The Voice of Albania

For the kids version, see The Voice Kids (Albanian TV series)

The Voice of Albania
Genre	Talent show
Created by	John de Mol
Presented by	Ledion Liço
Judges	Alma Bektashi Sidrit Bejleri Elton Deda Miriam Cani Aurela Gaçe Elsa Lila Genc Salihu Jonida Maliqi Alban Skënderaj Besa Kokëdhima Rona Nishliu Naim Bunjaku
Country of origin	Albania Kosovo
Original language	Albanian
No. of seasons	6
No. of episodes	100+
Production
Production locations	Tirana, Albania
Running time	120 min – 180 min
Production companies	Talpa Network Top Channel
Original release
Network	Top Channel
Release	October 21, 2011 (2011-10-21) – May 19, 2017 (2017-05-19)
Related
Albanians Got Talent The Voice Kids (Albanian TV series)

The Voice of Albania is an Albanian television reality singing competition created by John de Mol and is part of The Voice franchise. It began airing on Top Channel on October 21, 2011.

Top Channel ended the show, because they began the second season of the Kids version, which started airing on January 19, 2018.

Format

There are 6 stages to the competition:

Pre-auditions

The first stage of the show is not broadcast. The producers of the show audition all the artists that submitted their selves through the form on the website.

Blind auditions

The second phase is the "blind auditions". There, the contestant have to sing alone in front of live audiences. The 4 jury members are sitting in a swivel chair with their back to the stage and cannot see the candidates. During the performance, they can elect to support a candidate by pressing a buzzer, which will automatically turn their seat towards the stage. The candidate continues to the next round if he or she receives at least one of the four jury votes. The candidate chooses a coach for the further rounds from all jury members who supported him or her.

Battle Rounds

Before the battle round, the coaches prepare their candidates for a week of training. In the Battle Round, two candidates of the same coaching group sing a song in the duo. Only one of the two candidates is further selected by the respective coach. In some seasons, by pressing a button, other coaches can "steal" a contestant who was voted off by their own coach. As in the blind auditions, if more than one coach presses their button, the contestant chooses which coach they want. Each coach has a set number of steals.

Knockouts

• Seasons 3-5

As in the battle rounds, coaches put two of their own team members to compete against each other. This time, the contestants choose their own song to perform individually while the other watches and waits. After that, the coach chooses one to advance while the other is sent home. Some series include steals. Like in the battle round, the opposing coaches can steal a contestant who was voted off by their own coach by pressing their button. Similar to the blind auditions, if more than one coach presses their button, the contestant chooses which coach they want.

SuperBattles

• Season 6

During this round will advance four artists to the next stage of the competition, the Live Shows. In this round, in a format similar to The X Factor's Six-Seat Challenge, there will be four seats. After a contestant performs a song of his or her choice, he or she will sit in one of these seats; this will occur for the first four artists performing on a team. However, after these first contestants perform, the fate of the fifth artist will be decided based on whether his or her coach would like to switch out an artist already seated in favor of this performer. In the case of a switch-out, the artist that was switched out will be eliminated, and this performer will sit down. If the coach would instead like to keep the performers already seated and thus not give a seat to this performer, he or she will be immediately eliminated. After all artists have performed, those who end up seated will advance to the Live Shows.

Live shows

In the final performance phase of the competition, the top contestants from each team compete against each other during a live broadcast. The television audience vote to save one contestant on each team, leaving the coach to decide on live television who they want to save and who will not move on. In the next round, the public chooses between the two artists left on each team, and the coach also has a vote that weighs equally with the public vote.

Finally, each coach will have his/her best contestant left standing to compete in the finals, singing an original song. From these four, one will be named "The Voice"—and will receive the grand prize of a recording contract.

