Tension, twists and turns and by now very tight competition: the shirts are tightening at X Factor 2020, with the fourth episode that marks the halfway point of this edition and brings with it a double elimination, with Blue Phelix and Vergo who had to abandon the race. Last night's Live also marked the highly anticipated return of Alessandro Cattelan at the helm of the show. The fourth chapter of # XF2020, a Sky show produced by Fremantle, yesterday on Sky Uno / + 1, totaled 868 thousand average spectators, with a share of 3.6%, a figure up + 12% compared to the same episode last season. New records on the social front: with 799,300 total interactions it marks the new record for this season, a figure that places it in first place among the television events of yesterday (+ 124% compared to the corresponding episode of the previous edition, + 7% compared to the previous week). As for the 24/7 survey, the interactions generated by X Factor during the whole day yesterday were 851,600 and also in this case # XF2020 turns out to be the first content of the day in continuous survey (+ 134% compared to last year , + 7% on the last episode).
The official hashtag # XF2020 remained for several hours in the Trending Topic Worldwide ranking just at the same time as the show was broadcast, the same goes for the Italian ranking where it remained - mainly in first position - until the morning of today. In addition to # XF2020, the keywords Emma, Naip, Vergo, Manuelito, Elodie, Blue Phenix (sources: Talkwalker, Trends24.in) also entered the ranking. In total, over 5 and a half million votes (5,523,783) were cast yesterday evening. Opening with Alessandro Cattelan and a performance with "surprise": dancers on stage, for them tablet on the face with the face of Ale as in the opening of the previous two weeks. Behind one of the screens was the real Cattelan who, thus returning to the helm of # XF2020, then accompanied the audience, judges and competitors along an evening full of twists and turns and tense until the last moment. Start the race with a very fast "joust" of original songs for the talents in the race. For the Groups category led by Manuel Agnelli, Little Pieces of Marmelade performed One Cup of Happiness and Melancholia Leon; for Mika's Over, NAIP sang Attenti al Loop and Vergo Bomba; for the Under Men led by Emma, Blind proposed Cuore Nero and Blue Phelix his South Dakota; finally, for the Under Women of Hell Raton, Casadilego sang Vittoria, cmqmartina re-proposed Sparami and MYDRAMA Come with me. Very fast heat and an equally fast result: Blue Phelix, the least voted, had to leave the stage for good. Following, the second heat that saw all the boys engaged, with the assignments of the judges, in a race to the last breath against everyone. He inaugurated the MYDRAMA challenge with Notti di Sfera Ebbasta, then NAIP with Amandoti by CCCP, Melancholia with Sweet Dreams (Are made of this) by Eurythmics, Blind con Bambino (song with verses and chorus written by him based on Per me è Importante dei Tiromancino), cmqmartina with Albero di Calcutta, Vergo with a mashup of Oro by Mango and Pienso en tu mirá and Malamente by Rosalía, Casadilego with Rapide by Mahmood, Little Pieces of Marmelade with Bullet With Butterfly Wings by The Smashing Pumpkins. MYDRAMA and Vergo ended up in the ballot in the vote of the judges obtaining 2 votes each (Hell Raton and Emma saved the young competitor, Mika and Manuel Agnelli the boy from Palermo and Milanese by adoption). Followed by the 200 seconds of the TILT with which the public saved MYDRAMA by marking the end of the path of the Over competitor, Vergo. The original songs proposed in the first heat will also be fundamental for the continuation of the race, in the next episode: from midnight today, in fact, Gfk - a market research company that detects the sales and listening data of music in Italy, on which the rankings and official record certifications are based - it started from scratch with the streaming and download surveys of the songs of the seven singers still in the race, the least listened to will go to the ballot in the fifth Live Show, expected next Thursday, November 26, always in prime time on Sky Uno and NOW TV. Guests at the Sky Wifi Arena last night: Leo Gassmann, back "in the family" two years after his participation in X Factor that launched him and after his victory at the Sanremo 2020 Festival in the "New Proposals" category. Leo premiered the song Mr. Fonda, the third one from his first studio album "Strike" which reached over 10 million streams. Then, Elodie, protagonist of a spectacular medley of some of her successes, then joined by Carl Brave, special guest of the set, to perform together Parli Parli, a duet contained in "Coraggio", the second unpublished album by the Roman artist and producer . Hot comments, at the end of the evening, between judges and competitors eliminated with Daniela Collu and her Hot Factor.