Singer season 9
The ninth season of Chinese television series Singer was broadcast on Hunan Television and Mango TV between May and July 2024. Singer 2024 is produced by Hong Xiao, and its music director is Taiwanese senior musician.
The season premiere was broadcast on May 10, 2024, and this was the third season to feature returning contestants, after season five and season eight. For the first time in this series, all episodes are broadcast live and follows the new rules of normal round and foreign guest challenge round. The season premiered on 10 May 2024, and ended on 2 August 2024.
Singer 2024 continues to gather famous singers of Greater China and other regions to participate. It has a total of 23 participating singers.
In the evening of 26 July 2024, Singer 2024, which lasted for more than three months, came to an end. In the end, Na Ying defeated other participating singers and is honoured as the winner of Singer 2024, Sitar Tan received the first runner-up, and Sun Nan received the second runner-up.
Singer 2025 will be premiered on 16th May 2025.
Participating singers
Initial Singers
| Participants | Country | Music Partner | Episode Joined | Episode Left | Result |
| Na Ying | China | Episode 1 - First Opening Round | Episode 13 - The Ultimate Night | Winner | |
| Faouzia Ouihya | Morocco-Canada | Kandy Wong | Episode 1 - First Opening Round | Episode 13 - The Ultimate Night | Fourth Place |
| Chanté Moore | United States | Cindy Yen | Episode 1 - First Opening Round | Episode 13 - The Ultimate Night | Fifth-Seventh Place |
| Silence Wang | China | Episode 1 - First Opening Round | Episode 12 - Final First Round | Fifth-Seventh Place | |
| Hailai Ahmu | China | | Episode 1 - First Opening Round Episode 11 - Breakout Round | Episode 3 - First Foreign Guest Challenge Round Episode 12 - Final First Round | Fifth-Seventh Place |
| Rainie Yang | Taiwan | Leo Li — | Episode 1 - First Opening Round Episode 11 - Breakout Round | Episode 2 - First Rising Singers Challenge Round Episode 11 - Breakout Round | Withdrew from Breakout Round |
| Second Hand Rose | China | Episode 1 - First Opening Round | Episode 2 - First Rising Singers Challenge Round | Withdrew from Breakout Round |
Substitute Singers
| Participant | Country | Music Partner | Previous Season Result | Episode Joined | Episode Left | Result |
| Sitar Tan | China | Season 3 - Fourth-Sixth Place | Episode 8 - Third Opening Round | Episode 13 - The Ultimate Night | First Runner-up | |
| Sun Nan | China | Leo Li | Season 3 - Withdrew after Final First Round | Episode 4 - Second Opening Round | Episode 13 - The Ultimate Night | Second Runner-up |
Competition details
First round
Opening Round
Episode 1 is the first round of competition for Singer 2024, which is also the first opening round. It was broadcast live on 10 May 2024 at 20:00 CST.Rising Singers Challenge Round
Episode 2 is the second round of competition for Singer 2024, which is also the first rising singers challenge round. It was broadcast live on 17 May 2024 at 20:00 CST. Both Hanggai and were successful in their challenge against Chanté Moore and Silence Wang respectively.Overall ranking
As a result of the challenge success of both rising singers, Rainie Yang and Second Hand Rose are eliminated.Foreign Guest Challenge Round
Episode 3 is the third round of competition for Singer 2024, which is also the first foreign guest challenge round. It was broadcast live on 24 May 2024 at 20:00 CST. Adam Lambert was successful in his challenge against Na Ying, which resulted in the elimination of Hailai Ahmu.Percentages of votes
Second round
Opening round
Episode 4 is the fourth round of competition for Singer 2024, which is also the second opening round. It was broadcast live on 31 May 2024 at 20:00 CST. The first substitute singer Sun Nan from Singer season 3 joins the competition. It is free song choice for Silence Wang and Faouzia Ouihya and the range of song choice for the rest of the singers is popular hits.Rising Singers Challenge Round
Episode 5 is the fifth round of competition for Singer 2024, which is also the second rising singers challenge round. It was broadcast live on 7 June 2024 at 20:00 CST. Rachel Zhang was successful in her challenge against while fails in their challenge against Sun Nan. It is free song choice for Na Ying and YELLOW Huang and the range of song choice for the rest of the singers is popular hits. Chanté Moore, whose rank was Number 1 in the second normal round, can choose her own performing order.Overall ranking
As a result of the challenge success of one rising singer, Hanggai is eliminated.Renowned Singers Challenge Round
Episode 6 is the sixth round of competition for Singer 2024, which is also the second renowned singers challenge round. It was broadcast live on 14 June 2024 at 20:00 CST. It was originally the second foreign guest challenge round, but was replaced by the renowned singers challenge round after Charlie Puth withdraw due to schedule problems. The second renowned singers challenge round follows the rules of rising singers challenge round，except that the renowned singers can only challenge the top four ranked singers in the second round overall ranking. Laure Shang fails in her challenge against Faouzia Ouihya while Tia Ray was successful in her challenge against Chanté Moore, which resulted in the elimination of Rachel Zhang. It is free song choice for Sun Nan and Rachel Zhang and the range of song choice for the rest of the singers is popular hits.Percentages of votes
Third round
Renowned Singers Challenge Round
Episode 7 is the seventh round of competition for Singer 2024, which is also the third renowned singers challenge round. It was broadcast live on 21 June 2024 at 20:00 CST. Both and Ghost Huang failed in their challenge against Sun Nan and Faouzia Ouihya respectively. It is free song choice for Na Ying and Faouzia Ouihya and the range of song choice for the rest of the singers is popular hits.Percentages of votes
Opening Round (Final Opening Round)
