MIXNINE (믹스나인) is a 2017 reality survival show created by JTBC and YG Entertainment. The show was produced by Han Dong Chul, who is also producer of Produce 101, Show Me The Money, and Unpretty Rapstar.
Overview[]
400 trainees across 70 agencies were visited and evaluated by Yang Hyun Suk and his panel of judges. 170 (72 male and 98 female) passed the preliminary auditions to participate in the program.
Contestants[]
- Color key
| Top 9 (Debut Team - Male) | |
| Top 9 Female Team | |
| Male contestant eliminated in the final episode | |
| Female contestant eliminated in the final episode | |
| Male contestant eliminated in the third elimination round | |
| Female contestant eliminated in the third elimination round | |
| Male contestant eliminated in the second elimination round | |
| Female contestant eliminated in the second elimination round | |
| Contestant eliminated in the first elimination round | |
| Contestant left the show |
| 170 Contestants | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woo Jin-young (우진영) | Kim Hyo-jin (김효진) | Lee Roo-bin (이루빈) | Kim Byeong-kwan (김병관) | Choi Hyun-suk (최현석) | ||
| Song Han-kyeom (송한겸) | Kim Min-seok (김민석) | Lee Dong-hoon (이동훈) | Lee Byeong-gon (이병곤) | Shin Ryu-jin (신류진) | ||
| Lee Soo-min (이수민) | Park Su-min (박수민) | Jeon Hee-jin (전희진) | Nam Yu-jin (남유진) | Choi Moon-hee (최문희) | ||
| Kim So-ri (김소리) | Jang Hyo-kyeong (장효경) | Lee Ha-young (이하영) | Yao Ming-ming (요명명) | Lee Seung-jun (이승준) | ||
| Kim Se-yoon (김세윤) | Shim Jae-young (심재영) | Kim Hyun-soo (김현수) | Jin Seong-ho (진성호) | Lee Jae-jun (이재준) | ||
| Kim Hyun-jong (김현종) | Kim Kook-heon (김국헌) | Kim Bo-won (김보원) | Jung Ha-yoon (정하윤) | Jung Sa-ra (정사라) | ||
| Baek Hyeon-joo (백현주) | Hwang Ji-min (황지민) | Kim Hyun-jin (김현진) | Kim Min-kyung (김민경) | Choi Yun-a (최윤아) | ||
| Lee Soo-jin (이수진) | Lee Geon-min (이건민) | Woo Tae-woon (우태운) | Kim Dong-yoon (김동윤) | Park Min-gyun (박민균) | ||
| Mizuguchi Yuto (미즈구치 유토) | Oh Hee-jun (오희준) | Cho Yong-geun (조용근) | Jung In-seong (정인성) | Kim Young-jo (김영조) | ||
| Kim Su-a (김수아) | Goh A-ra (고아라) | Kim Min-ju (김민주) | Shin Jee-won (신지원) | Heo Chan-mi (허찬미) | ||
| Kim Si-hyeon (김시현) | Watanabe Rui (와타나베 루이) | Lee Ji-eun (이지은) | Lee Chan-dong (이찬동) | Lee Chang-yoon (이창윤) | ||
| Yoon Jae-hee (윤재희) | Kim Sang-won (김상원) | Park Seung-jun (박승준) | Jung Hyeon-woo (정현우) | Chae Chang-hyeon (채창현) | ||
| Kim Jun-gyu (김준규) | Shin Jun-seob (신준섭) | Park Hyeon-gyu (박현규) | Baek Jin (백진) | Lee Ha-bit (이하빛) | ||
| Im Young-jun (임영준) | Kim Min-hak (김민학) | Kim Hong-joong (김홍중) | Choi Jong-ho (최종호) | Ma Jae-kyeong (마재경) | ||
| Park Seong-hyeon (박성현) | Lee Jae-joon (이재준) | Hiyama Kazuhiro(히아마 가즈히로) | Kim Jun-hoe (김준회) | Hwang Yoon-seong (황윤성) | ||
| Moon Jae-yoon (문재윤) | Yoon Yong-bin (윤용빈) | Jo Young-ho (조영호) | Kim Yoon-young (김윤영) | Kang Si-hyun (강시현) | ||
