X Factor Adria (series 1)

X Factor Adria
Season 1
Broadcast from 29 October 2013 (2013-10-29) – 23 March 2014 (2014-03-23)
Judges Emina Jahović
Kristina Kovač
Kiki Lesendrić
Željko Joksimović
Host(s) Ana Grubin
Co-host(s) Una Senić
Snežana Velkov
Broadcaster RTV Pink
Sitel
Finals venue Kombank Arena
Winner
Daniel Kajmakoski
Origin Struga, Macedonia
Song "Red"
Genre(s)
Runner-up
Tamara Milanović

X Factor Adria is a Serbian version of The X Factor franchise. The first series started broadcasting in late October 2013. Even though the production is Serbian, auditions were held in Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia - making the series pan regional.
The series judging panel features Emina Jahović, Kristina Kovač, Kiki Lesendrić and Željko Joksimović. The auditions were hosted by Bane Jevtić with Sneže Velkov as a co-host. Una Senić hosted the spin-off series and co-hosted during the judges houses. After the first two episodes were aired it was rumored that Bane would be replaced by another host, but the producers denied it. On the night of the first live show it was announced that Bane would be replaced by Slavko Kalezić - actor and a contestant that was eliminated in the Judges Houses phase of the competition.[1] Day after the first live show aired it was announced that Slavko would be replaced as well.[2] On January 14, 2014, Ana Grubin revealed she will be new host, while Una Senić and Sneže Velkov report from the backstage.[3]

Selection process

Auditions

Contestants were able to apply via text messages and an online form on the shows Facebook page. During the Exit Festival a mobile audition booth was set up and people could audition before previously applying. All of the applicants needed to preaudition for the producers before actually auditioning in front of the judges. The pre-auditions were held from August 20 to September 2 in Budva, Skopje, Banja Luka, Sarajevo, Niš, Novi Sad and Belgrade.[4] After seeing all the acts, producers select a number of contestants that will audition in front of the judges.

From over 8000 acts that came to pre-auditions,[5] producers selected 300 that were put through to judges auditions. The judges auditions are held solely in Šimanovci where the producers, RTV Pink, have their biggest studios. These auditions are the first part of the auditioning process that is broadcast to the public. The auditions were filmed in front of a live audience.

These are all of the contestants shown during the auditions episodes:

Key:

     – Contestant was eliminated

^1 Judges weren't satisfied with Irma's first song leading to her getting only one "yes" (from Željko). She went backstage and thanks to Željko (and audience) she was called back to the stage when she received four "yes-es".

Bootcamp

Bootcamp is the second phase of the competition. There was only one 90 minute episode of bootcamp which was broadcast on December 10, 2013.
All the acts that got a yes during the auditions came back and judges chose 80 of them to perform again and sent all of the other acts back home without them singing again. The 80 acts performed in ten groups of eight, each group performing a medley or a mash-up selected by the producers. Judges originally decided on the 25 acts to progress to judges houses, six from each category, except for the groups, where seven acts progressed - three of the groups consist of the acts that had previously audition as soloists.[6] Even though it was announced that Kristina would have seven acts at her house, Mouse Miles signed a contract with a recording company and had to leave the competition, therefore the groups category had six acts, like all of the other categories, making the total number of 24 contestants that advanced through to judges houses.

Key:

     – Contestant was eliminated
     – Contestant progressed to the Judges' houses
     – Contestant auditioned as a solo artist, but progressed to the Judges' houses in a group

The 24 acts that progressed to the judges houses:

Judges' houses

At the end of Bootcamp, it was revealed that the boys category would be mentored by Jahović, the girls by Lesendrić, the over 27s by Joksimović and the groups would be mentored by Kovač.[7]
Some information about the locations of the judges houses were leaked and published via various tabloids. It was revealed that Kiki was assisted by Scott Mills at his judges' houses, Emina by Mustafa Sandal[8] and Joksimović by Tony Cetinski.[9] Jahović took the boys to Istanbul for vocal coaching, but the performances and elimination were recorded in Belgrade.

