Glasat na Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Гласът на България) is a Bulgarian reality singing competition and local version of The Voice of Holland. Its first season was held in the summer of 2011 on bTV. One of the show's important premises is the singing talent's quality. Four coaches (popular performing artists) train the talents in their group and occasionally perform with them. Talents are selected in blind auditions, where the coaches cannot see, but only hear the auditioner.
Format The series consists of the following phases.
Blind auditions In this stage, four coaches, all noteworthy recording artists, form a team of artists. Each coach has the length of the auditionee's performance to decide if they want that singer on their team. If more than one coach want the same singer, the singer decides which team they join.
From season 4 onwards, when the contestant fails to turn any chair, the contestant would leave the stage without having a conversation with the coaches.
Starting in season 6, a new element has been added: the block button. Three smaller buttons allow one coach to block any of the other three to prevent them from getting an artist. In season 7, when the blocked coach tried to turn around for the contestant, their chair did not turn around. In season 10, the super-block rule was applied - a coach can be blocked only after they turned around and the audition ended, then their chair will turn to the audience again. In season 12 each coach had one block and one super-block.
In season 11 the Super Pass was introduced. Each coach can press this Button once in the Blind Auditions and while the other coaches get blocked, the contestants goes starlight to The Battles.
Final selection From season 8 onwards, coaches have the freedom to select an unlimited number of contestants to form their respective teams. However, the number of contestants on the team will be finalized by cutting them down to 12 (14 in season 8).
Battles Each team of singers is mentored and developed by its respective coach. In the second stage, called the "battles", coaches pair their team members, who battle against each other directly by singing the same song together.
The coach chooses which artist advances into the next round. Nevertheless, starting in season 2, a new power is added during this phase: the steal. Each coach is given, usually, two "steals" to save an artist from another team who lost their respective battle. In season 9, the non-stop steal was featured. Each artist that is stolen will sit in a designated seat, on the backstage, but if the coach decides to steal another one, the former will be eliminated and replaced by the latter. Season 10 introduced a new rule for only this season. Each coach can save both his artists and advance them both to the knockouts.
Super battles The "super battles" round was implemented in seasons 4 and 5. The participants who remained after the battles are grouped into trios. Each artist had to sing, a song of their choice, in order to convince their respective coach to pick them for the live shows.
Knockouts In season 6, the "knockouts" replaced the "super battles". In this round, three chairs are placed on the stage to be seated by contestants. After the artist performs a song of their choice, the coach will decide if the artist will be going forward to the next round, by giving them a chair, or if the artist will go home, by not giving them a chair. If the three chairs are filled and the coach wants to give a chair to another artist, they are sitting on the given chair and the person previously sitting on the third and last seat is eliminated. At the end of this round, three artists per team will be moved to the live shows.
In season 10 the format of the round was changed. Each coach will divide their 8 singers into 4 pairs. The performers from each pair will compete against each other by performing a song of their choice one after the other on stage. At the end, it's the coach who decides the contestant, continuing to the Live shows.
In season 11 the rules were changed again: after each contestant's solo performance, the respective coach will have to decide either the artist qualify for the next round, is directly eliminated, or is sent to the "Danger Zone" – at risk of elimination. Each coach have one steal to use across the round for the eliminated contestants or in the "Danger Zone". After all members from one team have concluded their performances, the coach will save a number of artists from the "Danger Zone" to move on to the Playoffs. Contestants who are sent to the "Danger Zone" and not chosen by their coach are eliminated, but have a chance to be saved. Also, each coach set a theme for the songs, but each contestant would choose their song.
Live shows In the live shows, the surviving acts from each team again perform and the public votes for their favorite, in order to advance to the next episode. Out of the artists that did not receive the most votes, the coach chooses which of them continue on the competition. In the finale, the outcome is solely decided by public vote.
In season eight, a new stage was introduced, the "live cross-battles" (which replaced the knockouts in the ninth season). An artist would be chosen by their coach to compete against an artist from another team. The selection of the artists and their order of appearance were all decided by their respective coaches, and all of them were done without the knowledge of the opposing coach. Therefore, the battle pairings were completely random, and would only be revealed when the coaches appeared with their selected artists on stage. The winner of each battle would be determined via public votes. Due to this round, it would not be guaranteed if a coach would have a remaining contestant to fight for in the final, which happened for the first time in the show with Lubo Kirov's team in the eighth season.
