The Final 1 season 1

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The first season of The Final 1 premiered on MediaCorp Channel 5 on 24 April 2013. It is a Singaporean reality-singing competition programme created by the director of Hype Records Ken Lim.[1] The judges were singer-songwriter Taufik Batisah, singer-actress Kit Chan and Ken Lim. Fly Entertainment artiste Vanessa Vanderstraaten was employed as the host of the show.[2] Class 95FM radio personality Mike Kasem later joined the show as the second host, and hosted the finals together with Vanderstraaten.

The Final 1
Season 1
Hosted byVanessa Vanderstraaten
Mike Kasem
JudgesTaufik Batisah
Kit Chan
Ken Lim
WinnerFarisha Ishak
Runner-upShaun Jansen
Finals venueThe Star Theatre
Release
Original networkMediaCorp Channel 5
Original release24 April (2013-04-24) –
21 August 2013 (2013-08-21)
Season chronology
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Season 2

The show is also the first in Singapore's history to produce a female winner from an English-based major reality-singing competition programme. The past winners from Singapore Idol, a similar programme which has already ended its run in 2009, were all males.

On 21 August 2013, Farisha Ishak was announced the winner of the first season of The Final 1, beating Shaun Jansen, the recipient of the Wild Card save. She received a $50,000 record deal from Hype Records and a cash prize of $50,000.[2][3]

Farisha, as the winner, signed to a record label. Ken Lim originally stated he had no plans to sign any of the other finalists from the competition. However, on 23 September, it was announced Hype Records also signed Jansen to its label.

Online auditions

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The show is open to all citizens and permanent residents of Singapore aged 16 to 32 as of 1 January 2013.[4] The online auditions began on 11 January 2013 and ended on 15 February 2013.[4] To participate in the auditions, all contestants must register themselves at the official website of the show and submit an audition video of no more than five minutes long.[4] Over 1,000 audition clips were submitted for the competition.[3] Out of all auditionees, 60 were selected by the judges as the top 60 contestants and they were invited to perform in front of them at the top 60 round.[4]

Top 60 round

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The top 60 round were held in W Singapore Sentosa Cove where the 60 contestants that were handpicked by the judges from the online auditions competed for a place in the top 40 rounds. Although 60 online auditionees were chosen, only 56 of them turned up for this round of the competition. Hence, four of the top 60 finalists eliminated themselves from the competition prior to the start of the top 60 round. The contestants first emerged on stage in groups but performed individually with a backing track or by playing with a musical instrument. At the end of all performances, 16 contestants who did not impress the judges were eliminated, and the remaining top 40 contestants advanced to the next round.[5]

Top 40 finalists

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The following is a list of top 40 finalists who failed to reach the top 20 live rounds:

Contestant Age at time of show Occupation Audition song Top 60 round song Contestant Age at time of show Occupation Audition song Top 60 round song
Harris Baba 21 National serviceman "Let Me Love You" Hariz Maloy 19 Student "It's Time" "Brokenhearted"
Zarinah Bahtiar 28 Freelancer "Use Somebody" "Titanium" Mohamed Amirul 20 Student "Feeling Good" "Mercy"
Boon Hui Lu 19 Student "Pumped Up Kicks" Not aired Mohammad Sufie 22 Musician-songwriter "Faithfully"
Joey Chua 18 Student "The Voice Within" Khim Ng 20 Performer "Nobody's Perfect"
Farah Erfina 21 Student "Forget You" "Thinking of You" Sherly Ng 20 Student "...Baby One More Time" / "This Love" "Fallin'"
Fathin Amira 20 Self-employed "Put Your Records On" Charmaine Pelaez 26 Musician "You Oughta Know"
Trella Goh 19 Student "If I Ain't Got You" Not aired Danial Razak 21 Student "We Found Love" Not aired
Alex Hong 23 Student "Sunday Morning" "Like I Love You" Kassandra Sulastri 21 Freelance performer "Rolling in the Deep"
Hydir Idris 20 Student "One in a Million" "The Last Time" Maggie Syazana 18 Student "Video Games"
Kamsani Jumahat 22 Student "Mercy" / "I Believe I Can Fly" "Mercy" Marc Than 28 Banker "I Don't Want to Be" Not aired