Summary of judges' houses
Judge Category Location Assistant Contestants eliminated Second Chance contestant
Jahović Boys Turkey Serbia Istanbul/Belgrade Turkey Mustafa Sandal Miloš Bajat, Petar Jojić,
Stefan Koković		 Miloš Bajat
Lesendrić Girls Serbia Belgrade United Kingdom Scott Mills Katarina Jovanović, Aleksandra Sekulić, Hristina Vuković Aleksandra Sekulić
Joksimović Over 27s Montenegro Budva Croatia Toni Cetinski Maid Hećimović, Slavko Kalezić, Bojana Račić Maid Hećimović
Kovač Groups Serbia Belgrade Serbia Leontina Vukomanović Ivan & Kiko Radenov, Jana Vuković & Luka Grumić, Roma Sijam Jana Vuković & Luka Grumić

Second chance

At the end of the first Judges' houses episode it was announced that the public would be given a chance to bring back a contestant that was eliminated and therefore did not make it to their respective judges' final three. After the votes have been cast and counted, four acts with the most votes from each category will come back on the first live show, after which only one of them would stay in the competition alongside other 12 finalists.
On the second live show it was announced that it was a close call between Maid Hećimović and Aleksandra Sekulić, so the producers decided to bring them both back.

Finalists

Key:

     – Winner
     – Runner-up
     – Third place
Category (mentor) Acts
Boys (Jahović) Haris Ćato Lukijan Ivanović Aleksa Perović
Girls (Lesendrić) Aleksandra Brković Ilma Karahmet Tamara Milanović Aleksandra Sekulić
Over 27s (Joksimović) Maid Hećimović Daniel Kajmakoski Mladen Lukić Maja Novaković
Groups (Kovač) 4U Doktori H2O

Live shows

The first live show episode was broadcast on 7 January 2014.[10]

The Final

The final took place in Kombank Arena, Belgrade.

Result summary

Colour key
     –Contestant was in the bottom two and had to sing again in the sing-off
     –Contestant was in the bottom three but received the fewest votes and was immediately eliminated (no sing-off)
     –Contestant received the fewest public votes and was immediately eliminated (no sing-off)
     –Contestant received the most public votes
Weekly results per contestant
Contestant Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9
Round 1 Round 2
Republic of Macedonia Daniel Kajmakoski Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Winner
(week 9)
Serbia Tamara Milanović Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Runner-up
(week 9)
Bosnia and Herzegovina Maid Hećimović N/A N/A Safe Safe Safe Safe 6th Bottom two Safe 3rd
(week 9)
Bosnia and Herzegovina Lukijan Ivanović Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe 8th Safe Safe 4th Eliminated
(week 9)
SerbiaBosnia and Herzegovina Doktori Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe 5th Eliminated
(week 9)
Bosnia and Herzegovina Ilma Karahmet Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Bottom two Eliminated
(week 8)
Serbia Aleksa Perović Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe 7th Eliminated
(week 7)
Serbia Aleksandra Brković 11th Safe Safe Bottom two Safe Safe 8th Eliminated
(week 7)
Bosnia and Herzegovina Haris Ćato Safe Safe Safe Safe 9th 9th Eliminated
(week 6)
SerbiaBosnia and Herzegovina 4U Safe Bottom two Safe Safe 10th Eliminated
(week 5)
Serbia Aleksandra Sekulić N/A Safe Bottom two Bottom two Eliminated
(week 4)
Serbia Republic of Macedonia H2O Safe Safe Bottom two Eliminated
(week 3)
Serbia Maja Novaković Safe Bottom two Eliminated
(week 2)
Serbia Mladen Lukić 12th Eliminated
(week 1)
Sing-off Aleksandra Brković,
Mladen Lukić 		4U,
Maja Novaković		 Aleksandra Sekulić,
H2O		 Aleksandra Brković,
Aleksandra Sekulić		 4U,
Haris Ćato		 Haris Ćato,
Lukijan Ivanović		 Aleksa Perović,
Maid Hećimović		 Ilma Karahmet,
Maid Hećimović		 No sing-off or judges' votes; results were based on public votes alone
Jahović's vote to eliminate Aleksandra Brković Maja Novaković H2O Aleksandra Sekulić 4U Lukijan Ivanović Maid Hećimović Ilma Karahmet
Kovač's vote to eliminate Mladen Lukić Maja Novaković Aleksandra Sekulić Aleksandra Sekulić Haris Ćato Lukijan Ivanović Aleksa Perović Ilma Karahmet
Lesendrić's vote to eliminate Mladen Lukić Maja Novaković H2O Aleksandra Sekulić Haris Ćato Haris Ćato Maid Hećimović Maid Hećimović
Joksimović's vote to eliminate Aleksandra Brković 4U H2O N/A1 4U Haris Ćato Aleksa Perović Ilma Karahmet
Eliminated Mladen Lukić
2 of 4 votes
Deadlock		 Maja Novaković
3 of 4 votes
Majority		 H2O
3 of 4 votes
Majority		 Aleksandra Sekulić
3 of 4 votes
Majority		 4U
2 of 4 votes
Deadlock		 Haris Ćato
2 of 4 votes
Deadlock		 Aleksa Perović
2 of 4 votes
Deadlock		 Ilma Karahmet
3 of 4 votes
Majority 		Doktori
Public vote to win 		Maid Hećimović
Public vote to win
Aleksandra Brković
Public vote to save		 Lukijan Ivanović
Public vote to win		 Tamara Milanović
Public vote to win

