X Factor (Danish season 12)

Season of television series

X Factor

Season 12
Hosted by| Sofie Linde Ingversen (TV 2)
Judges| Thomas Blachman
Oh Land
Ankerstjerne
Winner| Kristian Kjærlund
Winning mentor| Thomas Blachman
Runner-up| Benjamin Rosenbohm
Finals venue| Forum Horsens
Release
Original network| TV 2
TV 2 Zulu (Z Factor)
Original release| January 4 (2019-01-04) –
April 12, 2019 (2019-04-12)
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X Factor is a Danish television music competition to find new singing talent. This season will be the first season broadcast on TV2.[1] after DR1 announced on August 16, 2017, that Season 11 is the final season broadcast on their channel.[2] Kristian Kjærlund won the competition and Thomas Blachman became the winning mentor for the 3rd time and the 2nd judge to win 2 seasons in a row.

## Judges and hosts[edit]

Sofie Linde Lauridsen returned as the main host of the show for the 4th time. Thomas Blachman returned as a judge for the 11th time while Remee and Sanne Salomonsen decided to quit. Oh Land and Ankerstjerne replaced them as judges.

## Selection process[edit]

Auditions took place in Copenhagen, Aarhus and Odense.

### 5 Chair Challenge[edit]

The 5 Chair Challenge returns for season 12. Ankerstjerne will mentor the 15-22s, Blachman has the Over 23s and Oh Land has the Groups/Bands.

The 15 successful acts were:

* 15-22s: Albina, Benjamin, Live, Patrick, Rasmus
* Over 23s: Andrea, Emil, Frank, Gina, Kristian
* Groups: Celina, Danjal & Mathias, Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne, Echo, Maria & Bea, Wild Mountains

### Bootcamp[edit]

The 6 eliminated acts were:

* 15-22s: Albina, Rasmus
* Over 23s: Emil, Frank
* Groups: Celina, Danjal & Mathias, Wild Mountains

## Contestants[edit]

Key:

– Winner
– Runner-up
– Withdrew
Act  | Age(s)  | Hometown  | Category (mentor)  | Result

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Kristian Kjærlund | 23 | Horsens | Over 23s (Blachman) | Winner
Benjamin Rosenbohm | 16  | Copenhagen | 15-22s (Ankerstjerne)  | Runner-up
Live Vogel  | 15  | Espergærde | 15-22s (Ankerstjerne)  | 3rd place
Echo  | 15-21  | Various  | Groups (Oh Land)  | 4th place
Maria & Bea  | 18  | Haderslev & Sønderborg | Groups (Oh Land)  | 5th place
Patrick Smith  | 18  | Rødby | 15-22s (Ankerstjerne)  | 6th place
Gina Michaells  | 43  | Brande | Over 23s (Blachman)  | 7th place
Andrea Brøndsted  | 29  | Copenhagen  | Over 23s (Blachman)  | 8th place
Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne  | 59-70  | Various  | Groups (Oh Land)  | 9th place

## Live shows[edit]

Colour key
- | Contestant was in the bottom two and had to sing again in the sing-off

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- | Contestant received the fewest public votes and was immediately eliminated (no sing-off)
- | Contestant received the most public votes
- | Contestant withdrew from the competition

Contestants' colour key:

- 15-22s (Ankerstjerne's contestants)

- Over 23s (Blachman's contestants)
- Groups (Oh Land's contestants)
| Contestant  | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7