| Park Hae-young (박해영) | Lee Hyang-sook (이향숙) | Ng Sze Kai (응 씨 카이) | Lee Yong-chae (이용채) | Yukika Teramoto (테라모토 유키카) | ||
| Park Hae-lin (박해린) | Kim Yun-ji (김윤지) | Kim Hyun-jung (김현정) | Go Jeong-hee (고정희) | Choi Ha-young (최하영) | ||
| Kim Young-seo (김영서) | Im So-hyeon (임소현) | Yu Jin-kyung (유진경) | Yang Hye-seon (양혜선) | Shin Ji-yoon (신지윤) | ||
| Kim Da-yun (김다윤) | Kim Jin-hong (김진홍) | Kim Sang-jin (김상진) | Kim Seung-min (김승민) | Kim Dong-hyeon (김동현) | ||
| Kim Seung-min (김승민) | Kim Dong-hyeon (김동현) | Shin Jung-min (신중민) | Kim Sang-yeon (김상연) | Lee Chang-seon (이창선) | ||
| Han Jong-yeon (한종연) | Heo Young-joo (허영주) | Kim Jae-oh (김재오) | Ogawa Mizuki (오가와 미즈키) | Kwak Hi-o (곽히오) | ||
| Moon Young-seo (문영서) | Lee Ye-eun (이예은) | Song Min-ki (송민기) | Park So-eun (박소은) | Manny (만니) | ||
| Park Ji-woo (박지우) | Moon Seung-yoo (문승유) | Kim Young-jin (김영진) | Kim Seong-yeon (김성연) | Jo Han-guk (조한국) | ||
| Kim Seong-eun (김성은) | Son Jun-hyeong (손준형) | Shin Soo-hyeon (신수현) | Hwang Woo-rim (황우림) | Baek Da-ae (백다애) | ||
| Moon Eun-jin (문은진) | Kim Han-kyeol (김한결) | Jung Seong-cheol (정성철) | Park Ga-eun (박가은) | Baek Min-seo (백민서) | ||
| Jung Seung-bo (정승보) | Jung Woo-young (정우영) | Jung Ye-eun (정예은) | Lee Soo-hyeon (이수현) | Kim Chae-hyeon (김채현) | ||
| Kim Joo-yeon (김주연) | Han Byeol (한별) | Lee Yeo-reum (이여름) | Seo Yu-ri (서유리) | Bang Ye-sol (방예솔) | ||
| Sekioka Rena (세키오카 레나) | Yoo Ha-jeong (유하정) | Jung Yoo-jeong (정유정) | Ahn Da-bi (안다비) | Choi Ji-seon (최지선) | ||
| Jang Eun-seong (장은성) | Lee Bom (이봄) | Hong Joo-hyeon (홍주현) | Park Eun-jo (박은조) | Lee Ye-sol (이예솔) | ||
| Kim Hee-soo (김희수) | Ahn Han-byeol (안한별) | Jo Yu-ri (조유리) | Baek Hye-jin (백혜진) | Han Gyeo-ul (한겨울) | ||
| Jeon Ye-im (전예임) | Yeo In-hye (여인혜) | Seo Ji-heun (서지흔) | Lee Seung-mi (이승미) | Park Cho-hyeon (박초현) | ||
| Jeon Yoo-jin (전유진) | Jung Da-sol (정다솔) | Song Ji-eun (송지은) | Choi Su-jeong (최수정) | Kim Soo-yeon (김수연) | ||
| Im Ji-hye (임지혜) | Kim Min-ji (김민지) | Kim Yoo-hyeon (김유현) | Lee Si-yeon (이시연) | Lee Yoo-bin(이유빈) | ||
Episodes[]
Episode 1 (October 29, 2017)[]
The first episode introduces all 170 participants wherein selected ones voiced out their intentions in joining the program. Noh Hong-chul was seen as the show's host. The next part introduces Yang Hyun-suk and rapper CL as the judges as they start traveling to different agencies located all over the country for the audition through Yang's car. Two buses ('Debut Bus' for the 9 chosen contestants and 'Trainee Bus' for the remaining ones) are seen traveling along with the judges car. For every contestant who passes the audition, he or she would be riding the bus along with the other contestants. The trainees' auditions are simultaneously watched by the judges, their agency's CEO, and their co-trainees in the bus. At the end of the episode, the music video of "Just Dance" was shown.