Live show details

Week 1 (7 January)

Contestants' performances on the first live show
Act Order Song Result
Aleksandra Brković 1 "You Got the Love" Bottom two
Mladen Lukić 2 "Bacila je sve niz rijeku" Bottom two
4U 3 "Roar" Safe
Haris Ćato 4 "Stay" Safe
Ilma Karahmet 5 "Sve će to o mila moja" Safe
Aleksa Perović 6 "Un Amor" Safe
Maja Novaković 7 "Ako je vrijedilo išta" Safe
H2O 8 "Beautiful" Safe
Doktori 9 "Osloni se na mene" Safe
Tamara Milanović 10 "Dodirni mi kolena" Safe
Lukijan Ivanović 11 "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" Safe
Daniel Kajmakoski 12 "One" Safe
Sing-off details
Aleksandra Brković 1 "Nobody's Perfect" Safe
Mladen Lukić 2 "Rijeka suza i na njoj lađa" Eliminated
Judges' votes to eliminate

With the acts in the bottom two receiving two votes each, the result was deadlocked and reverted to the earlier public vote. Lukić was eliminated as the act with the fewest public votes.

Week 2 (14 January)

Contestants' performances on the second live show
Act Order Song Result
Lukijan Ivanović 1 "Lady" Safe
4U 2 "Feel" Bottom two
Aleksandra Brković 3 "More pelina" Safe
Maja Novaković 4 "Girl on Fire" Bottom two
Haris Ćato 5 "All Around the World" Safe
Tamara Milanović 6 "What Now" Safe
H2O 7 "Monday Morning" Safe
Doktori 8 "Story of My Life" Safe
Ilma Karahmet 9 "Grenade" Safe
Daniel Kajmakoski 10 "Čija si" Safe
Aleksandra Sekulić 11 "Parachute" Safe
Aleksa Perović 12 "Anđeo" Safe
Sing-off details
Maja Novaković 1 "Umirem 100 puta dnevno" Eliminated
4U 2 "Nedostaješ mi" Safe
Judges' votes to eliminate

Week 3 (21 January)

Contestants' performances on the third live show
Act Order Song Result
Ilma Karahmet 1 "Ne dam na tebe" Safe
Doktori 2 "Cesarica" Safe
Maid Hećimović 3 "Pisaću joj pisma duga" Safe
Tamara Milanović 4 "Mi nismo sami" Safe
Haris Ćato 5 "Što ti dadoh" Safe
Aleksandra Sekulić 6 "E7/9" Bottom two
Daniel Kajmakoski 7 "Sonce ne me gree" Safe
H2O 8 "Čuvam te" Bottom two
Aleksa Perović 9 "Voli me i ne voli me" Safe
4U 10 "Točkovi" Safe
Aleksandra Brković 11 "Zbunjena" Safe
Lukijan Ivanović 12 "Sve moje zore" Safe
Sing-off details
Aleksandra Sekulić 1 "Odlazim a volim te" Safe
H2O 2 "I Follow Rivers" Eliminated
Judges' votes to eliminate

