X Factor (Danish TV series) season 12 - Wikipedia

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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 – April 12, 2019
Season chronology
← Previous Season 11 Next → Season 13

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.

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.

Auditions took place in Copenhagen, Aarhus and Odense.

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

The 6 eliminated acts were:

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

Key:

  – Winner

  – Runner-up

  – Withdrew

Act	Age(s)	Hometown	Category (mentor)	Result
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

Colour key

–	Contestant was in the bottom two and had to sing again in the Sing-Off
–	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
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

• Theme: My Song

Judges' votes to eliminate

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

• Theme: Songs from the contestant's birthyears

Judges' votes to eliminate

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

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

Judges' votes to eliminate

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

• Theme: Songs from movies

Judges' votes to eliminate

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

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

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.

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

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

• 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)