Idol Producer ( simplified Chinese : 偶像练习生 ; traditional Chinese : 偶像練習生 ; pinyin : Ǒuxiàng Liànxíshēng ), is a 2018 Chinese reality boy group survival show, which premiered on January 19, 2018, on iQIYI . It is presented by Lay Zhang with Li Ronghao , Jackson Wang , MC Jin , Cheng Xiao and Zhou Jieqiong serving as mentors. On April 6, 2018, the nine highest ranked contestants debuted as Nine Percent .
26-433: In 2017, Idol Producer took 100 out of 1908 trainees from 87 entertainment agencies all over Asia, which represented their companies and 8 of whom were independent trainees. The trainees were evaluated multiple times throughout the show by the audience's votes with trainees being eliminated. In the final episode, the nine most-voted-on trainees got to debut as a boy group and were set to promote for 18 months; The voting system
52-480: A contract with Banana Entertainment and officially became a Banana Entertainment trainee. Lin was a member of trainee group Trainee18 under his label Shanghai Project Banana Co. On January 22, 2018, he released the trainee graduation single "Rock The Show" with Trainee18. He then participated in the idol survival show Idol Producer in January 2018. He ranked fifth in the final episode with 12,131,367 votes and debuted as
78-497: A landslide victory of around 4 million votes against Chen Linong. Liang Hui is revealed to be rank 60, saving himself from elimination by a few thousand votes, demonstrating the importance of the 10,000 bonus votes that were awarded to the winning teams in last week's episode. The eliminated trainees leave quietly after saying goodbye early the next morning. The trainees begin their position evaluation group performances, with trainees selecting songs that can showcase their specialties in
104-550: A member of temporary Chinese boy group Nine Percent on April 6, 2018. Nine Percent released their debut album 'To The Nines' on November 12, 2018, with 7 tracks. Before the group's disbandment on October 6, 2019, Nine Percent released their second album 'More Than Forever' on September 26, 2019 where Lin Yanjun has a solo song "Like A Star". In Nine Percent's first debut anniversary, April 6, 2019, he released image teasers for his second personal music EP " Escape" . The album
130-449: A wide following in the world. More than 10 million people cast votes during the finale of Season 2 in 2017, equivalent to a fifth of South Korea's population. In 2018, the eight episodes of Produce 101 China attracted more than 4.3 billion views on Tencent Video . Following the Mnet vote manipulation investigation , on 14 November 2019, producer Ahn Joon-young partially admitted to rigging
156-432: Is 150,000, with the winning members of each winning group gaining 50,000 votes, and an extra 100,000 votes to the winning trainee in each category. The trainees from rank 36-60 after the second round of online voting at the end of this challenge will be eliminated. Judges Jackson Wang and MC Jin provide mentorship to the trainees in an informal Q&A session. The trainees pick their songs in order of rank. Grouped by songs,
182-522: Is a reality television talent competition franchise created by South Korean entertainment conglomerate CJ E&M , based around the formation of a K-pop girl group or boy group. The format is noted for having no panel of judges, employing audience participation to make decisions, as well as for starting with a very large number of competitors, 101, narrowing that number down to the final 11. The franchise began in 2016 and has since expanded to China , Japan and Thailand . The franchise has attracted
208-507: Is a Taiwanese singer, rapper and actor. He debuted as a member of temporary Chinese boy group Nine Percent on April 6, 2018, through Chinese survival show Idol Producer . He is best known for his role as Su Nan Qin in the drama Crush adapted from the popular novel written by Mu Fusheng. Lin was born on August 24, 1995, in Haikou, Hainan and because of his parents' work, he grew up moving between Taiwan , Jiangxi , and Guangdong . He passed
234-408: Is similar to those of South Korean reality television shows Produce 101 and Mix Nine . Contestants choose stickers from A to F as a self-assessment to grade themselves. The contestants enter the studio, where 100 seats are arranged in a pyramid with a chair for the #1 trainee at the top. They are introduced by their label and choose seats from 1 to 100. The contestants then give performances for
260-455: The B team beating the A team. Color key 进击的兽人 Monster The remaining 14 teams' performances are shown. Footage of each team practicing was shown before their respective performances. After the performance of each pair of groups, the live audience is given the opportunity to vote for their favorite member out of both of the competing teams. Individual votes were added up for an overall team score, and 10,000 votes were given to each member of
286-496: The Chinese New Year. The trainees also do a dance battle, dancing to "Ei Ei" at various speeds. Judges Cheng Xiao and Zhou Jieqiong select the winners of the dance battle, who ask that their reward be to let the entire group of trainees go eat Haidilao Hot Pot , a request which the director grants. Out of the top 9 trainees from voting, ranks 1-7 remain in the same position as last week's episode. Cai Xukun remains as rank 1 with
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#1733085323113312-468: The Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan student entrance examination and entered Guangdong University of Foreign Studies . His father is from Taiwan and his mother is from Jiangxi . After finishing his freshman year, he chose to suspend his school and return to Taiwan to complete his military service. He can speak Mandarin , Cantonese , Minnan , Korean and English. He has a younger sister. At the age of 18, he
338-509: The Music", "代号魂斗罗", Zhang Yixing 's "Shake", CNBLUE 's "Can't Stop", and "Get Ugly". Cai Xukun, because he was the center for the title song "Ei Ei", is allowed to choose his team's members and song first. The members of the winning team for each song will automatically receive 10,000 votes. The judges also announce that half of the trainees will be eliminated from the show following the second challenge. The two "半兽人 (The Orcs)" teams' performance, with