Top 40 rounds

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The top 40 performance rounds started on 1 May and took place at a venue sponsored by The P' Club Group while the results were shown live from MediaCorp TV Theatre. The forty contestants who made it competed in this round and only twenty moved on. The contestants were divided into four groups of ten. Each week, the top 5 vote-getters of the week were revealed during the live results show but it was not a guarantee that they were able to advance to the next round. At the end of all top 40 rounds, all contestants were ranked and the twenty contestants with the most public votes advanced to the next round while the remaining twenty contestants were eliminated. Each group performed in front of the judges and was accompanied by a live band. From this round onwards, the results were solely based on the public votes.[5] The viewers were able to cast their votes via telephone, SMS text voting and the show's Facebook application. Votes cast via the telephone and SMS text voting made up 60% of the total votes, while the remaining 40% was determined by the number of votes received from the show's Facebook application.[6]

Group 1

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Order Contestant Song Result
Group 1 Overall
1 Khim Ng "Oh! Darling" Bottom 5 (6th–9th) Eliminated
2 Joey Chua "How Do I Live" Bottom 5 (6th–9th) Eliminated
3 Farisha Ishak "Rumour Has It" Top 5 (2nd–3rd) Advanced
4 Hariz Maloy "It's Time" Bottom 5 (6th–9th) Eliminated
5 Gail Belmonte "If I Ain't Got You" Top 5 (2nd–3rd) Advanced
6 Marc Than "Zombie" Bottom 5 (6th–9th) Eliminated
7 Zarinah Bahtiar "Only So Much Oil in the Ground" Top 5 (4th–5th) Eliminated
8 Viveck Raam "Lips of an Angel" Top 5 (1st) Advanced
9 Trella Goh "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" Bottom (10th) Eliminated
10 Mohammad Sufie "Rolling in the Deep" Top 5 (4th–5th) Eliminated
  • Best Vocal Performance (Kit Chan's choice): Gail Belmonte, Farisha Ishak & Marc Than
  • Best Individual Style (Taufik Batisah's choice): Farisha Ishak, Khim Ng & Marc Than
  • Most Marketability (Ken Lim's choice): None

Group 2

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Order Contestant Song Result
Group 2 Overall
1 Shanice Hedger "Torn" Top 5 (2nd–4th) Advanced
2 Boon Hui Lu "Speechless" Bottom 5 (6th–10th) Eliminated
3 Mohamed Amirul "Halo" / "Sweet Dreams" Top 5 (5th) Eliminated
4 Kamsani Jumahat "Superstition" Bottom 5 (6th–10th) Eliminated
5 Sherly Ng "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" Bottom 5 (6th–10th) Eliminated
6 Raina Sum "I (Who Have Nothing)" Top 5 (2nd–4th) Advanced
7 Hydir Idris "The Last Time" Bottom 5 (6th–10th) Eliminated
8 Jean Kyaw "Moves like Jagger" Top 5 (2nd–4th) Advanced
9 Yuresh Balakrishnan "Skinny Love" Top 5 (1st) Advanced
10 Alex Hong "Like I Love You" Bottom 5 (6th–10th) Eliminated
  • Best Vocal Performance (Kit Chan's choice): Yuresh Balakrishnan, Hydir Idris & Kamsani Jumahat
  • Best Individual Style (Taufik Batisah's choice): Yuresh Balakrishnan & Alex Hong
  • Most Marketability (Ken Lim's choice): None

Group 3

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Order Contestant Song Result
Group 3 Overall
1 Glen Wee "High Hopes" Top 5 (2nd–5th) Advanced
2 Meryl Joan Lee "Big Spender" Top 5 (1st) Advanced
3 Enriquo Garcia "Harder to Breathe" Bottom 5 (6th–8th) Advanced
4 Kassandra Sulastri "Domino" Bottom 5 (9th–10th) Eliminated
5 Cyril Toh "A Moment Like This" Top 5 (2nd–5th) Advanced
6 Laraine Lam "This Love" Bottom 5 (6th–8th) Advanced
7 D.J. Borries "Who's Lovin' You" Top 5 (2nd–5th) Advanced
8 Fathin Amira "If I Were a Boy" Bottom 5 (9th–10th) Eliminated
9 Hashy Yusof "Black and Gold" Top 5 (2nd–5th) Advanced
10 Debbi Koh "Decode" Bottom 5 (6th–8th) Advanced
  • Best Individual Style (Taufik Batisah's choice): Glen Wee & Hashy Yusof
  • Best Vocal Performance (Kit Chan's choice): Glen Wee & Hashy Yusof
  • Most Marketability (Ken Lim's choice): Glen Wee & Hashy Yusof

