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The X Factor

Season 4

X factor logo.jpg
Creator piperjr
Genre

Reality Competition

Host LL Cool J
Judges/Mentors Kandi Burruss
Julianne Hough
Benji Madden
Ricky Martin
No. of Episodes 32
No. of Contestants 16

Winner

Ty Wells

Runner-Up

Nate Bennett

Chronology

Proceeded by
Season 3
Followed by
Season 5

The X Factor 4 is the fourth season of the reality music competition based on the original UK series, with the purpose of finding a star singer. The season was hosted by LL Cool J. Julianne Hough, Ricky Martin, Kandi Burruss, and Benji Madden all returned to be the mentors and judges for this season.


Burruss mentored the boys, Hough mentored the girls, Madden mentored the over 25's, and Martin mentored the groups.


After nine weeks of competition, Ty Wells was crowned winner, and Kandi Burruss was crowned winning mentor for the second season in a row, with Nate Bennett, Burruss' other act, as Runner-Up.























Judges and Hosts[edit | edit source]

On April 29, 2003, Piper TV announced that The X Factor would keep the same judges form the previous two seasons and confirmed that Ricky Martin, Julianne Hough, Kandi Burruss, and Benji Madden would all return as the judges and mentors for the fourth series. Madden had previously mentioned he would depart from the show to focus on his music, but decided to return.


On the same day, it was confirmed that Eileen Davidson had been axed as a co-host for the show and LL Cool J would remain as the sole host for the series.


During the Nashville auditions, Burruss fell ill and was not able to participate in the remainder of the auditions in Toledo and New York. Martin was also absent for the Toledo audition due to a prior engagement. Rock singer Lenny Kravitz filled in for Burruss on the final two auditions and Martin returned to finish the auditions in New York.

Selection Process[edit | edit source]

This season's selection process began with the audition stages, then the hopefuls went to "bootcamp", where they performed for a score and the top seven, along with a wildcard advanced to Judge's Houses, where they sang again for their spot in the live shows.

Auditions[edit | edit source]

206 hopefuls got to move onto bootcamp performances.

Summary of Auditions
City Venue Guest Judge Permanent Judges
Los Angeles, California Staples Center Arena None Julianne Hough
Ricky Martin
Kandi Burruss
Benji Madden
Seattle, Washington Washington State Convention Center
Jacksonville, Florida Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center
Nashville, Tennessee Music City Center
Toledo, Ohio SeaGate Convention Centre Lenny Kravitz Julianne Hough
Benji Madden
New York, New York Jacob K. Javits Convention Center Julianne Hough
Ricky Martin
Benji Madden

Bootcamp[edit | edit source]

At the beginning of bootcamp, the 206 hopefuls that moved on from the auditions sang and were cut down to the 64 who moved onto the scored portion of bootcamp.

This season's bootcamp involves the 64 finalists battling it out for the 8 spots in each category. Each category has 16 finalists in it and they sing for a score, the seven with the highest scores along with one wildcard are moving on to Judge's houses.

Scores are given in order by Madden, Hough, Burruss and Martin in the tables.

