Singer season 6

Singer 2018 is the sixth season of the Chinese television series Singer, a rebranded version of I Am a Singer that aired on Hunan Television. It is produced by Hong Tao, and its music director is Hong Kong senior musician Kubert Leung. The first episode was recorded in the Hunan Broadcasting System Radio and Television Center, Changsha, Hunan on December 28, 2017 and premiered on January 12, 2018 and ended on April 20, 2018. For the first time this series, YouTube provided English captions for the show.
On April 13, 2018, British singer Jessie J was declared winner of Singer 2018, and was the first non-Chinese and foreign singer to win I Am a Singer. Chinese singers Hua Chenyu and Wang Feng were placed second and third, respectively.

Competition rules

As like the previous seasons of I Am a Singer and Singer 2017, Singer 2018 was divided into four rounds of three stages, and seven singers performed for a 500-member audience each week. Similar to the previous series, the total votes cast from both Qualifiers and Knockouts determined which singer was eliminated from the competition.
This series features a modification to the Challenge rounds, with the Challenger entering the competition starting at the Knockout rounds instead of Challenge round. Challengers must avoid last place on their first week in addition to finishing in the top four on the second week to be declared safe; failing either challenge instantly eliminates the singer from the competition.
A new pre-voting introduced in the season, Pre-Audience Voting, replaces the Singer Voting which debuted in season 3. Midway after the fourth performance, the audience were asked to make early predictions on which three singers would receive the most votes after the remaining performances of that episode. Similar to Singer Voting, Pre-audience voting has no impact onto the outcome of the competition and does not count towards the audience's vote count.
The announcement of results was also changed, with only the results for the top four revealed during the Qualifiers, while the remaining results would not be revealed until the Knockouts; in most cases, they could choose their performance order by ballot for the next night.

Contestants

The following Singer 2018 contestants are listed in alphabetical order :
Key:

Contestant	Country / Region	Music Partner	Status	Week Entered	Week Exited	Result
	Taiwan		Initial singer
	United Kingdom		Initial singer
	China		Initial singer
	China		Substitute singer
	China		Challenger
	United Kingdom		Initial singer
	Taiwan		Initial singer
	China		Subsistute singer
	China		Initial singer
	China		Challenger
	Philippines		Challenger
	China		Substitute singer
	China		Initial singer
	China		Substitute singer

Future appearances

would appear as a contestant on the eighth season in 2020.

Results

Competition details

First round

Qualifying

Taping Date: January 3, 2018
Airdate: January 12, 2018

Knockout

Taping Date: January 11, 2018
Airdate: January 19, 2018

The first challenger of the season was Juno Su. Due to Beijing's sudden ban on hip-hop culture, GAI withdraw from the competition; footage on GAI's performances from both episodes were edited out, and clips of his involvement in the competition were also subsequently removed from video-sharing websites as well. His appearance was neither mentioned nor shown in the later episodes, thus effectively confirming his withdrawal from the competition.

Overall ranking

Challenge

Taping Date: January 18, 2018
Airdate: January 28, 2018

The first substitute singer of the season was James Li. Normally Su was required to place in top four in a combination of both Knockout and Challenge rounds to be declared safe; however, due to GAI's withdrawal from last week, only the scores from the Challenge round determined the outcome alone.

Total percentages of votes

Second round

Qualifying

Taping Date: January 25, 2018
Airdate: February 2, 2018

The second substitute singer of the season was Hua Chenyu.

Knockout

Taping Date: February 1, 2018
Airdate: February 9, 2018

The second challenger of the season was KZ Tandingan.

Overall ranking

Challenge

Taping Date: February 9, 2018
Airdate: February 16, 2018

Overall ranking

Third round

First Show

Taping Date: February 10, 2018
Airdate: February 23, 2018

The third substitute singer of the season was Tengger. For this week, the results for this round was void due to Jessie J's illness on the following week.

Qualifying

Taping Date: February 28, 2018
Airdate: March 9, 2018

The final challenger of the season was Henry Huo; Huo came in fourth and was temporarily declared safe. Normally, this round would have featured elimination; however, eliminations were cancelled as Jessie J was too ill to perform during rehearsal; Jessie would have perform "My Heart Will Go On", but actually performed the song the following week.

Knockout/Challenge

Taping Date: March 7, 2018
Airdate: March 16, 2018

As Jessie J was able to return after being absent in the previous week, this week featured a double elimination. Tandingan and Hua were initially going to perform 1st and 3rd, respectively, but both orders were swapped on mutual agreement after Tandingan not wished to perform first after doing so on last week and Hua volunteered in taking her place.

Overall ranking

Fourth round

Qualifying

Taping Date: March 15, 2018
Airdate: March 23, 2018

Yisa Yu was the final substitute singer of the season.

Knockout

Taping Date: March 22, 2018
Airdate: March 30, 2018

Overall ranking

Breakout

Taping Date: March 30, 2018
Airdate: April 6, 2018

Three of the six singers who were initial singers were exempt for this round, while the other three singers would participate along with previously eliminated singers for a chance to enter the finals. The performance order were determined through the contestant's status quo and their duration on the stage, with the three remaining non-initial singers, as well as James Li chose the performance order, while remaining singers drew their lots to decide the order; the order for the first four performers with a white-colored envelope are told not to open it until the start of the episode- Tien and Yu drew the gold-colored envelopes and were given their orders as fifth and sixth, respectively.
For the first time in the show's history, interim eliminations occur during the Pre-Audience Voting: midway through the fourth and seventh performance, the 500-members cast one vote to save a singer- the singer receiving the fewest votes after each round of the Pre-Audience Voting will be eliminated immediately.
The singers sang one song, and the four singers having the most votes qualified for the finals. Hua, James Li, Tengger, KZ & Huo were the top five singers who received the highest number of votes and advanced to the finals.

Total percentages of votes

Finals

Airdate: April 13, 2018

The finals were divided into two rounds, with the first song being a duet with a guest singer, and the second song being a solo encore performance. Similar to the previous season, votes cast were the sole determinant of the season's winner.

Round 1

The first round of the finals was a guest singer's duet. The grouping was decided by the singers starting with the most wins prior to the Breakouts ; each group can consist of either two or three members, meaning that two groups will be head-to-head and one being a three-way. After the groups are decided, one member drew lots to decide the order of performance for this round. The result of the grouping are reflected in the table below.
The singer with the highest number of votes on each group directly advanced to Round 2, leaving four singers eligible for the save through a re-vote; the singer receiving the highest number of votes cast will be saved and also advance to the second round.

Legend

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Had Henry Huo, Angela Zhang and James Li advanced to the next round, they would've performed "被遺忘的時光", "Faded" and "再見憂傷" as their encore songs, respectively.