List of Idol Producer episodes

Idol Producer is a Chinese reality boy group survival show produced by iQiyi. The reality show was officially aired, and broadcast online, on January 19, 2018 on iQiyi.

List of Episodes

Episode 1 (January 19)

Contestants choose stickers from A to F as a self assessment to grade themselves. The contestants enter the studio, where 100 seats are arranged in a pyramid with a chair for the #1 trainee at the top. They are introduced by their label and choose seats from 1 to 100. The contestants then give performances for the judges, grouped by agency. The judges then re-assign the trainees a grade based on their overall performance, with A being the highest and F the lowest.

Episode 2 (January 26)

The eating for the first round is unveiled while the grading sessions for trainees continues. After receiving their initial grade, Zhang Yixing (Lay) announces that the trainees must together perform the show's titular single "Ei Ei" with only three days for preparation. Trainees will have a stand-alone performance that is filmed only once. The coaches give a re-evaluation prior to the filming of the performance to reassign the trainees to another A-F grade. The trainees are then rearranged according to their newly reassigned grade.

Episode 3 (February 2)

Training to perform the show's title song "Ei Ei" begins. After three days, the trainees are filmed performing the title song and are reevaluated by the judges. The B, C, D, and F grade trainees vote to select the center of the entire group, settling on individual trainee Cai Xukun, who narrowly defeats trainee Zhu Zhengting by two votes. Trainees with an F grade after the reevaluation are denied the right to perform, and must watch the performance as spectators. However, before the performance begins, the judges decide to let some of the particularly hard-working F grade trainees perform.
After recording "Ei Ei", it is revealed that for the second challenge, the trainees will be put into 16 teams to perform 8 songs. Two teams will be performing and competing against each other for each of the 8 songs: Jay Chou's "半兽人 ", "PPAP", Jolin Tsai's "大艺术家 ", "Dance to the Music", "代号魂斗罗", Zhang Yixing's "Shake", CNBLUE's "Can't Stop", and "Get Ugly". Cai Xukun, because he was center for the title song "Ei Ei", is allowed to choose his team's members and song first. The members of the winning team for each song will automatically receive 10,000 votes. The judges also announce that half of the trainees will be eliminated from the show following the second challenge. The two "半兽人 " teams' perform, with the B team beating the A team.

Episode 4 (February 9)

The remaining 14 teams' performances are shown. A footage of each team practising was shown before their respective performances. After the performance of each pair of groups, the live audience is given the opportunity to vote for their favorite member out of both of the competing teams. Individual votes were added up for an overall team score, and 10,000 votes were given to each member of the winning team for each song. Taiwanese trainee Chen Linong of "The Great Artist" team A won the most votes overall, with 10,000 bonus votes added to his 210 live audience votes. Zhang Yixing announces that the 39 trainees with the fewest votes will be eliminated next week. The votes from this week's live performance will be added to the online votes to determine the top 60 trainees.

Episode 5 (February 16)

The top 60 trainees with the most votes are announced, starting from rank 59 and announced in groups of ten. After every group of ten, clips of the trainees participating in various activities are shown. Polls among the trainees for the "best visual" and "the person I would most want to introduce to my little sister" were conducted. Taiwanese trainee Lin Yanjun is voted as "best visual" by his fellow trainees. The trainees race against each other to claim presents for the Chinese New Year. The trainees also do a dance battle, dancing to "Ei Ei" at various speeds. Judges Cheng Xiao and Zhou Jieqiong select the winners of the dance battle, who ask that their reward be to let the entire group of trainees go eat Haidilao Hot Pot, a request which the director grants.
Out of the top 9 trainees from voting, ranks 1-7 remain in the same position as last week's episode. Cai Xukun remains as rank 1 with a landslide victory of around 4 million votes against Chen Linong. Liang Hui is revealed to be rank 60, saving himself from elimination by a few thousand votes, demonstrating the importance of the 10,000 bonus votes that were awarded to the winning teams in last week's episode. The eliminated trainees leave quietly after saying goodbye early the next morning.