     – Advanced to the next stage by judges overall scores
     – Advanced to the next stage as a wildcard chosen by their mentor
Boys Auditions
Act Order Song Scores
Bryce Kelly 1 Unwell 33 (9,8,8,8)
Andrew Roberts 2 Let Her Go 30 (8,7,8,7)
Derek Bradshaw 3 A Sky Full of Stars 34 (8,9,9,8)
Pete Tucker 4 Hey There Delilah 31 (8,8,8,7)
Logan Hall 5 I Bet My Life 27 (7,6,7,7)
Mark Cotton 6 Crawling in the Dark 32 (8,8,8,8)
Chase Preston 7 Bless the Broken Road 37 (9,9,10,9)
Trent Spade 8 The A Team 29 (8,7,7,7)
Zach Davidson 9 Wake Me Up 30 (7,8,8,7)
Austin Flemming 10 Overjoyed 26 (7,6,7,6)
Carlos Mendoza 11 Dreaming of You 36 (9,9,9,9)
Billy Ellis 12 I Want It That Way 31 (8,7,8,8)
Nate Bennett 13 Waves 38 (9,10,10,9)
Cole Hanson 14 One Less Lonely Girl 21 (5,5,6,5)
Javier Ortiz 15 Rich Girl 35 (9,9,9,8)
Ty Wells 16 Ordinary People 40 (10,10,10,10)
Girls Auditions
Act Order Song Scores
Allie Burns 1 Warrior 32 (8,8,8,8)
Jayme Leonard 2 Can't Fight the Moonlight 37 (9,9,10,9)
Carly North 3 I Will Never Let You Down 26 (7,6,7,6)
Danielle McLean 4 Unbreakable Heart 29 (8,7,8,6)
Jasmine Harris 5 What Now 31 (7,8,8,8)
Adrian Ruiz 6 Who's Lovin You 39 (10,10,9,10)
Baylee Hutchinson 7 Man! I Feel Like a Woman 28 (7,7,7,7)
Hayleigh Scott 8 This Time 34 (9,9,8,8)
Sabrina Attar 9 Chasing Pavements 37 (9,9,10,9)
Heaven Mosley 10 Diamonds 24 (6,6,6,6)
Sierra Lucas 11 Already Gone 27 (7,7,7,6)
Vanessa Fisher 12 Love Me Like You Do 26 (6,7,7,6)
Cheyenne Jacks 13 The Woman Before Me 23 (5,7,6,5)
Janae Taylor 14 Paris (Ooh La La) 34 (9,8,9,8)
Casey Byrd 15 Apologize 40 (10,10,10,10)
Sage Johnson 16 My All 38 (9,9,10,10)
Over 25's Auditions
Act Order Song Scores
Dina Nathan 1 Only in My Dreams 26 (7,6,7,6)
Bobby Vincent 2 If I Ain't Got You 37 (9,10,9,9)
Gerard Keller 3 I Love Rock n' Roll 29 (8,7,7,7)
Samantha Lewis 4 One Moment in Time 31 (8,8,8,7)
Justin Price 5 Photograph 30 (8,7,7,8)
Harry Garrison 6 Keep Your Head Up 22 (6,5,6,5)
Rochelle Franklin 7 Please Don't Leave Me 31 (7,8,8,8)
Shay Daniels 8 A Thousand Years 34 (9,9,8,8)
Patrick Duncan 9 That's Life 29 (7,7,8,7)
Alina Mann 10 Help 38 (10,9,10,9)
Lesley Anderson 11 I Never Loved a Man 28 (7,7,7,7)
Jill Cameron 12 Best Days of Your Life 38 (10,9,10,9)
Cyrus Lynch 13 Stop and Stare 35 (9,8,9,9)
Helen Rockwell 14 Clown 39 (10,10,10,9)
Lydia Rollins 15 Let It Go 27 (7,6,7,7)
Floyd Murray 16 To Where You Are 40 (10,10,10,10)
Groups Auditions
Act Order Song Scores
TJ2 1 Iris 35 (9,8,9,9)
Katie & Krista 2 Best Thing I Never Had 30 (8,7,8,7)
Men-Archy 3 Tearin Up My Heart 36 (9,9,9,9)
Fantasy Five 4 Bang Bang 39 (9,10,10,10)
The Royals 5 Tear In My Heart 28 (7,7,7,7)
FemmeBots 6 Telephone 31 (8,8,8,7)
Glory Princess 7 Damaged 33 (8,8,9,8)
The Holy Rollers 8 Up to the Mountain 34 (9,8,8,9)
Abracadabra 9 Stay With Me 37 (9,9,10,9)
Flaming Trio 10 I'll Make Love to You 31 (8,8,8,7)
The You Crew 11 Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) 32 (8,8,8,8)
Double Stuffed 12 If I Ever Fall In Love 40 (10,10,10,10)
Sing City 13 No Diggity 32 (7,9,9,7)
Angel Mouth 14 Like a Virgin 24 (6,6,6,6)
MoJo 15 Say Something 38 (9,9,10,10)
Brother B 16 Incomplete 40 (10,10,10,10)

Judges' Houses[edit | edit source]

Summary of judges' houses
Judge Category Location Assistant(s) Contestants eliminated
Burruss Boys Atlanta, Georgia Ludacris Bryce Kelly, Derek Bradshaw, Javier Ortiz, Pete Tucker
Hough Girls Nice, France Kellie Pickler Hayleigh Scott, Jayme Leonard, Sabrina Attar, Sage Johnson
Madden Over 25's Beverly Hills, California Paul Thomas Cyrus Lynch, Jill Cameron, Justin Price, Shay Daniels
Martin Groups San Jose, Costa Rica Christina Aguilera The Holy Rollers, Men-Archy, MoJo, TJ2

Finalists[edit | edit source]

The final 16 acts were confirmed as follows:
Key:

     – Winner
     – Runner-Up
     – Third Place
Category (mentor) Acts
Boys (Burruss) Nate Bennett Carlos Mendoza Chase Preston Ty Wells
Girls (Hough) Casey Byrd Cheyenne Jacks Adrian Ruiz Janae Taylor
Over 25's (Madden) Alina Mann Floyd Murray Helen Rockwell Bobby Vincent
Groups (Martin) Abracadabra Brother B Double Stuffed Fantasy Five

