The Voice Kids is a British television music competition to find new singing talent. The fourth series began airing on 11 July 2020, being broadcast on a weekly basis on ITV. As with the previous three series, it is hosted by Emma Willis. Danny Jones, Pixie Lott and will.i.am will return as coaches, but Jessie J was replaced by Paloma Faith, who was also previously a coach on the adult version of the show.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the pre-recorded episodes - featuring the auditions, battle rounds and semi-final - were filmed a few weeks before the nationwide lockdown in March 2020. On 7 August 2020, it was announced that the final would be pre-recorded on 22 August 2020 and broadcast a week later on 29 August 2020, with a virtual audience with households invited to apply to watch the episode and vote for their winner. Justine Afante won the competition and Pixie Lott was the winning coach, marking her third victory, becoming the only UK coach in any variation to win more than 2 seasons.
Teams Colour key: Winner Runner-up Third Place Fourth Place Eliminated in the Semi-final Eliminated in the Battles
Coach Top 36 Artists will.i.am Victoria Alsina Amos Thakid Savannah Sunique Ruby Maher Ray-Tee Turner Fraya Ofoeme Misha Elin Thaila Charles Lilly Hobbs Paloma Faith Dara McNicholl Hayley Karinge Isla Croll Rachel O'Donnell James Hodgkinson Ruby Wellsted Heidi Katona Sonny Killington Ruby Johnson Pixie Lott Justine Afante Joshua Regala Rae Harding Jemima Penny Maylah Renee Lydia Beech Jae-Jai Saunders Ned Payne Aadya Rajwanshi Danny Jones George Elliott Blair Gilmour Gracie O'Brien Jimmy Aska Winch Connie Burgess Daria Pando Nessa & Cathal Markham Asher Bhatti Jarren Garcia
Blind auditions Colour key Coach hit his/her "I WANT YOU" button Artist defaulted to this coach's team Artist elected to join this coach's team Artist eliminated with no coach pressing his or her "I WANT YOU" button Artist received an 'All Turn'.
Episode 1 (11 July) Order Artist Age Song Coach's and contestant's choices will.i.am Paloma Pixie Danny 1Dara McNicholl 12 "I Have Nothing" 2 Jimmy Aska Winch 7 "Parklife" – – 3 Lydia Beech 13 "Your Song" – – 4 Mark Morrison 14 "Wake Me Up" – – – – 5 Victoria Alsina 7 "How Far I'll Go" – – – 6 George Elliott 10 "Plug In Baby" – – 7Hayley Karinge 12 "Stand by Me" 8Ray-Tee Turner 12 "That's Not Me" 9 Betsy & Nancy Burgess 10 "Bring Me Sunshine" – – – – 10 Connie Burgess 14 "Somewhere" – –
Episode 2 (18 July) Order Artist Age Song Coach's and contestant's choices will.i.am Paloma Pixie Danny 1Rachel O'Donnell 10 "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" 2 Rae Harding 11 "Footprints in the Sand" – – 3 Thaila Charles 11 "I Like It" – – – 4 James Hodgkinson 12 "You'll Never Walk Alone" – – – 5 Cree Henson 14 "Real Love" – – – – 6 Gracie O'Brien 14 "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" – – – 7Aadya Rajwanshi 10 "Cheap Thrills" / "Pehli Nazar Mein" 8 Savannah Sunique 13 "Killing Me Softly with His Song" – – 9 Vic Reeves 14 "Lips Are Movin'" – – – – 10 Blair Gilmour 13 "The Bucket" – 11Joshua Regala 14 "You Are the Reason"
Episode 3 (25 July) Order Artist Age Song Coach's and contestant's choices will.i.am Paloma Pixie Danny 1 Fraya Ofoeme 13 "On My Mind" – – 2Isla Croll 14 "Summertime" 3 Lola Harris 9 "Count On Me" – – – – 4 Daria Pando 14 "Libiamo" – – – 5 Amos Thakid 13 "Ladbroke Grove" – – 6 Ruby Wellsted 13 "Lullaby" – – – 7 Josh & Ryan 13 & 12 "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" – – – – 8Asher Bhatti 13 "Come Together" 9 Heidi Katona 12 "I Try" – 10 Jemima Penny 10 "Highway to Hell" – – – 11Justine Afante 13 "Never Enough"
