The Voice Kids (Russian TV series)

For other versions of the series, see The Voice (franchise). For the most recent season, see The Voice Kids (Russian TV series) season 11.

The Voice Kids is a Russian reality television singing competition broadcast on Channel One. Based on the original The Voice Kids of Holland, the concept of the series is to find currently unsigned singing talent (solo or duets, professional and amateur) contested by aspiring singers, age 6 to 15, drawn from public auditions. The winner is determined by television viewers voting by SMS text and The Voice Kids App.

The Voice Kids
Russian	Голос. Дети
Genre	Music program
Created by	John de Mol Roel van Velzen
Developed by	Talpa Content
Directed by	Ildous Kurmaleev Andrey Sychev
Presented by	Dmitry Nagiev Natalia Vodianova Anastasia Chevazhevskaya Valeria Lanskaya Svetlana Zeinalova Agata Muceniece Aglaya Shilovskaya Yana Churikova Valya Karnaval
Judges	Dima Bilan Pelageya Maxim Fadeev Leonid Agutin Nyusha Valery Meladze Basta LOBODA Polina Gagarina Egor Kreed MakSim Yulianna Karaulova Jony
Opening theme	This is The Voice Kids
Country of origin	Russia
Original language	Russian
No. of seasons	11
Production
Producers	Yury Aksyuta Marina Andrusenko Andrey Sergeev Natalya Shamiladze Larisa Sinelschikova (2014–2015) Ilya Krivitskiy (2014–2015)
Production locations	Moscow, Liza Chaykina's St.1 (2014–2016) Moscow oblast, Glavkino (2017) Moscow, Mosfilm (2018–)
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	120–135 minutes
Production companies	Channel One (2016–) Krasny Kvadrat (2014–2015) Talpa Productions (2014-2019) ITV Studios (2019-present)
Original release
Network	Channel One Carousel (2014—2015)
Release	February 28, 2014 (2014-02-28) – present
Related
The Voice The Voice Kids (Netherlands)

The winners of the eleven seasons have been: Alisa Kozhikina, Sabina Mustaeva, Danil Pluzhnikov, Elizaveta Kachurak, Rutger Garecht, 9 finalists of the sixth season, Olesya Kazachenko, Vladislav Tyukin, Adelia Zagrebina, Anna Dorovskaya, and Vasily Igolkin.

The series employs a panel of three coaches who critique the artists' performances and guide their teams of selected artists through the remainder of the season. They also compete to ensure that their act wins the competition, thus making them the winning coach. The original panel featured Dima Bilan (seasons 1–4, 11-), Pelageya (seasons 1–3, and 5–6), and Maxim Fadeev (seasons 1–2). The panel for the most recent eleventh season featured Dima Bilan (seasons 1–4, 11-), Yulianna Karaulova (season 11-) and JONY (season 11-) Other coaches include Leonid Agutin (season 3), Nyusha (season 4), Valery Meladze (seasons 4–7), LOBODA (seasons 6 and 8), Polina Gagarina (seasons 7 and 9), Basta (seasons 5, and 7–10), Egor Kreed (seasons 8―10) and MakSim (season 10).

The Voice Kids began airing on February 28, 2014, as a winter-spring TV season programme. The show proved to be a hit for Channel One.

In 2023, there was a spin-off called «The Voice. No Longer Kids», which features former participants competing in a fashion similar to the All-Stars version that originated in France.

Conception

An adaptation of the Dutch show The Voice Kids, Channel One announced the show under the name Голос. Дети (The Voice Kids).

In each season, the winner receives ₽500,000 (about $8,000) and a record deal with Universal Music Group.

Selection process and format

Blind auditions

Each season begins with the "Blind Auditions," where coaches form their team of artists (15 artists in each team) whom they mentor through the remainder of the season. The coaches' chairs are faced towards the audience during artists' performances; those interested in an artist press their button, which turns their chair towards the artist and illuminates the bottom of the chair to read "Я выбираю тебя" ("I WANT YOU"). At the conclusion of the performance, an artist either defaults to the only coach who turned around or selects his or her coach if more than one coach expresses interest.

Battles

In the Battle Rounds, each coach groups three of his or her team members to perform together then chooses one to advance in the competition.

Sing-offs

In the Sing-off Rounds, five artists within a team sing individual performances in succession. The artists get to sing their "Blind Auditions" songs in this round. At the conclusion of the performances, coaches would decide which two of five artists get to advance to the next round.

Life Playoffs

But as with season 2, each coach bring back three artists who were eliminated in the Sing-offs. These artists advance to the special stage – "Live Playoffs". Three artists from each team sing live and two of them eliminate by the end of the night. One saved by the Public's vote artist advances to the Final in each team.

Final

In the Final of the competition, 6 artists from all teams (9 artists since season 2) perform in the live show, where public voting narrows to a final group of three artists from all teams and eventually declares a winner.