From the ninth season, on the semi-final the public determined the finalists, no matter the team, which ment that not every coach could have a finalist, which happened in the tenth season and the eleventh season with Ivan Lechev's team.
In season 11, the Playoffs were introduced. From each team, two artists advanced to the semi-final from the public vote and one artist advances by the coach's choice with a total of 12 contestants moving to the semi-final.
Coaches Coaches' timeline Coaches Seasons 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Miro colspan="6" colspan="2" Kiril Marichkov† colspan="11" Ivana colspan="11" Mariana Popova colspan="11" Yordan Karadjov colspan="10" Preslava colspan="10" Victoria Terziyska colspan="10" Orlin Goranov colspan="2" colspan="9" Desi Slava colspan="2" colspan="9" Atanas Penev colspan="2" colspan="9" Ivan Lechev colspan="3" Grafa colspan="3" colspan="3" colspan="1" Kamelia colspan="3" colspan="5" Poli Genova colspan="3" colspan="7" Mihaela Fileva colspan="5" colspan="5" Dara colspan="7" Galena colspan="7" colspan="4" Lubo Kirov colspan="7" colspan="3" Maria Ilieva colspan="9" Medi colspan="11"
Line-up of coaches + Coaches' line-up by chairs order Season Year Coaches 1 2 3 4 1 2011 Kiril Ivana Miro Mariana 2 2013 Yordan Preslava Victoria Miro 3 2014 Orlin Desi Atanas 4 2017 Ivan Poli Kamelia Grafa 5 2018 6 2019 Mihaela 7 2020 8 2021 Dara Galena Lubo 9 2022 10 2023 Maria Miro 11 2024 Grafa 12 2026 Medi
Coaches' advisors Season Battles advisors Mega mentor Team Kiril Team Ivana Team Miro Team Mariana All coaches 1 Mitko Shterev Galya Kurdova Yordan Karadzhov,Evgeni Dimitrov – Maestroto Adelina Koleva,Lili Vateva 2 Team Yordan Team Preslava Team Victoria Team Miro Adelina Koleva, Vladimir Dimov, Evgeni Dimitrov – Maestroto 3 Team Orlin Team Desi Team Atanas Team Miro Adelina Koleva, Vladimir Dimov 4 Team Ivan Team Poli Team Kamelia Team Grafa Lubo Kirov (Super Battles) 5 Maria Ilieva Mihaela Fileva 6 Team Ivan Team Mihaela Team Kamelia Team Grafa Stefan Valdobrev Orlin Pavlov Desi Slava Maria Ilieva 8 Team Ivan Team Dara Team Galena Team Lubo All coaches Atanas Penev Doni Medi,Georgi Simeonov Maria Ilieva Ishtar (Knockouts) 9 Alexandrina Pendatchanska Mihaela Marinova Desi Slava Nina Nikolina 10 Team Ivan Team Dara Team Maria Team Miro All coaches Mihaela Fileva Molets Lubo Kirov Ivana 11 Team Ivan Team Dara Team Maria Team Grafa All coaches Margarita Hranova Galena Jivko Petrov Tino Orlin Goranov (Semi-final) 12 Team Ivan Team Dara Team Maria Team Medi All coaches
Coaches and their finalists Winner Runner-up Third place Fourth place