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1st round | 2nd round
| Kristian Kjærlund | 5th
10.8%  | 2nd
16.6%  | 2nd
17.2%  | 1st
24.8%  | Safe | 2nd
30.7%  | 1st
47.7%  | Winner
54.3%
| Benjamin Rosenbohm | 2nd
14.3%  | 1st
17.2%  | 1st
18.1%  | 2nd
21.8%  | Safe | 1st
34.0%  | 2nd
37.8%  | Runner-Up
45.7%
| Live Vogel | 1st
17.1%  | 3rd
15.0%  | 4th
13.8%  | 4th
14.0%  | Safe | 3rd
18.6%  | 3rd
14.5%  | Eliminated
(Week 7)
| Echo | 7th
10.2%  | 6th
11.1%  | 7th
11.4%  | 6th
11.8%  | Safe | 4th
16.6%  | Eliminated
(Week 6)
| Maria & Bea | 3rd
13.9%  | 5th
13.0%  | 3rd
14.2%  | 3rd
15.6%  | Withdrew | Withdrew
(Week 5)
| Patrick Smith | 8th
6.0%  | 7th
7.4%  | 5th
13.8%  | 5th
12.0%  | Eliminated
(Week 4)
| Gina Michaells | 4th
13.0%  | 4th
13.6%  | 6th
11.4%  | Eliminated
(Week 3)
| Andrea Brøndsted | 6th
10.5%  | 8th
6.2%  | Eliminated
(Week 2)
| Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne | 9th
4.1%  | Eliminated
(Week 1)
Sing-Off | Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne,
Patrick Smith  | Patrick Smith,
Andrea Brøndsted  | Gina Michaells,
Echo  | Patrick Smith,
Echo  | —  | The act that received the fewest public votes was automatically eliminated.
Ankerstjerne voted out | Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne | Andrea Brøndsted | Gina Michaells | Echo | —
Oh Land voted out | Patrick Smith | Andrea Brøndsted | Gina Michaells | Patrick Smith | —
Blachman voted out | Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne | Patrick Smith | Echo | Patrick Smith | —
Eliminated | Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne
9th  | Andrea Brøndsted
8th  | Gina Michaells
7th  | Patrick Smith
6th  | Maria & Bea
5th  | Echo
4th  | Live Vogel
3rd  |  Benjamin Rosenbohm
Runner-Up
Kristian Kjærlund
Winner

### Live show details[edit]

#### Week 1 (March 1)[edit]

* Theme: My Song

Contestants' performances on the first live show  Act  | Order  | Song[3] | Result

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Echo  | 1  | "High Five"  | Safe
Kristian Kjærlund  | 2  | "Sweet Dreams, TN"  | Safe
Benjamin Rosenbohm  | 3  | "When You Love Someone"  | Safe
Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne  | 4  | "Hvorfor sku' vi synge" (Original song)  | Bottom two
Gina Michaells  | 5  | "Keep Lying"  | Safe
Patrick Smith  | 6  | "Entertaineren"  | Bottom two
Andrea Brøndsted  | 7  | "Poison"  | Safe
Maria & Bea  | 8  | "Bad Girls"  | Safe
Live Vogel  | 9  | "When the Party's Over"  | Safe
Sing-Off details
Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne  | 1  | "Nattens Sang" (Original song)  | Eliminated
Patrick Smith  | 2  | "Det si'r sig selv"  | Safe

Judges' votes to eliminate

* Ankerstjerne: Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne
* Oh Land: Patrick Smith
* Blachman: Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne

#### Week 2 (March 8)[edit]

* Theme: Songs from the contestant's birthyears

Contestants' performances on the second live show  Act  | Order  | Song[4] | Result

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Live Vogel  | 1  | "White Flag"  | Safe
Maria & Bea  | 2  | "Freestyler"  | Safe
Patrick Smith  | 3  | "De er meget interesserede i"/"Du kan gøre hvad du vil"  | Bottom two
Andrea Brøndsted  | 4  | "Eternal Flame"  | Bottom two
Benjamin Rosenbohm  | 5  | "Cry Me a River"  | Safe
Gina Michaells  | 6  | "I'm Not in Love"  | Safe
Echo  | 7  | "Clocks"  | Safe
Kristian Kjærlund  | 8  | "Common People"  | Safe
Sing-Off details
Patrick Smith  | 1  | "Quang's Sang"  | Safe
Andrea Brøndsted  | 2  | "Don't Know Why"  | Eliminated

Judges' votes to eliminate

* Ankerstjerne: Andrea Brøndsted
* Blachman: Patrick Smith
* Oh Land: Andrea Brøndsted

#### Week 3 (March 15)[edit]

* Theme: Songs from 2018/2019
* Musical Guest: Hugo Helmig ("Young Like This")