Episode 8 is the eighth round of competition for Singer 2024, which is also the third opening round. It was broadcast live on 28 June 2024 at 20:00 CST. The final substitute singer Sitar Tan from Singer Season 3 joins the competition. The final opening round combines the rules of opening round and renowned singers challenge round, except that the number of renowned singers reduces from two to one. fails in her challenge against Sun Nan. It is free song choice for Chanté Moore and Na Ying and the range of song choice for the rest of the singers is popular hits, as Faouzia Ouihya originally draws out free song choice but volunteered to switch with Chanté Moore after she confirmed her song choice beforehand.Final Rising Singers Challenge Round
Episode 9 is the ninth round of competition for Singer 2024, which is also the third rising singers challenge round. It was broadcast live on 5 July 2024 at 20:00 CST. C-BLOCK failed in their challenge against Faouzia Ouihya while was successful in his challenge against Tia Ray. It is free song choice for Sun Nan and Sitar Tan and the range of song choice for the rest of the singers is popular hits, as Chanté Moore originally drew out free song choice, but switched with Sitar Tan afterwards.Overall ranking
As a result of the challenge success of one rising singer, Tia Ray is eliminated.Final Foreign Guest Challenge Round
Episode 10 is the tenth round of competition for Singer 2024, which is also the third foreign guest challenge round. It was broadcast live on 12 July 2024 at 20:00 CST. Lenka Kripac fails in her challenge against Silence Wang. It is free song choice for and Sun Nan and the range of song choice for the rest of the singers is popular hits, as Faouzia Ouihya originally draws out free song choice, but switches with Sun Nan afterwards.Percentages of votes
Breakout round
Episode 11 is the eleventh round of competition for Singer 2024, which is also the breakout round for eliminated singers, substitute singers, rising and renowned singers successful in their challenge. It was broadcast live on 19 July 2024 at 20:00 CST. After going through three rounds of competition, Na Ying, Faouzia Ouihya, Chanté Moore and Silence Wang advances to the Final. Hailai Ahmu, Hanggai, Rachel Zhang, Tia Ray,,Sitar Tan, Sun Nan and enters the Breakout Round and is competing for the three breakout spots in the final. Second Hand Rose member entrust the programming team on 17 July to issue a statement on their behalf that they are no longer participating in Breakout Round due to personal schedule problems. Rainie Yang issued a statement on 18 July that she is unable to participate in the final due to schedule conflict. Her Breakout Round performance was a guest performance, not involved in audience voting and not counted in the competition to qualify for the Final. The eight singers will be split into four groups of two singers duel, each of the four safe singers form groups in a 1v1 duel relationship with eliminated singers by drawing lots, A pick one out of two voting is held immediately after both singers in every group duel have performed to determine the winning singer, the losing singer with lower percentages of votes will be eliminated immediately and will not qualify for the final while the winning singers will have opportunity for breakout success. After the performance of all eight singers have ended, the Breakout outcome will be determined by conducting another pick three out of four voting among all the four groups of winning singers in their respective duel and the top 3 ranked singers successfully advances to the final. For the competition this episode, the group appearance order depend on the duration of the safe singer, in which they are safe, in the group is determined by the order from short to long in terms of the number of episodes. The greater the number of safe episodes, the order of performance for the group will be later and the appearance order in a group is that the safe singer appear and perform later. Ultimately, Sun Nan, Sitar Tan and Hailai Ahmu successfully breakout. During this episode of the show, the programming team have provided temporary music partner again for the original singer corresponding to the music partner who returned after being eliminated.Duel outcome
Percentages of votes
Final
Episode 12 is the twelfth round of competition for Singer 2024, which is also the final. It was broadcast live on 26 July 2024 at 19:30 CST. The final is divided into two rounds and consists of the first round and the second round. The first round of the final being a duet segment and the second round being a solo performance.First round
The first round of the final is a duet segment, with every singer inviting a guest singer for a duet together and is conducted in the way of a group battle. Seven singers will be divided into three groups: Faouzia Ouihya and Hailai Ahmu, Sun Nan and Sitar Tan, Chante Moore and Na Ying and Silence Wang, each group can consist of not less than two and not more than three singers, a voting is held within each group immediately after the performance of each group have ended, the singer who obtained the highest percentages of votes in each group advances to the second round and be the first in the group to be winner contender. After the performance of all seven singers in this round have ended, all pending singers will be going through voting again to decide the fourth singer advancing to the second round and the fourth winner contender. During the live stream of the press conference to announce the competition rules, the seven groups of singers have expressed in order their own preference of their groupings according to their personal historical results and rankings in the main round. After the groupings are completed，the three groups each have chosen a representative to draw lots to determine the appearance order of their group for the first round of the final competition, while the appearance order of first or later within each group is determined by Weibo user online voting outcome and will based on number of votes to determine the order of appearance, the appearance order of the singer with the higher number or percentages of votes is later and the singer will appear later.The situation and outcome of the final grouping is indicated and reflected as follows in the following table.
In this round, Faouzia Ouihya, Sun Nan, Na Ying directly advance to the second round after group performance have ended, the remaining four singers enter the pending zone. Ultimately, Sitar Tan gets the first place in the voting segment for the pending singers, and obtains the fourth advancement spot.