Week 4 (28 January)

Contestants' performances on the fourth live show
Act Order Song Result
Daniel Kajmakoski 1 "Counting Stars" Safe
Aleksandra Brković 2 "Zbog tebe" / "Tek je 12 sati" Bottom two
Aleksa Perović 3 "Bailamos" Safe
Aleksandra Sekulić 4 "Kao da me nema" Bottom two
Doktori 5 "Happy" Safe
Ilma Karahmet 6 "Nisam anđeo" Safe
Maid Hećimović 7 "Stvari lagane" Safe
4U 8 "Summertime Sadness" Safe
Lukijan Ivanović 9 "Love Me Again" Safe
Haris Ćato 10 "Sve je laž" Safe
Tamara Milanović 11 "Jar of Hearts" Safe
Sing-off details
Aleksandra Brković 1 "Turning Tables" Safe
Aleksandra Sekulić 2 "Sve još miriše na nju" Eliminated
Judges' votes to eliminate

Week 5 (4 February)

Contestants' performances on the fifth live show
Act Order Song Result
Maid Hećimović 1 "Krasiva" Safe
Haris Ćato 2 "Billie Jean" Bottom two
Ilma Karahmet 3 "Mercy" Safe
Doktori 4 "Freedom" Safe
Aleksandra Brković 5 "Where Have You Been" Safe
Aleksa Perović 6 "Ai Se Eu Te Pego" Safe
Daniel Kajmakoski 7 "Wake Me Up" Safe
Lukijan Ivanović 8 "Ludak kao ja" Safe
Tamara Milanović 9 "Umbrella" Safe
4U 10 "When Love Takes Over" Bottom two
Sing-off details
Haris Ćato 1 "Cry Me a River" Safe
4U 2 "California King Bed" Eliminated
Judges' votes to eliminate

With the acts in the bottom two receiving two votes each,the result was deadlocked and reverted to the earlier public vote.4U was eliminated as the act with the fewest public votes

Week 6 (18 February)

The sixth live show was scheduled to be broadcast on 11 February, but because a flu epidemic struck both contestants and the production crew, it was postponed for a week. Instead of the live show, the producer decided to broadcast the special, "Meet you favourite".[15]

Contestants' performances on the sixth live show
Act Order Song Result
Tamara Milanović 1 "Skinny Love" Safe
Daniel Kajmakoski 2 "Stay" Safe
Lukijan Ivanović 3 "Brod u boci" Bottom two
Ilma Karahmet 4 "Hurt" Safe
Haris Ćato 5 "Nije htjela" Bottom two
Maid Hećimović 6 "Ostani" Safe
Aleksa Perović 7 "Pogledi u tami" Safe
Doktori 8 "With or Without You" Safe
Aleksandra Brković 9 "Back to Black" Safe
Sing-off details
Lukijan Ivanović 1 "Recovery" Safe
Haris Ćato 2 "Dušo moja" Eliminated
Judges' votes to eliminate

With the acts in the bottom two receiving two votes each, the result was deadlocked and reverted to the earlier public vote. Cato was eliminated as the act with the fewest public votes.

Week 7 (25 February)

After the voting lines were closed producers announced that they decided on eliminating two contestants this week.[18] The act with the least votes would be eliminated without participating in the sing off, while second and third to last placed acts would sing for survival.[19]

Contestants' performances on the seventh live show
Act Order Song Movie/TV show Result
Aleksa Perović 1 "A sad adio" "Vruć vetar" Bottom two
Maid Hećimović 2 "Floyd" "Nacionalna klasa" Bottom two
Ilma Karahmet 3 "I Need To Know" "Barbie as the Island Princess" Safe
Daniel Kajmakoski 4 "Unchained Melody" "Ghost" Safe
Lukijan Ivanović 5 "Ain't No Sunshine" "Notting Hill" Safe
Aleksandra Brković 6 "Reflection" "Mulan" Eliminated
Doktori 7 "I'll Be There for You" "Friends" Safe
Tamara Milanović 8 "Skyfall" "Skyfall" Safe
Sing-off details
Aleksa Perović 1 "Here Without You" Eliminated
Maid Hećimović 2 "Ostala si uvijek ista" Safe
Judges' votes to eliminate

