The five-time Grammy winner singed on as a coach/judge on Mark Burnett’s singing competition series The Voice.

 

That makes three spots on the show filled by celebrity singers so far, with Xtina joining Cee Lo Green and Adam Levine. Aguilera was first reported as in talks for the show exclusively by EW last week.

 

“I am so excited to be part of such a wonderful project that celebrates music and the talent behind it,” Aguilera said in a statement. “To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists’ careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms.I am so happy to be working with fellow Grammy Award winners Adam and Cee Lo as I feel there is so much we can all bring to The Voice.”

 

Though launching any music competition series at the same time Fox’s American Idol is on the air remains perilous, the lineup gives NBC some heavy hitting star power behind its show — and adds to Burnett’s impressive roster of reality casting coups (anybody who can sign Sarah Palin and Christina Aguilera for reality shows is a casting wizard).

 

“When I decided to produce The Voice, I immediately knew that my first choice for a female coach had to be Christina Aguilera,” Burnett said. “Christina has a perfect voice and is an undeniable force in the music business. She is the epitome of The Voice.”

 

That Aguilera has been all over the news lately — and not for her singing — doesn’t exactly hurt the show’s prospects either. Aguilera’s recent arrest for public drunkenness, stumbling onstage at the Grammys and botching the National Anthem at the Super Bowl is the kind of unpredictability that makes for must-watch reality TV (see, Paula Abdul on American Idol).

 

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Christina talking about the show:

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First commercial

 

New commercial

It actually looks very interesting!

Yes, especially the second part, in which they'r gonna write songs together.

New promo

 

Looking good, but I'm a sucker for any music reality show..

Mark Burnett talks to The Hollywood Reporter magazine about his aggressive strategy behind the NBC singing competition and the star power that includes Christina Aguilera, Adam Levine and Carson Daly.

 

American Idol’s dominance in the talent-show sphere has been, for the most part, unchallenged, but Mark Burnett is hoping to change that in April — or at least dent it a bit — when NBC premieres The Voice.

 

The series’ premise is basically the same -- a natural talent gets a chance to be heard and discovered -- but the process of finding that talent has been fine-tuned. Rather than cattle-call-style auditions at 20,000-seat arenas, an A&R team for Voice was deployed with a very specific singing star in mind.

 

"The Voice is looking for individual singers that are ARTISTS, preferably no singer-songwriters or divas," read an e-mail from a Voice scout in January, as the team was setting up one-on-one appointments. "We got plenty of both, so that didn’t work," Burnett scoffs. (To be fair, the show also held an open call.)

 

The show’s concept was imported from Europe, where The Voice of Holland draws a healthy 3 million viewers (the Netherlands’ population is 16.5 million), and as the latest David to Idol’s Goliath, it is prepping to rival the ratings behemoth directly (the show premieres April 26 as Idol gears up for its final shows).

 

Star power? Check. Christina Aguilera, Cee-Lo Green, Blake Shelton and Adam Levine have signed on as celebrity coaches ("Judges," Levine says, "is kind of a dirty word around here”) in a reality-show twist that gives a nod to Simon Cowell’s The X Factor (the contestants choose a mentor with whom to work, pitting the celebrities against one another). Host with music cred? Hired. MTV and late-night vet Carson Daly will fill the emcee role. Reality-TV pedigree? Covered with Burnett.

 

After 13 weeks of competition, the winner receives a $100,000 recording contract with Universal Republic (a paltry sum compared with X Factor’s promised $5 million deal) and a management deal with Sanctuary Management Group, which represents Fleetwood Mac and Velvet Revolver (it will take a 25% cut, according to a source).

 

But though the show’s producers and stars are making every effort to differentiate Voice from Idol, mainly emphasizing its format — auditions where the coaches can’t see the singer; who advances is based purely on their singing voice — it’s not cowering from the primetime powerhouse, either. Declared Daly during Voice’s first press conference: "The level of talent is leaps and bounds beyond the winners of any other competition show."

 

“There’s room for more than one music show. My whole career has taught me not to be afraid of competition.” — Mark Burnett,

executive producer of “The Voice”

 

Even if that talent pool includes a former Idol semifinalist. Burnett confirms that Season 2’s Frenchie Davis, who has starred on Broadway since her Idol disqualification for racy photos in 2003, made it past the first round with Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl,” as did an alumnus of CBS’ short-lived Rock Star, another Burnett vehicle. "It’s a meritocracy," Burnett says. "It doesn’t matter where you came from. If you won American Idol and you wanted to try this, too, you could."

 

The team’s braggadocio is bold for an underdog series. After all, with Idol still drawing 22 million viewers an episode and X Factor about to launch its U.S. auditions (not to mention NBC’s America’s Got Talent still going strong and Nigel Lythgoe’s new country show CMT’s Next Superstar kicking off April 8), the field of talent shows is crowded.

 

Daly’s confidence comes from the concept. “What struck me is that it’s a mentoring show,” he says. “It immediately took away all of the negativity that I’ve seen on a lot of those shows. I did not see the William Hung novelty in this format. In fact, it’s sort of shunned.”

 

It’s a view shared by the coaches. “They understand the power of television and how they can use their success to actually help people,” Daly says. “That help comes from being nonjudgmental and not from a place of marketing what you look like.”

 

The production has had its share of hiccups, however. A taping in mid-March went so off schedule that more than 150 audience members were paid $50 each to go home. Still, the show has a good six weeks to work out the kinks as Voice is expected to go live at the end of May. Worth noting: Idol’s finale is scheduled for May 25.

 

Another case of Idol’s sloppy seconds? “There’s room for more than one music show,” Burnett says. “My whole career has taught me not to be afraid of competition. As long as it’s promoted and people know it’s on, if it’s good, it will work.”

 

As for Daly, he has his own litmus test for success. “This show is well-produced, honest, positive, has integrity, is a ton of fun and it’s a gamble — it’s all of those things,” he says excitedly. “I can’t predict if the audience will show up, if they’ll be big or slow or terrible or grow, but I know regardless of ratings, I can wake up in the morning and say, ‘I’m proud of what I did at 9 p.m. last night.’ ”

 

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New promo video featuring Dirrty

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Looks absolutely ridiculous.

This show was a HUGE hit on Dutch telly last year.

4 million viewers on 16 million inhabitants. Ridiculous. I prefer Xfactor though

Looking forward to watching this tomorrow!

Quite enjoyed the first episode. Got a 5.1 in the American overnight ratings, which is pretty huge for NBC at the moment.

Loved the first ep, can't wait for more!

The show is actually very good, I really enjoy it. It's a lot better then American Idol IMO.

 

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LMFAO. Sorry I saw that and it made me almost die.

The Voice is a big surprise hit and has lots of positive buzz atm. the 2nd episode got even higher ratings than the first, which almost never happens. the first thing to go right in Christina's career in a while.

 

this week they move on to the 'battle' rounds and each 'Coach' brings in an advisor to help out their team. Christina brought in Sia :wub: