X Factor (Poland series 4)

X Factor
Series 4
Broadcast from 1 March – 31 May 2014
Judges Kuba Wojewódzki
Tatiana Okupnik
Czesław Mozil
Ewa Farna
Presenter(s) Patricia Kazadi
Broadcaster TVN
Winner
Artem Furman
Origin Ukraine
Runner-up
Marta Bijan

X Factor is a Polish television music competition to find new singing talent. The fourth series began airing on TVN on 1 March 2014 and ended on 31 May 2014.[1] Kuba Wojewódzki, Tatiana Okupnik and Czesław Mozil returned as judges. Ewa Farna joined the judging panel as the fourth judge.[2] Patricia Kazadi presents the show.[3]

This series saw a number of changes to the format, most notably the possibility of auditioning for bands with not all members singing and the increase in the number of categories from three to four, resulting from the division of the 16-24s category into separate male and female categories.

The winner of the series was Artem Furman, who received a recording contract with Sony Music, PLN 100,000, and a car. Marta Bijan, the runner-up of the competition, was given a special prize funded by MTV Poland, who will produce her debut music video. Anna Tacikowska took the third place.[4]

Judges and presenter

After the end of the third series, media speculated about changes in the judging panel for the possible next series.[5] Show's director Wojciech Iwański spoke about possible changes to the format, including extending the panel.[6]

On 14 November 2013 it was announced that the judging panel would be extended as the three judges from the previous series, including Kuba Wojewódzki, Tatiana Okupnik and Czesław Mozil, would be joined by a fourth judge.[7] Singers Ewa Farna, Sylwia Grzeszczak, Ewelina Lisowska, Monika Brodka, Katarzyna Nosowska and Margaret were rumoured to join the panel.[8][9] Later that day, Ewa Farna was confirmed by TVN as the new judge.[2][3]

However, on 3 December 2013 Ewa Farna posted a note on her Facebook page saying she could not confirm or deny anything yet as the final decision regarding her participation in the show had not been made yet. Later, TVN admitted that negotiations with Farna's management were still in progress.[10] On 20 December 2013, Farna announced that she had decided to take part in the series and was about to sign her contract.[11]

Patricia Kazadi returned to present the show for her second series.[3]

Selection process

Auditions

Open auditions

Open auditions in front of the show's producers began in Hotel Mercure Wrocław Centre in Wrocław on 7 December 2013 and continued in Zabrze (House of Music and Dance) on 8 December and Gdańsk (Hotel Mercure Gdańsk Old Town) on 13 December, before concluding in Warsaw (Torwar Hall) on 15 December.[12]

Judges' auditions

Judges' auditions were held in House of Music and Dance in Zabrze in two parts: from 9 to 11 January 2014 and from 23 to 25 January 2014.[13] Each day of auditions consisted of two sessions: afternoon and evening.

Auditionees needed a minimum of three "yes" votes (previously two) from the judges to proceed to the next round.[14]

Bootcamp

Bootcamp stage of the competition took place in Transcolor Studio in Szeligi over two days, on 3 and 4 February 2014.[13] In a change to the usual format, the judges were allocated their categories before bootcamp. Farna has the girls, Mozil has the boys, Okupnik has the over 25s and Wojewódzki has the groups and bands. On the first day of bootcamp, 118 acts who successfully got through the auditions, were put into groups of three or four within their category. They had to perform within that group, and the category judge, after being advised by other judges, would then decide who would continue. The contestants could choose among several songs, including "Dear Darlin'" by Olly Murs, "Love Me Again" by John Newman and "Sweet Dreams" by Beyoncé. At the end of the day, 40 contestants remained, who had to prepare their solo bootcamp performance overnight.

There was then a change in the format, that followed the idea of 'musical chairs', which was first introduced in the original British series in 2013. It involved the judges choosing the acts to advance to judges' houses immediately after their bootcamp performance, instead of waiting until everyone had performed. Each judge had five 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 five acts for their category, they could replace them if they preferred a later performer. Selection of songs included "Beneath Your Beautiful" by Labrinth and Emeli Sande, "She's the One" by World Party, "Who Wants To Live Forever" by Queen, "You Are So Beautiful" by Joe Cocker, "I Believe I Can Fly" by R. Kelly, "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson, "Wake Me Up" by Avicii, "Stacja Warszawa" by Lady Pank, "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" by Whitney Houston, "Firework" by Katy Perry, "Znak" by Ewa Farna and "Alone Again" by Alyssa Reid. Bootcamp was broadcast over two episodes, each of 90 minutes, on 5 and 12 April.

The 20 successful acts were:

Judges' houses

Judges' houses took place in March and April. Each judge took the remaining members of their category to an abroad location, and had guests to assist them in their decisions. Farna's part was filmed on 3 and 4 March in Prague, Czech Republic, where she mentored the Girls, and was joined by Jakub Badach.[15] Okupnik took the Over 25s to San Gimignano, Italy on 1 and 2 April and was assisted by Andrzej Piaseczny.[16] Wojewódzki mentored the Groups and Bands in Alvernia Studios in Alwernia near Kraków with his guest judge Tomasz "Titus" Pukacki of Acid Drinkers.[17] Mozil took the Boys to Volterra, Italy and was aided by Stanisław Sojka.[18] Judges' houses was broadcast on 19 April.

Contestants' performances on the judges' houses
Act Song Result
Boys
Artem Furman "Too Close" Through
Aleksander Kamiński "Just Give Me a Reason" Eliminated
Kacper Gołda "I Won't Give Up" Eliminated
Kuba Jurzyk "Hello" Through
Jakub Jonkisz "A Change Is Gonna Come" Through
Groups and Bands
Pop It Up "Sweet Harmony" Eliminated
Cała Góra Barwinków "Take on Me" Through
Poprzytula "Message in a Bottle" Eliminated
Hatbreakers "She Wants to Move" Through
Trzynasta w Samo Południe "T.N.T." Through
Over 25s
Małgorzata Uściłowska "When I Was Your Man" Eliminated
Małgorzata Markowska "I Wanna Be the Only One" Eliminated
Joao de Sousa "Porque Te Vas" Through
Anna Tacikowska "Listen" Through
Karolina Duszkiewicz "True Colors" Through
Girls
Marta Bijan "I Have Nothing" Through
Magdalena Bal "This World" Through
Beata Spychalska "What a Wonderful World" Eliminated
Agata Dziarmagowska "Can't Remember to Forget You" Eliminated
Daria Zawiałow "Purple Rain" Through
Summary of judges' houses
Judge Category Location[18] Assistant[18] Contestants eliminated
Farna Girls Prague, Czech Republic Jakub Badach Agata Dziarmagowska, Beata Spychalska
Mozil Boys Volterra, Italy Stanisław Sojka Kacper Gołda, Aleksander Kamiński
Okupnik Over 25s San Gimignano, Italy Andrzej Piaseczny Małgorzata Markowska, Małgorzata Uściłowska
Wojewódzki Groups and Bands Alvernia Studios, Alwernia, Poland Tomasz "Titus" Pukacki Pop It Up, Poprzytula

Finalists

The finalists were announced during the episode broadcast on 19 April 2014. Key:
     – Winner
     – Runner up
     – Third Place

Category (mentor) Acts
Boys (Mozil) Artem Furman Ukraine Jakub Jonkisz Kuba Jurzyk
Girls (Farna) Magdalena Bal Marta Bijan Daria Zawiałow
Over 25s (Okupnik) Karolina Duszkiewicz Joao de Sousa Portugal Anna Tacikowska
Groups and Bands (Wojewódzki) Cała Góra Barwinków Hatbreakers Trzynasta w Samo Południe

Live Shows

The live shows began on 26 April 2014.

