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Immortal Songs: Singing the Legend

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Immortal Songs: Singing the Legend (Korean: 불후의 명곡: 전설을 노래하다), also known as Immortal Songs 2 (불후의 명곡 2), is a South Korean television music competition program presented by Shin Dong-yup.[1] It is a revival of Immortal Songs (2007–2009), and each episode features singers who perform their reinterpreted versions of songs.[2]

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The program airs a new episode every Saturday on KBS2, and re-airs it with English subtitles on KBS World a week or two later in the same time frame.

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Originally broadcast as Immortal Songs 2 as a part of KBS Saturday Freedom, each episode featured six idol singers who would perform songs by the singer of the episode. After restructuring in 2012, the show returned on April 7 as an independent program and rebranded as Immortal Songs: Singing the Legend. Each episode now features seven singers or groups from diverse backgrounds and years of experience, ranging from members of popular K-pop idol groups to legendary solo artists. As before, they each perform their own reinterpreted versions of famous songs by the legendary singer of the episode. A noted feature of the new format is the "special episodes" which revolve around specific themes, such as festive or commemorate events.

Guest singers are seated in a waiting room with the three hosts, where they introduce themselves to viewers. The order of performances is decided randomly by presenter Shin Dong-yup drawing a ball containing the performer's name, and the 500-member audience vote after each round for their favorite performance. The performer with the most votes on the episode wins. Starting February 15, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the votes were done by 20 special judges (mostly KBS employees). They scored the artist, but the score was not shown on screen and instead a light was used to indicate the winner.

Starting August 22, 2020, the show was re-branded as Immortal Songs. Moon Hee-joon & Jung Jae-hyung both left the program after being part of it for 9 & 8 years respectively and it was announced that Kim Jun-hyun and Kim Shin-young would be replacing them.[3] The show's third waiting room host, Kim Tae-woo, left in June 2021 after 3 years.[4] He was replaced by trot singer Shin Yu in July 2021 but he left the show in October and was replaced by a series of guest hosts (see below). Kim Shin-young also left the show in November and Lee Chan-won was named as a permanent host on November 20, 2021.

On November 4, 2021, KBS announced that it will reopen their music shows to a live audience for the first time since January 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic began. Immortal Songs began taping episodes with a reduced live audience in late November and episode 536 was the first episode to air with an audience on December 11, 2021, with the light system remaining as the method to indicate a winner.[5]

Crossover quartet Forestella holds the unique record of most consecutive wins on the King of Kings special in the show's history, with 6 overall wins.[6] They also had 26 consecutive matches with no losses in their 1st selection round.

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2013

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2014

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2015

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2016

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2017

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2018

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2019

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2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