Rank	Trainee
1	Cai Xukun
2	Chen Linong
3	Fan Chengcheng
4	Justin
5	Zhu Zhengting
6	Xiao Gui
7	Bu Fan
8	Li Quanzhe
9	He Dongdong
10	You Zhangjing
11	Wang Ziyi
12	Jeffrey
13	Qin Fen
14	Lin Chaoze
15	Zhu Xingjie
16	Ling Chao
17	Qian Zhenghao
18	Dong Yanlei
19	Han Mubo
20	Ding Zeren
21	Yue Yue
22	Zuo Ye
23	Xu Kaihao
24	Mu Ziyang
25	Zheng Ruibin
26	Bi Wenjun
27	Zhou Yanchen
28	Lin Yanjun
29	Li Xikan
30	Lu Dinghao
31	Zhou Rui
32	Huang Shuhao
33	Huang Xinchun
34	Luo Zheng
35	Zhang Dayuan
36	Li Rang
37	Bei Honglin
38	Li Changgeng
39	Chen Siqi
40	Han Yongjie
41	Qin Zimo
42	Wu Lianjie
43	Qin Junyi
44	Lou Zibo
45	Jing Peiyao
46	Yu Mingjun
47	Chen Minghao
48	Ming Peng
49	Yang Feitong
50	Zhu Yunyi
51	Jia Li
52	Ling Qi
53	Zhu Yuntian
54	Xu Shengen
55	Li Junyi
56	Zhang Yixuan
57	Wang Yilong
58	Jiang Dahe
59	Hu Zhibang
60	Liang Hui

Episode 6 (February 23)

The trainees begin their position evaluation group performances, with trainees selecting songs that can showcase their specialties in the vocal, dance, or rap categories. There are five songs for the vocal category:, Chen Li's 《小半》, Kimberley Chen's 《爱你》 ; four songs for the dance category ; and four songs for the rap category. The trainees with higher rankings pick their songs first, and once the chosen song reaches its member limit, the later trainees can no longer pick that song. The trainees' accumulated votes are reset to zero for this third challenge. The most possible votes that a trainee could earn from this challenge is 150,000, with the winning members of each winning group gaining 50,000 votes, and an extra 100,000 votes to the winning trainee in each category. The trainees from rank 36-60 after the second round of online voting at the end of this challenge will be eliminated.
Judges Jackson Wang and MC Jin provide mentorship to the trainees in an informal Q&A session. The trainees pick their songs in order of rank. Grouped by songs, the trainees in each group choose a center and a leader. Judges Cheng Xiao and Zhou Jieqiong provide dance advice. Trainee and Leader of "Nunchucks" Zhou Yanchen, who has been practising late into the night, collapses at the end of the dress rehearsal due to hypoglycemia. The "《双节棍》", "Artist", "《我怀念的》", and "Turn Down for What" groups perform, and their rehearsal experiences are shown. The "Papillon" group prepares to perform.

Episode 7 (March 2)

The trainees continue the position evaluation group performances with "Sheep", "Loving You", "Very Good", and "Flow", in which Center Zhu Yunyi suffered an eye injury during dance rehearsal at midnight of the live performance when his belt hit his right contact lens and temporarily blinded him due to hyphema. He had to stay in the green room during the performance, while his twin brother Zhu Yuntian and his teammates performed without him. Zhu Yuntian ended up getting first. "Little Half/Xiao Ban" Team, "Me Too" also performed. The winners of each performance and the winners of each category are revealed.

Episode 8 (March 9)

The day after the Position Evaluations, Zhang Yixing provides his own Q&A session and shared his own experiences as a trainee, and how his agency's system differs from Idol Producer's system, like a 3-hour-only hire on practice rooms where you must sign for time slots, and the meals must be pre-ordered in the SM cafeteria. He also shared a change in mentality after debut. A day later, he revealed via video conference call that the next mission is the Concept Evaluation, where the trainees, as chosen by Idol Producers, will become the original singers to 5 original songs of different styles and concepts. However, the elimination to top 35 will occur midway through the preparation, meaning the final number of each group will be 5 groups of 7. If a team is somehow wiped out after the midpoint cuts, the team will be rearranged in later episodes. The voting system also changes. First, the live audience pick the team that performs the best, then from that winning team, the trainee who performs the best will be picked. Each member of the winning team gains a pool of 500,000 votes, of which, the trainee that is the best of the best gets an extra 200000 votes, while the rest gain 50000 each. The five songs are "Firewalking", "Boom Boom Boom", "Listen to What I Say ", "I Will Always Remember ", and Dream. In the initial stage, the group of 12 is split into 2 groups of 6, with 2 temporary centers and a temporary leader. Zhu Yunyi has recovered from hyphema, and Zhou Yanchen has recovered from fainting from hypoglycemia for the practices for the new missions. On the morning of the reveal of the top 35, they write their final diary entries, which also serve as letters of gratitude to the mentors. Due to the longer voting periods including bonus votes added, over 255 million votes were received. He Dongdong plummets from 9th to 33rd over the last 3 weeks of voting, but still gained over 1.7 million votes. Cai Xukun retained his no.1 spot, while Li Junyi unofficially released his self-written song "The Greatest Dream" before he was eliminated.

