The Four: Battle for Stardom season 1

The first season of The Four: Battle for Stardom premiered on Fox on January 4, 2018. Fergie hosted the show, while Sean Combs, DJ Khaled, Meghan Trainor and Charlie Walk were judges. Prior to the season finale, Walk withdrew from the show following sexual assault allegations against him.
On February 8, 2018, the winner was announced as 20-year-old Evvie McKinney from Memphis, Tennessee, who was signed to Republic Records and named iHeartRadio's "On the Verge" artist.
The first season also propelled the future entertainment careers of Vincint Cannady, Zhavia Ward and Tim Johnson Jr.

The Four

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On January 29, a few days before episode 5, it was announced that via The hashtag #TheFourComeback, Zhavia, Ash Minor, Candice Boyd, and Saeed Renaud received the most tweets and retweets, and would get another opportunity to earn a seat. During Part 1, they were officially brought back onto the show

Challenge Episodes

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Week 1 (January 4)

Group performance: "Can't Stop the Feeling!"

Artist	Age	Hometown	Starting seat
Lex Lu	32	Los Angeles, California	Put in seat 1
Ash Minor	23	Ipswich, Australia	Put in seat 2
Elanese Lansen	22	Boca Raton, Florida	Put in seat 3
Blair Perkins	25	Los Angeles, California	Put in seat 4

Order	Artist	Age	Hometown	Song	Judges' verdict	Walk	Trainor	Combs	Khaled
1	Tyler Griffin	24	North Bergen, New Jersey	"Talk Dirty"	Eliminated
2	Zhavia	16	Los Angeles, California	"Location"	Advanced
3	Anthony Hall	28	Delray Beach, Florida	"Feel It Still"	Eliminated
4	Illakriss	21	Dallas, Texas	"Let's Groove"	Advanced
5	Valentina Cytrynowicz	19	Los Angeles, California	"Green Light"	Eliminated
6	Saeed Renaud	37	Brooklyn, New York	"Run to You"	Advanced

Week 2 (January 11)

Group performance: "Free Your Mind"

Order	Artist	Age	Hometown	Song	Judges' verdict	Walk	Trainor	Combs	Khaled
1	Candice Boyd	27	Rancho Cucamonga, California	"I'm Goin' Down"	Advanced
2	Stevie Brock	27	North Hollywood, California	"Sugar"	Eliminated
3	Cheyenne Elliott	23	New York City, New York	"Wings"	Advanced
4	Cocoa Sarai	28	Brooklyn, New York	"Jealous"	Eliminated
5	Kayla Ember	18	St. Petersburg, Florida	"Bad at Love"	Eliminated
6	Jason Warrior	22	Chicago, Illinois	"Love Me Now"	Advanced

Week 3 (January 18)

Note: This is the first time that all four members have been challenged.

Group performance: "Bang Bang"

Order	Artist	Age	Hometown	Song	Judges' verdict	Walk	Trainor	Combs	Khaled
1	Rell Jerv	24	Wilmington, Delaware	"Pools"	Advanced
2	Sean Cavaliere	18	Los Angeles, California	"Stitches"	Eliminated
3	Jefferson Clay	23	Austin, Texas	"Better Man"	Advanced
4	Nicole Boggs	30	Nashville, Tennessee	"Like I'm Gonna Lose You"	Advanced
5	Tim Johnson Jr.	18	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	"Let's Stay Together"	Advanced

Week 4 (January 25)

Group performance: "Finesse"

Order	Artist	Age	Hometown	Song	Judges' verdict	Walk	Trainor	Combs	Khaled
1	Nicolina	22	Orlando, Florida	"Don't Let Me Down"	Eliminated
2	RaVaughn	30	Carson, California	"Sorry Not Sorry"	Advanced
3	Edi Callier	22	Covington, Georgia	"Jealous"	Eliminated
4	Nick Harrison	28	Sherman Oaks, California	"Bad Boy For Life"	Advanced
5	Josh Wyper	30	Vancouver, Canada	"Tennessee Whiskey"	Eliminated
6	Kendyle Paige	20	Circleville, New York	"Me, Myself & I"	Advanced

Week 5 (February 1)

This week featured two distinct parts. The first part was the same format as the previous weeks. However, in the second part, four previously eliminated artists received an opportunity to earn a chance to challenge a member of "The Four" another time.

Group performance: "I Gotta Feeling"

Part 2: Comeback Artist Performances

Throughout the run of the season, viewers voted for their favorite eliminated members of "The Four" on Twitter using the hashtag #TheFourComeback and another hashtag with the artist's first name. On January 29, FOX posted a video on the show's YouTube channel, which announced that Ash Minor, Candice Boyd, Saeed Renaud, and Zhavia had been the top four vote-getters and would be returning to the competition.
In Part 2, the four comeback artists were put into two pairs. Each pair had to battle for the judges' unanimous vote to move on. Once the judges picked which of the two comeback artists would move on, each winner challenged one of the remaining members of "The Four."

Finale

Week 6 (February 8)

Group performance: "The Edge of Glory"

Part 1: Head-to-Head Battles

In Part 1, the finalists each performed two songs. For the first song, each finalist performed in hopes of winning over the audience. After performing, the audience voted on their favorite performance, and the finalist with the most votes earned the power to choose who they wanted to battle against in the head-to-head challenge. For their second song, each selected pair went head-to-head. The judges picked a winner from each pair to move on to the final battle.

Order	Artist	Song	Result	Opponent
1	Candice Boyd	"Don't Speak"	Did not receive	Vincint
2	Evvie McKinney	"Proud Mary"	Selected Zhavia	Zhavia
3	Vincint Cannady	"Creep"	Did not receive	Candice
4	Zhavia	"One Dance"	Did not receive	Evvie

Part 2: The Final Battle

For the final battle, the two finalists performed once more for the votes of the judges. The winner of this battle would be crowned the winner of The Four.

Order	Artist	Song	Result
9	Evvie McKinney	"Glory"	Winner
10	Candice Boyd	"Stay"	Runner-Up

Artists who appeared on previous shows

Jason Warrior was on the eleventh season of The Voice and reached the live playoffs, but was eliminated. He later appeared on the nineteenth season of American Idol, where he made the Top 24.
Ash Minor from Brisbane, Australia, made the top 12 on X Factor Australia in 2012 under his real name.
Elanese Lansen was a contestant on the American version of The X Factor in 2013. There is no footage of her performances, but there is an interview package on YouTube entitled "Yes, I Made It!"
Blair Perkins previously auditioned for the twelfth season of American Idol and made it to Hollywood Week.

Famous Relations

Evvie McKinney is the younger sister of Gedeon McKinney, who finished in the top 16 of the fifth season of American Idol.
Cheyenne Elliott is the granddaughter of Dionne Warwick, who later competed on The Masked Singer as the Mouse, being eliminated in the second round.