Group 4

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Order Contestant Song Result
Group 4 Overall
1 Cheryl K "Mamma Knows Best" Top 5 (2nd–5th) Advanced
2 Danial Razak "Little Things" Bottom 5 (6th–10th) Eliminated
3 E.T. Ong "Toxic" Top 5 (2nd–5th) Advanced
4 Charmaine Pelaez "Billie Jean" Bottom 5 (6th–10th) Eliminated
5 Farah Erfina "Wings" Bottom 5 (6th–10th) Eliminated
6 Louisa Kan "When I Was Your Man" Top 5 (1st) Advanced
7 Harris Baba "Torn" Bottom 5 (6th–10th) Eliminated
8 Faith Ng "...Baby One More Time" Top 5 (2nd–5th) Advanced
9 Maggie Syazana "Valerie" Bottom 5 (6th–10th) Eliminated
10 Shaun Jansen "I Don't Love You" Top 5 (2nd–5th) Advanced
  • Best Vocal Performance (Kit Chan's choice): Shaun Jansen, Cheryl K, Louisa Kan & Danial Razak
  • Best Individual Style (Taufik Batisah's choice): Shaun Jansen & Danial Razak
  • Most Marketability (Ken Lim's choice): Shaun Jansen

Top 20 finalists

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The following is a list of top 20 finalists who failed to reach the finals:

Contestant Age at time of show Occupation Audition song Top 60 round song Contestant Age at time of show Occupation Audition song Top 60 round song
D.J. Borries 22 Model "If I Ain't Got You" Not aired E.T. Ong 25 Full-time performer "Impossible" "Grace Kelly"
Enriquo Garcia 21 Pyrotechnician "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" Not aired Viveck Raam 20 National serviceman "Last Request"
Shanice Hedger 17 Student "Titanium" Raina Sum 18 Student "Nobody's Perfect"
Cheryl K 17 Student "Trouble" / "I Knew You Were Trouble" Cyril Toh 20 Student "Try"
Laraine Lam 19 Student "She Left Me" "I Can't Make You Love Me"

Top 20 live rounds

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The top 20 live rounds started on 29 May. The top 20 finalists performed live at the MediaCorp TV Theatre from this round onwards, and the results were also shown live from the same venue. The remaining contestants were once again divided into groups of ten to perform on two separate nights. Similar to the top 40 rounds, each week the weekly top 4 vote-getters were revealed during the live results show but it was not a guarantee that they were able to advance to the next round. At the end of both top 20 live rounds, all contestants were ranked and the eight contestants with the most public votes advanced to the top 10 live rounds. The remaining twelve contestants were put through to the wild card round on 12 June to compete for the final two spots in the top 10. Each group performed live in front of the judges and studio audience, and was accompanied by dancers and stage props.

Group 1

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Order Contestant Song Result
Group 1 Overall
1 Meryl Joan Lee "Tainted Love" Top 4 Advanced
2 Shanice Hedger "Love the Way You Lie (Part II)" Bottom 6 Wild Card
3 Gail Belmonte "Skyscraper" Top 4 Advanced
4 Jean Kyaw "I Turn to You" Top 4 Advanced
5 Viveck Raam "I Saw Her Standing There" Bottom 6 Wild Card
6 Cyril Toh "If I Lose Myself" Bottom 6 Wild Card
7 D.J. Borries "Kiss" / "Brokenhearted" Bottom 6 Wild Card
8 Hashy Yusof "Heartbreaker" Bottom 6 Wild Card
9 Yuresh Balakrishnan "We All Try" Bottom 6 Wild Card
10 Farisha Ishak "Ordinary People" Top 4 Advanced
  • Most Relatability (Taufik Batisah's choice): Yuresh Balakrishnan & Farisha Ishak
  • Best Stage Presence (Kit Chan's choice): Yuresh Balakrishnan, Farisha Ishak & Meryl Joan Lee
  • Most Sustainability (Ken Lim's choice): Meryl Joan Lee

