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X Factor is a Danish television music competition to find new singing talent. This season will be the first season broadcast on TV2.[1] after DR1 announced on August 16, 2017, that Season 11 is the final season broadcast on their channel.[2] Kristian Kjærlund won the competition and Thomas Blachman became the winning mentor for the 3rd time and the 2nd judge to win 2 seasons in a row.
Sofie Linde Lauridsen returned as the main host of the show for the 4th time. Thomas Blachman returned as a judge for the 11th time while Remee and Sanne Salomonsen decided to quit. Oh Land and Ankerstjerne replaced them as judges.
Auditions took place in Copenhagen, Aarhus and Odense.
The 5 Chair Challenge returns for season 12. Ankerstjerne will mentor the 15-22s, Blachman has the Over 23s and Oh Land has the Groups/Bands.
The 15 successful acts were:
The 6 eliminated acts were:
Key:
– Winner
– Runner-up
– Withdrew
| Act | Age(s) | Hometown | Category (mentor) | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kristian Kjærlund | 23 | Horsens | Over 23s (Blachman) | Winner | |
| Benjamin Rosenbohm | 16 | Copenhagen | 15-22s (Ankerstjerne) | Runner-up | |
| Live Vogel | 15 | Espergærde | 15-22s (Ankerstjerne) | 3rd place | |
| Echo | 15-21 | Various | Groups (Oh Land) | 4th place | |
| Maria & Bea | 18 | Haderslev & Sønderborg | Groups (Oh Land) | 5th place | |
| Patrick Smith | 18 | Rødby | 15-22s (Ankerstjerne) | 6th place | |
| Gina Michaells | 43 | Brande | Over 23s (Blachman) | 7th place | |
| Andrea Brøndsted | 29 | Copenhagen | Over 23s (Blachman) | 8th place | |
| Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne | 59-70 | Various | Groups (Oh Land) | 9th place |
| - | Contestant was in the bottom two and had to sing again in the Sing-Off | |
| - | Contestant received the fewest public votes and was immediately eliminated (no Sing-Off) | |
| - | Contestant received the most public votes | |
| - | Contestant withdrew from the competition |
Contestants' colour key:
| - 15-22s (Ankerstjerne's contestants) | |
| - Over 23s (Blachman's contestants) | |
| - Groups (Oh Land's contestants) |
| Contestant | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st round | 2nd round | ||||||||
| Kristian Kjærlund | 5th 10.8% | 2nd 16.6% | 2nd 17.2% | 1st 24.8% | Safe | 2nd 30.7% | 1st 47.7% | Winner 54.3% | |
| Benjamin Rosenbohm | 2nd 14.3% | 1st 17.2% | 1st 18.1% | 2nd 21.8% | Safe | 1st 34.0% | 2nd 37.8% | Runner-Up 45.7% | |
| Live Vogel | 1st 17.1% | 3rd 15.0% | 4th 13.8% | 4th 14.0% | Safe | 3rd 18.6% | 3rd 14.5% | Eliminated (Week 7) | |
| Echo | 7th 10.2% | 6th 11.1% | 7th 11.4% | 6th 11.8% | Safe | 4th 16.6% | Eliminated (Week 6) | ||
| Maria & Bea | 3rd 13.9% | 5th 13.0% | 3rd 14.2% | 3rd 15.6% | Withdrew | Withdrew (Week 5) | |||
| Patrick Smith | 8th 6.0% | 7th 7.4% | 5th 13.8% | 5th 12.0% | Eliminated (Week 4) | ||||
| Gina Michaells | 4th 13.0% | 4th 13.6% | 6th 11.4% | Eliminated (Week 3) | |||||
| Andrea Brøndsted | 6th 10.5% | 8th 6.2% | Eliminated (Week 2) | ||||||
| Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne | 9th 4.1% | Eliminated (Week 1) | |||||||
| Sing-Off | Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne, Patrick Smith | Patrick Smith, Andrea Brøndsted | Gina Michaells, Echo | Patrick Smith, Echo | The act that received the fewest public votes was automatically eliminated. | ||||
| Ankerstjerne voted out | Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne | Andrea Brøndsted | Gina Michaells | Echo | |||||
| Oh Land voted out | Patrick Smith | Andrea Brøndsted | Gina Michaells | Patrick Smith | |||||
| Blachman voted out | Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne | Patrick Smith | Echo | Patrick Smith | |||||
| Eliminated | Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne 9th | Andrea Brøndsted 8th | Gina Michaells 7th | Patrick Smith 6th | Maria & Bea 5th | Echo 4th | Live Vogel 3rd | Benjamin Rosenbohm Runner-Up | |
| Kristian Kjærlund Winner | |||||||||
| Order | Song[3] | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row | Echo | 1 | "High Five" | Safe |
| scope=row | Kristian Kjærlund | 2 | "Sweet Dreams, TN" | Safe |
| scope=row | Benjamin Rosenbohm | 3 | "When You Love Someone" | Safe |
| scope=row | Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne | 4 | "Hvorfor sku' vi synge" (Original song) | Bottom two |
