The Voice Senior (Russian: Голос. 60+) is a Russian singing competition television series broadcast on Channel One. Based on the original The Voice Senior, it has aired one season and aims to find currently unsigned singing talent (solo or duets, professional and amateur) contested by aspiring singers, age 60 or over, drawn from public auditions. The winner will be determined by television viewers voting by telephone, SMS text, and The Voice App. The winners of the five seasons have been: Lidia Muzaleva, Leonid Sergienko, Dina Yudina, Mikhail Serebryakov and Raisa Dmitrenko.
The Voice Senior began airing on September 14, 2018,[1] as an autumn TV season programme. In 2022, Channel One renewed the series through its fifth series that premiered on autumn 2022.
Conception
An adaptation of the Dutch show The Voice Senior, Channel One announced the show under the name Голос. 60+ (The Voice. 60+).
In each season, the winner receives ₽1,000,000.
Selection process and format
Blind auditions
Each season begins with the "Blind auditions," where coaches form their team of artists (4 artists in season 1-2, 5 artists since season 3) whom they mentor through the remainder of the season. The coaches' chairs are faced towards the audience during artists' performances; those interested in an artist press their button, which turns their chair towards the artist and illuminates the bottom of the chair to read "Я выбираю тебя" ("I Want You"). At the conclusion of the performance, an artist either defaults to the only coach who turned around or selects his or her coach if more than one coach expresses interest.
Knockouts
The Knockouts are similar to the Sing-offs in The Voice Kids. In the "Knockout Rounds," four (or five) artists within a team sing individual performances in succession. At the conclusion of the performances, coach would decide which two of four (or five) artists get to advance to the Final.
Final
In the final live performance phase of the competition, artists perform in live show, where public voting narrows to a final group of four artists and eventually declares a winner.
Addition
In each season along with determining the winner, television viewers vote for the Best coach (but in season 2 the public didn't determinate the Best coach) using The Voice App and HbbTV option in their TV sets.
The Voice Senior (ratings) : Russia viewers per episode (millions)
Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.
Season
Episode number
Average
1
2
3
4
5
1
5.6
5.6
5.5
5.1
–
5.45
2
4.8
5.0
4.8
4.9
–
4.88
3
4.9
4.8
4.9
4.0
4.2
4.56
Source: MediaScope
Seasons average: Ratings
The first season premiered on September 14, 2018 with a 5.6 rating in the 18–49 demographic. For its average season rating, the show was in the Top 5 at a 5.45 ranking.
The second season premiered on September 13, 2019 with a 4.8 in the 18–49 demographic. It was down from last season's premiere by .8 rating scores.
The third season will premiere on September 4, 2020 with a 4.9 in the 18–49 demographic. It was up from last season's premiere by .1 rating scores.
Each Russian network television season starts in late August and ends in late May.