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The X Factor
Season 4
Broadcast from September 9, 2013 – December 18, 2013
Judges Paul Newton
Jessica Smith
Amanda Fyne
Bruno Mars
Host Laurie Evans
Broadcaster CTV
Winner:
Fourth Harmony
Origin Sarasota, Tasorida
Song "Unfaithful"
Runner-up
Jesse James
Chronology
2013 

The X Factor is a Ryanland television music competition to find new singing talent, in which the winner receives a $4 million recording contract with E Records. The fourth season premiered on CTV on Monday, September 9, 2013 and the finale will air on December 18, 2013. Laurie Evans returned to host the show for a fourth season. Paul Newton, Jessica Smith and Amanda Fyne have returned as judges for their fourth season while former judge Josh Stowne was replaced by American recording artist, Bruno Mars. This was the final season of the four-year deal created in 2010, however it was announced on December 4, 2013 that the series had been renewed for a further two seasons, keeping the show on the air until at least 2015, which would be season 6.

Producer auditions began on March 6, 2013, in Santa Ana, and ended on May 14, 2013, in Springfield. Auditions in front of the judges (which were televised) commenced on May 28, 2013 in Santa Ana and ended on July 12, 2013 in Springfield. In a change of format, the auditions took place in a room with just the judges, differing from the previous series in which auditions took place in front of an audience. After bootcamp and the judges' houses, the live shows began on October 14, 2013 and will run until the finale on December 18, 2013, in which a winner will be crowned.

Judges and presenters[]

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The judges for season 4 were confirmed on June 2, 2013 as Paul Newton, Jessica Smith, Amanda Fyne and Bruno Mars. It was reported on January 2, 2013, that Josh Stowne had been fired from the show by Newton, however it was later confirmed that he chose to leave to spend time with his family. There was no replacement judge until Mars replaced Stowne in May 2013. Fyne originally announced on the semi-final of season 3 that she would not be returning but she did.

It was reported on September 29, 2013, that Smith was planning on leaving the show after the end of season 4 to focus on her music career, a quote from her stated "I'm not really sure about my future with The X Factor, on one hand it's such an incredible experience to see performers grow, but on the other hand I can't forget about my performances and how much I could still grow as a recording artist". No further comment on this has been made but Newton remains confident that the panel will remain the same for season 5.

Laurie Evans returned to host the show for her fourth season.

Selection process[]

Judges' auditions[]

This season saw a change in format for the judges' auditions. Instead of the auditionees performing in front of an audience, they would instead perform in a room with just the judges, which is similar to the format used in the UK version of the show from seasons 1 to 5 and 10.

Summary of auditions
City Auditions dates Venue
Producers Judges
Santa Ana, Demexas March 6, 2013 May 28–30, 2013 Abbey Palace
New Albans City, New Albans April 14, 2013 June 11–13, 2013 Welton Arena
Bakersfield, Saidaho March 19, 2013  June 17–18, 2013 Bakersfield Star Center
Santa Caso, Ryan City April 25, 2013 June 30 – July 2, 2013 Edward Jones Center
Springfield, Wellington May 14, 2013 July 10 – 12, 2013 Springfield Center

Bootcamp[]

On April 29, 2013, it was confirmed that bootcamp took place at StarArena in Los Naples, Ryan City over four days, across three sessions between 9 and 12 August.

In a change to the usual format, the judges were allocated their categories before bootcamp, via a phonecall from executive producer, Jackson Wade. Newton has the Over 25s, Smith has the boys, Fyne has the groups and Mars has the girls. On the first day of bootcamp, soloists were put into groups of three within their category, and groups were put into pairs. They had to perform within that pair or group, and the category judge would then decide who would continue. There was then a change in the format, that saw the judges choose the acts to advance to judges' houses immediately after their bootcamp performance, instead of waiting until everyone had performed. Each judge had six places to their judges house, and they granted a 'seat' to the performers they wanted to advance in their category. However, if a judge already chose six acts for their category, they could replace them if they preferred a later performer, therefore causing bootcamp to be branded the 'ultimate game of musical chairs'. Bootcamp was broadcast over two episodes, with a 120-minute episode airing on October 1, 2013 and a 60-minute episode airing on October 3, 2013.

Judges' houses[]

Judges' houses took place in September. Each judge took the remaining members of their category to an overseas location, and had guests to assist them in their decisions. Newton was assisted by Sara Bareilles when he mentored the Over 25s in Sarasota, Florida. Fyne took the Groups to Sydney, Australia and was assisted by Will.i.am; Smith was assisted by Season 1 winner Brittany Lovele in London, United Kingdom and Mars took the Girls to Los Angeles, California with Cee Lo Green. Judges' houses were broadcast over two episodes, on October 7 and October 9. 

