The Voice UK (series 4)

The Voice UK
Series 4
Broadcast from 10 January 2015 – 4 April 2015
Coaches will.i.am
Sir Tom Jones
Ricky Wilson
Rita Ora
Presenter(s) Emma Willis
Marvin Humes
Broadcaster BBC One
Winner
Stevie McCrorie
Origin Scotland
Song "Lost Stars"
Genre(s) Indie rock
Mentor Ricky Wilson
Runner-up
Lucy O'Byrne

The Voice UK is a British television music competition to find new singing talent. The fourth series started on 10 January 2015.[1] Emma Willis and Marvin Humes return as hosts, alongside coaches will.i.am, Sir Tom Jones and Ricky Wilson. Kylie Minogue didn't return due to touring commitments and was replaced by Rita Ora.[2] The series was won by Stevie McCrorie of Team Ricky.

Coaches and presenters

The Voice UK series 4 coaches

On 22 March 2014, Kylie Minogue confirmed that she would not be returning for another series, however when asked if she would return if filming dates were moved she said "I would have to think about it really seriously as I did for this series".[3] Two days later, the BBC confirmed that she was not quitting the show.[4] However, on 11 April 2014, Minogue tweeted that she would not be returning[5] and on 23 September, it was announced that Rita Ora would join returning coaches will.i.am, Tom Jones and Ricky Wilson.

Emma Willis and Marvin Humes returned as co-presenters.

Promotion

Promotional photos were released on 18 December 2014, including photos of: the coaches (Wilson, Jones, Ora & will.i.am); the presenters (Willis & Humes); and singular shots of each coach.[6]

On 20 December 2014, the first trailer for the series premiered following the final of Strictly Come Dancing at 19:55. The trailer features the four coaches sitting at a bar, when a crow singing behind them catches their attention. They begin to sing along with the crow until a waiter brings over a cooked chicken that they have ordered. Despite thinking the crow would be annoyed, he continues to sing with the group then joining in.[7]

Teams

Colour key:

Coach Top 48 Artists
will.i.am
Lucy O'Byrne Sheena McHugh Vikesh Champaneri Esmée Denters Brooklyn
Jake Shakeshaft Newtion Matthews Ryan Green Joyful Soundz Karl Loxley
Hollie Barrie Andrew Marc Rozzy Stephen Cornwell
Rita Ora
Joe Woolford Karis Thomas Clark Carmody Liss Jones DTwinz
Mitch Miller Shellyann Hannah Wildes Olivia Lawson Ryan Green
Morven Brown The Mac Bros NK Vanessa Hunt
Sir Tom Jones
Sasha Simone Howard Rose Lara Lee Rosa Iamele Sharon Murphy
Daniel Duke Joyful Soundz Karl Loxley Claudia Rose Kim Alvord
Lisa Ward Cai Williams Stephanie Webber Roisin Geraghty-McDonagh
Ricky Wilson
Stevie McCrorie Emmanuel Nwamadi Autumn Sharif Letitia George Hannah Symons
Christina Matovu Claudia Rose Olivia Lawson Hannah Wildes Shellyann
Vikesh Champaneri Classical Reflection Jade Hewitt Tim Arnold

Blind auditions

Each coach has the length of the artists' performance to decide if they wanted that artist on their team. Should two or more coaches want the same artist, then the artist will chose their coach.

Colour key
     Coach hit his/her "I WANT YOU" button
      Artist defaulted to this coach's team
      Artist elected to join this coach's team
      Artist eliminated with no coach pressing his or her "I WANT YOU" button

Blind audition 1 (10 January)

The 90-minute premiere of the series was broadcast on 10 January 2015. This was the first year that the first act got less than 4 turns.

Group performance: The Voice UK coaches – "Ready to Go"

Artist Order Age Song Coaches and artists choices
will.i.am Rita Tom Ricky
Letitia George 1 24 "Stay with Me"
Lucy O'Byrne 2 23 "Ebben? Ne Andro Lontana"
Howard Rose 3 27 "My Generation"
Emilie Cunliffe 4 16 "Clarity"
Ryan Green 5 17 "Magic"
Paul Cullinan 6 48 "Mustang Sally"
Hannah Symons 7 26 "Powerless"
Matt Eaves 8 30 "House of the Rising Sun"
Stephen McLaughlin 9 16 "Piece of My Heart"
Stevie McCrorie 10 29 "All I Want"

Blind audition 2 (17 January)

The second episode was broadcast on 17 January 2015, and 85 minutes long.

