The Voice Season 2 Scoop: More Blind Audition Models, Bigger Teams, Savvier Participants

The Voice When NBC's The Voice returns next season, it'll be bigger than ever before. You will notice more blind audition models, through which entertainers perform for your coaches sight unseen, and 12 participants per team, up from Season 1's eight. The Voice names Christina Milian as new social media correspondent It isn't apparent exactly the amount of more blind audition episodes will air - they went for just two days taken - but executive producer Mark Burnett states careful analysis expand came from from viewer feedback and becoming more hours to produce them. "We put the show on so quickly a year ago. We just had four several days," he told TVGuide.com carrying out a press conference Friday. "As well as the finest complaint that individuals got was, 'Awww, the blind auditions ended so early.' It absolutely was a quick blip. Therefore I handled to produce a a lot more blind auditions and clearly we're responding regarding the our fans are asking for." Series coaches - Adam Levine, Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Eco-friendly and Blake Shelton - told reporters they remain unworried in regards to the glut of music shows. The Voice returns in February following a Super Bowl, and following a X Factor systems in December, nevertheless it will still have to deal with a completely new season of yank Idol. Aguilera states The Voice's process if the involves selecting entertainers -- the coaches listening only to a performer's voice after which it swinging around in people huge red-colored-colored chairs - remains unmatched. "There is not an even more suspenseful Tv program available," she mentioned. (Burnett added: "These chairs are becoming stars themselves.Inch) Is Carson Daly the founding father of social TV? Asked for particularly in regards to the parallels to Simon Cowell's X Factor, Burnett told TVGuide.com he'd only seen "maybe ten minutesInch in the show. "They really spent a lot of money, it's certainly large. I don't think it's different then other activities I've come across,Inch he mentioned. So while X Factor will award its champion getting a $5 million recording contract, The Voice will remain using its $100,000. "Do you realize what that jogs my memory of? It reminds of Austin Forces. 'One meeeellion dollars,'" Burnett mentioned. "I'm speaking about, people aren't watching the show for the.Inch For that completely new crop of Voice participants - all selected because the show has finished filming Season 2's blind auditions -- the coaches say these were given extra competitive if the found finishing their rosters. "Everyone knows the sport now. It is really an intense competition this year,In . Aguilera mentioned. She boasted that her team includes an opera singer "who allows you to definitely cry." "You wallow inside it wondering the people do not have record contracts," she mentioned. People participants may also be savvier than in the past if the involves picking who they wish to use. "Now, they all are like, 'What is it possible to do personally?AInch Aguilera mentioned. "They experience how it works" when several in the coaches want in. "Without warning, we're individuals pitching ourselves," Levine mentioned. Season 2 in the Voice returns Sunday, Feb. 5 following a Super Bowl on NBC.