Faktor A

Faktor A (in Russian Фактор А) is the Russian version of The X Factor television talent show franchise. It is broadcasts on Russia 1 television station. The show is named Faktor A (rather than Faktor X), with the letter "A" chosen in honor of Alla Pugacheva, head of the jury. Faktor A debuted in 2011 as a new season 1.

Faktor A Фактор А
Logo of Russian Faktor A
Created by	Simon Cowell
Presented by	Philipp Kirkorov Vladimir Zelenski (2011) Alexey Chumakov (2012)
Judges	Alla Pugacheva (head of jury) Lolita Milyavskaya Roman Emelyanov Boris Krasnov (2011) Igor Nikolayev (2012)
Country of origin	Russia
Original language(s)	Russian
No. of seasons	3 (debut season in 2011)
No. of episodes	22
Production
Running time	~78 minutes
Release
Original network	Russia 1 (Rossiya 1) Muz-TV (2011)
Original release	1 April 2011 (2011-04-01) – 21 April 2013 (2013-04-21)
External links
Official website

Sekret Uspekha (2005, 2007)

Main article: Sekret Uspekha

Faktor A is considered a continuation of an earlier Russian show Sekret Uspekha that was broadcast on Russia's RTR television station in contrast to this Faktor A series that is being broadcast on Russia1.

There were two seasons of Sekret Uspekha. The first was in 2005[1] and title was won by Vladimir Sapovsky. A second season was broadcast in 2007, and title won by Nikolay Timokhin. The show was cancelled after two seasons because of insufficient number of viewers.

Although similar in format, the new series Faktor A is considered a whole new series with season 1 starting 2011.

Series Summary

     Contestant in "15-25s" category
     Contestant in "Over 26s" category
     Contestant in "Groups" category

Series overview

Season	Air date	Winner	Runner-up	Third	Host(s)	Judges	Winning mentor
One	1 April – 11 June 2011	Sergei Savin	Erkin Holmatov	Artyom Kacharian	Philipp Kirkorov Vladimir Zelenski	-Alla Pugacheva (head of jury) -Roman Emelyanov -Boris Krasnov -Lolita Milyavskaya	Boris Krasnov
Two	10 March – 20 May 2012	Alexey Sulima	Ekaterina Leshcheva	Alexandr Balykov	Philipp Kirkorov Alexey Chumakov	-Alla Pugacheva (head of jury) -Roman Emelyanov -Igor Nikolayev -Lolita Milyavskaya	Igor Nikolayev
Three	9 February - 21 April 2013	Mali	Yuliya Samoylova	Yaroslav Dronov	Philipp Kirkorov	-Alla Pugacheva (head of jury) -Roman Emelyanov -Igor Nikolayev -Lolita Milyavskaya	Igor Nikolayev

Contestant in team Roman      Contestant in team Lolita      Head of jury Alla Pugacheva      Contestant in team Boris Krasnov      Contestant in team Igor Nikolaev

Season	First aired	Last aired	Winner	Runner-up	Third Place	Winning coach	Hosts		Chairs (order)
									1	2	3	4
1	April 1, 2011	June 11, 2011	Sergei Savin	Erkin Holmatov	Artyom Kacharian	Boris Krasnov	Philip Kirkorov	Vladimir Zelenski	Roman	Lolita	Alla	Boris
2	March 10, 2012	May 27, 2012	Alexey Sulima	Ekaterina Leshcheva	Alexandr Balykov	Igor Nikolaev		Alexey Chumakov				Igor
3	February 9, 2013	April 21, 2013	Mali	Yuliya	Yaroslav Dronov		Philip Kirkorov		Igor			Roman

Season 1 (2011)

The new Faktor A show is a musical talent show whose main purpose is to find and develop talent singing contestants. Contestants are chosen through public auditions. The show is hosted by Leading the project: Philipp Kirkorov and Vladimir Zelenski. The jury is made up of Lolita Milyavskaya, Boris Krasnov and Roman Emelyanov. Alla Pugacheva serves as chairman of the jury. Milyavskya is mentoring the 16-25s, Krasnov the over 25s and Emelyanov the groups.

The auditions were held on 23 and 24 March 2011 in Moscow's Malaya Luzhniki Sports Arena. Then each judge selected his best three performers after trials on 25, 26 and 27 March 2011.

