The fifth season of the American reality talent show The Voice premiered on September 23, 2013 on NBC.

[2] This is the first season to extend the use of steals in the knockout round, which was previously made available only in the Battle rounds;[3][4] and the Instant Save during live shows, allowing Twitter's tweets from the viewers (based on the airing of East Coast/Pacific time zones) to save a contestant eligible from elimination.

CeeLo Green and Christina Aguilera returned from their hiatus and rejoined Adam Levine and Blake Shelton.

In February 2014, Green announced his departure from The Voice and thus making it his last season for the show.

[citation needed] Color key: ^1 Episodes airing on Monday had a running time of two hours.

For this season, the iTunes voting rules saw revamps during the show's live rounds, where it now award the artists a multiplier of five (previously 10) for singles which charted within the Top 10 of the iTunes "Top 200 Singles Chart" at the close of a specific episode's voting "window" (generally from the end of the episode to 10 AM Eastern time the following morning).

Viewers in the Eastern and Central time zones vote during the live broadcasts, while viewers in the Mountain and Pacific time zones are cued to vote to save artists on the show's official Twitter account during the live East coast broadcast.

[35] (Caroline Pennell, Kat Robichaud & Jonny Gray) (Tessanne Chin, Will Champlin and James Wolpert) The Top 10 performed on Monday, November 18, with results following on Tuesday, November 19.

The Top 5 performed on Monday, December 9, 2013 with the results following on Tuesday, December 10. iTunes bonus multipliers was awarded to Tessanne Chin (#1), Jacquie Lee (#6), and Champlin (#10), with Chin becoming the first contestant to achieve the top chart position at the end of an applicable voting window this season.

The fifth season premiered on September 23, 2013 and was watched by 14.98 million viewers with a 5.1 rating in the 18–49 demographic.