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ShowsThe VoiceSeason 10
The fifth anniversary season — a decade of blind auditions

The Milestone

Season ten marked the show's fifth anniversary and introduced a new coaching rotation, bringing fresh energy to a format that had comfortably established its rhythms. The milestone framing gave the season a sense of occasion, even if the format was firmly in its middle period.

Filmed
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Premiered
Feb 29, 2016
NBC · February 2016
Format
Blind audition competition
Fifth anniversary season, new coaching combination
Cast size
4 players
Four coaches, updated lineup
Host
Carson Daly
Carson Daly — tenth season at the helm
On this page
  1. 01The take
  2. 02The shape of the season
  3. 03Where it sits in the canon
  4. 05Adjacent in the canon
  5. 06Also appears in
01The take

The Milestone.

Five years in — the format confident, the chairs full, the run continuing.
02The shape of the season

A rhythm worth tracking.

Season ten arrived at a natural waypoint: five years of spinning chairs, enough history to look back on. The coaching rotation brought a fresh combination that hadn't appeared together before, and the blind auditions benefited from coaches still feeling the competitive edge of a new pairing. A solid mid-run Voice season — not the format at its peak, but a confident cycle from a show that had learned how to do this reliably.

03Where it sits in the canon

The #10 slot.

Slot #10 of 10 in the The Voice Editor's Canon. The seasons on either side show what I ranked it against.

No spoilers. Every page is reviewed before it goes live.
06Also appears in

Cross-references.

The Voice S10 — The Milestone — tiered.tv