Off the back of the last Blind Auditions for 2024, Sunday night will see the top 48 artists who made it past the first stage take part in The Battles.
The teams:
GRAMMY-nominated international artist, actor, philanthropist and LGBTQ+ activist Adam Lambert; award-winning Australian singer-songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke; and multi-platinum-selling, award-winning singer and songwriter LeAnn Rimes join returning The Voice favourite, multi-platinum-selling artist Guy Sebastian, as they all vie to discover and mentor Australia’s next singing sensation.
“We have the biggest transformation of coaches we’ve had for a long time,” Voice EP Digby Mitchell told Mediaweek.
“We were thrilled to be able to get this group together, and they really clicked from day one.”
This season of The Voice began with the Blind Auditions as artists took to the stage hoping to turn the coaches red chairs. The stakes were high with the coaches’ teams capped at 12 spots each.
2024’s iteration featured a world-first for the series, with each coach receiving one Ultimate Block, giving them the power to block all three of their fellow coaches at once, ensuring that the artist they like joins their team.
The coaches also received one Block each, giving them the power to block a rival coach from getting an artist they turned their chair for.
Mitchell also said the structure of this season is slightly different to the previous season.
“Coming out of the blinds, we have mixed it up this year and have gone straight into the battles, which is another touchstone of the format,” he said.
“We decided to move that up so the mentoring could happen quicker, the coaches could be more involved with the artist, and we could get to a more exciting part of the competition earlier in the run.”
The Voice is hosted by 2023 TV Week Gold Logie Award-winner Sonia Kruger and is an ITV Studios Australia production for the Seven Network.