Week 8 (4 March)

Contestants' performances on the eighth live show
Act Order Song Result
Maid Hećimović 1 "Nije ljubav stvar" Bottom two
Ilma Karahmet 2 "Kao ptica na mom dlanu" Bottom two
Doktori 3 "Da te volim" Safe
Lukijan Ivanović 4 "Još ti se nadam" Safe
Tamara Milanović 5 "Slučajno" Safe
Daniel Kajmakoski 6 "Ljubavi" Safe
Sing-off details
Maid Hećimović 1 "Odiseja" Safe
Ilma Karahmet 2 "Korake ti znam" Eliminated
Judges' votes to eliminate

Final week (23 March)

Contestants' performances on the final live show
Act Order First song Order Second song Order Third song Order Fourth song Result
Doktori 1 " Troublemaker/Just the Way You Are" N/A N/A – already eliminated N/A N/A – already eliminated N/A N/A – already eliminated Fifth Place
Lukijan Ivanović 2 "Don't You Worry Child" N/A N/A – already eliminated N/A N/A – already eliminated N/A N/A – already eliminated Fourth Place
Daniel Kajmakoski 3 "Sex on Fire" 1 "Angels" 1 "The Hardest Thing" 1 "Red" Winner
Maid Hecimović 4 "Kao moja mati" 2 "Eh, da je tuga snijeg" N/A N/A – already eliminated N/A N/A – already eliminated Third Place
Tamara Milanović 5 "Wrecking Ball" 3 "Ja bih te sanjala" 2 "Run" 2 "Don't You Remember" Runner-up

Reception

Controversy and criticism

LGBT discrimination accusations

When Filip Fifi Janevski (born male) stepped on stage during the auditions she was asked by Kristina if she wanted to be referred to as a male or a female. After Fifi said that she wanted to be referred to as female, Željko asked how could he refer to him as a female when she's male. When Fifi's performance was over all of the judges gave him a yes, except Željko who said he was shocked and not sure what he made of the act.[20] When commenting on the performance, Željko refrained from using either male or female sex when talking to Fifi.[21] Željko also added he's not conservative which prompted Kristina to ask him "You aren't?".[22] When voting, before giving a no, Željko said: "I don't like it. But you sing good.".[23]
After the episode was broadcast, LGBT organisations were outraged and wanted Željko to apologize for the way he acted.[24] Željko responded on Twitter that he doesn't think he did anything wrong and that everyone's entitled to their opinion.[25] The producers have stated that there was no hate speech in the way Željko talked to Fifi.[26]
The situation had minor coverage by websites outside the Adria region - including a community article on BuzzFeed[23] and Huffington Post.[27]

Aleksandra Brković's elimination

In week 7, when two acts were eliminated, production faced minor criticism from the public for eliminating Aleksandra Brković without giving her a chance to sing for survival.[19] After the voting lines have been closed for that night, Ana Grubin said that two acts would leave the competition, instead of one, without previously announcing the change of the rules. When bottom three were revealed, Ana announced that Aleksandra had the least votes and would leave without singing again. When the other two acts performed and judges had to vote which one would stay, some of the judges commented that they thought it wasn't fair for Aleksandra to leave without being given a chance to fight for her place in the competition.[28]
In the days that followed, a lot of Aleksandra's supporters said that their votes didn't get through, or got through after the voting lines were closed. Joksimović also tweeted that he received a lot of complaints from people who had problems with voting that night.[29] Soon after that producers had a press release where they stated there was no problems with the voting lines and that the double elimination was previously used in the British version of the show and wasn't a thing they made up.