Group 2

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Order Contestant Song Result
Group 2 Overall
1 Raina Sum "Crazy" Bottom 6 Wild Card
2 Laraine Lam "Safe & Sound" Bottom 6 Wild Card
3 Debbi Koh "Suit & Tie" Top 4 Advanced
4 Cheryl K "One Night Only" Bottom 6 Wild Card
5 E.T. Ong "Locked Out of Heaven" Bottom 6 Wild Card
6 Glen Wee "Mirrors" Top 4 Advanced
7 Louisa Kan "Forget You" Top 4 Advanced
8 Faith Ng "Chasing Pavements" Top 4 Advanced
9 Enriquo Garcia "Marry You" Bottom 6 Wild Card
10 Shaun Jansen "Mr. Brightside" Bottom 6 Wild Card
  • Best Stage Presence (Kit Chan's choice): Shaun Jansen & Glen Wee
  • Most Relatability (Taufik Batisah's choice): Shaun Jansen & Glen Wee
  • Most Sustainability (Ken Lim's choice): Cheryl K & Glen Wee

Wild Card round – Ethnic Songs

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Following those eight contestants advancing on 5 June, the remaining twelve top 20 finalists competed in the Wild Card round for the final two spots in the top 10. All contestants performed an ethnic song of their choice. Following another performance by each Wild Card contender, the judges selected two contestants to advance to the final group of 10.

Order Contestant Song Result
1 Cheryl K "Jelingan Manja" Eliminated
2 E.T. Ong "Hei Se You Mo" Eliminated
3 Shanice Hedger "Beribu Sesalan" Eliminated
4 Enriquo Garcia "Kiss Goodbye" Eliminated
5 Laraine Lam "Liu Sha" Eliminated
6 Cyril Toh "Tong Hua" Eliminated
7 Shaun Jansen "Tian Gao Di Hou" Saved
8 Viveck Raam "Vellai Pookal" Eliminated
9 D.J. Borries "Kaulah Segalanya" Eliminated
10 Yuresh Balakrishnan "An Jing" Advanced
11 Raina Sum "San Ren You" Eliminated
12 Hashy Yusof "Terukir Di Bintang" Advanced

After Yuresh Balakrishnan and Hashy Yusof were selected as the two wild card picks to advance to the top 10, Ken Lim revealed that one of the wild card contestants that was not selected as the wild card pick would be saved from elimination and join the top 10 contestants to form a surprise top 11. In reference to the weekly judges' choices from the past six result shows that highlighted contestants with potential as commercial artists, the choices were converted to points and the non-selected wild card contender with the highest score was saved. Shaun Jansen was announced as the non-selected wild card contender with the highest score and was sent through to the next round as the 11th contestant.

Finalists

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The following is a list of top 11 finalists:

Contestant Age at time of show Occupation Audition song Top 60 round song Contestant Age at time of show Occupation Audition song Top 60 round song
Farisha Ishak 18 Student "Make You Feel My Love" "American Boy" Louisa Kan 17 Student "Someone like You"
Shaun Jansen 27 Marketing executive "We Are the Champions" "Wanted Dead or Alive" Debbi Koh 16 Student "Payphone" "Diamonds"
Jean Kyaw 19 Student "Reflection" Yuresh Balakrishnan 20 Student "The Girl" "Dream a Little Dream of Me"
Glen Wee 19 Student "Animal" / "Baby" "Too Close" Faith Ng 17 Student "As Long as You Love Me" "Wings"
Meryl Joan Lee 24 Freelance singer "The Nearness of You" "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?" Hashy Yusof 18 Student "Fix You" "Candy"
Gail Belmonte 17 Student "Listen"

Finals

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The finals started on 19 June. In this season, there are nine weeks of the finals and 11 finalists, with one finalist eliminated per week based on the Singaporean public's votes (exceptions include top 8-week, where the judges were able to decide who would go home and eliminated three contestants, and the first top 4-week, which was revealed as a surprise non-elimination round). The finalists were housed at W Singapore Sentosa Cove to attend bootcamp sessions. The finals were once again broadcast from MediaCorp TV Theatre in front of a live studio audience, with the exception of the top 2 finale which took place at The Star Theatre. All performances were accompanied by a live band and backing vocalists. Class 95FM radio personality Mike Kasem was named as the second host of the show on the top 11-week.