Summary of judges' auditions

Judge Category Location Assistant(s) Contestants eliminated
Fyne Groups Sydney, Australia Will.i.am Amor, Coda, The Lillettes
Mars Girls Los Angeles, United States  Cee Lo Green  Christina Cox, Laura Foster, Stephanie Sanders
Newton Boys Sarasota, United States Sara Bareilles Todd Henderson, Shaun Murphy, Sam White
Smith Over 25s London, United Kingdom Brittany Lovele  Ruby Adams, Jeremy Cook, Philip Wilson

Finalists[]

Category (mentor) Acts
Boys (Newton) Jesse James James Kelley Joseph Nelson Sam White
Girls (Mars) Rachel Campbell Emily Diaz Jessica Murphy
Over 25s (Smith) Sharon Coleman Amy Evans Randy Scott
Groups (Fyne) Fourth Harmony Rock City Rough Copy

Live shows[]

The live shows began on October 14, 2013. As in previous seasons, each week's song choices follow a particular theme. Each contestant performs on Monday, while eliminations and guest performances take place on Wednesday..

Musical guests[]

Each live results show featured musical performances from at least two artists. Miley Cyrus, Robin Thicke and Kendrick Lamar performed on the first results show, Justin Timberlake and The Saturdays performed on the second, and Lady Gaga and Lorde performed on the third. The X Factor UK winner, James Arthur performed on the fourth results show, followed Katy Perry. Avril Lavigne and Britney Spears appeared on the fifth results show, though Spears' performance was pre-recorded. The sixth live results show featured performances from Celine Dion and One Direction. Former UK X Factor winners Little Mix performed on the seventh results show, along with Ellie Goulding. Season 3 winner, Sasha Coyen performed her new single on the eighth live show, and she was followed by Rihanna and Jessie J, while the Imagine Dragons, Pitbull and Ke$ha performed on the live semi-final results show. Justin Timberlake returned and Ed Sheeran also performed in the first show of the final and in the second finale show, judge, Bruno Mars performed along with One Direction and Beyonce performed a medley of her hits.

Results summary[]

Colour key
     – Contestant did not face the public vote
     – Contestant received the fewest public votes and had to sing again in the final showdown
Weekly results per contestant
Contestant Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10
Wildcard vote Elimination vote Part 1 Part 2
Fourth Harmony N/A 5th
8.5%
5th
9.2%
2nd
16.3%
3rd
14.8%
1st
21.3%
1st
22.6%
2nd
23.3%
1st
28.8%
1st
32.1%
1st
40.5%
Winner
58.4%
Jesse James N/A 3rd
12.8%
3rd
11.4%
1st
21.4%
1st
20.9%
2nd
17.9%
2nd
18.4%
1st
24.5%
2nd
24.9%
3rd
25.3%
2nd
30.8%
Runner-up
41.6%
Rough Copy N/A 1st
19.2%
2nd
14.5%
4th
10.8%
2nd
15.7%
3rd
13.5%
6th
9.2%
3rd
16.5%
3rd
20.4%
2nd
26.2%
3rd
28.7%
Eliminated
(week 10)
Rachel Campbell N/A 4th
9.3%
1st
19.8%
6th
8.1%
7th
6.2%
8th
5.9%
3rd
13.9%
4th
12.8%
4th
13.7%
4th
16.4%
Eliminated
(week 9)
Sharon Coleman N/A 2nd
13.0%
4th
10.9%
3rd
12.4%
5th
9.0%
4th
11.1%
5th
10.5%
5th
12.3%
5th
12.2%
Eliminated
(week 8)
Jessica Murphy N/A 12th
2.8%
8th
5.1%
10th
3.6%
6th
7.6%
5th
10.0%
4th
11.2%
6th
10.6%
Eliminated
(week 7)
Sam White 1st
36.8%
6th
6.9%
7th
6.6%
5th
8.7%
10th
4.4%
7th
7.4%
7th
7.4%
Eliminated
(week 6)
Joseph Nelson N/A 8th
6.0%
9th
4.3%
7th
6.5%
4th
10.6%
6th
8.2%
8th
6.8%
Eliminated
(week 6)
Emily Diaz N/A 10th
4.2%
6th
8.0%
9th
4.3%
8th
5.5%
9th
4.7%
Eliminated
(week 5)
Randy Scott N/A 7th
6.7%
11th
3.3%
8th
4.9%
9th
5.3%
Eliminated
(week 4)
James Kelley N/A 9th
5.1%
10th
4.0%
11th
3.0%
Eliminated
(week 3)
Amy Evans N/A 11th
3.4%
12th
2.9%
Eliminated
(week 2)
Rock City N/A 13th
2.1%
Eliminated
(week 1)
Coda 4th
14.1%
Not returned
(week 1)
Laura Foster 3rd
18.6%
Not returned
(week 1)
Philip Wilson 2nd
30.5%
Not returned
(week 1)
Final showdown None Murphy,
Rock City
Evans,
Scott
Kelley,
Murphy
Scott,
White
Campbell,
Diaz
Rough Copy,
White
Coleman,
Murphy
Campbell,
Coleman
No final showdown or judges' votes; results were based on public votes alone
Newton's vote to eliminate Rock City Evans Murphy Scott Diaz Rough Copy Murphy Coleman
Smith's vote to eliminate Murphy None (abstained) Kelley White Diaz White Murphy Campbell
Fyne's vote to eliminate Murphy Evans Murphy Scott Diaz White Murphy Campbell
Mars' vote to eliminate Rock City Evans Kelley Scott None (abstained) White Coleman Coleman
Eliminated Coda
14.1%
to return
Rock City
2 of 4 votes
Deadlock
Amy Evans
3 of 3 votes
Majority
James Kelley
2 of 4 votes
Deadlock
Randy Scott
3 of 4 votes
Majority
Emily Diaz
3 of 3 votes
Majority
Joseph Nelson
Least votes
to save
Jessica Murphy
3 of 4 votes
Majority
Sharon Coleman
2 of 4 votes
Deadlock
Rachel Campbell
16.4%
to save
Rough Copy
28.7%
to win
Jesse James
41.6%
to win
Laura Foster
18.6%
to return
Sam White
3 of 4 votes
Majority
Philip Wilson
30.5%
to return

