Mix Nine

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Mix Nine (Hangul: ????, stylized as MIXNINE) is a South Korean survival reality show on JTBC. In the show, YG Entertainment founder and producer Yang Hyun-suk travels to music agencies all over Korea to find up-and-coming K-pop stars. The final component of the show will be a competition between a team of nine boys and a team of nine girls, and the winning team will debut as idols.

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Concept

Mix Nine is a collaboration project between director Han Dong-chul, producer Yang Hyun-suk, and JTBC. Han Dong-chul, who was the executive producer of the first two seasons of Mnet's Produce 101 originally came with the concept for the show's third season. The show had 400 auditions from 70+ agencies, and it included both trainees and unknown K-pop idols looking to seek further attention. 170 were chosen by Yang Hyun-suk and guest judges CL, Zion.T, Seungri, and Taeyang.

After the agency tour concluded, the trainees were divided into four classes (Debut team, A, B, and C) to train and compete in ranking missions that were judged by a combination of judge evaluations and viewer voting. Rapper Swings, vocal trainer and singer Ha Dong-kyun, singer Suran, and YG dancers Kwon Young-deuk and Kwon Young-don were responsible for training.

The final group promotional period would be 7 months.

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Episode guide

Episodes 1-3: Auditions

During the first three episodes Yang Hyun-suk toured the country to visit agencies and audition their trainees. Two buses follow him, the nine place Debut Bus (DB) and the Trainee Bus (TB), in which the successful trainees at the auditions are repartited.

Episode 4: Showcase

All contestants were divided into four levels: Top 9, A, B, and C.

Episode 5-6: Position battle

The trainees were divided by gender once again and each of them chose one song to best showcase their abilities in rap, dance or vocal. Boys and girls competed in groups for nine rounds during episodes 5 and 6. The winners of each round would get a 2000-point benefit.

Episode 7: Comprehensive Top 9

A Top 9 consisting of both male and female contestants was released with a total of 70 contestants being eliminated.

Episode 8-10: Formation battle

In episode 8 the remaining 46 female contestants were separated into five groups, in which they performed a song and were ranked according to member points, the points were combined and resulted in point benefits being awarded to the teams. Episode 9 follows the same structure with the remaining 52 male contestants. The 1st and 2nd place teams of the male group were revealed in episode 10.

Episode 11-12: Soundtrack battle

In episode 11 the remaining 27 female contestants separated into three groups consisting of nine members and each released a digital single, votes were counted and the top three members of each group were awards point benefits. Episode 12 follows the same structure with the remaining 27 male contestants.

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Contestants

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Contestant notes

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Ratings

• In the table below, the blue numbers represent the lowest ratings and the red numbers represent the highest ratings.

• This programme aired on a cable channel/pay TV which normally has a relatively smaller audience compared to free-to-air TV/public broadcasters (KBS, SBS, MBC & EBS).
• NR rating means "not reported".

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Notes

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References

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External links

• Official website

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