Contestants' performances on the third live show  Act  | Order  | Song[5] | Result

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Maria & Bea  | 1  | "I Like It"  | Safe
Benjamin Rosenbohm  | 2  | "Be My Mistake"  | Safe
Kristian Kjærlund  | 3  | "Electrified"  | Safe
Live Vogel  | 4  | "God Is a Woman"  | Safe
Echo  | 5  | "Blur"  | Bottom two
Gina Michaells  | 6  | "Hope Is a Dangerous Thing for a Woman like Me to Have – but I Have It"  | Bottom two
Patrick Smith  | 7  | "Sort Tulipan"  | Safe
Sing-Off details
Gina Michaells  | 1  | "I Hope You Dance"  | Eliminated
Echo  | 2  | "A Thousand Years"  | Safe

Judges' votes to eliminate

* Oh Land: Gina Michaells
* Blachman: Echo
* Ankerstjerne: Gina Michaells

#### Week 4 (March 22)[edit]

* Theme: Songs from movies

Contestants' performances on the fourth live show  Act  | Order  | Song[6] | Movie  | Result

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Patrick Smith  | 1  | "Barndommens Gade"  | Barndommens Gade | Bottom two
Echo  | 2  | "Chiquitita"  | Mamma Mia! | Bottom two
Kristian Kjærlund  | 3  | "Blood in the Cut"  | XXX: Return of Xander Cage | Safe
Live Vogel  | 4  | "Life on Mars?"  | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | Safe
Maria & Bea  | 5  | "Gangsta's Paradise"  | Dangerous Minds | Safe
Benjamin Rosenbohm  | 6  | "Earned It"  | Fifty Shades of Grey | Safe
Sing-Off details
Patrick Smith  | 1  | "Fra mark til by" (Original song)  | Eliminated
Echo  | 2  | "Comfortably Numb"  | Safe

Judges' votes to eliminate

* Ankerstjerne: Echo
* Oh Land: Patrick Smith
* Blachman: Patrick Smith

#### Week 5 (March 29)[edit]

* Theme: Nordic songs
* Musical Guests: Alexander Oscar & SVEA ("Complicated")
* Group Performance: "Off to See the World"

Contestants' performances on the fifth live show  Act  | Order  | Song[7] | Result

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Benjamin Rosenbohm  | 1  | "Crazy Love"  | Safe
Echo  | 2  | "When I Grow Up"  | Safe
Live Vogel  | 3  | "Alle skuffer over tid"  | Safe
Kristian Kjærlund  | 4  | "Youth Knows No Pain"  | Safe
Maria & Bea  | N/A  | "Født i dag"  | Withdrew

Maria & Bea withdrew from the competition because of personal reasons, one of them being that Bea's father died, so this week there will be no elimination. However, there will still be a voting but all the publics votes will go through to next week.

#### Week 6: Semi-final (5 April)[edit]

* Theme: One Hit Wonders & Duet with a Special Guest
* Musical Guests: Emil Kruse & Benjamin Hav ("Air Tonight")

Contestants' performances on the sixth live show  Act  | Order  | First song (One Hit Wonders)[8] | Order  | Second song (Duet with a Special Guest)[8] | Result

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Kristian Kjærlund  | 1  | "You Get What You Give"  | 6  | "Wish You Were Gay" (With Chili)  | Safe
Live Vogel  | 2  | "Stand by Me"  | 5  | "2000 meter i frit fald" (With Katinka Bjerregaard)  | Safe
Benjamin Rosenbohm  | 3  | "A Girl Like You"  | 8  | "Planets" (With Nicklas Sahl)  | Safe
Echo  | 4  | "All the Things She Said"  | 7  | "Fjerne slægtninge" (With Bisse)  | Eliminated

The semi-final did not feature a sing-off and instead the act with the fewest public votes, Echo, were automatically eliminated.

This week's publics votes were combined from last weeks votes.