Live show details[]

Week 1 (14/16 October)[]

  • Theme: Songs from the 1990s
  • Musical guests: Miley Cyrus ("Wrecking Ball") and Robin Thicke featuring Kendrick Lamar ("Give It 2 U")
Contestants' performances on the first live show
Act Order Song Result
Emily Diaz 1 "Torn" Safe
Rock City 2 "I'll Be There for You" Bottom two
Randy Scott 3 "Mambo No. 5" Safe
James Kelly 4 "Smells Like Teen Spirit" Safe
Fourth Harmony 5 "I Wanna Be the Only One" Safe
Sam White 6 "Wonderwall" Safe
Jessica Murphy 7 "Genie in a Bottle" Bottom two
Joseph Nelson 8 "Brimful of Asha" Safe
Sharon Coleman 9 "Earth Song" Safe
Jesse James 10 "Mysterious Girl" Safe
Amy Evans 11 "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" Safe
Rachel Campbell 12 "Dreams" Safe
Rough Copy 13 "I Swear" Safe
Final showdown details
Jessica Murphy 1 "My Kind of Love" Safe
Rock City 2 "Hey, Soul Sister" Eliminated

Week 2 (21/23 October)[]

  • Theme: Love and Heartbreak
  • Musical guests: Justin Timberlake ("TKO") and The Saturdays ("Disco Love")
Contestants' performances on the second live show
Act Order Song Result
Joseph Nelson 1 "Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself)" Safe
Sharon Coleman 2 "If I Ain't Got You" Safe
Fourth Harmony 3 "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" Safe
Rachel Campbell 4 "Broken-Hearted Girl" Safe
Jesse James 5 "Mirrors" Safe
Amy Evans 6 "Because of You" Bottom two
Emily Diaz 7 "Battlefield" Safe
Sam White 8 "Chasing Cars" Safe
Rough Copy 9 "Dilemma" Safe
Randy Scott 10 "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" Bottom two
Jessica Murphy 11 "Complicated" Safe
James Kelley 12 "Drops of Jupiter" Safe
Final showdown details
Randy Scott 1 "Kiss from a Rose" Safe
Amy Evans 2 "Beautiful" Eliminated

Week 3 (28/30 October)[]

