The program was produced by Hong Tao, and the show's music director was Kubert Leung.

As with previous seasons, the combined vote count from both the Qualifying and Knockout rounds determined which singer was eliminated on the night.

Like eliminated singers, unsuccessful challengers (unless elected to withdraw) were also entitled to return performance and taking part in the Breakouts.

Han, Kit Chan, A-Lin and Sitar Tan appeared as guest performers on the fifth, sixth and seventh seasons, respectively.

The order of performance for this episode was determined by Han Hong, which the 500-member audience voted for the singer who gave the best first impression.

Jian was originally going to perform "傳奇" this week, but later scrapped during rehearsals, citing that the song was 'meaningless' to the competition.

During the results, this round came to have produced the narrowest margin of 26 votes between the top five performers in I Am a Singer history, as Tan, Han, The One, A-Lin and Lee, received 241, 232, 232, 216 and 215 votes, respectively (percentages were 16.14%, 15.51%, 15.51%, 14.43% and 14.36%, respectively); by a one-vote difference, Lee was eliminated for failing the challenge (and Sun Nan, who would have been eliminated for finishing last, was safe).

During this episode, Sun decided to rewrite the lyrics on his performance, "全部的愛", to dedicate his daughter.

During this episode, Jian's manager was temporarily replaced by Eliza Liang as Shen Mengchen was absent during tapings to host the 2015 Hunan Television special The Lantern Festival Show.

Zhang was initially eligible to participate, but later declined due to her decision to focus on her new album release on March 11, 2015.

During the results, the initial vote count (media) revealed that Jian was ranked first, followed by The One, Tan, and Ku.

Before the final results were announced, the host named The One, Jian and Han as the "Ultimate Winner Candidates".