Results summary

Colour key
     –Contestant was in the bottom two/three and had to sing again in the final showdown
     –Contestant was in the bottom three but received the fewest votes and was immediately eliminated
     –Contestant received the most public votes
Weekly results per contestant
Contestant Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6
Artem Furman 10th 3rd 2nd 2nd 1st Winner
(week 6)
Marta Bijan 1st 2nd 6th 3rd 3rd Runner-up
(week 6)
Anna Tacikowska 2nd 1st 1st 1st 2nd Third Place
(week 6)
Jakub Jonkisz 4th 4th 3rd 4th 4th Eliminated
(week 5)
Trzynasta w Samo Południe 3rd 5th 5th 5th Eliminated
(week 4)
Cała Góra Barwinków 5th 6th 4th 6th Eliminated
(week 4)
Hatbreakers 6th 9th 7th Eliminated
(week 3)
Magdalena Bal 8th 7 8th Eliminated
(week 3)
Daria Zawiałow 7th 8th Eliminated
(week 2)
Kuba Jurzyk 9th 10th Eliminated
(week 2)
Joao de Sousa 11th Eliminated
(week 1)
Karolina Duszkiewicz 12th Eliminated
(week 1)
Sing-off Artem Furman,
Joao de Sousa		 Hatbreakers,
Daria Zawiałow		 Marta Bijan,
Hatbreakers		 Jakub Jonkisz,
Trzynasta w Samo Południe		 Marta Bijan,
Jakub Jonkisz		 No sing-off or judges' votes: results based on public votes alone
Judges voted to Save
Mozil's vote Artem Furman Hatbreakers Marta Bijan Jakub Jonkisz Jakub Jonkisz
Okupnik's vote Joao de Sousa Hatbreakers Hatbreakers Trzynasta w Samo Południe Marta Bijan
Farna's vote Artem Furman Daria Zawiałow Marta Bijan Jakub Jonkisz Marta Bijan
Wojewódzki's vote Artem Furman Hatbreakers Hatbreakers Trzynasta w Samo Południe Marta Bijan
Eliminated Karolina Duszkiewicz
2.7% to save		 Kuba Jurzyk
2.2% to save		 Magdalena Bal
5.6% to save		 Cała Góra Barwinków
10.1% to save		 Jakub Jonkisz
1 of 4 votes
Minority 		Anna Tacikowska
Joao de Sousa
1 of 4 votes
Minority		 Daria Zawiałow
1 of 4 votes
Minority		 Hatbreakers
2 of 4 votes
Deadlock		 Trzynasta w Samo Południe
2 of 4 votes
Deadlock		 Marta Bijan
Reference(s) [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24]

Live show details

Week 1 (26 April)

Contestants' performances on the first live show
Act Order Song[26] Result[19]
Cała Góra Barwinków 1 "Locked Out of Heaven" Safe
Magdalena Bal 2 "Piece of My Heart" Safe
Artem Furman 3 "The Lazy Song" Bottom three
Anna Tacikowska 4 "I Will Love Again" Safe
Hatbreakers 5 "Ain't No Sunshine" Safe
Kuba Jurzyk 6 "Use Somebody" Safe
Marta Bijan 7 "Skyscraper" Safe
Joao de Sousa 8 "Garota de Ipanema" Bottom three
Trzynasta w Samo Południe 9 "Sweet Home Alabama" Safe
Karolina Duszkiewicz 10 "Since U Been Gone" Eliminated
Jakub Jonkisz 11 "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" Safe
Daria Zawiałow 12 "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" Safe
Final showdown details
Artem Furman 1 "Wicked Game" Safe
Joao de Sousa 2 "Friday I'm in Love" Eliminated
Judges' votes to save[19]

Week 2 (3 May)

Contestants' performances on the second live show
Act Order Song[27] Result[20]
Trzynasta w Samo Południe 1 "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" Safe
Daria Zawiałow 2 "Stop!" Bottom three
Kuba Jurzyk 3 "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" Eliminated
Anna Tacikowska 4 "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" Safe
Magdalena Bal 5 "You Shook Me All Night Long" Safe
Hatbreakers 6 "Let's Dance" Bottom three
Artem Furman 7 "Wind Of Change" Safe
Cała Góra Barwinków 8 "Material Girl" Safe
Jakub Jonkisz 9 "I Want to Know What Love Is" Safe
Marta Bijan 10 "Total Eclipse of the Heart" Safe
Final showdown details
Daria Zawiałow 1 "Sex on Fire" Eliminated
Hatbreakers 2 "Brown Sugar" Safe
Judges' votes to save[20]

Week 3 (10 May)

Contestants' performances on the third live show
Act Order Song[29] Result[21]
Cała Góra Barwinków 1 "Can't Remember to Forget You" Safe
Hatbreakers 2 "Happy" Bottom three
Jakub Jonkisz 3 "All of Me" Safe
Magdalena Bal 4 "Addicted to You" Eliminated
Trzynasta w Samo Południe 5 "Ordinary Love" Safe
Marta Bijan 6 "Unconditionally" Bottom three
Artem Furman 7 "I See Fire" Safe
Anna Tacikowska 8 "Rather Be" Safe
Final showdown details
Marta Bijan 1 "People Help the People" Safe
Hatbreakers 2 "Roxanne" Eliminated
Judges' votes to save[21]

With the acts in the sing-off receiving two votes each, the result was deadlocked and reverted to the earlier public vote. Hatbreakers were eliminated as the act with fewer public votes.

