The Voice: La plus belle voix () is a reality singing competition on TF1. It is France's version of The Voice format created by John de Mol Jr.. The first episode aired on 25 February 2012. It is the second time that the format has been produced in French after the Belgian version The Voice Belgique.
One of the important premises of the show is the quality of the singing talent. Four coaches, themselves popular performing artists, train the talents on their team and occasionally perform with them. Talents are selected in blind auditions, where the coaches cannot see, but only hear the auditioning contestant.
The original panel featured Florent Pagny, Jenifer, Louis Bertignac and Garou; the panel for the most recent fifteenth season featured Pagny, Amel Bent, Lara Fabian and Tayc. Other coaches that have appeared in previous seasons include Mika, Zazie, Matt Pokora, Pascal Obispo, Soprano, Julien Clerc, Marc Lavoine, Vianney, Bigflo & Oli, Zaz, and Patricia Kaas. Nolwenn Leroy served as a coach for Comeback Stage contestants in the eleventh season. Camille Lellouche was the comeback stage coach for the thirteenth season. The Voice Kids coach Patrick Fiori participated as a coach in the All Stars format of the show.
Format
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. 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. Another twist is brought to the show, the block. Beside the big red button, each coaches have 3 other buttons which have the name of other coach. If the coach want an artist but doesn't want a rival coaches to get that artist, they can hit the button with the name of the coach that they want to block, it will automatically blocks that other coaches and spin the chair. If the blocked coach choose to turn around, their entire chair lighting will stay red, the "JE VOUS VEUX" text below the chair will not appear and the LED screen toward them will say "BLOQUE" instead, not the coaches name. In season 12, can block another coach at any time, even during their pitch. When a coach is blocked, his/her chair turns back.
Each team of singers 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. Within that first live round, the surviving acts from each team again compete head-to-head, with a combination of public and jury vote deciding who advances onto the next round. In the final phase, the remaining contestants (top 8) compete against each other in live broadcasts. The television audience and the coaches have equal say 50/50 in deciding who moves on to the final 4 phase. With one team member remaining for each coach, the final 4 contestants compete against each other in the finale with the outcome decided solely by public vote.
Development, production and marketing
In late 2011 French production company Shine France bought the format and the large national television chains, including TF1 and M6, expressed interest. TF1 eventually won the contract and the format was aired in 2012 as a replacement to the long running Star Academy series.Premiere: La Une remporte la nouvelle Star Ac' face à M6
Coaches and hosts Coaches Seasons Coach 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Florent Pagny colspan="2" colspan="2" Jenifer colspan="3" colspan="4" colspan="3" Louis Bertignac colspan="14" Garou colspan="10" Mika colspan="2" colspan="3" colspan="3" Zazie colspan="3" colspan="4" colspan="3" Matt Pokora colspan="5" colspan="10" Pascal Obispo colspan="6" colspan="7" Julien Clerc colspan="7" colspan="8" Soprano colspan="7" colspan="8" Lara Fabian colspan="8" colspan="5" Amel Bent colspan="8" colspan="2" Marc Lavoine colspan="8" colspan="5" Vianney colspan="9" colspan="2" Nolwenn Leroy colspan="10" colspan="4" Bigflo & Oli colspan="11" colspan="3" Camille Lellouche colspan="12" colspan="2" Zaz colspan="13" colspan="2" Patricia Kaas colspan="13" colspan="2" Tayc colspan="14"
Notes
Line-up of Coaches + Coaches' line-up by chairs order Season Year Coaches 1 2 3 4 1 2012 Florent Jenifer Louis Garou rowspan="10" 2 2013 3 2014 Mika 4 2015 Zazie 5 2016 Mika Zazie Garou 6 2017 Matt 7 2018 Zazie Mika Pascal 8 2019 Julien Jenifer Soprano 9 2020 Lara Amel Marc Pascal 10 2021 Florent Vianney Marc 11 2022 Nolwenn 12 2023 Zazie Bigflo & Oli 13 2024 Vianney Zazie Mika Camille 14 2025 Florent Zaz Vianney Patricia rowspan="2" 15 2026 Amel Lara Tayc
Hosts Seasons Presenters 1 2 345 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Nikos Aliagas Virginie de Clausade colspan="14" Karine Ferri colspan="6" Anaïs Grangerac colspan="13"
Series overview Warning: the following table presents a significant amount of different colors.
