‘Call Me by Fire 2025’ (also known as ‘Call Me by Fire 5’) recorded its finals on the 19th in Changsha, Hunan, China. This year, the individual champion was canceled, and the champion team was the ‘Happy Old Coffee’ team, whose members include Su Xing, Wang Zhengliang, Zhang Yuan, and Wang Lixin. Su Xing was honored as the X-Leader of the Year, leading his team to deliver multiple high-scoring stages, with an individual average score of 868.8.
Zhang Zhilin, Zhang Jin, Wang Lixin, and Zhu Zhixin received the annual X-Fire Popularity Individual Award. The best vocal-dance stage, ranked No.1, was ‘My Happiness’, achieving 902 points—a new season high; the second and third places were ‘World-shocking Guest’ and ‘Monster’, respectively. As for the best vocal-performance stage, ‘Blue and White Porcelain’ took 1st place with 879 points; ‘Annoyance Song’ and ‘Eccentric Psychology’ ranked 2nd and 3rd.
The ‘Greater Bay Area Team’ recreated the 1990s Hong Kong style with a performance of the Cantonese classic ‘Celebrity’. Zhang Zhilin’s staging paid tribute to ‘Young and Dangerous’. The Happy Old Coffee team adapted ‘Passing Through the Mortal World’, with Su Xing adding rap lyrics—his emotional delivery moved the audience to tears. In ‘TOP Landing Youth Corps’ performance of ‘Fate’, Su Xinhao staged a boxing fight sequence with a bandaged look, while Zhu Zhixin shocked visually with a gray wolf-tail hairstyle.
Last season’s champion, also the youngest champion in ‘Call Me by Fire’ history, Malaysian singer Azora Chin, returned as a guest host and award presenter. He and Yu Haoming performed a comedy skit that had the entire audience in stitches! Dressed smartly in a black suit, he was polite and refined, even singing a short a cappella that made the audience “pregnant in the ears”, earning praise as “worthy of the Big Vocal”. Mango TV will air the finals on the 24th.
Compiled by: China.com