  • Theme: Halloween
  • Musical guests: Lady Gaga ("Venus"/"Do What U Want") and Lorde ("Royals")
Contestants' performances on the third live show
Act Order Song Result
Rough Copy 1 "Beautiful Monster" Safe
Sam White 2 "Radioactive" Safe
Jessica Murphy 3 "Animal" Bottom two
Randy Scott 4 "Bring Me to Life" Safe
James Kelley 5 "The Swarm" Bottom two
Rachel Campbell 6 "Dark Side" Safe
Sharon Coleman 7 "Uninvited" Safe
Fourth Harmony 8 "E.T" Safe
Joseph Nelson 9 "Sweet Dreams" Safe
Emily Diaz 10 "Disturbia" Safe
Jesse James 11 "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" Safe
Final showdown details
James Kelley 1 "Just the Way You Are" Eliminated
Jessica Murphy 2 "Speechless" Safe

Week 4 (4/6 November)[]

  • Theme: Motown
  • Musical guests: James Arthur ("You're Nobody 'til Somebody Loves You") and Katy Perry ("Dark Horse"/"Unconditionally")
Contestants' performances on the third live show
Act Order Song Result
Randy Scott 1 "Superstition" Bottom two
Emily Diaz 2 "You Keep Me Hangin' On" Safe
Fourth Harmony 3 "Where Did Our Love Go" Safe
Joseph Nelson 4 "Easy" Safe
Rough Copy 5 "I Want You Back" Safe
Jesse James 6 "Let's Get it On" Safe
Jessica Murphy 7 "My Guy" Safe
Sharon Coleman 8 "All Night Long (All Night)" Safe
Sam White 9 "Heard It Through the Grapevine" Bottom two
Rachel Campbell 10 "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" Safe
Final showdown details
Sam White 1 "Red" Safe
Randy Scott 2 "Don't Speak" Eliminated

Week 5 (11/13 November)[]

  • Theme: Number-one Hits
  • Musical guests: Avril Lavigne ("Rock N Roll") and Britney Spears ("Work Bitch")
Contestants' performances on the third live show
Act Order Song Result
Jesse James 1 "Grenade" Safe
Sharon Coleman 2 "Take a Bow" Safe
Rough Copy 3 "Suit & Tie" Safe
Rachel Campbell 4 "On the Floor" Bottom two
Sam White 5 "Viva la Vida" Safe
Emily Diaz 6 "Telephone" Bottom two
Joseph Nelson 7 "Yeah!" Safe
Jessica Murphy 8 "Toxic" Safe
Fourth Harmony 9 "Run the World (Girls)" Safe
Final showdown details
Emily Diaz 1 "Blown Away" Eliminated
Rachel Campbell 2 "Nobody's Perfect" Safe

Week 6 (18/20 November)[]

  • Theme: Songs from the Movies ("Movie Week")
  • Musical guests: Celine Dion ("Loved Me Back to Life") and One Direction ("Story of My Life")
Contestants' performances on the seventh live show
Act Order Song Film Result
Sam White 1 "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" Crossroads Bottom two
Fourth Harmony 2 "A Thousand Years" The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 Safe
Joseph Nelson 3 "American Boy" Obsessed Eliminated
Jessica Murphy 4 "I See You" Avatar Safe
Jesse James 5 "It Will Rain" The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 Safe
Rachel Campbell 6 "Listen" Dreamgirls Safe
Rough Copy 7 "Eye of the Tiger" Rocky III Bottom two
Sharon Coleman 8 "My Heart Will Go On" Titanic Safe
Final showdown details
Rough Copy 1 "I Want It That Way" Safe
Sam White 2 "Apologize" Eliminated

Week 7 (25/27 November)

  • Theme: Pepsi Challenge; Britney Spears songs
  • Musical guests: Little Mix ("Move") and Ellie Goulding ("How Long Will I Love You?")
Contestants' performances on the eighth live show
Act Order First song Order Second song Result
Rachel Campbell 1 "Bleeding Love" 7 "Hold It Against Me" Safe
Rough Copy 2 "Diamonds" 8 "Me Against the Music" Safe
Sharon Coleman 3 "Ain't Nobody" 9 "Everytime" Bottom two
Jessica Murphy 4 "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" 10 "Gimme More" Bottom two
Fourth Harmony 5 "Sound of the Underground" 11 "Womanizer" Safe
Jesse James 6 "Royals" 12 "Stronger" Safe
Final showdown details
Sharon Coleman 1 "You Are Not Alone" Safe
Jessica Murphy 2 "A Moment Like This" Eliminated

Week 8 (2/4 December)[]