Top 11 – Their Personal Branding

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Mentor: Lionel Roudaut

The top 11 finalists were tasked to work on their personal branding, which could assist them in building fan loyalty and differentiating themselves from the others. Lasalle College of the Arts fashion design programme leader Lionel Roudaut, together with judge Kit Chan were employed as image advisers for the top 11 finalists. The contestants then worked with their respective fashion designers, hairstylists, and beauty consultants to produce their own personal image which was later presented on the show.

Order Contestant Song Result
1 Louisa Kan "Just Give Me a Reason" Safe
2 Yuresh Balakrishnan "Fix You" Safe
3 Farisha Ishak "Next to Me" Safe
4 Faith Ng "Beautiful" Safe
5 Jean Kyaw "Inseparable" Safe
6 Meryl Joan Lee "Angel" Safe Last
7 Gail Belmonte "Change Your Life" Safe
8 Debbi Koh "So Sick" Safe
9 Shaun Jansen "Hallelujah" Safe
10 Hashy Yusof "You're the One That I Want" Eliminated
11 Glen Wee "Creep" Safe Last

Top 10 – Social Media Challenge

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Mentor: Khalid Almkhlaafy

The top 10 finalists were put to a "Social Media Challenge" in which they had to come up with creative ideas for an online viral video which reflects their own thoughts and ideals. Lasalle College of the Arts broadcast media programme leader Khalid Almkhlaafy was employed to conduct a guiding workshop for the top 10 finalists. The contestants also worked with the students from Lasalle College of the Arts to conceptualize and produce videos that were based on each of the contestants' original ideas. The videos were then uploaded to the YouTube channel of MediaCorp Channel 5 and the contestants were tasked to promote their own video on social media platforms.

Order Contestant Song Featured Video Result
1 Gail Belmonte "Since U Been Gone" Second Chances with Gail Safe
2 Debbi Koh "Somebody That I Used to Know" Debbidoodares Safe
3 Faith Ng "Big Girls Don't Cry" Impersonator Impersonations Eliminated
4 Shaun Jansen "Sexy and I Know It" A Face to the Crowd Safe
5 Yuresh Balakrishnan "Hey Ya!" Heart and Sound Safe
6 Jean Kyaw "Good Girl" How Did She Levitate?!?! Safe
7 Meryl Joan Lee "I Won't Give Up" Spontaneous #LoveThroughMusic Safe
8 Glen Wee "Impossible" Glen Final 1 Safe Last
9 Louisa Kan "Love, Me" Pieces of You – Original Safe
10 Farisha Ishak "Lately" Flash Sing at Cineleisure Safe
  • Group performance: "Get Lucky"
  • Most Effective Video (Khalid Almkhlaafy's choice): Shaun Jansen (A Face to the Crowd)
  • Most Viewed Video: Shaun Jansen (A Face to the Crowd)

Top 9 – Songs for Their Families & Friends

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Each contestant performed a song as a dedication to their families and friends.

Order Contestant Song Result
1 Farisha Ishak "You've Got a Friend" Safe
2 Yuresh Balakrishnan "Can't Help Falling in Love" Eliminated
3 Glen Wee "I Don't Need No Doctor" Safe
4 Debbi Koh "Come & Get It" / "Hotel California" Safe
5 Jean Kyaw "To Love You More" Safe
6 Gail Belmonte "The Prayer" Safe
7 Louisa Kan "Bless the Broken Road" Safe
8 Meryl Joan Lee "God Bless the Child" Safe
9 Shaun Jansen "I'll Stand by You" Safe Last

Top 8 – Judges' Choice

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Each contestant performed a song chosen by the judges.

Prior to the performance show, all contestants attended a mentoring session with their respective judge who chose their song. Similar to the Wild Card round, there was no public voting and the judges decided on the contestants to eliminate from the competition.

