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= The Voice of Norway (season 8) = The eighth season of The Voice of Norway (The Voice – Norges beste stemme) premiered on January 6, 2023. Siri N. Avlesen-Østli returned as host for her consecutive season. Espen Lind, Yosef Wolde-Mariam, and the winning coach of last season Ina Wroldsen returned as coaches for their fifth, seventh, and third season, respectively. Jarle Bernhoft debuted as a new coach this season, replacing Matoma.

Panelists
Siri N. Avlesen-Østli returned as host for her consecutive season. Espen Lind, Yosef Wolde-Mariam, and the winning coach of last season Ina Wroldsen returned as coaches for their fifth, seventh, and third season, respectively. Matoma exited the panel after announcing that he couldn't manage to dedicate fully to the show since he is starting to tour around the world as the world is reopening. He was replaced by R&B singer and songwriter Jarle Bernhoft.

== The Blind Auditions == The Blind Auditions premiered on January 6, 2023. In each audition, an artist sings their piece in front of the coaches whose chairs are facing the audience. If a coach is interested to work with the artist, they will press their button to face the artist. If a singular coach presses the button, the artist automatically becomes part of their team. If multiple coaches turn, they will compete for the artist, who will decide which team they will join. This season, each coach ends up with 12 artists, creating a total of 48 artists advancing to the Battles.

This season, the show features seven episodes of the Blind Auditions.

Personal Ratings and Ranks
= La Voix (Quebec season 8) =

Personal Ratings and Ranks
The ninth season of The Voice van Vlaanderen premiered on January 26, 2024 on the VTM television network, after a one-year hiatus. The show was broadcast twice each week, at 20:35 on Friday and 20:00 on Sunday.

Natalia Druyts and Koen Wauters returned for their eighth and ninth season, respectively. Jan Paternoster and Mathieu Terryn who debuted last season returned for their second consecutive season. Meanwhile, Laura Tesoro returned for her third season as a coach of the Comeback Stage.

Aster Nzeyimana joined An Lemmens as the hosts of this season.

Coaches & Hosts
Natalia Druyts, the winning coach of last season, and Koen Wauters returned for their eighth and ninth season, respectively. Jan Paternoster and Mathieu Terryn who debuted last season returned for their second consecutive season. Meanwhile, Laura Tesoro returned for her third season as a coach of the Comeback Stage.

An Lemmens returned for her ninth consecutive season as the host, while Aster Nzeyimana joined her this season to be the co-host of the show.

Teams

 * Main competition color key
 * Winner
 * Runner-up
 * Third Place
 * Fourth Place
 * Fifth Place
 * Artist was Eliminated in the Lives
 * Artist was Eliminated, but was selected to participate in the Comeback Stage
 * Artist was Eliminated in the Battles
 * Artist was Eliminated in the Knockouts, but was stolen by another coach
 * Artist was Eliminated in Knockouts


 * Comeback Stage color key
 * Eliminated in the Third round
 * Eliminated in the Second round
 * Eliminated in the First round

Introduction
The Blind Auditions premiered on January 26, 2024. The Blind Auditions consist of 10 episodes, with two being broadcast each week, at 20:35 on Fridays and 20:00 on Sundays. This is the first season featuring the "super-block". Each coach can use it once to prevent another coach from getting an artist. The coach can push this button either during or after the audition of the artist, before the artist makes the final decision. Also, for the first time in the show's history, the coach can form a team of an unlimited number of contestants. Same as the last two season, artists who did not get any coach turned around would have the chance to compete in "The Comeback Stage" if selected by the fifth coach Laura Tesoro.

Notes & Color Keys

 * 1) Yasmine whose audition appeared in the second episode formerly performed on the stage of the show I Can See Your Voice.

Knockouts
This season, the show continued its twist on the original rules, switching the Knockouts and the Battles. During the Knockouts and the Battles, host An Lemmens took a break for maternity while Gloria Monserez joined Aaron Blommaert to host the show.

In the Knockouts, the artists in each team choose their own song to sing. After their performance, the coaches will have to decide whether to eliminate the artist straight away or put the artist in the 'Redzone' for further results, or to advance immediately.

The show introduced the 'Redzone' where contestants not guaranteed to advance to the next round wait for their coach's final decision. A maximum of three artists can end up in the 'Redzone' and the coach can choose only one of them to advance to the Battles. However, before an artist ends up in the 'Redzone', the other coaches first get the chance to use the one and only 'Steal' to secure the artist a spot on their team. If more than one coach presses their button to steal the artist, the artist in turn has the chance to choose a coach's team to advance.

