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X Factor (Italian TV series) season 10

season of the Italian television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ27306953 ↗
Source-derived summary

X Factor is an Italian television music competition to find new singing talent; the winner receives a recording contract with Sony Music. Fedez was confirmed as judge and mentor, Arisa returned, while Manuel Agnelli and Alvaro Soler were chosen to replace Skin and Elio; Alessandro Cattelan was confirmed as host. The tenth season aired on Sky Uno and TV8 starting from September 2016. Soul System became the second group to win the competition since it began.

Judges' houses

The "Home Visit" is the final phase before the Live Shows. In this phase, the contestants who passed the "Bootcamp" had to perform one last time in front of their specific judge, each in a different location. At the end of this audition, the top twelve contestants were chosen.

The twelve eliminated acts were:

Boys at Turin: Lorenzo Aleandri, Salvatore Misiano, Diego Micheli

Girls at Saint-Tropez: Valentina Giardullo, Sofia Rollo, Grace

25+ at Bologna: Simone Nannicini, Giovanni Diana, Veronica Marchi

Groups at Barcelona: IISO, Soul System, Oak

Contestants and categories

Key:

– Winner

– Runner-up

– Third place

– Withdrew

Soul System replaced Jarvis who withdrew from the competition before the live shows.

Live shows

Results summary

Colour key

Live show details

Week 1 (27 October)

Celebrity performers: Marco Mengoni ("Sai che") and Matt Simons ("Light in You"/"Ad occhi chiusi")

Judges' votes to eliminate

Soler: Diego Conti – backed his own act, Les Enfants.

Arisa: Les Enfants – backed her own act, Diego Conti.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “X Factor (Italian TV series) season 10” as season of the Italian television series. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Factor, Italian and series can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “X Factor (Italian TV series) season 10” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.