Episode 2 (November 5, 2017)[]
The show starts with introducing a '1-Day Special Mission' for the chosen participants of the show, to be shown later on. For now, the episode continues with Yang Hyun-suk traveling to different places for auditions. In this episode, singer Zion.T comes along with him to judge. Towards the end of the episode, Big Bang member Seungri joins Yang in his car going to one of the biggest agencies in South Korea, JYP Entertainment.
Episode 3 (November 12, 2017)[]
Again, the show starts with the participants gathering in a room to do the '1-Day Special Mission'; a new set of "Debut Team" will be formed after their evaluation.[32] Participants are given two (girls) or three (boys) dance songs for them to perform in front of judges Yang Hyun-suk and Lee Seungri. Participants who are given the pass by the judges would proceed to the singing portion and only nine people would be chosen to be included in the "Debut Team". The trainees are given a shortlist of songs. After the 20-minute video, auditions carry on with Yang Hyun-suk by himself for the first half of this episode. Then, the episode continues with finishing JYP Entertainment's audition's scene (which was held during the end of the second episode) and Park Jin-young judging YG Entertainment's trainees afterwards. The episode also features Big Bang's Taeyang as a guest judge. With this, this episode concludes the auditions for the show: the judges panel toured for 15 days (240 hours); 72 entertainment agencies have visited; 403 participants auditioned; 170 participants (98 girls and 72 boys) passed the audition. It also marks the start of public voting.
Episode 4 (November 19, 2017)[]
The episode starts off with giving each participant his/her number according to their rankings. All contestants are divided into four levels: Top 9, A, B, and C. At that moment, the 'Mix Nine's VLive Showcase' is announced along with the show's theme song, "Just Dance", and its choreography. The participants start to train by their levels with the trainers of the show. Right after, their mentors tell them their new mission: record their song and dance individually from 9AM to 3PM for re-evaluation of their level, or they are automatically put to C-class. The next day, all participants are to perform once again for a chance to level up (or down). 9 chosen members from each level of girls and boys team perform the song on stage. A new set of Debut Team are formed at the end: ONF's Hyojin and Fave's Lee Sujin are chosen by Yang as the male and female centers, respectively, for their first live performance. By the end of the show, their rankings based on the judges and people's votes are revealed. In total votes, the boys team (28,650 votes) earned an additional 1000 points each for winning against the girls (25,680 votes).
Episode 5 (November 26, 2017)[]
Noh Hong-chul meets with the trainees to announce the next challenge after the ranking announcement. The trainees are tasked to perform live in groups based on positions they want to debut in: vocal, dance or rap. Participants of each gender will have to choose from 4 rap songs, 6 vocal songs, or 8 dance songs: 18 songs in total. If the number of people exceeded in their chosen song, the team will decide who to drop through self-evaluation. The male and female participants will go against each other based on their position and the group who earns the highest points combined (50% judges; 50% audience's votes) will receive an additional 2,000 points each. Only six groups are covered this week.
Episode 6 (December 3, 2017)[]
The remaining twelve teams perform their respective stages and rehearsals for the groups are shown. After the last performance, the contestants are shown their overall ranking based on their positions. The additional 2,000 points are given to 9 teams (88 contestants) for receiving the combined highest points on their respective group and additional 2,000 points to Kim Byeong-kwan, Woo Jin-young, Kim Hyo-jin for males and Kim Hyun-jin, Jeong Sa-ra, Im So-hyun for females for receiving the highest points in dance, rap, and vocal position respectively.