Results Summary[edit | edit source]

Colour key
     – Contestant was in the bottom two/three and had to sing again in the sing-off
     – Contestant was in the bottom three but received the fewest votes and was immediately eliminated
     – Contestant received the fewest public votes and was immediately eliminated (no sing-off)
     – Contestant received the most public votes
     – Contestant was saved in first live show by mentor before the votes were announced
Weekly results per contestant
Contestant Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9
Ty Wells 1st
15.5%
1st
16.9%
3rd
9.8%
4th
9.5%
3rd
12.3%
1st
22.6%
1st
26.7%
1st
36.1%
1st
44.2%
Nate Bennett 10th
4.2%
7th
5.9%
4th
8.7%
6th
7.0%
2nd
13.9%
3rd
13.1%
3rd
16.3%
2nd
24.8%
2nd
29.5%
Double Stuffed 9th
5.1%
6th
6.3%
5th
8.2%
2nd
13.4%
1st
21.5%
6th
9.2%
2nd
17.5%
3rd
21.2%
3rd
26.3%
Cheyenne Jacks 8th
6.0%
9th
5.4%
8th
6.1%
3rd
10.3%
8th
6.7%
2nd
16.3%
5th
13.1%
4th
17.9%
Eliminated
(Week 8)
Janae Taylor 2nd
10.7%
4th
7.5%
1st
13.3%
1st
20.1%
4th
10.2%
4th
11.7%
4th
14.4%
Eliminated
(Week 7)
Brother B 4th
8.7%
2nd
11.2%
6th
7.6%
5th
8.7%
7th
7.6%
5th
11.0%
6th
12.0%
Eliminated
(Week 7)
Casey Byrd 3rd
9.4%
5th
7.1%
7th
6.9%
11th
4.6%
5th
8.3%
7th
8.4%
Eliminated
(Week 6)
Floyd Murray 5th
8.3%
10th
5.0%
10th
5.3%
7th
6.3%
6th
8.0%
8th
7.7%
Eliminated
(Week 6)
Carlos Mendoza 7th
6.1%
8th
5.6%
13th
4.1%
9th
5.4%
9th
6.1%
Eliminated
(Week 5)
Adrian Ruiz 11th
3.8%
13th
4.3%
9th
5.5%
8th
5.9%
10th
5.4%
Eliminated
(Week 5)
Alina Mann 6th
7.8%
3rd
8.8%
2nd
11.4%
10th
4.8%
Eliminated
(Week 4)
Helen Rockwell 15th
2.4%
12th
4.5%
11th
5.0%
12th
4.0%
Eliminated
(Week 4)
Abracadabra 12th
3.6%
11th
4.7%
12th
4.6%
Eliminated
(Week 3)
Chase Preston 13th
3.4%
14th
3.7%
14th
3.5%
Eliminated
(Week 3)
Fantasy Five 14th
3.1%
15th
3.1%
Eliminated
(Week 2)
Bobby Vincent 16th
1.9%
Eliminated
(Week 1)
Sing-off (none) Fantasy Five,
Preston
Abracadabra,
Mendoza
Byrd,
Mann
Jacks,
Mendoza
Byrd,
Double Stuffed
Jacks,
Taylor
No sing-off or judges' votes; results were based on public votes alone
Judges vote to Save1 Eliminate
Madden's vote Mann Preston Abracadabra Byrd Mendoza Byrd Taylor
Hough's vote Taylor Fantasy Five Abracadabra Mann Mendoza Double Stuffed None
(refused)
Burruss' vote Mendoza Fantasy Five Abracadabra Mann Jacks Double Stuffed Jacks
Martin's vote Abracadabra Preston Mendoza Mann Mendoza Byrd Taylor
Eliminated Bobby Vincent
1.9%
to save
Fantasy Five
2 of 4 Votes
Deadlock
Chase Preston
3.5%
to save
Helen Rockwell
4.0%
to save
Adrian Ruiz
5.4%
to save
Floyd Murray
7.7%
to save
Brother B
12.0%
to save
Cheyenne Jacks
17.9%
to save
Double Stuffed
26.2%
to win
Abracadabra
3 of 4 Votes
Majority
Alina Mann
3 of 4 Votes
Majority
Carlos Mendoza
3 of 4 Votes
Majority
Casey Byrd
2 of 4 Votes
Deadlock
Janae Taylor
2 of 3 Votes
Majority
Nate Bennett
29.5%
to win
  • ^1 : Before the public votes were announced in week 1, each judge got to save one of their own acts.