Coaches and hosts

Coaches' timeline

Coaches	Seasons
	1	2	3	4	5	6
Alma
Sidrit
Elton
Miriam
Aurela
Genc
Elsa
Jonida
Alban
Besa
Rona
Xuxi

Hosts

Hosts	Seasons
	1	2	3	4	5	6
Ledion
Marina
Kiara
Mishel
Fjoralba

Key

  Main host

  Backstage host

Season summary

Artist's info

  Team Sidrit

  Team Alma

  Team Miriam

  Team Elton

  Team Aurela

  Team Genc

  Team Elsa

  Team Jonida

  Team Xuxi

  Team Besa

  Team Rona

  Team Alban

Season	First aired	Last aired	Winner	Runner-up	Other finalist(s)		Winning coach	Presenter	Coaches (chair's order)
									1	2	3	4
1	October 21, 2011	February 10, 2012	Rina Bilurdagu	Marsela Çibukaj	Enrika Derza	Lundrim Paçuku	Alma Bektashi	Ledion Liço	Sidrit	Alma	Miriam	Elton
2	October 7, 2012	January 22, 2013	Venera Lumani	Mjellma Berisha	Jozefina Simoni	Matej Karaqi	Sidrit Bejleri		Miriam	Sidrit	Elton	Alma
3	October 19, 2013	January 25, 2014	Florent Abrashi	Borjana Dojle	Sigi Bastri	Krenar Ismaili			Sidrit	Alma		Aurela
4	October 18, 2014	January 5, 2015	Aslaidon Zaimaj	Albina Kelmendi	Semi Jaupaj	Olsa Ballguri	Genc Salihu		Genc	Elsa	Alma	Sidrit
5	January 9, 2016	April 16, 2016	Tahir Gjoçi	Lorenc Hasrama	Ina Torba	Elbunit Krasniqi	Sidrit Bejleri			Sidrit		Jonida
6	January 27, 2017	May 19, 2017	Klinti Çollaku	Lidia Lufi	Lis Asllanaj	Anxhela Elmazi	Alban Skënderaj		Xuxi	Besa	Rona	Alban

Season 1 (2011–2012)

The first season of The Voice of Albania premiered on October 21, 2011 and ended on February 10, 2012 on Top Channel. The coaches was Miriam Cani, Sidrit Bejleri, Elton Deda and Alma Bektashi. The host was Ledion Liço. The winner of the first version in Albania was Rina Bilurdagu from Team Alma.

Season 2 (2012–2013)

The second season of The Voice of Albania premiered on October 7, 2012 and ended on January 22, 2013 on Top Channel. The coaches was Miriam Cani, Sidrit Bejleri, Elton Deda and Alma Bektashi. The host was Ledion Liço. The winner of the second version in Albania was Venera Lumani from Team Sidrit.

Season 3 (2013–2014)

The third season of The Voice of Albania premiered on October 19, 2013 and ended on January 25, 2014 on Top Channel. The coaches was Sidrit Bejleri, Elton Deda, Alma Bektashi and Aurela Gaçe. The host was Ledion Liço. The winner of the third version in Albania was Florent Abrashi from Team Sidrit.

Season 4 (2014–2015)

The fourth season of The Voice of Albania premiered on October 18, 2014 and ended on January 5, 2015 on Top Channel. The coaches was Sidrit Bejleri, Alma Bektashi, Elsa Lila and Genc Salihu. The host was Ledion Liço. The winner of the fourth version in Albania was Aslaidon Zaimaj from Team Genc.

Season 5 (2016)

The fifth season of The Voice of Albania premiered on January 9, 2016 and ended on April 16, 2016 on Top Channel. The coaches was Sidrit Bejleri, Alma Bektashi, Genc Salihu and Jonida Maliqi. The host was Ledion Liço. The winner of the fifth version in Albania was Tahir Gjoçi from Team Sidrit.

Season 6 (2017)

The sixth season of The Voice of Albania premiered on January 27, 2017 and ended on May 19, 2017 on Top Channel. The coaches was Alban Skënderaj, Besa Kokëdhima, Rona Nishliu and Xuxi. The host was Ledion Liço. The winner of the sixth version in Albania was Klinti Çollaku from Team Alban.

See also

• Top Channel
• The Voice (franchise)
• THe Voice Kids (Albanian TV series)
• The Voice of Holland