Episodes

# Stage of competition Original air date
1Auditions 1October 29, 2013
2Auditions 2November 5, 2013
3Auditions 3November 13, 2013
4Auditions 4November 19, 2013
5Auditions 5November 26, 2013
6Auditions SpecialDecember 3, 2013
7BootcampDecember 10, 2013
8Judges' houses (Girls/Boys)December 17, 2013
9Judges' houses (Over 27s/Groups)December 24, 2013
10Holiday SpecialJanuary 2, 2014
11Live show 1January 7, 2014
12Live show 2January 14, 2014
13Live show 3January 21, 2014
14Live show 4January 28, 2014
15Live show 5February 4, 2014
16"Meet your favourite" SpecialFebruary 11, 2014
17Live show 6February 18, 2014
18Live show 7February 25, 2014
19Live show 8March 4, 2014
20Final showMarch 23, 2014

References

  1. ↑ Ko je voditelj X faktora?! Producenti najavljuju iznanađenje! | Tračara
  2. ↑ VODITELJ X FACTORA LETI NAPOLJE: Bio sam odličan, pljuju me iz ljubomore! (FOTO) (VIDEO) | Telegraf – Najnovije vesti
  3. ↑ SAZNAJEMO: Ana Mihajlovski nova voditeljka X Factora! | Telegraf – Najnovije vesti
  4. ↑ X Faktor: Prva audicija u regionu zakazana za 20. avgust - Kurir
  5. ↑ X FACTOR POMAMA: Baka (70) improvizuje na audiciji, klinci ubeđeni u pobedu! (FOTO) (VIDEO) - Telegraf.rs
  6. ↑ Puls - "X FAKTOR" Takmičari podeljeni u četiri grupe! FOTO
  7. ↑ X FACTOR: Takmičari plakali, svađali se, žiri ogorčen nastupima! (FOTO) (VIDEO) - Telegraf.rs
  8. ↑ Emina ugostila takmičare X Factora u Istanbulu | Tračara
  9. ↑ HIT: Željko Joksimović i Toni Cetinski snimaju duet - Kurir
  10. ↑ Blic Online | Lajv nastupi X Faktora počinju 7. januara
  11. ↑ X FACTOR: Takmičari pevaju domaće hitove! | Telegraf – Najnovije vesti
  12. ↑ "X FACTOR IZNENAĐENJA: Jelena Rozga specijalni gost!". Retrieved 27 January 2014.
  13. ↑ "X FACTOR IZNENAĐENJE: Doris Dragović nastupa u revijalnom delu šoua!". Retrieved 27 January 2014.
  14. ↑ X FACTOR IZNENAĐENJE: Lorin specijalni gost! - Kurir
  15. ↑ X faktor specijal: Upoznaj svog favorita
  16. ↑ MjuzNews | Vesti iz sveta muzike - Kaliopi gošća šestog X Factor LIVE showa - Koncerti, svirke i nastupi
  17. ↑ X FACTOR FILMSKO VEČE: Takmičari pevaju pesme iz serija i filmskih ostvarenja - Kurir
  18. ↑ Blic Online | Blog uživo | X FACTOR: Aleksandra Brković i Aleksa napustili takmičenje! Archived March 2, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.
  19. 1 2 X Factor Adria: Ispala Aleksandra Brković, bez prava na borbu u duelu! - Muzika - Region - Vesti - Svet Plus
  20. ↑ LGBT zajednica traži izvinjenje od Željka
  21. ↑ “X Factor”: Makedonac transvestit oduševio sve osim Željka Joksimovića! : svet
  22. ↑ X FACTOR TAMARA RASPLAKALA ŽIRI: U sobi smo sa svetskim talentom, svi smo se naježili! - Kurir
  23. 1 2 Is Transphobia A Part Of The X Factor General Policy
  24. ↑ 'Gađenje i nevjerica: Željko Joksimović diskriminisao transrodnu osobu' | Radio Sarajevo Archived November 7, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.
  25. ↑ LBGT: Željko, izvini se! Joksimović: To je moje mišljenje! - Kurir
  26. ↑ Puls - PRODUKCIJA X FAKTORA: Nije bilo govora mržnje!
  27. ↑ Fifi Janevski, Transgender Woman, Criticized By Ĺ˝eljko Joksimović On Serbian 'X Factor'
  28. ↑ X Factor Adria: Aleksandra Brković je ispala po pravilima licence (Foto) - Muzika - Region - Vesti - Svet Plus
  29. ↑ X Factor Adria: Željko Joksimović apeluje na produkciju - Mnogi se žale na nemogućnost glasanja! - Muzika - Region - Vesti - Svet Plus
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