eliminated

  1. Jay Chou chose not to vote for any of the artists.
  2. Na Ying chose to abstain from voting.
  3. In the special three-person knockout, Jeslyn Khoo 古洁縈 first faced off with Ye Xiaoyue 叶晓粤. With Ye advancing to the final showdown after receiving a higher number of accumulated votes, Khoo later faced off with Yu Zibei 于梓贝, thus receiving two sets of panel and coach votes.
  4. Na Ying was not allowed to vote for any of the artists as she was the duet partner for Darren 达布希勒图.
OrderPerformerSong
10.1Na Ying & her team with Bruce Liang
"日落大道"
10.2Eason Chan & his team
"第一个雅皮士"
11.1Jay Chou & his team
"牛仔很忙" / "水手怕水"
11.2Bi Xia"平身"
11.3Li Qi"最长的旅途"
11.4XL"使劲爱"
12.1Liu Huan & his team
"喂鸡"

Finals

The Top 5 performed live in a two-part season finale on 8 October, held at the Beijing National Stadium. In the first round of the competition, the five finalists performed a duet with their coach, and a solo song. Based on the public votes received from the live audience at the end of the first round, the bottom three artists with the fewest votes would be eliminated.
The final two artists would then sing their winner's song before a 101-person panel and live audience, who will vote for the winner at the end of the performances. Every member of the panel would be entitled to one vote, and the total number of votes received by the artists from the panel and live audience would be converted into percentage points accordingly. The artist who received the highest number of points would be announced as the winner.
  1. Before the start of the solo performances in the first round, it was revealed that Doris Guo 郭沁 and Joanna Dong 董姿彦 were leading in the number of public votes.
OrderPerformerSong
15.1Momo Wu"信天游"
15.2Zhou Shen & Ye Xuanqing 叶炫清"从前慢"
15.3Ji Hang 冀行, Ye Xuanqing 叶炫清, Yu Zibei 于梓贝 & Zhang Ze 张泽"第二季 'OPPO中国新歌声' 加油歌"
15.4The Top 36 & Maggie Yuan"勇敢的心"

Non-competition shows

The Mid-Autumn Special (4 October)

The thirteenth episode was a two-hour special aired on 4 October, featuring performances by the coaches and artists in celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival. The episode was taped on 15 September.
EpisodeOrderPerformerSong
Episode 13
1Jay Chou, Janice Tan 陈颖恩, Xiao Minye 肖敏晔 & Zhu Wenting 朱文婷"乌克丽丽"
Episode 13
2Jeslyn Khoo 古洁縈 & Zhang Ze 张泽
Billdisc Wang 王乐汀 & Stella Seah 谢慧娴
Asia Zhang 张婉清 & Ethan Zhang 张一腾
Kim Zhang 张鑫 & Zhu Wenting 朱文婷
"夜空中最亮的星"
Episode 13
3Xia Qiming 夏启明 & Zhu Tingting 朱婷婷"全世界谁倾听你"
Episode 13
4Team Jay "我要夏天"
Episode 13
5Jay Chou, Darren 达布希勒图, Kim Zhang 张鑫 & Lucas Lee 李硕"想你就写信" / "彩虹"
Episode 13
6Frank & Annie 川虎"当你老了" / "What a Wonderful World"
Episode 13
7Liu Huan"落叶"
Episode 13
8Liu Huan"情怨"
Episode 13
9Yu Zibei 于梓贝 & Resound"饿狼传说"
Episode 13
10Eason Chan"谁来剪月光"
Episode 13
11Ye Xuanqing 叶炫清"从前慢"
Episode 13
12Na Ying"三生三世十里桃花"
Episode 13
13Ji Hang 冀行"雪莲"
Episode 13
14Hu Simo 胡斯默"红眼睛"

The National Day Special (5 October)

The fourteenth episode was a two-hour special episode aired on 5 October, featuring performances by the coaches and artists from the current and past seasons in celebration of the National Day of the People's Republic of China. The episode was taped on 1 September 2017, at the Cotai Arena.
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Artist won the Battle
Artist lost the Battle

OrderPerformerSong
1Xiao Kaiye 肖凯晔 & Ye Xiaoyue 叶晓粤
Curley G 希林娜依·高 & Leah Li 李雅
Hu Simo 胡斯默 & Zizi 子子
Joanna Dong 董姿彦 & Olinda Cho 卓猷燕
"歌唱祖国"
2Na Ying"你不是说"
3Liu Huan"天地在我心"
4Eason Chan"披风"
5Jay Chou"告白气球"
6Na Ying"有个爱你的人不容易"
7Liu Huan"夜"
8Eason Chan"床头灯"
9Jay Chou, Joanna Dong 董姿彦 & Olinda Cho 卓猷燕"听见下雨的声音"
10Team Season 2 Artists & Team Masked Artists "相亲相爱一家人"

Reception

CSM52 ratings

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