In Armenia, Austria, the Netherlands, the United States and the UK, the votes are limited to the live studio audience members due to the show being pre-recorded.
[1] The original South Korean series King of Mask Singer is a continuous, episode-by-episode format, in which the winner is decided after each tournament that lasts two weekly episodes.
In the final round of each tournament, the finalist singer must face-off the previous bi-weekly winner to take over the champion title.
The Thai singer Issara Kitnitchi [th], under the name "Durian", became the first winner to win an annual season format from the second ever franchise to be launched outside South Korea on 23 March 2017.
"[82][83] On 28 October 2020, it was announced that Craig Robinson would host, the panelists would be Ken Jeong, Paula Abdul, Brian Austin Green, and Ashley Tisdale, and the show would premiere on 27 December 2020.
The series had 12 contestants competing through seven episodes, and was hosted by Dommett, with Ross, Gilligan, McCall, and Oti Mabuse serving as panellists.
[85][86] It aired in late spring 2021,[87] filling in for Britain's Got Talent, which had its upcoming series 15 postponed until 2022 due to health and safety reasons concerning the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.