| scope=row | Gina Michaells | 5 | "Keep Lying" | Safe |
| scope=row | Patrick Smith | 6 | "Entertaineren" | Bottom two |
| scope=row | Andrea Brøndsted | 7 | "Poison" | Safe |
| scope=row | Maria & Bea | 8 | "Bad Girls" | Safe |
| scope=row | Live Vogel | 9 | "When the Party's Over" | Safe |
| Sing-Off details | ||||
| Dr. Rolf & Kanylerne | 1 | "Nattens Sang" (Original song) | Eliminated | |
| Patrick Smith | 2 | "Det si'r sig selv" | Safe | |
| Order | Song[4] | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row | Live Vogel | 1 | "White Flag" | Safe |
| scope=row | Maria & Bea | 2 | "Freestyler" | Safe |
| scope=row | Patrick Smith | 3 | "De er meget interesserede i"/"Du kan gøre hvad du vil" | Bottom two |
| scope=row | Andrea Brøndsted | 4 | "Eternal Flame" | Bottom two |
| scope=row | Benjamin Rosenbohm | 5 | "Cry Me a River" | Safe |
| scope=row | Gina Michaells | 6 | "I'm Not in Love" | Safe |
| scope=row | Echo | 7 | "Clocks" | Safe |
| scope=row | Kristian Kjærlund | 8 | "Common People" | Safe |
| Sing-Off details | ||||
| Patrick Smith | 1 | "Quang's Sang" | Safe | |
| Andrea Brøndsted | 2 | "Don't Know Why" | Eliminated | |
| Order | Song[5] | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row | Maria & Bea | 1 | "I Like It" | Safe |
| scope=row | Benjamin Rosenbohm | 2 | "Be My Mistake" | Safe |
| scope=row | Kristian Kjærlund | 3 | "Electrified" | Safe |
| scope=row | Live Vogel | 4 | "God Is a Woman" | Safe |
| scope=row | Echo | 5 | "Blur" | Bottom two |
| scope=row | Gina Michaells | 6 | "Hope Is a Dangerous Thing for a Woman like Me to Have – but I Have It" | Bottom two |
| scope=row | Patrick Smith | 7 | "Sort Tulipan" | Safe |
| Sing-Off details | ||||
| Gina Michaells | 1 | "I Hope You Dance" | Eliminated | |
| Echo | 2 | "A Thousand Years" | Safe | |
| Order | Song[6] | Movie | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row | Patrick Smith | 1 | "Barndommens Gade" | Barndommens Gade | Bottom two |
| scope=row | Echo | 2 | "Chiquitita" | Mamma Mia! | Bottom two |
| scope=row | Kristian Kjærlund | 3 | "Blood in the Cut" | Safe | |
| scope=row | Live Vogel | 4 | "Life on Mars?" | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | Safe |
| scope=row | Maria & Bea | 5 | "Gangsta's Paradise" | Dangerous Minds | Safe |
| scope=row | Benjamin Rosenbohm | 6 | "Earned It" | Fifty Shades of Grey | Safe |
| Sing-Off details | |||||
| Patrick Smith | 1 | "Fra mark til by" (Original song) | Eliminated | ||
| Echo | 2 | "Comfortably Numb" | Safe | ||
| Order | Song[7] | Result | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row | Benjamin Rosenbohm | 1 | "Crazy Love" | Safe | |
| scope=row | Echo | 2 | "When I Grow Up" | Safe | |
| scope=row | Live Vogel | 3 | "Alle skuffer over tid" | Safe | |
| scope=row | Kristian Kjærlund | 4 | "Youth Knows No Pain" | Safe | |
| scope=row | Maria & Bea | N/A | "Født i dag" | Withdrew |
Maria & Bea withdrew from the competition because of personal reasons, one of them being that Bea's father died, so this week there will be no elimination. However, there will still be a voting but all the publics votes will go through to next week.
| Act | Order | First song (One Hit Wonders)[8] | Order | Second song (Duet with a Special Guest) | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row | Kristian Kjærlund | 1 | "You Get What You Give" | 6 | "Wish You Were Gay" (With Chili) | Safe |
| scope=row | Live Vogel | 2 | "Stand by Me" | 5 | "2000 meter i frit fald" (With Katinka Bjerregaard) | Safe |
| scope=row | Benjamin Rosenbohm | 3 | "A Girl Like You" | 8 | "Planets" (With Nicklas Sahl) | Safe |
| scope=row | Echo | 4 | "All the Things She Said" | 7 | "Fjerne slægtninge" (With Bisse) | Eliminated |
This week's publics votes were combined from last weeks votes.
After Echo were eliminated they performed "Somewhere Only We Know" by Keane
| Act | Order | Judge's Choice Song[9] | Order | Producer's Choice Song | Producer | Order | Winner's single[10] | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Rosenbohm | 1 | "Be Alright" | 4 | "Lost" | Malthe Rostrup | 8 | "Worth a Broken Heart" | Runner-Up | |
| Kristian Kjærlund | 2 | "Do I Wanna Know?" | 5 | "Green Light" | Nicolai Kornerup | 7 | "Lost and Profound" | Winner | |
| Live Vogel | 3 | "Finale på et filmset" | 6 | "Special" | Malthe Rostrup | N/A | N/A (Already eliminated) | 3rd Place |