Live Shows[edit | edit source]

Week 1: Top 16 (October 22nd/23rd)[edit | edit source]

  • Theme: Who Am I? songs (songs that define the artist)
  • Musical Guest: Nick Jonas (Levels)

Before the public votes were announced, each judge got to save one of their own acts. The act with the least votes out of the remaining twelve would then automatically be eliminated.

Contestants' performances on the first live show
Act Order Song Result
Adrian Ruiz 1 Free Your Mind Safe
Bobby Vincent 2 Valerie Eliminated
Fantasy Five 3 Just the Way You Are Safe
Carlos Mendoza 4 Adiós Saved
Nate Bennett 5 I Don't Wanna Be Safe
Janae Taylor 6 Candyman Saved
Alina Mann 7 Skyscraper Saved
Double Stuffed 8 I Want You Back Safe
Abracadabra 9 Mirrors Saved
Chase Preston 10 Southern Girl Safe
Casey Byrd 11 That's The Way It Is Safe
Floyd Murray 12 So Sick Safe
Helen Rockwell 13 The Edge of Glory Safe
Brother B 14 Jealous Safe
Ty Wells 15 She Will Be Loved Safe
Cheyenne Jacks 16 Life Goes On Safe

Week 2: Top 15 (October 29th/30th)[edit | edit source]

Contestants' performances on the second live show
Act Order Song Result
Chase Preston 1 The Gambler Bottom Two
Brother B 2 September Safe
Casey Byrd 3 I Will Survive Safe
Floyd Murray 4 Crocodile Rock Safe
Ty Wells 5 Piano Man Safe
Abracadabra 6 Don't Stop Safe
Cheyenne Jacks 7 Jolene Safe
Helen Rockwell 8 Imagine Safe
Nate Bennett 9 Isn't She Lovely Safe
Fantasy Five 10 I'll Be There Bottom Two
Adrian Ruiz 11 Rock Steady Safe
Alina Mann 12 Your Song Safe
Carlos Mendoza 13 Let's Get It On Safe
Janae Taylor 14 Hot Stuff Safe
Double Stuffed 15 Blame It On the Boogie Safe
Sing-off details
Fantasy Five 1 I'll Stand By You Eliminated
Chase Preston 2 Bless the Broken Road Safe

Week 3: Top 14 (November 5th/6th)[edit | edit source]

Contestants' performances on the third live show
Act Order Song Result
Helen Rockwell 1 Alone Safe
Cheyenne Jacks 2 Inside Your Heaven Safe
Nate Bennett 3 Smooth Safe
Double Stuffed 4 Happy Safe
Adrian Ruiz 5 SOS Safe
Carlos Mendoza 6 Can't Help Falling in Love Bottom Three
Alina Mann 7 My Heart Will Go On Safe
Brother B 8 I'll Make Love to You Safe
Janae Taylor 9 Crazy in Love Safe
Chase Preston 10 (Everything I Do) I Do It For You Eliminated
Floyd Murray 11 When a Man Loves a Woman Safe
Abracadabra 12 On My Own Bottom Three
Casey Byrd 13 Vision of Love Safe
Ty Wells 14 Superstition Safe
Sing-off details
Carlos Mendoza 1 Thinking Out Loud Safe
Abracadabra 2 I Won't Give Up Eliminated

Week 4: Top 12 (November 12th/13th)[edit | edit source]

Contestants' performances on the fourth live show
Act Order Song Movie Result
Brother B 1 Sway Shall We Dance? Safe
Ty Wells 2 Tomorrow Never Dies Tomorrow Never Dies Safe
Janae Taylor 3 Listen Dreamgirls Safe
Floyd Murray 4 Man in the Mirror Joyful Noise Safe
Nate Bennett 5 Purple Rain Purple Rain Safe
Casey Byrd 6 Colors Of The Wind Pocahontas Bottom Three
Helen Rockwell 7 Once In a Lifetime Cadillac Records Eliminated
Cheyenne Jacks 8 Let's Hear It for the Boy Footloose Safe
Double Stuffed 9 She Caught the Katy The Blues Brothers Safe
Alina Mann 10 Don't You (Forget About Me) The Breakfast Club Bottom Three
Adrian Ruiz 11 I'm Going Down Car Wash Safe
Carlos Mendoza 12 I Believe I Can Fly Space Jam Safe
Sing-off details
Alina Mann 1 Total Eclipse of the Heart Eliminated
Casey Byrd 2 Someone Like You Safe

Week 5: Top 10 (November 19th/20th)[edit | edit source]

