The Voice of Finland (season 2) is the second season of the Finnish reality singing competition based on The Voice format. The season premiered on Nelonen on January 4, 2013.
The winner of the second season was Antti Railio, mentored by Paula Koivuniemi. The runner-up was Emilia Ekström.
Overview
The series consists of three phases: a blind audition, a battle phase, and live performance shows. Four judges/coaches, all noteworthy recording artists, choose teams of contestants through a blind audition process where the coaches cannot see, but only hear the auditioner. Each judge has the length of the auditioner's performance (about one minute) to decide if he or she wants that singer on his or her team; if two or more judges want the same singer (as happens frequently), the singer has the final choice of coach.
Each team of contestants is mentored and developed by its respective coach. In the second stage, called the battle phase, coaches have two of their team members battle against each other directly by singing the same song together, with the coach choosing which team member to advance from each of four individual "battles" into the first live round.
In the final phase, the remaining contestants (Final 24) compete against each other in live broadcasts. Within the first live round, the surviving six acts from each team again compete head-to-head, with public votes determining one of two acts from each team that will advance to the final eight, while the coach chooses which of the remaining acts comprises the other performer remaining on the team. The television audience and the coaches have equal say 50/50 in deciding who moves on to the semi-final. In the semi-final the results are based on a mix of public vote, Spotify listening and Ruutu.fi viewing of the previous week's performances, and voting of coaches. Each carries equal weight of 100 points for a total of 300 points. With one team member remaining for each coach, the (final 4) contestants compete against each other in the finale with the outcome decided by Spotify/Ruutu.fi vote and public vote, both with equal weight of 100 points for a total of 200 points.
All finalists will release a single and the winner will receive a record deal with Universal. In addition, the winner gets an Opel Mokka at his/her disposal for one year.
Episodes
The Blind Auditions
Key
Coach hit his or her "I WANT YOU" button
Contestant eliminated with no coach pressing his or her "I WANT YOU" button
The trusted advisors for these episodes are: producer Jukka Immonen working with Elastinen; musician and composer Milla Viljamaa working with Lauri Tähkä; producer Mika Toivanen with Paula Koivuniemi; and producer Riku Mattila working with Michael Monroe.
All finalists and semifinalists performing live on a cruise day after the final.
Summaries
Results table
Color Key
– Team Elastinen
– Team Lauri
– Team Paula
– Team Michael
Contestant
Top 24
Top 16
Quarter-finals
Semi-final
Final
Top 12
Top 8
Top 4
Antti Railio
Paula's choice
Paula's choice
Public choice
Advanced
Winner
Emilia Ekström
Public choice
Public choice
Public choice
Advanced
Runner-up
Suvi Aalto
Public choice
Public choice
Public choice
Advanced
3rd-4th place
Ike Ikegwuonu
Public choice
Public choice
Elastinen's choice
Advanced
3rd-4th place
Tomas Höglund
Elastinen's choice
Elastinen's choice
Public choice
Not advanced
Eliminated (5th–8th place)
Dennis Fagerström
Public choice
Lauri's choice
Lauri's choice
Not advanced
Osku Ketola
Public choice
Public choice
Paula's choice
Not advanced
Gary Revel Jr
Michael's choice
Michael's choice
Michael's choice
Not advanced
Inga Söder
Elastinen's choice
Elastinen's choice
Not saved
Eliminated (9th–12th place)
Eve Hotti
Lauri's choice
Lauri's choice
Not saved
Laura Alajääski
Paula's choice
Paula's choice
Not saved
Christian Casagrande
Michael's choice
Michael's choice
Not saved
Niina Kähönen
Public choice
Not saved
Eliminated (13th–16th place)
Kaapo Kokkonen
Lauri's choice
Not saved
Kirsi Lehtosaari
Public choice
Not saved
Jone Ullakko
Public choice
Not saved
Laura Savio
Not saved
Eliminated (17th–24th place)
Jepa Lambert
Not saved
Marija
Not saved
Johanna Pekkarinen
Not saved
Toni Savolainen
Not saved
Reetta Kaartinen
Not saved
Luca Sturniolo
Not saved
Regina Chevakova
Not saved
Reception and TV ratings
Season two premiered on January 4, 2013 and was watched by 746,000 viewers. It was down 8.9 percent from first season's premiere December 30, 2011 which was the most viewed program on Nelonen in the year 2011.[3]The Voice of Finland airs twice a week, first Friday evening at 8:00 pm and re-run on Sunday afternoon at 5:00 pm.