An open audition call selects 100 contestants to enter the preliminaries of the show, which is broadcast in the first episode of the program. From there, the six judges responsible for the preliminaries each select five contestants as the final 30 to be on the show. At the halfway point of the season, contestants eliminated during the first half had an opportunity to re-join the competition in what is called "The Resurrection Battle". During this round, the four highest scoring contestants are re-instated in the competition.
Guest presenters •
Gary Chaw (Episodes 4-6; 28) •
Sammy Leung (Episodes 7-11; 28; Graduation concert) •
Louis Cheung (Episodes 12, 16-28; Graduation concert) •
Amigo Choi (Episodes 13-15) •
Harlem Yu (Episodes 24-25) • King Kong (Episodes 26-27) Season 1 main presenter
Prudence Liew was relieved of her hosting duties as of episode 26. Liew, who is signed under the
Universal Music Group label
Cinepoly Records, is part of the group of
cantopop singers banned from appearing on
TVB programming as part of the conflict between the television station and the
Hong Kong Recording Industry Alliance over song royalties. Her replacement presenter for episodes 26 to 27 was Hong Kong based Taiwanese presenter King Kong (
金剛).
Judges Results •
Winner: Wen Wang 王 雯 •
First Runner-Up: Cherry Ho 何紫慧 •
Second Runner-Up: Wen Chao 趙 文 • Most Outstanding Singer Award: Cherry Ho 何紫慧 • Most Popular Award:
Alfred Hui 許廷鏗 • Most Vastly Improved Award: Auston Lam 林師傑 • Most Moving Performance Award: Wei Han 韓 煒 • Hong Kong's Representative to
International Chinese New Talent Singing Championship 2009: Hong Kin Chan 陳康健 • Hong Kin Chan pulled out of competing at
New Talent due to sickness, therefore no Hong Kong representative competed in the contest for the first time in the history of
New Talent Singing Awards. During episodes 16 to 20 of season one, several singing competition winners from
Mainland China and
Taiwan challenged the original Hong Kong contestants in a dual round. Each challenger battled against two local contestants. If the challenger can win both rounds or at least win one round and tie one round, they were then invited to compete in
The Voice for the remainder of the season. Two of these challengers ended up in the top three at the end of season one, with Wen Wang 王雯 winning the competition and Wen Chao 趙文 in third place. ==Season 2 (2010)==