Artist Order Age Song Coaches and artists choices
will.i.am Rita Tom Ricky
Jade Hewitt 1 27 "Here for the Party"
Marc Armstrong 2 36 "Jealous Guy"
Classical Reflection 3 19 "Nella Fantasia"
Jake Shakeshaft 4 19 "Thinking Out Loud"
Billy Bottle and Martine 5 33 & 34 "The Power"
Mitchell Noakes 6 19 "Heartbreak Hotel"
Sasha Simone 7 25 "XO"/"Royals"
Shellyann 8 26 "Kiss from a Rose"
Tom Carpenter 9 20 "Suit and Tie"
Clark Carmody 10 26 "I'm Not the Only One"

Blind audition 3 (24 January)

The third episode was broadcast on 24 January 2015, and 85 minutes long.

Artist Order Age Song Coaches and artists choices
will.i.am Rita Tom Ricky
Stephanie Webber 1 25 "Mama's Broken Heart"
Josh McDonough 2 19 "Waves"
Otty Warmann 3 32 "Express Yourself"
Joe Woolford 4 19 "Lights"
Daniel Duke 5 24 "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)"
Shirleymarie 6 31 "Here You Come Again"
Liss Jones 7 24 "Dark Horse"
James Duke 8 24 "Love Story"/"Sugar, We're Going Down"
Dene Michael 9 57 "Never Give Up on a Good Thing"
Emmanuel Nwamadi 10 23 "The Sweetest Taboo"
Esmée Denters 11 26 "Yellow"

Blind audition 4 (31 January)

The fourth episode was broadcast on 31 January 2015, and was 90 minutes long.

Artist Order Age Song Coaches and artists choices
will.i.am Rita Tom Ricky
Tim Arnold 1 39 "Running Up That Hill"
Kim Alvord 2 24 "Scream (Funk My Life Up)"
Dawn Allen 3 48 "Wish I Didn't Miss You"
Ross Harris 4 23 "Good Kisser"
The Mac Bros 5 24 "Bohemian Rhapsody"/"Johnny B. Goode"/"Oh My God"
Hollie Barrie 6 30 "Timber"
Ciaran O'Driscoll 7 25 "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"
Morven Brown 8 17 "Afterglow"
Oli Bond 9 17 "All Along the Watchtower"
Rosa Iamele 10 16 "White Noise"
Sharon Murphy 11 52 "Forever Young"
DTwinz 12 23 "Shy Guy"
Cai Williams 13 34 "Licence to Kill"
Stephen Bloy 14 44 "Bring Him Home"
Olivia Lawson 15 17 "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

Blind audition 5 (7 February)

The fifth episode was broadcast on 7 February 2015.

Artist Order Age Song Coaches and artists choices
will.i.am Rita Tom Ricky
Newtion Matthews 1 30 "Who Did That To You?"
Hannah Wildes 2 24 "All Good Things (Come To An End)"
Alex David Charles 3 52 "I Wish"
Karis Thomas 4 16 "Right to Be Wrong"
Harris Hameed 5 16 "Apologize"
Stephen Cornwell 6 23 "She Looks So Perfect"
Kate Flynn 7 23 "Best Of You"
Krazy Horse 8 70 "Bad Moon Rising"
Vikesh Champaneri 9 19 "Hometown Glory"
Rozzy 10 33 "Bang Bang"
Brooklyn 11 19 "Super Bass"
Nathan Moore 12 49 "Seven Nation Army"
Claudia Rose 13 17 "Love You I Do"

Blind audition 6 (14 February)

The sixth episode was broadcast on 14 February 2015.