Episode 7 (December 10, 2017)[]
The first elimination round takes place on this episode. Participants enter the stage by their Position Battle teams and snippets of their performance are shown. Yang announces whether each member passes or gets eliminated in the show based on the showcase, position battles, additional points and online votes. Out of 170 participants, 99 remains (46 girls; 56 boys) and 71 contestants are eliminated. Top 9 from each gender was then announced: Woo Jin-young and Shin Ryu-jin receive 1st place, while the former ranks first in the overall rank; Lee Jaejun ranks 99th, escaping elimination.
Episode 8 (December 17, 2017)[]
A new mission is announced: Formation Battle. Unlike the first mission, Formation Battle is a battle between the same gender. Also, the songs, remastered by YG producers, are decided through the survey about the contestants' role models and life-song. 10 teams are formed to compete for 10 songs given. Being in the Debut team, the members are allowed to choose their preferred songs. However, a maximum of 3 members from the Debut team are allowed in one song. They are to choose their members afterwards. The winning team will receive an additional of 10,000 votes while 2nd to 4th placers will receive 7000, 5000, 3000 more votes, respectively. 5th place receives 0 votes. The performances of all the female teams (5 groups) are covered this week: "Tell Me Your Wish" (Girls' Generation), "I'm Your Girl" (S.E.S.), "Bad Girl Good Girl" (Miss A), "Really Really" (Winner), and "Honey" (KARA).
Episode 9 (December 24, 2017)[]
The episode starts off with revealing the ranks of the girls' performances. It then continues with the formation battle between the remaining 52 male contestants. The performances of all the male teams (5 groups) are as follows: "Hug" (TVXQ), "Ringa Linga" (Taeyang), "It's You" (Super Junior), "Paradise Lost" (Gain), and "Bang Bang Bang" (Big Bang).
Episode 10 (December 31, 2017)[]
The episode starts off with revealing the ranks of the boys' performances. Then, another new mission is announced: Digital Song Battle. Both male and female teams will be given 3 songs each, and participants will be evaluated individually. Out of 99, only 54 participants (Ranks 1 to 27 from both male and female teams) are able to participate. Six songs are introduced: Kang Wook-jin, Diggy, and LIØN's "Hand in Hand"; FUTURE BOUNCE's "Super Freak"; MC Mong's "Stand By Me" and "After This Night"; Ilhoon and Kamen Rider's "Hush"; and Kim Dohoon's "Dangerous Girl". Participants start to pick their chosen songs one-by-one by ranking. Soon after, the second elimination round commenced. Participants enter the stage by their Formation Battle teams and snippets of their performance are shown. Yang announces whether each member passes or gets eliminated in the show. Woo Jin-young and Shin Ryu-jin rank 1st place once again; the latter ranks first in the overall rank.
Episode 11 (January 7, 2018)[]
Participants who survived are re-grouped (a maximum of nine members each) due to uneven distribution after the last elimination round. Male and female members from each team go against each other and the three best individuals for each team will receive 5000, 7000, and 10000 points, respectively. Individual scores are based on 20% judge votes and 80% audience votes. All three female groups are covered this week.
Episode 12 (January 14, 2018)[]
The episode follows the Digital Song Battle with the remaining three male groups' performances. By the end of the episode, a preview of the Debut Team going to Big Bang's concert as a present by Yang Hyun-suk was shown.
