Star Factor Romania (season 8)

The Star Factor is a Roamnian Television music competition to find new singing talent. The first series began airing on NBC on 14 October 2012.Before the start of the auditions process it was confirmed that all the judges will remain to the judging panel. Factor inspired

Steps

 * Auditions (19-23 June)
 * Bootcamp (3-7 July)
 * Judges Home Visit (9-12 July)
 * Live Shows (6 October)

Prize
The S Factor will award the winner with 500,000$.

Auditions
Audition will take place in the mid June 2017.

Participants
Following acts will take part at the auditions of the 2017 Star Factor:

Week 1 (6 October)

 * Theme: Own songs
 * Musical guests: Ariana Grande ("Origo")
 * Total votes: 5,605,854

Week 2 (13 October)

 * Theme: Euromusic Song Contest (2009-2017)
 * Musical guests: Raluka ("Cine sunt eu?")
 * Total votes: 6,906,449

Week 3 (20 October)

 * Theme: Romanian hits
 * Musical guests: Sam Smith ("Too Good at Goodbyes)
 * Total votes: 8,110,769

Week 4 (27 October)

 * Theme: The X Factor UK | Songs from first series
 * Musical guests: Liam Payne ("Bedroom Floor")
 * Total votes: 4,824,185

Week 5 (3 November)

 * Theme: "Express Yourself"
 * Musical guests: Stormzy & Labrinth (“Blinded by Your Grace, Pt. 2”)
 * Total votes: 6,989,000

Week 6 (10 November)

 * Theme: "Viva Latino"
 * Musical guests: Rita Ora ("Anywhere")
 * Total votes: 4,896,277

Week 7 (17 November)

 * Theme: "Songs by George Michael"
 * Musical guests: Paloma Faith ("Guilty")
 * Total votes: 6,139,201

Week 8 (24 November)

 * Theme: "Romanian entries" and "Crazy in Love"
 * Musical guests: Matt Terry ("The Thing About Love", "Spirit of the Night")
 * Total votes: 8,351,418

Week 9: Semi-Final (1 December)

 * Theme:“Get Me to the Final"; "Old Romanian songs"
 * Musical guests: Ed Sheeran ("Perfect")
 * Total votes: 8,080,696

Week 10: Final (8/9 December)

 * Theme:  "No theme"; "Celebrity duets/Winner's single"
 * Musical guests:  Pete Tong & Heritage Orchestra featuring Becky Hill ("Sing It Back"), PrettyMuch ("No More") and Louis Tomlinson ("Miss You")
 * Total votes: 7,908,709

8 December

9 December


 * Theme: "Song to win", "Song of the Series"
 * Musical guests: Pink ("What About Us"/"Beautiful Trauma"), Sam Smith ("One Last Song") and Little Mix & CNCO ("Reggaetón Lento (Remix)")
 * Total votes: 8,114,912