+ Teams color key Artist from Team Florent Artist from Team Pascal Artist from Team Nolwenn Artist from Team Garou Artist from Team Soprano Artist from Team Bigflo & Oli Artist from Team Jenifer Artist from Team Julien Artist from Team Camille Artist from Team Louis Artist from Team Lara Artist from Team Zaz Artist from Team Mika Artist from Team Amel Artist from Team Patricia Artist from Team Zazie Artist from Team Marc Artist from Team Tayc Artist from Team Matt Artist from Team Vianney
+ The Voice: la plus belle voix series overview Season Aired Winner Runner-up Third place Fourth place Fifth place Winning coach Presenters 1 2012 Stéphan Rizon Louis Delort Al.Hy Aude Henneville rowspan="10" Florent Pagny Nikos Aliagas 2 2013 Yoann Fréget Olympe Nuno Resende Loïs Silvin Garou 3 2014 Kendji Girac Maximilien Philippe Amir Haddad Wesley Semé Mika 4 2015 Lilian Renaud Anne Sila David Thibault Côme Zazie 5 2016 Slimane Nebchi MB14 Antoine Galey Clément Verzi Florent Pagny 6 2017 Lisandro Cuxi Lucie Vagenheim Vincent Vinel Nicola Cavallaro Matt Pokora 7 2018 Maëlle Pistoia Raffi Arto Yoann Casanova Xam Hurricane Zazie 8 2019 Whitney Marin Clément Albertini Sidoine Rémy Pierre Danaé Mika 9 2020 Abi Bernadoth Gustine Tom Rochet Antoine Delie Pascal Obispo 10 2021 Marghe Davico Jim Bauer Mentissa Aziza Cyprien Zéni Florent Pagny 11 2022 Nour Brousse Mister Mat Vike Caroline Costa Loris Triolo 12 2023 Aurélien Vivos Micha Jérémy Levif Arslane Zazie 13 2024 Alphonse Baptiste Sartoria Gabriel Lobao Iris Fournier Shanys 14 2025 II Cello Gianni Carello Méga Mickaël Gallo rowspan="2" Florent Pagny 15 2026 Lady O CJM's Tessa B. Hugo Derose
Coaches' results Considering the final placement of the contestants who are members of their team (not the final placement of the coaches):
+ Coaches' results Coach Winner Runner-up Third place Fourth place Fifth place Sixth place Florent Pagny 7 times (1, 5, 10-11, all-stars, 14-15) Thrice (4, 6-7) Twice (2, all-stars) Once (3) — Once (all-stars) Zazie 4 times (4, 7, 12-13) — — Twice (5-6) — — Mika Twice (3, 8) Once (5) 4 times (4, 6-7, 13) Once (all-stars) — — Garou Once (2) Twice (1, 3) Once (5) — — — Matt Pokora Once (6) — — — — — Pascal Obispo Once (9) — — Once (7) — — Vianney — Twice (11, 13) Thrice (10, 12, 14) — — — Amel Bent — Twice (12, 15) Twice (9, 11) Twice (10, 12) — — Jenifer — Once (2) Thrice (1, 3, 8) Once (4) Once (all-stars) — Marc Lavoine — Once (10) — Twice (9, 11) — — Lara Fabian — Once (9) — Once (15) — — Soprano — Once (8) — — — — Zaz — Once (14) — — — — Patrick Fiori — Once (all-stars) — — — — Tayc — — Once (15) — — — Louis Bertignac — — — Twice (1-2) — — Julien Clerc — — — Once (8) — — Bigflo & Oli — — — Once (13) — — Patricia Kaas — — — Once (14) — — Nolwenn Leroy — — — — Once (11) — Camille Lellouche — — — — Once (13) —
The Voice All-Stars For the first-decade anniversary special of The Voice France, and for the first time in the history of The Voice, there would be 5 coaches for 5 individual seats under the first All-Stars version, where contestants from previous seasons would participate. Coaches for this special spinoff are Florent Pagny, Jenifer, Mika, Zazie, all of whom has served as coaches on the main show; and The Voice Kids coach Patrick Fiori.
+ The Voice All-Stars series overview Season Aired Winner Runner-up Third place Fourth place Fifth place Sixth place Winning coach Presenters Coaches (chairs' order) 1 2 3 4 5 1 2021 Anne Sila Louis Delort MB14 Terrence James Amalya Delepierre Manon Maley Florent Pagny Nikos Aliagas,Karine Ferri Florent Jenifer Mika Zazie Patrick
Coaches' teams and finalists Winner Runner-up Third place Fourth place/Eliminated Fifth place/Eliminated
Winners are in bold, finalists in the finale are listed first, stolen artists are in italicized font, and eliminated artists are in small font.