Episode 13 (January 21, 2018)[]
The episode starts with a poll of the participants conducted before the elimination round. This includes 'Top 3 Visual': Kim Hyojin, Kim Hyun-jong, and Lee Jae-jun for boys, Lee Ha-young, Choi Moon-hee, and Jeon Hee-jin for girls; 'Hot Guy Representative' Shim Jae-young; 'Crying Queen' Shin Ji-won; 'Most Energetic Girl' Kim Su-hyun and Kim Hyun-jin; and 'Most Easily Excited Boy' Kim Guk-heon. During the elimination round; participants enter the stage by their Digital Song Battle teams. Jang Seongkyu replaced Noh as the host for today. Names of the top 18 trainees are called by Yang one by one starting from rank 15. Shin Ryu-jin retains her 1st rank while Kim Hyo-jin replaces Woo Jin-young for the first time. Four new songs are announced afterwards: "Come Over" (produced by Robin) and "Omona" (produced by ) for girls; "I Like It Too" (produced by Kang Wookjin, LIØN, and Diggy) and "What!?" (produced by Kang Wookjin, iHAWK, BIGTONE, and Diggy) for boys. The remaining trainees choose their positions beginning with rank 18 up to 1, with the higher ranked trainees being given the advantage of replacing the lower ranked trainees and bumping them into another song. After finalizing the teams of four groups at the end of the episode, 12 participant representatives' audition presentations or live performances are shown according to their positions: dance, rap, vocal.
Episode 14 (January 26, 2018)[]
This episode was broadcast live at the Ilsan Kintex, five days after the last episode. Both Noh Hong-chul and Jang Sungkyu host the show while the final judges include Seungri, Taeyang, Zion.T and Yang Hyun-suk.
All the participants are first introduced one-by-one according to their ranks starting from the men's team. Soon after, they perform "Come Over", "What!?", "Omona", and "I Like It Too", respectively. After their performances, a VTR of the participants watching their individual "Just Dance" re-evaluation (from Episode 4) was shown. They then performed "Just Dance" live with Kim Hyo-jin and Shin Ryu-jin as the centers. Following the performance, the live voting closed and the announcement of Top 9 started. Both Woo Jin-young and Shin Ryu-jin topped the men's and women's team. In the end, men's team won against women's with the score of 8,114 over 7,866. The scores are determined 20% pre-broadcast online votes, 30% text votes during the live show, 20% pre-broadcast online preference rankings, and 30% judges' scores.
Winners[]
- Male (Debut)
| # | Name | Agency | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Woo Jin Young | Happyface Entertainment | 8,114 |
| 2 | Kim Hyo Jin | WM Entertainment | |
| 3 | Lee Ru Bin | Liveworks Company | |
| 4 | Kim Byeong Kwan | Beat Interactive | |
| 5 | Choi Hyun Suk | YG Entertainment | |
| 6 | Song Han Gyeom | Staro Entertainment | |
| 7 | Kim Min Seok | WM Entertainment | |
| 8 | Lee Dong Hun | Beat Interactive | |
| 9 | Lee Byoung Gon | YG Entertainment |
- Female
| # | Name | Agency | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shin Ryu Jin | JYP Entertainment | 7,866 |
| 2 | Lee Soo Min | FAVE Entertainment | |
| 3 | Park Soo Min | IME Korea | |
| 4 | Jeon Hee Jin | BlockBerryCreative | |
| 5 | Nam Yu Jin | Bace Camp Entertainment | |
| 6 | Choi Moon Hee | Maroo Entertainment | |
| 7 | Kim So Ri | MOLE Entertainment | |
| 8 | Jang Hyo Gyeong | Star Empire Entertainment | |
| 9 | Lee Ha Young | Coridel Entertainment |
Official links[]
Videos[]
Trivia[]
- After the end of JTBC and YG Entertainment’s survival show “MIXNINE” in January, YG Entertainment announced that the nine finalists would not be debuting as previously announced. The show had received much lower ratings than many had expected. YG Entertainment stated that the group would not be debuting due to issues with coming to an agreement with the members’ individual agencies over their contracts.
- One of the finalists was Happyface Entertainment’s Woo Jin Young, and the agency filed a lawsuit in June against YG Entertainment for 10 million won (approximately $8,854) in damages. A source from Happyface Entertainment said at the time, “More than to be compensated for all the damages we have received, this is a symbolic amount filed in our hopes that Korean popular culture, the home of Hallyu, will progress healthily without the overuse of power by large companies.”