Episode 9 (March 16)

After the top 35 were revealed, the teams within each song are readjusted. At the end of this evaluation, the top 20 trainees will enter the final evaluation to determine the Final 9 members that would debut. The team members for the Concept evaluations are being readjusted. Conversely, The "Firewalking" group had to drop 3 people, "Dream" team must drop 4 members, "Boom Boom Boom" group will add 2 people. I Will Always Remember group has to add one person from the pool of eliminated members from the 'excess' group. Group with excess members must conduct internal voting to determine the members that would be waived off. The members least suitable to perform the original song would be released, then would be picked as free agents from the team needing to add members. Since "Listen to What I Have to Say" Group was decimated by the latest round of eliminations, with only three of the original 12 members left in the group, it added extra burden and frustration on leader Bu Fan because the original members' choreography and singing parts also needed to change with the adjustments. In the Firewalking group, Yue Yue and Qin Fen, being the oldest members in the original group, have suffered lower back issues, and are at risk of being waived, which they did. The risk of being in free agency is the same as the group with few original members, they must completely relearn a different song from scratch with less time.
For the team that need to gain free agents, the team member with highest individual rankings get higher picks to pick all members from the pool, which would be Xiao Gui picking 4 members, You Zhanjing would pick a member, with the rest moving to "Boom Boom Boom" group by default.
The live voting system: Each audience have two votes. After all songs are performed, One for the team that perform the best, the other is for the team member from that group that is 'best of the best'. with both votes must be towards the same team. The team members of the best team will add a pool 500,000 votes, and the best member will get 200,000 of the 500,000 votes, with the rest get the equal share of 50,000 votes. After all performances were complete, the top two trainees from the top 2 group are left unrevealed, which were Justin vs. Cai Xukun again. Their result won't be revealed until the 3rd ranking announcement, which would also be the elimination to the Top 20.

Episode 10 (March 23)

Before the Top 20 announcements, the mentors all wrote a letter to the trainees, expressing their thoughts. This is the third and final ranking announcement, with the top 5 spots remaining the same from the previous elimination round.
The Top 20 would have 18 days to prepare the live broadcast, which is the final episode to determine the 9 members of the new boy group. The voting will include internet votes before voting plus the live voting on the night of the live broadcast. There would be two songs: "It's OK" and Mack Daddy. Unlike other "drafts", the trainees with the lowest rankings get first pick to choose the song AND their preferred role, but the trainees in the higher ranks can knock the member occupying the preferred role off the spot, but can only be done once.
The third and final round of elimination occurs, with the trainees ranked 21-35 leaving the show, but only after the collaboration stages with the mentors, which is screened in episode 11. Cai Xukun retains his top position, with Zheng Ruibin being ranked as 20th. Zhou Yanchen, as 21st, is unfortunately eliminated.
Clips of trainees participating in various activities are also screened in this episode, such as playing musical chairs wearing inflatable suits.
They also devise a ghost prank behind a two-way mirror, which frightens several trainees but fails at some. Another segment involves them being given the opportunity to 吐槽，or to expose other trainees in their daily life, such as Wang Ziyi's "Hey bro."

Rank	Trainee
1	Cai Xukun （蔡徐坤）
2	Chen Linong （陈立农）
3	Fan Chengcheng （范丞丞）
4	Justin
5	Wang Ziyi （王子异）
6	Xiao Gui （小鬼）
7	Zhu Zhengting （朱正廷）
8	You Zhangjing （尤长靖）
9	Bu Fan （卜凡）
10	Qian Zhenghao （钱正昊）
11	Lin Yanjun （林彦俊）
12	Bi Wenjun （毕雯珺）
13	Ling Chao （灵超）
14	Zhu Xingjie （朱星杰）
15	Lin Chaoze （林超泽）
16	Jeffrey
17	Qin Fen （秦奋）
18	Li Xikan （李希侃）
19	Xu Shengen （徐圣恩）
20	Zheng Ruibin （郑锐彬）
21	Zhou Yanchen （周彦辰）
22	Mu Ziyang （木子样）
23	Li Quanzhe （李权哲）
24	Han Mubo （韩木伯）
25	Zhou Rui （周锐）
26	Ding Zeren （丁泽仁）
27	Yue Yue （岳岳）
28	Yang Feitong （杨非同）
29	Lou Zibo （娄滋博）
30	Luo Zheng （罗正）
31	Lu Dinghao （陆定昊）
32	Huang Xinchun （黄新淳）
33	He Dongdong （何东东）
34	Li Rang （李让）
35	Yu Mingjun （余明君）