Artist Order Age Song Coaches and artists choices
will.i.am Rita Tom Ricky
Karl Loxley 1 24 "Nessun Dorma"
Si Genaro 2 43 "Falling Slowly"
Mia Sylvester 3 27 "Addicted To You"
Keedie Green 4 41 "Titanium"
Lara Lee 5 29 "There Are Worse Things I Could Do"
Joyful Soundz 6 39 & 34 "You're All I Need To Get By"
The Rise 7 33 & 32 "Pop"
Susan Lovejoy 8 49 "MacArthur Park"
NK 9 21 "Me and My Broken Heart"
Damian Dalton Smith 10 39 "Folsom Prison Blues"
Christina Matovu 11 24 "If I Go"
Sheena McHugh 12 26 "Hold On, We're Going Home"

Blind audition 7 (21 February)

The seventh episode was broadcast on 21 February 2015.

Artist Order Age Song Coaches and artists choices
will.i.am Rita Tom Ricky
Vanessa Hunt 1 26 "Sunshine of Your Love"
Matt Baker 2 32 "Are You Gonna Go My Way"
Autumn Sharif 3 19 "Crying for No Reason"
Kyle Parry 4 27 "Try" N/A
Michelle Gee 5 40 "I Feel For You" N/A
Sarah Dunn 6 33 "Barbie Girl" N/A
Mitch Miller 7 26 "Fancy" N/A
JoCee 8 23 "Show Me Love" N/A N/A
Craig Bunch 9 35 "With a Little Help from My Friends" N/A N/A
Roisin Geraghty-McDonagh 10 25 "Coat of Many Colours" N/A N/A
Annelies Kruidenier 11 20 "Chandelier" N/A N/A
Charlotte Turnbull 12 18 "Gecko (Overdrive)" N/A N/A
Lisa Ward 13 26 "Weak" N/A N/A
Andrew Marc 14 48 "What's Love Got to Do with It" N/A N/A N/A

Battle rounds

The battle rounds will consist of two 2 hour shows on 28 February and 7 March. In a change for the fourth series, the coaches will be allowed to steal two artists each, as opposed to just the one in the previous two series.[8]

Colour key
     Coach hit his/her "I WANT YOU" button
      Artist won the Battle and advanced to the Knockouts
      Artist lost the Battle but was stolen by another coach and advances to the Knockouts
      Artist lost the Battle and was eliminated

Battle round 1 (28 February)

Order Coach Artists[9] Song Coaches' and artists choices
will.i.am Rita Tom Ricky
1 will.i.am Joyful Soundz Newtion Matthews "Shout" N/A
2 Ricky Wilson Jade Hewitt Christina Matovu "Love Runs Out" N/A
3 Rita Ora Ryan Green Joe Woolford "I Won't Give Up" N/A
4 will.i.am Brooklyn Rozzy "Paradise City" N/A
5 Tom Jones Claudia Rose Rosa Iamele "Halo" N/A
6 Ricky Wilson Hannah Symons Shellyann "Edge of Seventeen" N/A
7 Rita Ora Olivia Lawson Clark Carmody "Everytime" N/A
8 Tom Jones Sharon Murphy Roisin Geraghty-McDonagh "Blame It on Me" N/A N/A
9 Rita Ora Mitch Miller Morven Brown "Express Yourself" N/A
10 Tom Jones Stephanie Webber Howard Rose "You Make My Dreams Come True" N/A
11 Ricky Wilson Stevie McCrorie Tim Arnold "Demons"
12 will.i.am Lucy O'Byrne Karl Loxley "Memory" N/A

Battle round 2 (7 March)

Order Coach Artists[10] Song Coaches' and artists choices
will.i.am Rita Tom Ricky
1 Ricky Wilson Vikesh Champaneri Leitita George "Under Pressure" N/A N/A
2 will.i.am Jake Shakeshaft Stephen Cornwell "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall" N/A
3 Rita Ora Liss Jones Vanessa Hunt "Straight Up" N/A
4 Tom Jones Daniel Duke Cai Williams "Am I Wrong"
5 will.i.am Sheena McHugh Hollie Barrie "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves"
6 Ricky Wilson Autumn Sharif Hannah Wildes "If I Ain't Got You"
7 will.i.am Esmee Denters Andrew Marc "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" N/A
8 Rita Ora The Mac Bros DTwinz "Maps"
9 Tom Jones Sasha Simone Lisa Ward "The Tracks of My Tears"
10 Rita Ora Karis Thomas NK "Don't Speak"
11 Tom Jones Lara Lee Kim Alvord "My Kind of Love"
12 Ricky Wilson Classical Reflection Emmanuel Nwamadi "The Living Years"

Knockout rounds

The Knockout rounds aired on 14 and 15 March 2015. Teams of 8 after the battles were stripped down to 3 for the live shows.