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2024

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2025

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Notes

  1. In addition to the regular episodes, KBS aired a special on March 3, 2018 that was not counted on the official list. Further, episodes 514 and 633 only aired in South Korea and English dubbing has not been provided (possibly due to copyright licensing issues), but no official explanation has ever been given.
  2. with special guest piano performance by Craxilver's Oh Eun-chul
  3. with special guest performance by rapper Lee Young-ji
  4. with special guest guitar performance by Kim Jung-mo
  5. her performance was using Korean sign language for the song
  6. with special guest guitar performance by Shin Daechul
  7. with special guest performance by Korean traditional music vocalist Choi Ye-lim
  8. with special guest performance by Choi Baek-ho [ko]
  9. with special guest performance by Yoo Hwe-seung (N.Flying)
  10. with special guest performances by junior singers Joo Chan, Ha Yu-bin, Seo Jung-eun, Song Yu-jin, Meari, Son Dae-hee, Kim Myeong-seob, and Poong Geum and a children's choir performing sign language for the song
  11. with special guest performance by rock band Danggisio
  12. 13th tie and 5th joint win in the show's history
  13. with special guest performance by dance crew Harmonize
  14. with special guest performance by Outsider
  15. with special guest performance by HerCheck from band SuperKidd
  16. with special guest performance by Ji Chang-wook with the song "Laundry"[25]
  17. 14th tie, 6th joint win, and 1st all-kill joint win in the show's history
  18. with special guest appearance by Lee Sun-hee
  19. with special guest performance by Korean duo Am:Pm, produced by ALi
  20. special rules for this episode include 3 teams of 2 singers who will sing verse 1 vs. verse 2 of the same song, each match winner gets to keep Jang Yoon-jeong's song as her own with the score system returning for this episode with a max of 500 points per match
  21. with special guest performances by Kim Hee-jae [ko] and by Na Tae-ju
  22. with special guest performance by dance crew Harmonize
  23. with special guest performances by comedians Kim Won-hyo [ko], Kim Tae-won [ko], Lim Jae-baek [ko], Kim Won-hoon [ko] and Cho Jin-se [ko]
  24. with special guest performance by Jeon In-kwon
  25. 15th tie and 7th joint win in the show's history
  26. with special guest performance by rapper Camo
  27. with Lim Soo-min [ko] as team captain
  28. with Kang Seung-hwa [ko] as team captain
  29. The scores for all three performances of each team were added to determine the winner, 100 points were available per round by randomly assigning 100 members of the audience to vote. Only valid votes were counted.
  30. Special performance by Forestella with the song Despacito (orig. song by Luis Fonsi ft. Daddy Yankee)
  31. consisting of Kim Jin-won, Heo Joon, Park Tae-hee & Scott Hellowell of (YB), Han Kyung-rok & Kim In-soo of Crying Nut, Kim Do-hyung of Jannabi and Chae Do-hyeon of Touched [ko]
  32. The band could only perform one song before the festival was delayed and later cancelled due to a thunderstorm. Other bands such as Monni and Soran were also scheduled to perform but were not able to.
  33. Introduced as Chief Song and currently Lee Young-ja's manager
  34. Yang Hee-eun, Lee Sung-mi [ko] & Kim Hye-young [ko] were part of the audience
  35. Special video messages by Lee Byung-hun and Park Chan-wook
  36. Celebrating World Alzheimer's Day. Special opening performance by Nosonoso Choir consisting of older adults with Alzheimer's Disease and their families with the song "Being Happy" (orig. song by Chu Ga-yeoul)
  37. Show's 1st ever recording made abroad to commemorate the 120th anniversary of Korean immigration to the United States. It was held on October 26, 2023 at Prudential Center in Newark, NJ.
  38. With special guest performance by comedienne Lee Soo-ji [ko] with "The Wind Blows" (orig. song by Lee So-ra)
  39. With special guest performance by comedians Yoon Hyung-bin [ko] and Lee Yoon-seok [ko] with "Backpacking" (OST for Qualifications of Men)
  40. Featuring Yoo Byung-jae and Song Jin-woo [ko]
  41. Commemorative performance for the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics that had events in Pyeongchang.
  42. With special guest performance by Seo Beom-seok [ko]
  43. Special opening stage performance by Lee Chan-won with his song "Mangwon-dong Blues"
  44. With special guest piano performance by Changmo
  45. Special opening stage performance by Forestella (except Ko Woo-rim) with the song Piano Man
  46. Special opening stage performance by Lee Seung-chul and Hori7on with his song "It's A Rainy Day"
  47. With special guest performance by Ryu Philip [ko]
  48. More experienced singers paired up with lesser known bands or groups who debuted around the pandemic and have struggled in the music industry.
  49. Lim Su-min [ko] was also a guest but she did not perform.
  50. They also mixed in fragments of the song Apt. by Rosé ft. Bruno Mars in their performance.
  51. She also mixed in fragments of the song Memory of the musical Cats in her performance.
  52. With special guitar performance by Choo Seung-youp
  53. With special guest performance by Lim Se-jun of Victon
  54. With special guest piano performance by Kim Hyeong-seok during the opening song.
  55. With special guest appearance by actor Kim Jae-wook to introduce the band.
  56. Singing under his trot stage name, Cheon Rok-dam
  57. With special guest performance by Park Chul-kyu [ko]
  58. With special guest performance by Park Eun-young [ko]
  59. With special guest performance by Forestella with Lady Gaga's Abracadabra

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