Addition

Since season 6, alongside the determining of the winner, television viewers vote for the Best coach using The Voice Kids App and HbbTV option in their TV sets.

Coaches and presenters

Timeline

Timeline of coaches

Coach	Seasons
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Dima Bilan
Pelageya
Maxim Fadeev
Leonid Agutin
Nyusha
Valery Meladze
Basta
LOBODA
Polina Gagarina
Egor Kreed
MakSim
Yulianna Karaulova
Jony

• Coaches gallery
• 
  Dima Bilan (Seasons 1—4, 11)
• 
  Pelageya (Seasons 1—3, 5—6)
• 
  Maxim Fadeev (Seasons 1—2)
• 
  Leonid Agutin (Season 3)
• 
  Nyusha (Season 4)
• 
  Valeriy Meladze (Seasons 4—7)
• 
  Basta (Seasons 5, 7—10)
• 
  LOBODA (Seasons 6, 8)
• 
  Polina Gagarina (Seasons 7, 9)
• 
  Egor Kreed (Seasons 8—10)
• 
  MakSim (Season 10)
• 
  Yulianna Karaulova (Season 11)
• 
  Jony (Season 11)

Presenters

Timeline of coaches

Presenter	Seasons
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Main presenter
Dmitry Nagiyev
Yana Churikova
Co-presenter
Natalia Vodianova
Anastasiya Chevazhevskaya
Valeriya Lanskaya
Svetlana Zeynalova
Agata Muceniece
Aglaya Shilovskaya
Valya Karnaval

• Presenters
• 
  Dmitry Nagiev (Seasons 1–9)
• 
  Natalia Vodianova (Season 1)
• 
  Anastasia Chevazhevskaya (Season 2)
• 
  Valeriya Lanskaya (Season 3)
• 
  Svetlana Zeynalova (Season 4)
• 
  Agata Muceniece (Season 5, 7—10)
• 
  Aglaya Shilovskaya (Season 6)
• 
  Yana Churikova (Season 10―)
• 
  Valya Karnaval (Season 11―)

Series overview

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Team Dima Bilan   Team Pelageya   Team Maxim Fadeev   Team Leonid Agutin   Team Nyusha

Team Valery Meladze   Team Basta   Team LOBODA   Team Polina Gagarina   Team Egor Kreed

Team MakSim   Team Yulianna Karaulova   Team Jony

Russian The Voice Kids overview

Season	Year	Winner	Runner-up	Third place	Winning coach	Presenters		Coaches (chair's order)
								1	2	3
1	2014	Alisa Kozhikina	Ragda Khanieva	Lev Akselrod	Maxim Fadeev	Dmitry Nagiev	Natalia Vodianova	Dima Bilan	Pelageya	Maxim Fadeev
2	2015	Sabina Mustaeva	Evdokiya Malevskaya	Saida Mukhametzyanova			Anastasiya Chevazhevskaya
3	2016	Danil Pluzhnikov	Rayana Aslanbekova	Taisiya Podgornaya	Dima Bilan		Valeriya Lanskaya			Leonid Agutin
4	2017	Elizaveta Kachurak	Deniza Khekilaeva	Alina Sansyzbay			Svetlana Zeynalova		Nyusha	Valery Meladze
5	2018	Rutger Garekht	Sofiya Fyodorova	Anastasiya Gladilina	Pelageya		Agata Muceniece	Basta	Pelageya
6	2019	All finalists[a]					Aglaya Shilovskaya	Pelageya	Valery Meladze	LOBODA
7	2020	Olesya Kazachenko	Sofya Tumanova	Artyom Fokin	Basta		Agata Muceniece	Basta	Polina Gagarina	Valery Meladze
8	2021	Vladislav Tyukin	Elizaveta Trofimova	Mariya Politikova	LOBODA				LOBODA	Egor Kreed
9	2022	Adeliya Zagrebina	Sofiya Olaresko	Sagyn Omirbayuly	Egor Kreed				Polina Gagarina
10	2022–2023	Anna Dorovskaya	Milana Ponomarenko	Pavel Zilyov	Basta	Yana Churikova			MakSim
11	2024	Vasily Igolkin	Said Galiullin	Arina Tochilova	Dima Bilan		Valya Karnaval	Dima Bilan	Yulianna Karaulova	JONY

Best coach

Season	Best season coach
	First place	%	Second place	%	Third place	%
1-5	From seasons 1 through 5, the public didn't determinate the Best coach
6	Pelageya	56%	Valery Meladze	25%	LOBODA	19%
7	Basta	40%	Polina Gagarina	33%	Valery Meladze	27%
8		56%	Egor Kreed	27%	LOBODA	17%
9		42%	Polina Gagarina	37%	Egor Kreed	21%
10		60%	Egor Kreed	24%	MakSim	16%
11	Dima Bilan	52%	Yulianna Karaulova	26%	Jony	22%

The Voice. No Longer Kids

In 2023, there will be a spin-off called «The Voice. No Longer Kids», which features former participants competing in a fashion similar to the All-Stars version that originated in France.

