Janelle's X Factor Series

For the current season, see Janelle's X Factor (season 10)

Janelle's X Factor is an Tengaged reality television singing competition broadcast on Tengaged. Based on the original UK show, and an addition to the The X Factor franchise, the series finds new singing talent (solo artists and groups ages 12 and over), drawn from public auditions, and they compete against each other for votes. The winner is determined by the show's viewers via telephone, Internet, and SMS text voting, and is awarded a gift, worth $500 T$ on Tengaged.com. There have been nine winners of the show to date: Britney Spears, Demi Lovato, Ariana Grande, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Shakira, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Selena Gomez.

The Tengaged version of the show began airing on September 14, 2012, and has since become one of the most successful music shows in the history of Tengaged. The series employs a panel of judges who acts as mentors to the contestants in his or her category, helping to decide song choices, styling, and staging, while also judging contestants from the other categories after each of the live performances. They compete with each other to try to get one of the contestants in their category to win the competition, thus making them the winning judge.

History
In September 2012, Tengaged announced a new show created by entrepreneur and show creator Janelle_Pierzina—The X Factor.

Categories
For seasons 1–2 the competition was split into four categories: 12–29s (solo acts aged 12–29), Over 30s (solo acts aged 30 and over) and Groups (including duos). In season 3, categories were removed from the show. With the removal of categories in season 3, this was split into separate male and female sections. It was changed back to four categories for season 4. Season five's categories were changed, with the "Boys" and "Girls" categories becoming "Young Adults", and the fourth category became "Wildcards". It was changed back to teams for season 6. For season 7, the format was based on the season 5 categories. In season 8, the categories were removed again. For seasons 9 and onwards the categories will follow the age-based format from seasons 1-2: Boys, Girls, Over 30s and Groups.

Stages for seasons 1-7, 9
There are five stages to the competition:
 * Stage 1: Open auditions (these auditions decide who will sing in front of the judges)
 * Stage 2: Judges' auditions
 * Stage 3: Boot camp or Super camp
 * Stage 4: Judges' houses
 * Stage 5: Live shows (finals)

Stages for seasons 8
There are four stages to the competition:
 * Stage 1: Open auditions (these auditions decide who will sing in front of the judges)
 * Stage 2: Judges' auditions
 * Stage 3: Circuit Rounds
 * Stage 4: Live shows (finals)

Stages for season 10
There are four stages to the competition:
 * Stage 1: Open auditions (these auditions decide who will sing in front of the judges)
 * Stage 2: Judges' auditions (6-Chair-Challenge)
 * Stage 3: Mentor's Showcases
 * Stage 3: Live shows (finals)

After The X Factor
The winner of the competition is awarded a gift worth $500 T$ on Tengaged.com. This is a guaranteed prize.

Season overview
To date, ten seasons have been broadcast, as summarized below.

Contestant in (or mentor of) "Boys" category

Contestant in (or mentor of) "Girls" category

Contestant in (or mentor of) "Over 25s" or "Over 30s" category

Contestant in (or mentor of) "Groups" category

Contestant in (or mentor of) "Wildcards" category

Contestant in (or mentor of) "Covers" or "Teams" category

Contestant in (or mentor of) "Young Adults" category

Judges and hosts
The original judges were Janelle_Pierzina, TylerK, ThomasSwift and Keyston. The judging panel for the current season consists of Laurenjade121, 49288, Leli14 and bigbrothermaniac. The first two seasons were hosted by Danielvk. He was replaced by 49288 for seasons three through six. BigBrotherFan132 served as a replacement host for 49288 during season seven. The eighth season was hosted by BigBrotherFan132 and Janelle_Pierzina. After season eight, BigBrotherFan132 left the show due to commitments and Janelle continued as sole host from season nine and onwards.

Starring
Acted as host for the season

Acted as judge for the season

Acted as both host and judge for the season

Finalists
In each season, each judge is allocated a category to mentor and chooses small number of acts (four or three, depending on the season) to progress to the live finals. This table shows, for each season, which category each judge was allocated and which acts he or she put through to the live finals.

– Winning judge/category. Winners are in bold, eliminated contestants in small font.

Awards and nominations
The show was also nominated for Best Entertainment, Best Logo and Best Original Concept or Variation.

Sponsorship
Janelle's Survivor is the official sponsor of The X Factor. Platinum Big Brother was announced as the second official sponsor of the show. The sponsorship includes an extensive multi-platform on and off-air marketing partnership.