After Echo were eliminated they performed "Somewhere Only We Know" by Keane

#### Week 7: Final (12 April)[edit]

* Theme: Judge's Choice, Producer's Choice and Winner's single
* Musical guests: Alphabeat ("Shadows") Scarlet Pleasure ("24/7")
* Group Performances: ("Giant" performed by X Factor 2019 Contestants) ("Shallow"/"7 Rings"/"My Silver Lining" performed by Malte Ebert, Sofie Linde and Audtionees)

Contestants' performances on the seventh live show  Act  | Order  | Judge's Choice Song[9] | Order  | Producer's Choice Song[9] | Producer  | Order  | Winner's single[10] | Result

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Benjamin Rosenbohm  | 1  | "Be Alright"  | 4  | "Lost"  | Malthe Rostrup  | 8  | "Worth a Broken Heart"  | Runner-Up
Kristian Kjærlund  | 2  | "Do I Wanna Know?"  | 5  | "Green Light"  | Nicolai Kornerup  | 7  | "Lost and Profound"  | Winner
Live Vogel  | 3  | "Finale på et filmset"  | 6  | "Special"  | Malthe Rostrup  | N/A  | N/A (Already eliminated)  | 3rd Place

## References[edit]

1. ^ "X Factor fortsætter: TV 2 har købt konceptet". DR. 21 December 2017.
2. ^ "DR slår fast: X Factor stopper". SE og HØR. 14 August 2017.
3. ^ "Særligt én sang overrasker før fredagens liveshow i 'X Factor' - TV 2". underholdning.tv2.dk. February 27, 2019.
4. ^ "Stort "X Factor"-benspænd: De sange skal deltagerne synge". SE og HØR. 8 March 2019.
5. ^ "Få overblikket her – det skal 'X Factor'-deltagerne synge i aften - TV 2". underholdning.tv2.dk. March 15, 2019.
6. ^ "Mamma Mia og Fifty Shades Of Grey – disse filmhits skal 'X Factor'-deltagerne synge i aften - TV 2". underholdning.tv2.dk. March 22, 2019.
7. ^ "Deltagerne skal på scenen sammen - det skal de synge i aften - TV 2". underholdning.tv2.dk. March 29, 2019.
8. ^ a b "'X Factor'-deltagere får hjælp på scenen - sådan bliver semifinalen - TV 2". underholdning.tv2.dk. April 5, 2019.
9. ^ a b "Det skal de synge i finalen - TV 2". underholdning.tv2.dk. April 12, 2019.
10. ^ "Hør 'X Factor'-finalisternes vindersange - Remee blev tilkaldt i sidste øjeblik - TV 2". underholdning.tv2.dk. April 8, 2019.

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X Factor (Denmark)

Seasons|

* 1
* 2
* 3
* 4
* 5
* 6
* 7
* 8
* 9
* 10
* 11
* 12
* 13
* 14
* 15
* 16
* 17

Winners|

* Martin Hoberg Hedegaard
* Linda Andrews
* Thomas Ring Petersen
* Sarah Skaalum Jørgensen
* Ida Østergaard Madsen
* Chresten Falck Damborg
* Anthony Jasmin
* Emilie Esther
* Embrace
* Morten Nørgaard
* Place on Earth
* Kristian Kjærlund
* Alma Agger
* Solveig Lindelof
* Mads Moldt
* ROSÉL

Other notable
contestants|

* Basim
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* Alien Beat Club
* Mohamed Ali
* Tine Midtgaard Madsen
* Jesper Nohrstedt
* The Fireflies
* In-Joy
* Babou
* Line Dissing Karree Larsen
* Kristel Lisberg
* Citybois
* VKation
* Jamie Talbot
* Benjamin Rosenbohm
* Rasmus Therkildsen
* Mathilde Caffey

Winner's singles|

* "The 1"
* "Det Bedste til Sidst"
* "My Dream"
* "Min Øjesten"
* "I Can Be"
* "Let go"
* "Do Ya"
* "Undiscovered"
* "Commitment Issues"
* "The Underdog"
* "Young"
* "Lost and Profound"
* "The Last Dance"
* "Cranes in the Sky"
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* "JEG ER ALMINDELIG"

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