Episode 11 (March 30)

Before the new set of evaluation, special guest instructor Jolin Tsai gave the remaining contestants some advice on facing criticisms and comments, especially from social media, and self evaluation and reflection.
This episode showcases the collaboration stage of the trainees with the mentors. The top 9 of the previous eliminations get to pick the song of the choice in order, and the remaining trainees have to draw lots for their order to pick the songs of their choice. The mentors then play a prank on the trainees in which they go into classrooms meant for other mentors, and causes a lot of excitement and confusion amongst the trainees.
Eventually they get started on practising the songs with the mentors, which culminates in a showcase.
Each group is shown with their self introduction, then their behind-the-scenes practices, followed by their actual on-stage performance.

Song	Mentor	Trainees
Mask	-	-
Mask	Zhang Yixing	-
Mask	Zhang Yixing	Cai Xukun （蔡徐坤）
Mask	Zhang Yixing	Wang Ziyi （王子异）
Mask	Zhang Yixing	Lou Zibo （娄滋博）
Mask	Zhang Yixing	Lin Chaoze （林超泽）
Mask	Zhang Yixing	Li Quanzhe （李权哲）
Mask	Zhang Yixing	Zheng Ruibin （郑锐彬）
Mask	Zhang Yixing	Han Mubo （韩木伯）
Quit Smoking	-	-
Quit Smoking	Li Ronghao	-
Quit Smoking	Li Ronghao	You Zhangjing （尤长靖）
Quit Smoking	Li Ronghao	Chen Linong （陈立农）
Quit Smoking	Li Ronghao	Zhu Zhengting （朱正廷）
Quit Smoking	Li Ronghao	Ling Chao （灵超）
Quit Smoking	Li Ronghao	Mu Ziyang （木子样）
Quit Smoking	Li Ronghao	Yang Feitong （杨非同）
Quit Smoking	Li Ronghao	Lu Dinghao （陆定昊）
Zero	-	-
Zero	MC Jin	-
Zero	MC Jin	Lin Yanjun （林彦俊）
Zero	MC Jin	Li Rang （李让）
Zero	MC Jin	Qian Zhenghao （钱正昊）
Zero	MC Jin	Huang Xinchun （黄新淳）
Zero	MC Jin	Xiao Gui （小鬼）
Zero	MC Jin	Zhou Rui （周锐）
Zero	MC Jin	Bu Fan （卜凡）
Agent J	-	-
Agent J	Zhou Jieqiong	-
Agent J	Zhou Jieqiong	Fan Chengcheng （范丞丞）
Agent J	Zhou Jieqiong	Xu Shengen （徐圣恩）
Agent J	Zhou Jieqiong	Yu Mingjun （余明君）
Agent J	Zhou Jieqiong	Jeffrey
Agent J	Zhou Jieqiong	Li Xikan （李希侃）
Agent J	Zhou Jieqiong	Bi Wenjun （毕雯珺）
Agent J	Zhou Jieqiong	Yue Yue （岳岳）
24K Magic Remix Havana	-	-
24K Magic Remix Havana	Cheng Xiao	-
24K Magic Remix Havana	Cheng Xiao	Justin
24K Magic Remix Havana	Cheng Xiao	Zhu Xingjie （朱星杰）
24K Magic Remix Havana	Cheng Xiao	Qin Fen （秦奋）
24K Magic Remix Havana	Cheng Xiao	He Dongdong （何东东）
24K Magic Remix Havana	Cheng Xiao	Luo Zheng （罗正）
24K Magic Remix Havana	Cheng Xiao	Zhou Yanchen （周彦辰）
24K Magic Remix Havana	Cheng Xiao	Ding Zeren （丁泽仁）

The 20 trainees are then given their last evaluation songs, "It's Ok" and "Mack Daddy", and they make their choices of song and position.