Series overview

Warning: the following table presents a significant amount of different colors.

Team Dima Bilan

Team Pelageya

Team Polina Gagarina

Team Egor Kreed

Season	Year	Winner	Runner-up	Third place	Fourth place	Winning coach	Presenter	Coaches (chair's order)
								1	2	3	4
1	2023	Veronika Syromlya	David Sanikidze	Renata Tairova	Olesya Kazachenko	Egor Kreed	Yana Churikova	Dima Bilan	Pelageya	Polina Gagarina	Egor Kreed

Best coach

Season	Best season coach
	First place	%	Second place	%	Third place	%	Fourth place	%
1	Pelageya	38%	Egor Kreed	32%	Dima Bilan	16%	Polina Gagarina	14%

Reception

Season		Episode number												Average
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
	1	8.6	7.7	8.6	9.0	9.5	8.6	9.0	8.9	8.9	–			8.76
	2	8.6	8.0	8.0	7.9	8.2	7.4	7.6	7.4	6.0	6.8	–		7.59
	3	8.9	7.6	7.7	8.4	8.3	8.2	8.2	7.8	7.1	6.4	7.8	–	7.85
	4	8.1	7.2	7.0	5.5	7.3	6.8	6.8	5.7	6.0	5.1	5.4	–	6.45
	5	6.7	5.6	5.7	5.4	5.0	5.2	5.4	5.7	4.6	5.1	5.5	–	5.46
	6	6.3	5.7	5.5	4.1	5.1	4.3	4.6	4.6	4.3	4.0	4.6	5.1	4.83
	7	5.3	5.5	5.7	5.2	5.8	5.8	5.8	5.6	5.1	5.1	4.9	–	5.44

The Voice Kids (ratings) : Russia viewers per episode (millions)

Source: MediaScope

Seasons average: Ratings

The first season premiered on February 28, 2014 with an 8.6 rating in the 18-49 demographic. For its average season rating, the show was in the Top 3 at an 8.76 ranking.

The second season premiered on February 13, 2015 with an 8.6 in the 18–49 demographic. It wasn't up/down from last season's premiere.

The third season premiered on February 20, 2016 with an 8.9 in the 18-49 demographic. It was up from last season's premiere by .2 rating scores.

The fourth season premiered on February 17, 2017 with an 8.1 in the 18-49 demographic. It was down from last season's premiere by .8 rating scores.

The fifth season premiered on February 2, 2018 with a 6.7 in the 18-49 demographic. It was down from last season's premiere by 1.4 rating scores.

The sixth season premiered on February 15, 2019 with a 6.3 in the 18-49 demographic. It was down from last season's premiere by .4 rating scores.

The seventh season premiered on February 14, 2020 with a 5.3 and was viewed by 3.78 million people in the 4-49 demographic. It was down from last season's premiere by 1.0 rating scores. This is the lowest rated season premiere to date.

The eighth season premiered in February 2021.

Each Russian network television season starts in late August and ends in late May.

Season	Timeslot (MSK (UTC+3))	# Ep.	Premiered		Ended		TV season	Viewers (ratings)
			Date	Premiere viewers (ratings)	Date	Final viewers (ratings)
1	Friday 9:30 pm (eps. 1, 3–9) Saturday 9:30 pm (ep. 2)	9	February 28, 2014	8.6	April 25, 2014	8.9	2013–2014	8.76
2	Friday 9:30 pm	10	February 13, 2015	8.6	April 17, 2015	6.8	2014–2015	7.59
3	Saturday 9:30 pm (ep. 1) Friday 9:30 pm (eps. 2–11)	11	February 20, 2016	8.9	April 29, 2016	7.8	2015–2016	7.85
4	Friday 9:30 pm (eps. 1, 3, 5–11) Wednesday 9:30 pm (ep. 2) Saturday 9:20 pm (ep. 4)		February 17, 2017	8.1	April 28, 2017	5.4	2016–2017	6.45
5	Friday 9:30 pm (eps. 1–3, 6–11) Thursday 9:30 pm (ep. 4) Wednesday 9:30 pm (ep. 5)		February 2, 2018	6.7	April 20, 2018	5.5	2017–2018	5.46
6	Friday 9:30 pm (eps. 1–3, 5, 7–11) Thursday 9:30 pm (ep. 4) Friday 10:30 pm (ep. 6)	12	February 15, 2019	6.3	May 24, 2019	5.1	2018–2019	4.83
7	Friday 9:30 pm	11	February 14, 2020	5.3	April 24, 2020	4.9	2019–2020	5.44

Notes

1. Valeriy Kuzakov, Renata Tairova, Mariam Abdelkader (Team Pelageya); Erzhan Maxim, Mikhail Grigoryan, Anastasiya Sisauri (Team Valery Meladze); Mikella Abramova, Robert Bagratyan, Nino Chesner (Team LOBODA)