Season Coaches Kiril Marichkov Ivana Miro Mariana Popova 1 Igor ShabovValentina DimitrovaAni SarandevaRadoslav GergovRafaela KosevaBoyan Mihaylov Antoaneta LinkovaGergana KoevaNevena PeykovaAleksandar BaychevNargiz SaidovaRadina Atanasova Todor GadzhalovElitsa NaumovaMelinda HristovaSevinch IbrahimKristina AvramovaViktoria Gyurova Steliyana HristovaNevena KolevaGeorgi DyulgerovBogdana MitovaGergana RusevaTsvetana Dicheva 2 Yordan Karadjov Preslava Victoria Terziyska Miro Krasimira IvanovaHristo MladenovMiroslav TsankovStanislava SemovaGita PetkovaYanitsa RagevaNikolina AtanasovaBoryana Boneva Todor GeorgievSashka AleksandrovaTsvetelin NikolovPetar RangelovKristian DimitrovNyagoleta ZhelevaElena KatrankyovskaPlamen Borisov Vasil ChergovNina IlievaNikoleta StanoykovaNadezhda DimitrovaDilyana YordanovaMadlen KovachevaMariela GoshevaTeni Omede Ivaylo DonkovVasya PopovaVentsislav KatovNevena DimitrovaGalina MakaveevaEmilia ValentiHristo MihaylovMargarita Incheva 3 Orlin Goranov Desi Slava Atanas Penev Miro Anna PeshevaPetar RangelovTyurkyan IsmailSabina DonevaDani ChukovIvan ChenovStanislav Georgiev-SisoBiserka Mladenova Kristina IvanovaIveta KostovaAsen MihaylovViktoria PenevaSelim MirovSvetoslav VladimirovTihomir TsonevMila Zheleva Ati MolovaStefani IlievaMaria MarinovaYana KamenovaKrum FilipovVenetsia NetsovaMarieta PetrakievaDilyana Yordanova Nevena TsonevaZoya MutishevaHristiyana DankovaSvetlana CheprazovaIvelina DolapchievaOgi GeorgievLazar KisyovSonya Ivanova 4 Ivan Lechev Poli Genova Kamelia Grafa Radko PetkovDimitar Atanasov & Hristo MladenovMaria Dimova «Mia D» Sarah SuzetteSimona ZagorovaDea Maistorska Kristina KabadievaPaulina GoranovElena Freymann Yana SabanovaKristian GrancharovIvaylo Filipov 5 Nia PetrovaNikola ZdravkovTrio TrinitySimona Zaharieva Viktoria DinkovaAleksandar SavovAnna AzatyanAnastasia Belyavskaya Olivia NikolovaNikola ChochevNikol TodorovaGergana Velikova Rafael PasamovMaria PashalyskaYagoda TrenevaSimeon Zhelyazkov 6 Ivan Lechev Mihaela Fileva Kamelia Grafa Iva GeorgievaNikolay Vodenicharov-NiketsaSimona Simeonova Nadezhda AleksandrovaHristian NenovVeniamin Dimitrov Kiril Hadzhiev-TinoMaria VelichkovaTodor Simeonov Atanas KatelievGalina KrasimirovaIvana Mutskova 7 Georgi ShopovPlamen BonevKalina Velkovska Elena SirakovaIlin PapazyanSvetoslav Georgiev KeranaKristina DonchevaHristo Vasilev Joana SashovaAlexandar GeorgievAlexandar SlavchevIvan Lazarov 8 Ivan Lechev Dara Galena Lubo Kirov Boris HristovRaya DimitrovaIvan Ivanov Lidiya GanevaDaniel StaykovHristina Yosifova Petya PanevaGeorgi KostadinovEkaterina Sava Ivan IvanovStefan ZdravkovicJamie Rashed 9 Desislava LatinovaBoyan BoevNicola StoyanovTsvetelina Petrova Jacklyn TarrakciSilvi Philip Alexandar PetrovSonya MihailovaElizabeth ZaharievaMaxim PanayotovMisher Kaloyan NikolovVictor StambolovBoris LapshovNadezhda Bogoeva 10 Ivan Lechev Dara Maria Ilieva Miro Georgi GeorgievKaloyan PaunovMaria KolevaZornitsa Petrova Nikola YanakievArcangelo D'AngeloValeria VoykovaAleksandra Georgieva Dimitrina GermanovaSimeon SlavevAleksandra BorisovaMarin Rusinov Nadezhda KovachevaElena PopovaYanitsa KanevaAlexander Kolev 11 Ivan Lechev Dara Maria Ilieva Grafa Victoria BlagoevaYoana MarinovaSimona StatevaRaya Yovcheva Slaveya IvanovaYordan PetevYana DimitrovaNedko Geshev David MilanovJacklyn KostadinovaAleksandar SavovMaria Mironova Anna StavrevaTrio FidaSamuel ManuelyanAleksandar Atanasov 12 Ivan Lechev Dara Maria Ilieva Medi