Knockout 1 (14 March)

Artists Order Song Coach Result
DTwinz 1 "I'm Every Woman" Rita Ora Eliminated
Joe Woolford 2 "Hey Ya!" Rita Ora Saved
Mitch Miller 3 "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" Rita Ora Eliminated
Karis Thomas 4 "True Colours" Rita Ora Saved
Shellyann 5 "Firework" Rita Ora Eliminated
Hannah Wildes 6 "Dreams" Rita Ora liminated
Clark Carmody 7 "Take Me to Church" Rita Ora Saved
Liss Jones 8 "If I Could Turn Back Time" Rita Ora Eliminated
Newtion Matthews 9 "Missing" will.i.am Eliminated
Jake Shakeshaft 10 "As Long as You Love Me" will.i.am Eliminated
Brooklyn 11 "Let It Go" will.i.am Eliminated
Esmée Denters 12 "As" will.i.am Eliminated
Vikesh Champaneri 13 "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" will.i.am Saved
Sheena McHugh 14 "Bring Me to Life" will.i.am Saved
Ryan Green 15 "Thinkin Bout You" will.i.am Eliminated
Lucy O’Byrne 16 "Un Bel di Vedremo" will.i.am Saved

Knockout 2 (15 March)

Artists Order Song Coach Result
Christina Matovu 1 "You Gotta Be" Ricky Wilson Eliminated
Olivia Lawson 2 "Wicked Game" Ricky Wilson Eliminated
Hannah Symons 3 "Drunk In Love" Ricky Wilson Eliminated
Stevie McCrorie 4 "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" Ricky Wilson Saved
Letitia George 5 "Twist and Shout" Ricky Wilson Eliminated
Emmanuel Nwamadi 6 "I've Been Loving You Too Long" Ricky Wilson Saved
Autumn Sharif 7 "Human Nature" Ricky Wilson Advanced
Claudia Rose 8 "Misty Blue" Ricky Wilson Eliminated
Joyful Soundz 9 "Optimistic" Tom Jones Eliminated
Karl Loxley 10 "Your Song" Tom Jones Eliminated
Rosa Iamele 11 "Heart Of Glass" Tom Jones Eliminated
Daniel Duke 12 "Shake It Off" Tom Jones Eliminated
Sasha Simone 13 "Lost & Found" Tom Jones Saved
Sharon Murphy 14 "Woman in Love" Tom Jones Eliminated
Lara Lee 15 "God Bless the Child" Tom Jones Saved
Howard Rose 16 "Proud Mary" Tom Jones Saved

Live shows

The live shows began on 21 March 2015 and ended on 4 April 2015. The quarter-final featured performances from Jermain Jackman & Olly Murs, while Jess Glynne & Sia performed on the semi-final. The final featured performances from Charles Hamilton and Rita Ora, Paloma Faith & The Script.

Results summary

Colour key
     Artist received the fewest votes and was eliminated
     Artist received the most public votes
Weekly results per artist
Contestant Week 1 Week 2 #Week 3
Round 1 Round 2
Stevie McCrorie Safe Safe Safe Winner
(week 3)
Lucy O'Byrne Safe Safe Safe Runner-up
(week 3)
Emmanuel Nwamadi Safe Safe Eliminated Eliminated
(week 3)
Sasha Simone Safe Safe Eliminated Eliminated
(week 3)
Karis Thomas Safe Eliminated Eliminated
(week 2)
Joe Woolford Safe Eliminated Eliminated
(week 2)
Sheena McHugh Safe Eliminated Eliminated
(week 2)
Vikesh Champaneri Safe Eliminated Eliminated
(week 2)
Clark Carmody Eliminated Eliminated
(week 1)
Howard Rose Eliminated Eliminated
(week 1)
Lara Lee Eliminated Eliminated
(week 1)
Autumn Sharif Eliminated Eliminated
(week 1)

Live show details

Week 1: Quarter-final (21 March)

After all three artists from each team have performed, the coach will then have to decide which artist they want to give a "fast pass" to and put straight through to the semi-final. The voting lines for the remaining artists will then open after all twelve artists have performed, in a format change compared to previous series, the four artists with the fewest votes, regardless of which team, will leave the competition.