Week 4 (17 May)

Contestants' performances on the fourth live show
Act Order First song[30] Order Second song[30] Result[22]
Trzynasta w Samo Południe 1 "Sexy and I Know It" 7 "Niepokonani" Bottom three
Cała Góra Barwinków 2 "Starlight" 9 "Byłaś Serca Biciem" Eliminated
Jakub Jonkisz 3 "When a Man Loves a Woman" 10 "Jednego Serca" Bottom three
Marta Bijan 4 "Set Fire to the Rain" 8 "Miałeś Być" Safe
Artem Furman 5 "Jolene" 12 "Ostatni" Safe
Anna Tacikowska 6 "Halo" 11 "Testosteron" Safe
Final showdown details
Jakub Jonkisz 1 "Heaven" Safe
Trzynasta w Samo Południe 2 "Deuce" Eliminated
Judges' votes to save[22]

With the acts in the sing-off receiving two votes each, the result was deadlocked and reverted to the earlier public vote. Trzynasta w Samo Południe were eliminated as the act with fewer public votes.

Week 5: Semi-final (24 May)

Contestants' performances on the fifth live show
Act Order First song[31] Theme Order Second song[31] Theme Result[23]
Marta Bijan 1 "All My Loving" Songs by The Beatles 5 "The Show Must Go On" The Greatest Hits Bottom two
Anna Tacikowska 2 "Proud Mary" The Greatest Hits 8 "With a Little Help from My Friends" Songs by The Beatles Safe
Artem Furman 3 "Eleanor Rigby" Songs by The Beatles 7 "Tears in Heaven" The Greatest Hits Safe
Jakub Jonkisz 4 "Love's Divine" The Greatest Hits 6 "Something" Songs by The Beatles Bottom two
Final showdown details
Jakub Jonkisz 1 "Angels" Eliminated
Marta Bijan 2 "Say Something" Safe
Judges' votes to save[23]

Week 6: Final (31 May)

Contestants' performances on the final live show
Act Order Audition song[32] Order Favourite song[32] Order Duet Result[24]
Artem Furman 1 "Strielaj" 4 "The Lazy Song" 9 "Wildest Moments" (with Jessie Ware) Winner
Anna Tacikowska 2 "Only Girl (in the World)" 5 "Rather Be" 7 "Deeper" (with Ella Eyre) Third place
Marta Bijan 3 "Wrecking Ball" 6 "Skyscraper" 8 "Liar Liar" (with Cris Cab) Runner-up

Ratings

Summary of episode ratings
Episode Date Duration
(minutes)^1 		Official rating
(millions)		 Weekly rank Share (%) Weekly rank (16-49) Share 16-49 (%) Source(s)
Auditions 1 1 March 90 2.48 >20 15.8 20.6 [33]
Auditions 2 8 March 90 2.56 >20 16.1 20.0 [34]
Auditions 3 15 March 90 2.81 >20 17.9 7 23.7 [35]
Auditions 4 22 March 90 2.52 >20 16.6 20 21.2 [36]
Auditions 5 29 March 90 3.08 15 19.6 8 22.4 [37]
Bootcamp 1 5 April 90 2.52 >20 16.5 12 20.9 [38]
Bootcamp 2 12 April 90 2.63 >20 17.2 9 23.1 [39]
Judges' houses 19 April 110 1.81 >20 17.3
Live Show 1 26 April 135 1.80 >20
Live Show 2 3 May 135 2.27 >20 12 18.2 [40]
Live Show 3 10 May 110 1.64 >20 >20 [41]
Live Show 4 17 May 135 1.83 >20 >20 [42]
Live Semi-final 24 May 110 1.69 >20 >20 [43]
Live Final 31 May 135 1.85 >20 >20 [44]
Series average 2014 - 2.25 14.7 18.1

1 Includes advert breaks

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