| Singer | |
|---|---|
| Season 1 | |
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| Hosted by | Hu Haiquan (Episode 1, 3-10, Repechage, Semifinal) Chen Yufan (Episode 2) Sha Baoliang, He Jiong, Wang Han (final round) |
| Judges | 500 public audiences |
| Winner | Yu Quan |
| Runner-up | Terry Lin |
| Finals venue | Hunan Broadcasting System |
| Release | |
| Original network | Hunan Television |
| Original release | January 18 – April 12, 2013 |
| Season chronology | |
I Am a Singer (Chinese: 我是歌手; pinyin: Wǒ Shì Gēshǒu) is a Chinese version of the Korean reality show I Am a Singer and it is broadcast on Hunan Television. The show's first season premiered on January 18, 2013. The competitions was divided into five rounds (each round comprising two episodes), and the final phase having three episodes which was not included in the Korean version (Revival Round (which would later be called Breakout Round in the next season), Semifinals and Finals), giving the series a total of 13 episodes. Each round features seven singers performing in front of 500 public audiences to judge. The first episode of each round doesn't has any singer eliminated, but subsequent episodes will eliminate one singer, which was decided on which singers received a lower count of votes, while a new singer will substitute the eliminated singer in the following episode.
Chinese music duo Yu Quan, which consists of members Chen Yufan (陳羽凡) and Hu Haiquan (胡海泉), were the inaugural winners of I Am a Singer on the finale aired live broadcast on April 12, 2013.