  • Theme: Rock; Musical heroes
  • Musical guests: Jessie J ("Thunder"), Rihanna ("What Now") and Sasha Coyen ("Fire")
Contestants' performances on the eighth live show
Act Order First song Order Second song Result
Fourth Harmony 1 "The Show Must Go On" 6 "Something Kinda Ooooh" Safe
Sharon Coleman 2 "Who Wants to Live Forever" 7 "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)" Bottom two
Jesse James 3 "Summer of '69" 8 "Treasure" Safe
Rachel Campbell 4 "Wake Me Up When September Ends" 9 "We Found Love" Bottom two
Rough Copy 5 "You Give Love a Bad Name" 10 "I'll Make Love to You" Safe
Final showdown details
Sharon Coleman 1 "Someone like You" Eliminated
Rachel Campbell 2 "The Voice Within" Safe

Week 9: Semi-final (9/11 December)[]

  • Theme: Guilty pleasures; "songs to get you to the final" (no theme)
  • Musical guests: Imagine Dragons ("Demons") and Pitbull featuring Ke$ha ("Timber")
Contestants' performances on the eighth live show
Act Order First song Order Second song Result
Rough Copy 1 "Bye Bye Bye" 5 "Survivor" Safe
Jesse James 2 "Sweet Caroline" 6 "Please Don't Let Me Go" Safe
Rachel Campbell 3 "I Kissed a Girl" 7 "Applause" Eliminated
Fourth Harmony 4 "London Bridge" 8 "Beautiful Liar" Safe

Week 10: Final (16/18 December)[]

December 16
  • Theme: New song; favourite performance; celebrity duets.
  • Musical guests: Justin Timberlake ("Drink You Away") and Ed Sheeran ("I See Fire")
Contestants' performances on the tenth live show
Act Order New song Order Celebrity duet Result
Fourth Harmony 1 "Skyscraper" 6 "Best Thing I Never Had" (with Beyonce) Safe
Jesse James 2 "If You're Not the One" 5 "Give Me Love" (with Ed Sheeran) Safe
Rough Copy 3 "Where is the Love?" 4 "Like I Love You" (with Justin Timberlake) Eliminated
December 18
  • Musical guests: Beyonce ("Run the World (Girls)"/"If I Were a Boy"/"Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"/"Grown Woman"), One Direction ("Midnight Memories") and Bruno Mars ("Gorilla")
Contestants' performances on the tenth live show
Act Order Favourite song Order New song Order Winners single Result
Jesse James 1 "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" 3 "We Are Young" 5 "The Scientist" Runner-up
Fourth Harmony 2 "A Thousand Years" 4 "Ain't No Other Man" 6 "Unfaithful" Winner

Reception[]

Ratings[]

Ep. # Episode Airdate Viewers
(millions)
Rating/share
(18–49)
Rank
(timeslot)
Rank
(night)
1 Auditions 1 September 9 17.95 8.1/18 1 1
2 Auditions 2 September 11 17.59 7.9/18 1 1
3 Auditions 3 September 16 17.86 7.9/18 1 1
4 Auditions 4 September 18 17.28 7.6/17 1 1
5 Auditions 5 September 23 17.36 7.6/17 1 1
6 Auditions 6 September 25 17.02 7.4/17 1 1
7 Boot Camp 1 September 30 16.92 7.4/16 1 1
8 Boot Camp 2 October 2 16.78 7.3/16 1 1
9 Judges' Houses 1 October 7 17.20 7.5/17 1 1
10 Judges' Houses 2 October 9 16.80 7.3/16 1 1
11 Live show 1 October 14 17.49 7.6/18 1 1
12 Live results 1 October 16 17.50 7.6/18 1 1
13 Live show 2 October 21 17.26 7.5/17 1 1
14 Live results 2 October 23 17.04 7.4/17 1 1
15 Live show 3 October 28 16.82 7.3/17 1 1
16 Live results 3 October 30 18.41 8.0/18 1 1
17 Live show 4 November 4 16.84 6.9/17 1 1
18 Live results 4 November 6 17.08 7.0/17 1 1
19 Live show 5 November 11 17.56 7.2/18 1 1
20 Live results 5 November 13 17.81 7.3/18 1 1
21 Live show 6 November 18 18.04 7.4/18 1 1
22 Live results 6 November 20 18.30 7.5/18 1 1
23 Live show 7 November 25 17.79 7.3/18 1 1
24 Live results 7 November 27 16.41 6.6/16 1 1
25 Live show 8 December 2 18.27 7.5/18 1 1
26 Live results 8 December 4 18.03 7.4/18 1 1
27 Live semi-final December 9 18.22 7.5/18 1 1
28 Live semi-final results December 11 18.51 7.6/18 1 1
29 Live finale part 1 December 16 18.95 7.8/19 1 1
30 Live finale part 2 December 18 20.71 8.5/20 1 1

Reception[]

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