Singer season 9

The ninth season of Chinese television series Singer was broadcast on Hunan Television and Mango TV between May and July 2024. Singer 2024 is produced by Hong Xiao, and its music director is Taiwanese senior musician.
The season premiere was broadcast on May 10, 2024, and this was the third season to feature returning contestants, after season five and season eight. For the first time in this series, all episodes are broadcast live and follows the new rules of normal round and foreign guest challenge round. The season premiered on 10 May 2024, and ended on 2 August 2024.
Singer 2024 continues to gather famous singers of Greater China and other regions to participate. It has a total of 23 participating singers.
In the evening of 26 July 2024, Singer 2024, which lasted for more than three months, came to an end. In the end, Na Ying defeated other participating singers and is honoured as the winner of Singer 2024, Sitar Tan received the first runner-up, and Sun Nan received the second runner-up.
Singer 2025 will be premiered on 16th May 2025.

Participating singers

Initial Singers

Participants	Country	Music Partner	Episode Joined	Episode Left	Result
Na Ying	China		Episode 1 - First Opening Round	Episode 13 - The Ultimate Night	Winner
Faouzia Ouihya	Morocco-Canada	Kandy Wong	Episode 1 - First Opening Round	Episode 13 - The Ultimate Night	Fourth Place
Chanté Moore	United States	Cindy Yen	Episode 1 - First Opening Round	Episode 13 - The Ultimate Night	Fifth-Seventh Place
Silence Wang	China		Episode 1 - First Opening Round	Episode 12 - Final First Round	Fifth-Seventh Place
Hailai Ahmu	China		Episode 1 - First Opening Round Episode 11 - Breakout Round	Episode 3 - First Foreign Guest Challenge Round Episode 12 - Final First Round	Fifth-Seventh Place
Rainie Yang	Taiwan	Leo Li —	Episode 1 - First Opening Round Episode 11 - Breakout Round	Episode 2 - First Rising Singers Challenge Round Episode 11 - Breakout Round	Withdrew from Breakout Round
Second Hand Rose	China		Episode 1 - First Opening Round	Episode 2 - First Rising Singers Challenge Round	Withdrew from Breakout Round

Substitute Singers

Participant	Country	Music Partner	Previous Season Result	Episode Joined	Episode Left	Result
Sitar Tan	China		Season 3 - Fourth-Sixth Place	Episode 8 - Third Opening Round	Episode 13 - The Ultimate Night	First Runner-up
Sun Nan	China	Leo Li	Season 3 - Withdrew after Final First Round	Episode 4 - Second Opening Round	Episode 13 - The Ultimate Night	Second Runner-up

Rising Singers

Renowned Singers

Foreign Guest

Competition rules

Results

Competition details

First round

Opening Round

Episode 1 is the first round of competition for Singer 2024, which is also the first opening round. It was broadcast live on 10 May 2024 at 20:00 CST.

Rising Singers Challenge Round

Episode 2 is the second round of competition for Singer 2024, which is also the first rising singers challenge round. It was broadcast live on 17 May 2024 at 20:00 CST. Both Hanggai and were successful in their challenge against Chanté Moore and Silence Wang respectively.

Overall ranking

As a result of the challenge success of both rising singers, Rainie Yang and Second Hand Rose are eliminated.

Foreign Guest Challenge Round

Episode 3 is the third round of competition for Singer 2024, which is also the first foreign guest challenge round. It was broadcast live on 24 May 2024 at 20:00 CST. Adam Lambert was successful in his challenge against Na Ying, which resulted in the elimination of Hailai Ahmu.

Percentages of votes

Second round

Opening round

Episode 4 is the fourth round of competition for Singer 2024, which is also the second opening round. It was broadcast live on 31 May 2024 at 20:00 CST. The first substitute singer Sun Nan from Singer season 3 joins the competition. It is free song choice for Silence Wang and Faouzia Ouihya and the range of song choice for the rest of the singers is popular hits.

Rising Singers Challenge Round

Episode 5 is the fifth round of competition for Singer 2024, which is also the second rising singers challenge round. It was broadcast live on 7 June 2024 at 20:00 CST. Rachel Zhang was successful in her challenge against while fails in their challenge against Sun Nan. It is free song choice for Na Ying and YELLOW Huang and the range of song choice for the rest of the singers is popular hits. Chanté Moore, whose rank was Number 1 in the second normal round, can choose her own performing order.

Overall ranking

As a result of the challenge success of one rising singer, Hanggai is eliminated.