Episode 4 (1 August) Order Artist Age Song Coach's and contestant's choices will.i.am Paloma Pixie Danny 1Sonny Killington 13 "Spotlight" 2 Ruby Maher 11 "Shut Up and Dance" – – – 3 Summer & Lucca Newton 11 & 10 "It Takes Two" – – – – 4 Nessa & Cathal Markham 14 & 12 "I Will Wait" – – – 5 Maylah Renee 14 "Un-Break My Heart" – – – 6 Misha Elin 12 "Confident" – – – 7 Ruby Johnson 14 "Havana" – – – 8 Lachlan 8 "You Make My Dreams" – rowspan=6 – – 9 Ned Payne 14 "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" – 10 Lilly Hobbs 13 "Lost Without You" – 11 Jae-Jai Saunders 12 "Speechless" rowspan=3 – 12 Tiah Davies 13 "Let's Get Loud" rowspan=2 – 13 Jarren Garcia 13 "Just the Way You Are"
Battle rounds
Colour key Artist won the Battle and advanced to the Semi-final Artist lost the Battle and was eliminated
Episode 1 (8 August)
OrderCoach Artists Song 1 Danny Jones Jimmy Aska Winch George Elliott Nessa & Cathal Markham "Got My Mind Set on You" 2 Paloma Faith James Hodgkinson Sonny Killington Hayley Karinge "Bridge over Troubled Water" 3 will.i.am Amos Thakid Thaila Charles Ray-Tee Turner "Boasty" 4 Pixie Lott Lydia Beech Aadya Rajwanshi Rae Harding "Somewhere Only We Know" 5 Paloma Faith Ruby Wellsted Ruby Johnson Isla Croll "Answerphone" 6 Danny Jones Daria Pando Gracie O'Brien Jarren Garcia "Barcelona"
Episode 2 (15 August)
OrderCoach Artists Song 1 Danny Jones Asher Bhatti Connie Burgess Blair Gilmour "XO" 2 Paloma Faith Rachel O'Donnell Heidi Katona Dara McNicholl "Whenever, Wherever" 3 will.i.am Lilly Hobbs Savannah Sunique Fraya Ofoeme "I'm Going Down" 4 Pixie Lott Ned Payne Maylah Renee Joshua Regala "Stop!" 5 will.i.am Ruby Maher Victoria Alsina Misha Elin "Shake It Off" 6 Pixie Lott Justine Afante Jemima Penny Jae-Jai Saunders "Rise Up"
Show details
Results summary Team's colour key Team Will Team Paloma Team Pixie Team Danny
Result's colour key Artist received the most public votes Runner-up Third Finalist Artist received the least public votes Artist was eliminated
+ Results per artist Contestant Semi-final Final Justine Afante Safe Winner Victoria Alsina Safe Runner-up Dara McNicholl Safe Third Place George Elliott Safe Fourth Place Joshua Regala Eliminated Eliminated (Semi-Finals) Rae Harding Eliminated Amos Thakid Eliminated Savannah Sunique Eliminated Hayley Karinge Eliminated Isla Croll Eliminated Blair Gilmour Eliminated Gracie O'Brien Eliminated
Semi-final (22 August)
Order Coach Artists Song Result 1 Danny Jones George Elliott "Radio Ga Ga" Advanced 2 Gracie O'Brien "Always on My Mind" Eliminated 3 Blair Gilmour "Power Over Me" Eliminated 4 Paloma Faith Isla Croll "Sweet Love" Eliminated 5 Hayley Karinge "Rolling in the Deep" Eliminated 6 Dara McNicholl "Nothing Compares 2 U" Advanced 7 will.i.am Savannah Sunique "Smash Into You" Eliminated 8 Amos Thakid "No Violence" Eliminated 9 Victoria Alsina "Hero" Advanced 10 Pixie Lott Rae Harding "Reflection" Eliminated 11 Joshua Regala "Before You Go" Eliminated 12 Justine Afante "One Moment in Time" Advanced
Final (29 August) Each artist performed a duet alongside their coach in addition to their main performance. Group performances: The Coaches ("Praise You") Musical guests: Clean Bandit, Mabel and 24kGoldn ("Tick Tock") OrderCoachArtistSong Order Duet (with Coach)Result1 Pixie Lott Justine Afante "Listen" 8 "Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing" Winner2 Danny Jones George Elliott "When You Were Young" 5 "Born to Run" Fourth Place 3 Paloma Faith Dara McNicholl "Against All Odds" 6 "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" Third Place 4 will.i.am Victoria Alsina "Girl on Fire" 7 "Where Is the Love?" Runner-up
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