364-410: The judges, grouped by agency. The judges then reassign the trainees a grade based on their overall performance, with A being the highest and F the lowest. (邓烺怡) Bruno Mars (何东东) (李长庚) Rumors (Dance Performance) Jake Miller The rating for the first round is unveiled while the grading sessions for trainees continue. After receiving their initial grade, Zhang Yixing (Lay) announces that
390-449: The most votes are announced, starting from rank 59 and announced in groups of ten. After every group of ten, clips of the trainees participating in various activities are shown. Polls among the trainees for the "best visual" and "the person I would most want to introduce to my little sister" were conducted. Taiwanese trainee Lin Yanjun is voted as "best visual" by his fellow trainees. The trainees race against each other to claim presents for
416-518: The performance as spectators. However, before the performance begins, the judges decide to let some of the particularly hard-working F grade trainees perform. After recording "Ei Ei", it is revealed that for the second challenge, the trainees will be put into 16 teams to perform 8 songs. Two teams will be performing and competing against each other for each of the 8 songs: Jay Chou 's "半兽人 (The Orcs)", " PPAP ", Jolin Tsai 's "大艺术家 (The Great Artist)", "Dance to
442-410: The rap category ("Very Good", " Turn Down for What ", "Artist" by Zico and Papillon by Jackson Wang ). The trainees with higher rankings pick their songs first, and once the chosen song reaches its member limit, the later trainees can no longer pick that song. The trainees' accumulated votes are reset to zero for this third challenge. The most possible votes that a trainee could earn from this challenge
468-416: The show's title song "Ei Ei" begins. After three days, the trainees are filmed performing the title song and are reevaluated by the judges. The B, C, D, and F grade trainees vote to select the center of the entire group, settling on individual trainee Cai Xukun, who narrowly defeats trainee Zhu Zhengting by two votes. Trainees with an F grade after the reevaluation are denied the right to perform and must watch
494-545: The trainees in each group choose a center and a leader. Judges Cheng Xiao and Zhou Jieqiong provide dance advice. Trainee and Leader of "Nunchucks" Zhou Yanchen, who has been practicing late into the night, collapses at the end of the dress rehearsal due to hypoglycemia . The "《双节棍》(Nunchucks)", "Artist", "《我怀念的》(What I Miss)", and "Turn Down for What" groups perform, and their rehearsal experiences are shown. The "Papillon" group prepares to perform. Color key (769) Produce 101 Produce 101 ( Korean : 프로듀스 101 )
520-703: The trainees must together perform the show's titular single "Ei Ei" with only three days for preparation. Trainees will have a stand-alone performance that is filmed only once. The coaches give a re-evaluation prior to the filming of the performance to reassign the trainees to another A-F grade. The trainees are then rearranged according to their newly reassigned grade. (我在人民广场吃炸鸡) (乱世巨星) Xiao Gui'sSolo Dance performance Zhu Xingjie's solo Rap performance (让世界毁灭) Bei Honglin's Solo Rap Performance: " Lose Yourself " Eminem (棉花糖) 练习生告白 (解藥) (Long Quan) (Honey CHN ver.) ( Park Jin Young ) (花的嫁紗) Training to perform
546-417: The vocal, dance, or rap categories. There are five songs for the vocal category: ( Ed Sheeran's " Shape of You ", Stefanie Sun's 《我怀念的》(What I Miss), Chen Li's 《小半》(Little Half), Kimberley Chen's 《爱你》 (Love You), and "Always Online" by JJ Lin ); four songs for the dance category ("Me Too", "Sheep" by Zhang Yixing, "Flow" by Khalil Fong ft. Wang Leehom , and Jay Chou's《双节棍》( Nunchuks )); and four songs for
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#1733085323113572-460: The votes of all seasons of Produce 101 during police questioning. He was arrested before over allegations of bribery and fraud in the franchise. As of 16 December 2023, there have been 11 groups debuted with 118 members involved in over 3 franchises of Produce 101 . One31 (5) Lin Yanjun Lin Yanjun ( Chinese : 林彦俊 ; born August 24, 1995), also known as Evan Lin ,
598-587: The winning team for each song. Taiwanese trainee Chen Linong of "The Great Artist" team A won the most votes overall, with 10,000 bonus votes added to his 210 live audience votes. Zhang Yixing announces that the 39 trainees with the fewest votes (ranking 61-96) will be eliminated next week. The votes from this week's live performance will be added to the online votes to determine the top 60 trainees. 你复不复古,你不复古我复古 螢火蟲戰隊 维纳斯战队 逆袭的向日葵 我想换Center 代號氣鼓鼓隊 一起摇摆 five fire fly wow visual 你的苹果 扎手的菠萝 老寒腿组合 好难啊组合 Snow Prince (雪花王子) 七个隆咚呛 The top 60 trainees with
624-471: Was chosen to endorse the cosmetics brands Elizabeth Arden and Panasonic Beauty as well as being the ambassador for multiple Korean brands such as Innisfree and MISSHA . Lin was also given the opportunity to be the spokesperson for both Philosophy and skincare line Martiderm. In 2019, Lin was chosen to present the full line of YSL Beauty as well as the Korean make-up brand 3CE. He was also chosen to become
650-510: Was invited by JYP Entertainment to become a trainee but declined as he wanted to focus on his studies and military duties. In 2016, he signed a contract with a Taiwanese brokerage company, but as he did not get the training promised when signing the contract, he and the other members held a press conference at the door of the company to complain. After that he passed the Shanghai Banana Entertainment global trainee audition, signed
676-466: Was released on April 12, 2019 and is comprised two songs. Lin wrote the lyrics for the title track "Get Outta My Head" and composed the melody for "Over You" . He performed both songs live at his EP launch fan-meetings in Guangzhou and Chengdu later that month. Nine Percent Variety Show (Love Starts from Oblivion) (The Best Arrangement) The 26th Oriental Fengyun Music Festival In 2018, Lin
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