Contestants' performances on the first live show
Artist Order Song Coach Result
Autumn Sharif 1 "Hold Back the River" Ricky Wilson Eliminated
Emmanuel Nwamadi 2 "Another Day in Paradise" Ricky Wilson Safe
Stevie McCrorie 3 "All Through the Night" Ricky Wilson Fast pass
Lara Lee 4 "God Put a Smile upon Your Face" Tom Jones Eliminated
Howard Rose 5 "Read My Mind" Tom Jones Eliminated
Sasha Simone 6 "Sail" Tom Jones Fast pass
Karis Thomas 7 "Riptide" Rita Ora Fast pass
Clark Carmody 8 "No Diggity"/"Ain't No Sunshine" Rita Ora Eliminated
Joe Woolford 9 "Don't Wake Me Up" Rita Ora Safe
Sheena McHugh 10 "Glow"/"Princess of China" will.i.am Safe
Lucy O’Byrne 11 "When You Wish Upon a Star" will.i.am Fast pass
Vikesh Champaneri 12 "Get the Party Started" will.i.am Safe

Week 2: Semi-final (28 March)

After all eight artists from each team have performed, the four artists with the most viewer votes advance to the live final, regardless of their team. Because of the format change, Rita Ora became the first coach in The Voice UK history to not have an act in the final.

Contestants' performances on the second live show
Artist Order Song Coach Result
Lucy O'Byrne 1 "O mio babbino caro" will.i.am Safe
Joe Woolford 2 "Jealous" Rita Ora Eliminated
Sheena McHugh 3 "Toca's Miracle" will.i.am Eliminated
Emmanuel Nwamadi 4 "A Whiter Shade of Pale" Ricky Wilson Safe
Karis Thomas 5 "Say Something" Rita Ora Eliminated
Vikesh Champaneri 6 "Don't Leave Me This Way" will.i.am Eliminated
Sasha Simone 7 "Say You Love Me" Tom Jones Safe
Stevie McCrorie 8 "Bleeding Love" Ricky Wilson Safe

Week 3: Final (4 April)

Contestants' performances on the third live show
Artist Order Song Order Songduet Order Order Song Winners Single Coach Result
Sasha Simone 1 "What I Did for Love" 5 "Chain Of Fools" (with Tom Jones) N/A N/A (already eliminated) N/A N/A (already eliminated) Tom Jones Eliminated
Emmanuel Nwamadi 2 "Somebody That I Used to Know" 6 "Crazy" (with Ricky Wilson) N/A N/A (already eliminated) N/A N/A (already eliminated) Ricky Wilson Eliminated
Lucy O'Byrne 3 "No Surprises" 7 "Habanera" (with will.i.am) 9 "Ebben? Ne Andro Lontana" 11 "Lost Stars" will.i.am Runner-up
Stevie McCrorie 4 "I'll Stand By You" 8 "Get Back" (with Ricky Wilson) 10 "All I Want" 12 "Lost Stars" Ricky Wilson Winner

Reception

Ratings

Episode Date Official ratings[11]
(in millions)
BBC One
weekly rank[11]
Share Source
Blind auditions 1 10 January 9.05 1 35.9% [12]
Blind auditions 2 17 January 9.47 2 38.5% [13]
Blind auditions 3 24 January 9.15 2 38.4% [14]
Blind auditions 4 31 January 9.58 2 39.4% [15]
Blind auditions 5 7 February 9.74 2 40.3% [16]
Blind auditions 6 14 February 10.10 2 41.3% [17]
Blind auditions 7 21 February 8.08 9 30.5% [18]
Battle rounds 1 28 February 8.47 4 33.1% [19]
Battle rounds 2 7 March 8.13 5 31.9% [20]
Knockout rounds 1 14 March 8.03 4 31.6% [21]
Knockout rounds 2 15 March 8.27 2 31.9% [22]
Live show 1 21 March 7.49 1 32.8% [23]
Live results 1 6
Live show 2 28 March 7.26 5 30.2% [24]
Live final 4 April 6.87 5 31.6%
Series average 2015 8.55 - 32.6%

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