Artists who were not chosen at the end of this round will have the chance to compete in "The Comeback Stage" if selected by the fifth coach Laura Tesoro.

Battles
Unlike the previous two season, this season saw the Battles round following the Blind Auditions. In this round, the coaches pair their artists for a singing match of two where they are given a song to sing together. The coaches then decide which of the two artists advance to the Knockouts. Each coach has a chance to "steal" one artist from another team. Artists who were not chosen and/or stolen at the end of this round will have the chance to compete in "The Comeback Stage" if selected by the fifth coach Laura Tesoro.

Lives
The Lives comprise four weeks of performances, where 15 artists advanced from previous round compete for the final five spots in the finale and the opportunity to win this entire season.

The initial host An Lemmens returned to host the Lives after her hiatus in the Knockouts and the Battles where Gloria Monserez hosted the show alongside Aaron Blommaert.

=== Week 1: Top 15 === The 12 contestants, 3 per team, advanced from the Battles and the 3 contestants from "The Comeback Stage" who secured the spots of the Lives will have to compete to advance to the next week's Live show. For each team, the coach can only choose two artists out of three to advance. Artists who were not chosen will be eliminated.

=== Week 2: Top 10 === The remaining ten artists will have to compete for seven spots in the Semi-Final. For each team, after the performances of the two artists, the coach first chooses one artist to advance to the Semi-Final. The other artist will have to wait for the public to decide whether they will advance. Only two out of the five artists that were not chosen by their coach who received the highest votes from the public will advance.

=== Week 3: Semi-Final (Top 7) === The Semi-Final aired on December 16. In the Semi-Final, the remaining seven artists will have to compete for the final five spots to advance to the Grand Final, regardless of what team they are on.

With the advancement of Evert and Yente, Mathieu Terryn became the only coach with two artists advanced to the Grand Final. With the elimination of Néhémie from Team Laura, this is the second consecutive time that Laura Tesoro as the coach for "The Comeback Stage" has no artists representing her in the Final.

=== Week 4: Grand Final (Top 5) === In the Grand Final, the five finalists of coaches Koen, Mathieu, Jan and Natalia will each perform one new solo song in Phase 1. Then the public chooses their three top finalists advancing to the second phase, eliminating the two artists with the fewest votes. The remaining three finalists will have to choose a song that they have performed in the previous rounds of this season to sing in the second phase. In the end, the contestant with the most votes in the second Phase will be crowned the winner of this season.

The five finalists performed the Miley Cyrus version of the classic Christmas song "Last Christmas" after they finished their performances in the first phase of the Grand Final, before the three finalists moving on to the next and last phase was revealed.

Louise Goedefroy representing coach Natalia Druyts was crowned the winner of this season, marking her coach's second consecutive win.

The Comeback Stage
The show continued to feature "The Comeback Stage" where contestants who were eliminated from each round but were chosen by the fifth coach Laura Tesoro compete for extra spots for the Lives.

Round 1: Auditions
The 11 artists who did not get any coach turned in the Blind Auditions but were selected by Laura competed in this round. Only two artists will advance to the next round. However, in the last episode of the Auditions (Episode 10), Laura decided to break the rules and take three artists to the next round. The three artists advanced to the next round are Glen Puylaert, Isis Hillé, and Ashley Feytons.

Round 2: Knockouts
The three artists advanced from the Auditions and the seven artists who were eliminated by the other four coaches in the Knockouts will compete in this round for spots in the Battles for the "The Comeback Stage".

Round 3: Battles
The five artists advanced from the Knockouts and the three artists who were eliminated by the other four coaches in the Battles will compete in this round for spots in the Lives. According to the rules, Laura has to choose two artists to advance to the Lives while the other two artists have to compete for the final spot by performing at the radio station Qmusic.

In episode 20, after Jordy and Sonny performed, Laura wanted to pair the two contestants and make a duo but was refused by the two artists. Laura chose not to make a decision and let the people listening to radio station Qmusic decide.

Extra Round: Radio @Qmusic
After the Battles, five contestants were left. Laura had to choose two of them to go straight to the Live Rounds, they were Ashley and Néhémie. The other three contestants had to perform at a radio station (Qmusic) to fight for the last spot in the Live Rounds.