Order Contestant Song Chosen By Result
1 Meryl Joan Lee "I Can't Make You Love Me" Taufik Batisah Safe
2 Louisa Kan "A Thousand Years" Taufik Batisah Eliminated
3 Debbi Koh "Pumped Up Kicks" Taufik Batisah Eliminated
4 Gail Belmonte "Need You Now" Kit Chan Eliminated
5 Glen Wee "Babylon" Kit Chan Safe
6 Jean Kyaw "Skyfall" Kit Chan Safe
7 Shaun Jansen "Forever and Always" Ken Lim Safe
8 Farisha Ishak "I Look to You" Ken Lim Safe

Top 5 – Songs for Their Fans

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Each contestant performed two songs as a dedication to their fans.

Order Contestant Song Result
1 Glen Wee "Live High" Safe
2 Jean Kyaw "Try" Safe Last
3 Shaun Jansen "High and Dry" Safe
4 Meryl Joan Lee "Feels Like Home" Eliminated
5 Farisha Ishak "Get Here" Safe
6 Jean Kyaw "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" Safe Last
7 Meryl Joan Lee "Unwritten" Eliminated
8 Glen Wee "Imagine" Safe
9 Farisha Ishak "Put Your Records On" Safe
10 Shaun Jansen "Semi-Charmed Life" Safe
  • Group performance: "Cups"

Top 4 (first week) – Meet the Press Challenge

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Each contestant performed two songs during the performance show. In addition, each contestant was given a question by the judges to assess their ability to respond.

The top 4 finalists were put to a test in media-related situations this week. They attended a photo shoot session with 8 Days magazine, a press conference held at ME@OUE, and a radio talk show, 987 Home with Rozz, hosted by 987FM radio personality Rosalyn Lee. The most media savvy contestant was given the "Eclipse Meet the Press Challenge Award" with $500 worth of prizes.

Order Contestant Song Result
1 Jean Kyaw "Set Fire to the Rain" Safe
2 Farisha Ishak "Let's Stay Together" Safe
3 Shaun Jansen "No Woman, No Cry" Safe
4 Glen Wee "Angels Brought Me Here" Safe
5 Jean Kyaw "Dance with My Father" Safe
6 Farisha Ishak "One and Only" Safe
7 Shaun Jansen "Summer of '69" Safe
8 Glen Wee "Not Over You" Safe
  • Judges' questions:
    • Farisha Ishak: Should you leave the competition tonight, what would you say you can take away from this competition? What have you learnt? – posted by Taufik Batisah
    • Shaun Jansen: Are you worried that people are harping more on your looks than your talent and what do you intend to do about it? – posted by Kit Chan
    • Jean Kyaw: Do you think you should be the Final 1 and why? – posted by Ken Lim
    • Glen Wee: How much do you want to be the Final 1? What are you willing to do to be the winner? – posted by Taufik Batisah
  • Group performances:
    • Farisha Ishak, Shaun Jansen, Jean Kyaw & Glen Wee: "Paparazzi"
    • Jean Kyaw & Glen Wee: "My Boo"
    • Farisha Ishak & Shaun Jansen: "You and I"
  • Eclipse Meet the Press Challenge Award: Shaun Jansen – presented by Rosalyn Lee

On the results show, all contestants were declared safe and no one was eliminated. However, Ken Lim stated the elimination was confirmed and the results would be announced the following week.

Top 4 (second week) – Their Original Songs

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Mentor: Rai

Each contestant performed two original songs – one that was co-written with songwriters from Ocean Butterflies Music Forest School, and the other that was written entirely by the contestants themselves. All original songs were set to showcase creativity and originality from the contestants. Rai, a singer-songwriter as well as the member of Singaporean duo Jack & Rai, was employed as songwriting advisor for the top 4 finalists.

There was no results show for this week. The contestant who received the fewest votes the previous week was eliminated at the end of the performance show.