Episode 12 (April 6)

The final episode is also a live broadcast, in which clips of the trainees picking out their songs, center position, and practices are interspersed with the events happening at the live showcase.
The episode starts with the trainees at individual interviews, which they're given the plastic chairs with the ranking labels they each chosen to sit on in the first episode, and it triggers nostalgic memories within the trainees. They're also asked about what if they don't manage to debut.
The live broadcast is now shown, with all 99 trainees returning to perform "Ei Ei" live. Individual trainee Zhou Rui, invited by Zhang Yixing, introduces each company and their representatives.
The group name of the debuting group is announced to be "Nine Percent", which represents the top 9 out of 100 trainees carrying forward the dreams of all the trainees with 100% of their effort, hence the name 9%.
After the mentors' introductions, the broadcast cuts to the selection of "It's Ok"'s center position. The selection process is done by the group performing the chorus, with each trainee taking the role of center once, then a closed voting process within the members of that group.
The top 2 choices for "It's Ok" were Lin Chaoze and Lin Yanjun. As the center is due to be announced, the video cuts back to the broadcast, where "It's Ok"'s performers appear onstage, and Lin Yanjun is revealed as the center of the song.
"Mack Daddy" goes through the same process, where the top 2 choices were Cai Xukun and Fan Chengcheng. Cai Xukun is revealed to be the center.

Song	Position	Trainee
It's Ok	-	-
It's Ok	Lead Vocal	You Zhangjing （尤长靖）
It's Ok	Subvocal 1	Ling Chao （灵超）
It's Ok	Subvocal 2	Bi Wenjun （毕雯珺）
It's Ok	Subvocal 3	Li Xikan （李希侃）
It's Ok	Subvocal 4	Jeffrey
It's Ok	Subvocal 5	Lin Chaoze （林超泽）
It's Ok	Subvocal 6	Lin Yanjun （林彦俊）
It's Ok	Subvocal 7	Zheng Ruibin （郑锐彬）
It's Ok	Rap 1	Xiao Gui （小鬼）
It's Ok	Rap 2	Justin
Mack Daddy	-	-
Mack Daddy	Lead Vocal	Cai Xukun （蔡徐坤）
Mack Daddy	Subvocal 1	Qin Fen （秦奋）
Mack Daddy	Subvocal 2	Xu Shengen （徐圣恩）
Mack Daddy	Subvocal 3	Fan Chengcheng （范丞丞）
Mack Daddy	Subvocal 4	Qian Zhenghao （钱正昊）
Mack Daddy	Subvocal 5	Zhu Zhengting （朱正廷）
Mack Daddy	Subvocal 6	Zhu Xingjie （朱星杰）
Mack Daddy	Rap 1	Bu Fan （卜凡）
Mack Daddy	Rap 2	Chen Linong （陈立农）
Mack Daddy	Rap 3	Wang Ziyi （王子异）

In another clip, the 20 trainees also dress in the clothes they've worn for their first self-introduction, and speak in reminiscence of what they've said during that introduction, and express their thoughts.
Following that in the live broadcast, is a performance of a special song, titled "Forever", depicting the wishes of the trainees to stay like they once were, and as a thank-you for the fans for their support.
The trainees are shown invited individually into a dark room standing in front of a mirror, where they're asked to talk to their reflections in the mirror about their feelings. The lights are then turned off, which throws the scene into a humorous one as the trainees get paranoid about the situation being another ghost prank, with varied amusing reactions. However, this time video messages are screened on the surface of the mirror from the trainees' families to them, which causes a few to break down in tears.
The announcement of the top 9 takes up about 1 hour and 15 mins of the 3-hour long broadcast.
As usual, the rankings are announced from top 8 to 1, and each trainee walks from one end of the long stage to the main stage to take their seat, and present a short speech of thanks. The top 4 positions remained unchanged from the previous week, with You Zhangjing coming in as 9th place, taking the last position of the debuting group, Nine Percent.
The trainees then visit places in their dorm they've been to for the last time, including the dorm rooms, laundry room, makeup room, and more hilariously, the toilets. They talk about the memories they've had in the past four months of training, and finally clap the slate a final time. Memories of the past 12 episodes are shown, and the episode returns to the broadcast, where Zhang Yixing thanks everyone and wraps up Idol Producer.

Rank	Trainee
1	蔡徐坤 Cai Xukun
2	陈立农 Chen Linong
3	范丞丞 Fan Chengcheng
4	Justin
5	林彦俊 Lin Yanjun
6	朱正廷 Zhu Zhengting
7	王子异 Wang Ziyi
8	小鬼 Xiao Gui
9	尤长靖 You Zhangjing
10	毕雯珺 Bi Wenjun
11	钱正昊 Qian Zhenghao
12	卜凡 Bu Fan
13	李希侃 Li Xikan
14	朱星杰 Zhu Xingjie
15	灵超 Ling Chao
16	郑锐彬 Zheng Ruibin
17	Jeffrey
18	秦奋 Qin Fen
19	林超泽 Lin Chaoze
20	徐圣恩 Xu Shengen