Your Face Sounds Familiar (Philippine TV series) season 1

The first season of Your Face Sounds Familiar was a singing and impersonation competition for celebrities and was based on the Spanish version of the same name. It aired on March 14, 2015 in ABS-CBN and ended on June 7, 2015. It was hosted by Billy Crawford; Jed Madela, Gary Valenciano, and Sharon Cuneta served as the show's judges.

After 13 weeks, Melai Cantiveros emerged as the winner after garnering 51.93% of the public's votes.

Development
The Philippine version was first announced by ABS-CBN in its trade show for advertisers in Rockwell Tent, Makati. In this show, 8 celebrities compete in a sing and dance number while impersonating iconic singers. Each week, the "Iconizer" (called the "Randomizer" in other franchises) assigns the artists at the end of each Sunday episode of whom they have to impersonate for the following week. Each of the artists must face the iconizer at the end of each episode from last place to first place and press the iconizer to reveal the icon they have to impersonate in the following week, and after pressing, the icon is revealed, and a sample playback of the song they have to perform will be played upon revealing the icon.

The show replaced the time slot of the second season of The Voice of the Philippines which ended on March 1, 2015.

On March 9, 2015, Sharon Cuneta made a comeback in ABS-CBN; one of her first projects would be to sit as a judge in the show with Madela and Valenciano. In earlier announcements, Toni Gonzaga was reported as one of the judges; however, she was replaced by Cuneta. Every week, the performers are guided by Teacher Annie Quintos of The Company and Teacher Georcelle of the G-Force for vocals and choreography respectively.

On April 5, 2015, the show aired a duet special episode, as Holy Week programming on Black Saturday pre-empts all non-cable shows. However, the eight celebrity contestants were still scored individually.

On April 18–19, 2015, Gary Valenciano temporarily left the show to fulfill his commitment of performing in a series of concerts in Papua New Guinea, Spain and Qatar. He was substituted by Boy Abunda. The same instance happened on May 16–17, 2015, and he was substituted by Vice Ganda.

Prize
Every week the winner wins a cash prize of 100,000 pesos, half of which was given to his or her chosen charity. The grand prize is 2 million pesos.

Host
Billy Crawford serves as the host of the local version of Your Face Sounds Familiar.

Judges
The judges, dubbed as "The Jury" in the show:


 * The Jury
 * Sharon Cuneta
 * Gary Valenciano
 * Jed Madela


 * Guest judges
 * Boy Abunda (Valenciano's replacement judge for Week 6)
 * Vice Ganda (Valenciano's replacement judge for Week 10)

Mentors
Annie Quintos of The Company served as the mentor for vocals while Georcelle Dapat of the G-Force served as the mentor for choreography and movement.

Performers
The following are the participating performers in the show's season: They were revealed on March 5, 2015.

Results summary
The table below shows the corresponding total points earned per week: Each performance is ranked in two parts. In the first part, The Jury gives 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 points to the performers respectively. In the second part, all of the performers give 3 points to another contestant other than him or her.
 * Legend

Winner

Runner-up

Third place

Fourth place

Top 4 contestants with the highest final total points

Eliminated contestants with the lowest final total points

Contestant won that particular week

Contestant placed last that particular week

Performances
The eight performances are divided into two nights – the first five contestants perform during Saturdays and the remaining three during Sundays.

Week 1 (March 14 & 15)
Episodes Hashtag
 * Non-competition performances
 * Gary Valenciano as Bruno Mars – "Uptown Funk"
 * Jed Madela as Elvis Presley – "Teddy Bear"
 * Sharon Cuneta as Adele – "Someone Like You"


 * #YourFaceSoundsFamiliar (Saturday)
 * #KaFaceNaKaSoundPa (Sunday)

Week 2 (March 21 & 22)
Episodes Hashtag
 * Non-competition performance
 * Billy Crawford as Boy George of Culture Club – "Karma Chameleon"


 * #YFSFWeekendHabit (Saturday and Sunday)

Week 3 (March 28 & 29)
Episodes Hashtag
 * #YFSFTransformation (Saturday and Sunday)

Week 4 (April 5)
Due to Holy Week pre-empting regular programming from Thursday to Saturday, the episode was solely a Sunday-only episode that featured duets instead of individual performances. However the contestants were still scored individually.

Episode Hashtag


 * #YFSFDuets (Sunday)

Week 5 (April 11 & 12)
Episodes Hashtag


 * #YFSFIcons (Saturday and Sunday)

Week 6 (April 18 & 19)
Episodes Hashtag
 * Guest juror
 * Boy Abunda (replacement for Gary Valenciano)


 * #YFSFGoodVibes (Saturday and Sunday)

Week 7 (April 25 & 26)
Episodes Hashtag
 * #YFSFShine (Saturday and Sunday)

Week 8 (May 2 & 3)
Episodes Hashtag
 * #YFSFLevelUp (Saturday and Sunday)

Week 9 (May 9 & 10)
Episodes Hashtag
 * #YFSFFiesta (Saturday)
 * #YFSFPerforMOMs (Sunday)

Week 10 (May 16 & 17)
Episodes Hashtag
 * Guest juror
 * Vice Ganda (replacement for Gary Valenciano)
 * #YFSFUnkabogable (Saturday and Sunday)

Week 11 (May 23 & 24)
Episodes Hashtag
 * #YFSFPasiklaban (Saturday and Sunday)

Week 12 (May 30 & 31)
Episode Hashtags
 * #YFSFFinal4 (Saturday and Sunday)

The Grand Showdown: Week 13 (June 6 & 7)
The Grand Showdown was held in Resorts World Manila on June 6 and 7. Unlike in previous weeks where each of the contestants were assigned an icon by the iconizer, the finalists selected the icon that they will impersonate in the finals, in addition, the eliminated contestants impersonated the icons they presumably would've impersonated for the finals.

The winner was decided via public vote. The finals were aired at a later timeslot due to the premiere of the second season of The Voice Kids, which coincindentally premiered on the same week, pre-empting Mga Kwento ni Marc Logan and Wansapanataym.


 * Non-competition performances
 * June 6
 * Billy Crawford and Sharon Cuneta – "I Want You To Know" by Zedd featuring Selena Gomez
 * Jed Madela and Gary Valenciano – "Good Time" by Owl City and Carly Rae Jepsen

Episodes Hashtag
 * June 7
 * Enrique Gil and Liza Soberano – "Kiss You" by One Direction
 * Jolina Magdangal as Karen Carpenter of The Carpenters – "I Won't Last a Day Without You"
 * Maxene Magalona as Nicki Minaj – "Super Bass"
 * Tutti Caringal as Bryan Adams – "Heaven"
 * Karla Estrada as Gloria Gaynor – "I Will Survive"
 * #YFSFGrandShowdown (Saturday)
 * #YFSFGrandWinner (Sunday)

Special Awards


 * Jolina Magdangal - "Mini Me" Award
 * Karla Estrada - "Ultimate Diva Award"
 * Maxene Magalona - "Yehey" Award
 * Tutti Caringal - "Intensity 8" Award

Television ratings
Television ratings for Your Face Sounds Familiar on ABS-CBN were gathered from two major sources, namely from AGB Nielsen and Kantar Media. AGB Nielsen's survey ratings were gathered from Mega Manila households, while Kantar Media's survey ratings were gathered from urban and rural households all over the Philippines.