Order Contestant Song Written By Result
1 Glen Wee "All You've Got Is Love" Self with Natalie Hiong & Morgan Law Eliminated
2 Jean Kyaw "You" Self with Derrick Tham & Madeleine Tan Safe
3 Farisha Ishak "Smile" Self with Elton Lee & Sin Sek Jhia Safe
4 Shaun Jansen "I Want You" Self with Salyonn Han Koh & Maricelle Rani Wong Safe
5 Glen Wee "Untitled" Self with Yuresh Balakrishnan Eliminated
6 Jean Kyaw "Under the Rain" Self with Edwin Luke Wee Safe
7 Farisha Ishak "Life Is Beautiful" Self Safe
8 Shaun Jansen "Here to Stay" Self Safe

It was revealed that Glen Wee received the fewest votes the previous week and was sent home. After the results were announced, Ken Lim explained the rationale of delaying the results for a week as to show the contestants the consequences of missing the opportunity to perform their best. In reference to Glen's elimination, he stated: "I did mention that all of you should treat all your performances as it would be your last. But your previous performances were not good. It's extremely unfortunate that you provided your best performance after opportunities have eluded you."

Top 3 – Reprise Performance

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Each contestant reprised one of their previous performances. The rest of the top 11 finalists returned to the show this week to share about their journey throughout the competition.

There was once again no results show for this week. The public voting commenced after the performance show at 9:00pm the previous week. The voting lines and Facebook voting system stayed open till the start of the performance show at 8:00pm this week. The contestant who received the fewest votes from the one-week voting period was eliminated at the end of the performance show. Daily voting updates were published from 2 to 7 August 2013, via the MediaCorp Channel 5's Facebook page. The updates revealed the contestant with the most public votes as of 2:00pm on the particular day.

Order Contestant Song Daily Voting Updates (as of 2pm) Result
2/8 3/8 4/8 5/8 6/8 7/8
1 Farisha Ishak "I Look to You" Top Top Top Bottom 2 Top Bottom 2 Safe
2 Jean Kyaw "Skyfall" Bottom 2 Bottom 2 Bottom 2 Bottom 2 Bottom 2 Top Eliminated
3 Shaun Jansen "Sexy and I Know It" Bottom 2 Bottom 2 Bottom 2 Top Bottom 2 Bottom 2 Safe

Top 2 – Contestant's Choice / Contestant's Choice / Winner's Single

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Each contestant performed two songs of their choice, and their debut single. The debut single, originally written by Ken Lim, was renditioned by Farisha Ishak in its disco version, while Shaun Jansen sang the pop rock version.

Besides voting through phone calls, text messaging, and Facebook, in a first for the entire season of the show, fans were offered the ability to vote for their favourite top 2 finalist through "gift-to-vote" – by purchasing the studio version of the original song performed by the respective top 2 finalists on the second top 4-week. Farisha Ishak's "Life Is Beautiful" and Shaun Jansen's "Here to Stay" are available for download via the MeRadio Store. Each song download was counted as one phone-in vote, which constituted 60% of the overall results. The "gift-to-vote" voting period commenced after the performance show at 9:00pm the previous week and ended at 11:59pm on 20 August 2013. The voting lines and Facebook voting system were made available at 8:30pm, after the first set of performances from the top 2 finalists during the performance show.

Order Contestant Song Result
1 Farisha Ishak "Ain't Nobody" Winner
2 Shaun Jansen "Viva la Vida" Runner-up
3 Farisha Ishak "Run" Winner
4 Shaun Jansen "Radioactive" Runner-up
5 Shaun Jansen "Tonight" Runner-up
6 Farisha Ishak "Tonight" Winner