Renowned Singers Challenge Round

Episode 6 is the sixth round of competition for Singer 2024, which is also the second renowned singers challenge round. It was broadcast live on 14 June 2024 at 20:00 CST. It was originally the second foreign guest challenge round, but was replaced by the renowned singers challenge round after Charlie Puth withdraw due to schedule problems. The second renowned singers challenge round follows the rules of rising singers challenge round，except that the renowned singers can only challenge the top four ranked singers in the second round overall ranking. Laure Shang fails in her challenge against Faouzia Ouihya while Tia Ray was successful in her challenge against Chanté Moore, which resulted in the elimination of Rachel Zhang. It is free song choice for Sun Nan and Rachel Zhang and the range of song choice for the rest of the singers is popular hits.

Percentages of votes

Third round

Renowned Singers Challenge Round

Episode 7 is the seventh round of competition for Singer 2024, which is also the third renowned singers challenge round. It was broadcast live on 21 June 2024 at 20:00 CST. Both and Ghost Huang failed in their challenge against Sun Nan and Faouzia Ouihya respectively. It is free song choice for Na Ying and Faouzia Ouihya and the range of song choice for the rest of the singers is popular hits.

Percentages of votes

Opening Round (Final Opening Round)

Episode 8 is the eighth round of competition for Singer 2024, which is also the third opening round. It was broadcast live on 28 June 2024 at 20:00 CST. The final substitute singer Sitar Tan from Singer Season 3 joins the competition. The final opening round combines the rules of opening round and renowned singers challenge round, except that the number of renowned singers reduces from two to one. fails in her challenge against Sun Nan. It is free song choice for Chanté Moore and Na Ying and the range of song choice for the rest of the singers is popular hits, as Faouzia Ouihya originally draws out free song choice but volunteered to switch with Chanté Moore after she confirmed her song choice beforehand.

Final Rising Singers Challenge Round

Episode 9 is the ninth round of competition for Singer 2024, which is also the third rising singers challenge round. It was broadcast live on 5 July 2024 at 20:00 CST. C-BLOCK failed in their challenge against Faouzia Ouihya while was successful in his challenge against Tia Ray. It is free song choice for Sun Nan and Sitar Tan and the range of song choice for the rest of the singers is popular hits, as Chanté Moore originally drew out free song choice, but switched with Sitar Tan afterwards.

Overall ranking

As a result of the challenge success of one rising singer, Tia Ray is eliminated.

Final Foreign Guest Challenge Round

Episode 10 is the tenth round of competition for Singer 2024, which is also the third foreign guest challenge round. It was broadcast live on 12 July 2024 at 20:00 CST. Lenka Kripac fails in her challenge against Silence Wang. It is free song choice for and Sun Nan and the range of song choice for the rest of the singers is popular hits, as Faouzia Ouihya originally draws out free song choice, but switches with Sun Nan afterwards.

Percentages of votes

Breakout round

Episode 11 is the eleventh round of competition for Singer 2024, which is also the breakout round for eliminated singers, substitute singers, rising and renowned singers successful in their challenge. It was broadcast live on 19 July 2024 at 20:00 CST. After going through three rounds of competition, Na Ying, Faouzia Ouihya, Chanté Moore and Silence Wang advances to the Final. Hailai Ahmu, Hanggai, Rachel Zhang, Tia Ray,,Sitar Tan, Sun Nan and enters the Breakout Round and is competing for the three breakout spots in the final. Second Hand Rose member entrust the programming team on 17 July to issue a statement on their behalf that they are no longer participating in Breakout Round due to personal schedule problems. Rainie Yang issued a statement on 18 July that she is unable to participate in the final due to schedule conflict. Her Breakout Round performance was a guest performance, not involved in audience voting and not counted in the competition to qualify for the Final. The eight singers will be split into four groups of two singers duel, each of the four safe singers form groups in a 1v1 duel relationship with eliminated singers by drawing lots, A pick one out of two voting is held immediately after both singers in every group duel have performed to determine the winning singer, the losing singer with lower percentages of votes will be eliminated immediately and will not qualify for the final while the winning singers will have opportunity for breakout success. After the performance of all eight singers have ended, the Breakout outcome will be determined by conducting another pick three out of four voting among all the four groups of winning singers in their respective duel and the top 3 ranked singers successfully advances to the final. For the competition this episode, the group appearance order depend on the duration of the safe singer, in which they are safe, in the group is determined by the order from short to long in terms of the number of episodes. The greater the number of safe episodes, the order of performance for the group will be later and the appearance order in a group is that the safe singer appear and perform later. Ultimately, Sun Nan, Sitar Tan and Hailai Ahmu successfully breakout. During this episode of the show, the programming team have provided temporary music partner again for the original singer corresponding to the music partner who returned after being eliminated.