Contestants' performances on the fifth live show
Act Order Song Result
Janae Taylor 1 I Have Nothing Safe
Carlos Mendoza 2 Saving All My Love for You Bottom Three
Double Stuffed 3 Love the Way You Lie (Part II) Safe
Adrian Ruiz 4 I Wanna Dance with Somebody Eliminated
Ty Wells 5 Take a Bow Safe
Floyd Murray 6 Where Do Broken Hearts Go Safe
Cheyenne Jacks 7 California King Bed Bottom Three
Brother B 8 Hate That I Love You Safe
Nate Bennett 9 Russian Roulette Safe
Casey Byrd 10 I Will Always Love You Safe
Sing-off details
Cheyenne Jacks 1 Because of You Safe
Carlos Mendoza 2 Beneath Your Beautiful Eliminated

Week 6: Top 8 (November 26th/27th)[edit | edit source]

Contestants' performances on the sixth live show
Act Order Song Result
Ty Wells 1 Radioactive Safe
Casey Byrd 2 Toxic Bottom Three
Brother B 3 Free Fallin' Safe
Floyd Murray 4 Billie Jean Eliminated
Nate Bennett 5 Latch Safe
Janae Taylor 6 Wrecking Ball Safe
Double Stuffed 7 Get Lucky Bottom Three
Cheyenne Jacks 8 I Kissed a Girl Safe
Sing-off details
Double Stuffed 1 Chasing Cars Safe
Casey Byrd 2 Turning Tables Eliminated

Week 7: Top 6 (December 3rd/4th)[edit | edit source]

For the first time this season, each contestant will perform two songs. The list of song choices for the Pepsi Challenge was released on November 30, 2003.

Choices for Pepsi Challenge
Act Song choices Result
Cheyenne Jacks Man! I Feel Like a Woman Chosen
Something Like That Not chosen
The Way You Love Me Not chosen
Nate Bennett Everybody Talks Not chosen
Fix You Not chosen
Use Somebody Chosen
Brother B Closer Not chosen
Demons Chosen
What's Going On Not chosen
Janae Taylor Against All Odds Not chosen
Big White Room Not chosen
I Didn't Know My Own Strength Chosen
Ty Wells Angel Not chosen
Relight My Fire Not chosen
Sara Smile Chosen
Double Stuffed Hey There Delilah Not chosen
How to Save a Life Chosen
Somebody to Love Not chosen
Contestants' performances on the seventh live show
Act Order First song Hero Order Second song Result
Cheyenne Jacks 1 Kerosene Miranda Lambert 7 Man! I Feel Like a Woman Bottom Three
Nate Bennett 2 Tears Dry on Their Own Amy Winehouse 8 Use Somebody Safe
Brother B 3 Who's Lovin' You Michael Jackson 9 Demons Eliminated
Janae Taylor 4 Irreplaceable/Love on Top Beyoncé 10 I Didn't Know My Own Strength Bottom Three
Ty Wells 5 I Got You (I Feel Good) James Brown 11 Sara Smile Safe
Double Stuffed 6 Something About the Way You Look Tonight Elton John 12 How to Save a Life Safe
Sing-off details
Janae Taylor 1 Impossible Eliminated
Cheyenne Jacks 2 I Hope You Dance Safe

Week 8: Semi-Final (December 10th/11th)[edit | edit source]

Contestants' performances on the eighth live show
Act Order First Song Order Second Song Result
Ty Wells 1 Relight My Fire 5 Let Me Love You Safe
Double Stuffed 2 Stockholm Syndrome 6 Breakeven Safe
Nate Bennett 3 Ain't Nobody 7 Bad Love Safe
Cheyenne Jacks 4 How Will I Know 8 How Do I Live Eliminated

Week 9: Final (December 17th/18th)[edit | edit source]

The final consisted of two two-hour episodes on December 17 and 18.

December 17
  • Themes: Retrospective Songs (Best Performance of the Season); Duet with Celebrity; Song For the Win
Contestants' performances on the ninth live show
Act Order First Song Order Second Song (duet) Order Third Song
Nate Bennett 1 Smooth 4 Best I Ever Had (with Gavin DeGraw) 7 The Woman I Love
Double Stuffed 2 If I Ever Fall In Love 5 Fast Car (with Tracy Chapman) 8 You Raise Me Up
Ty Wells 3 I Got You (I Feel Good) 6 Motownphilly (with Boyz II Men) 9 Dance With My Father
December 18
Contestants' performances on the final live show
Act Order Song Result
Double Stuffed 1 Mary, Did You Know? Third Place
Ty Wells 2 Last Christmas Winner
Nate Bennett 3 Blue Christmas Runner-Up