Categories

The competition is split into three categories:

• Singers aged 16 to 25
• Singers over 25
• Groups (including duos).

Each judge assigned a particular category and entrusted to mentor the competitors in that specific category

Finalists

     – Winner

     – Runner-up

     – Third Place

Category (Mentor)	Acts
16–25s (Lolita Milyavskaya)	Victoria Cherentsova	Erkin Holmatov	Artyom Kacharian
Over 25s (Boris Krasnov)	Philip Kruzhkov	Sergei Savin	Vladislav Tumanov
Groups (Roman Emelyanov)	Mark Twain	DaKi	Sixth Sense

Shows

• Show 1 (1 April 2011) - first stage of auditions
• Show 2 (8 April 2011) - second stage of auditions and deciding the 9 finalist
• Show 3 (15 April 2011) - first live show (Theme: "Soviet Popular Songs")
• Show 4 (22 April 2011) - second live show (Theme: "Songs from the movies"). Vladislav Tumanov originating from Ekaterinburg was eliminated finishing 9th
• Show 5 (19 April 2011) - third live show (Theme: "World Hits"). Philip Krishkov originating from Moscow was eliminated finishing 8th
• Show 6 (6 May 2011) - fourth live show (Theme: "Songs of Love"). Group Шестое чувство ("The Sixth Sense") from Moscow eliminated finishing 7th.
• Show 7 (13 May 2011) - fifth live show (Theme: "Songs about cities and countries). The duo ДаКи ("DaKi") from Kaluga were eliminated finishing 6th.
• Show 8 (20 May 2011) - sixth live show (Theme: "Modern Hits"). Through public vote, "Mark Twain" and Victoria Cherentsova were voted bottom two by the public. But Alla Pugacheva decided to keep both in competition.
• Show 9 (27 May 2011) - seventh live show (Themes: Favorite songs" and "Author's songs"). After the decision of the previous week to save both bottom 2 from elimination, it was agreed that two contestants would be eliminated at the end of show 9 from a bottom three announced. The bottom three were: Group Mark Twain, and contestants Sergei Savin and Victoria Cherentsova. Then it was announced that Mark Twain had received the fewest votes and was eliminated first 5th. Eventually Victoria Cherentsova was eliminated finishing 4th. Sergei Savin moves to Final 3.
• Show 10 (3 June 2011) - eighth live show (Themes: "Candidate's most successful song during all stages of competition" and "Duet with famous Russian pop singers". As a result of public vote, Erkin Holmatov was considered "safe". In the danger zone were the other two Top 3 finalist Sergei Savin and Artyom Kacharyan. As a result of a jury vote, Artyom Kacharyan was eliminated finishing 3rd overall in the competition.
• Show 11 (10 June 2011) - the final show. After all the participants opened the show with a collective song, the two finalists Erkin Holmatov and Sergei Savin sang a duet, as well as two solo songs each. The winner of the project was determined by public voting and by voting by judges Boris Krasnov, Lolita and Roman Emelyanov (1 vote each) and Alla Pugacheva (2 votes) and the audience (2 votes). As a result, on the final results show on June 11, 2011, Sergei Savin (in Russian Сергей Савин) was declared winner of the first series, and Erkin Holmatov (in Russian Эркин Холматов) as runner-up.

Final classification

1. Sergei Savin - Winner
2. Erkin Holmatov - Runner-Up
3. Artyom Kacharyan
4. Victoria Cherentsova
5. Group Марк Твен ("Mark Twain")
6. Duo ДаКи ("DaKi")
7. Шестое чувство ("Sixth Sense")
8. Philip Kruzhkov
9. Vladislav Tumanov

Prizes

The winner of the first series Sergei Savin received a record deal for a solo album, a shooting of a music video and appearing on rotation on Russian radio station Avtoradio ("Авторадио"). The runner-up Erkin Holmatov received a cash prize of 30,000 Euros, the special prize "Golden Star of Alla" from main judge Alla Pugacheva, a 5-year scholarship to a music school in Gnessin. 5-year education at the music school Gnessin.

See also

• The Voice (Russia)

References

1. Show Media Art: На канале «Россия» стартует новое шоу «Секрет успеха» (in Russian)

External links

• Faktor A page on Russia 1 television