Elimination chart

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Females Males Top 40 Top 20 Top 11 Wild Card Winner
Did Not Perform Safe Safe Last Eliminated Wild Card Save
Stage: Top 40 Top 20 Wild Card Finals
Week: 1/5 8/5 15/5 22/5 29/5 5/6 12/6 19/6 26/6 3/7 10/7 17/7 24/71 31/7 7/8 21/8
Place Contestant Result
1 Farisha Ishak Top 20 Top 11 Winner
2 Shaun Jansen Top 20 Wild Card Top 11 Safe Last Runner-up
3 Jean Kyaw Top 20 Top 11 Safe Last Elim
4 Glen Wee Top 20 Top 11 Safe Last Safe Last Elim
5 Meryl Joan Lee Top 20 Top 11 Safe Last Elim
6–8 Gail Belmonte Top 20 Top 11 Elim
Louisa Kan Top 20 Top 11
Debbi Koh Top 20 Top 11
9 Yuresh Balakrishnan Top 20 Wild Card Top 11 Elim
10 Faith Ng Top 20 Top 11 Elim
11 Hashy Yusof Top 20 Wild Card Top 11 Elim
12–20 D.J. Borries Top 20 Wild Card Elim
Enriquo Garcia Top 20 Wild Card
Shanice Hedger Top 20 Wild Card
Cheryl K Top 20 Wild Card
Laraine Lam Top 20 Wild Card
E.T. Ong Top 20 Wild Card
Viveck Raam Top 20 Wild Card
Raina Sum Top 20 Wild Card
Cyril Toh Top 20 Wild Card
21–40 Harris Baba Elim
Farah Erfina
Maggie Syazana
Danial Razak
Charmaine Pelaez
Fathin Amira Elim
Kassandra Sulastri
Boon Hui Lu Elim
Alex Hong
Hydir Idris
Kamsani Jumahat
Mohamed Amirul
Sherly Ng
Zarinah Bahtiar Elim
Joey Chua
Trella Goh
Hariz Maloy
Mohammad Sufie
Khim Ng
Marc Than

^Note 1 During the week of 24 July, all contestants were declared safe and there was no eliminated contestant. However, the elimination has been confirmed and the contestant who had the fewest votes this week will be eliminated at the end of the performance show on the week of 31 July.

Results show performances

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Week Performer(s) Title Performance type
Top 40 Group 1 Lai Yi Xuan "Pirates of the Caribbean" live
Top 40 Group 2 Flame of the Forest "The Final Countdown" live
Top 40 Group 3 Grandma Mary "Samba Pa Ti" live
Top 20 Group 1 Cilla Chan & Howard Chan "Suit & Tie" live
Wild Card round Vocaluptuous "Singapura, Sunny Island" / "Come Home" live
Top 11 Hashy Yusof "You're the One That I Want" live
Top 10 Faith Ng "Big Girls Don't Cry" live
Top 9 Yuresh Balakrishnan "Can't Help Falling in Love" live
Top 8 Debbi Koh "Pumped Up Kicks" live
Louisa Kan "A Thousand Years" live
Gail Belmonte "Need You Now" live
Top 5 Meryl Joan Lee "Unwritten" live
Top 4 Week 2 Glen Wee "Untitled" live
Top 3 Jean Kyaw "You" live
Top 2 The Final 1 Top 11 "Treasure" / "Boogie Wonderland" live
Taufik Batisah, Farisha Ishak & Shaun Jansen "Payphone" live
Taufik Batisah & Rui En "Sky's the Limit" live
The Final 1 Top 11 "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)" live
Jody Williams, Farisha Ishak & Shaun Jansen "Without You" live
Jody Williams "Listen" live
Natasha Bedingfield "These Words" live
"Unwritten"
Farisha Ishak "Tonight" live

Contestants who appeared on other shows

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  • Hydir Idris and Kamsani Jumahat originally appeared on Anugerah 2009. Hydir was eliminated in the top 3 boys semi-final round and finished in fifth place overall. Kamsani made it to the top 6 boys quarter-final round but was not offered to participate in the Wild Card round, and therefore finished in eleventh place overall. Kamsani went on to win as Karaoke World Championships Asia male champion in 2014. This is the world's biggest amateur singing competition where the world finals was held in Sweden in 2014.
  • Khim Ng was a contestant on the first season of Campus SuperStar. She made it to the top 4 girls round and finished in seventh place overall.
  • Meryl Joan Lee and Charmaine Pelaez originally appeared on the second season of Singapore Idol but was eliminated in the Piano Show round. Meryl was given the opportunity to participate in the Wild Card round, but rejected the offer.
  • Fathin Amira finished in ninth place on the third season of Singapore Idol.
  • Farah Erfina and Hashy Yusof auditioned for Anugerah and Singapore Idol respectively, but their placings are unknown.

References

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  2. ^ a b "Music scene needs 'new blood'". Archived from the original on 14 December 2014. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
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  5. ^ a b "Kit Chan, Ken Lim and Taufik Batisah to judge The Final 1". Archived from the original on 29 March 2013. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
  6. ^ "The Final 1 - the Final One Home". Archived from the original on 29 May 2013. Retrieved 27 April 2013.