Battle of Songs (Season 5)

This is the upcoming fifth season of Battle of Songs, the third installment of the Ex-Music trilogy. Initially with an unknown status given the fact that the details behind the new season has never been announced few months after Season 4 concludes, C.W.H Entertainment officially announced on March 8, 2023 that the show has been renewed for the fifth season, with the fifth season is scheduled for premiere in the summer of 2023. It was revealed that the tapings of the season took place on January 26, 2023, in just less than a week after the previous season's finale.

Due to the fact that there is a large gap between the taping days which directly affected the season schedule, the producers decided to split the season into two mini-seasons, Season 5A and Season 5B. The regular tapings for Season 5A was forced to be on halt after April 19, 2023 due to the creator's busy schedules before officially resuming on May 10, 2023. On the day that the taping has been resumed at a regular manner, the producers have decided to end the Season 5A immediately and to introduce Season 5B by making a major haul to this season's Tournament of Champions, which also has to be split into 2 sessions. The tapings of Season 5A have ended on May 14, 2023, in which the tapings of Season 5B have started immediately the day after.

Season Changes
While early into the season, there are no notable changes compared to the previous season. However, starting on the 51st episode, the host introduced a new twist to the game, as well as adjustments to the price money that a winning song can earn where they can only take half of the current winnings if they decide to walk away, making it the same effect as a match lost in the last four seasons. While losing a match from that episode onwards will lost 60% of the total winnings instead of losing half of the money during the last four seasons.


 * Twists
 * Shot of Blessing (Episode 51-present): If the current winning song unsure about the game moving forward, they can play the Shot of Blessing, which has a one-in-nine chance of winning the exact same money as with their current bank money even if they lost the match. After they have used the Shot of Blessing, they are not eligible to walk away for the next 3 matches. When they lost a match after this twist is used, they can leave with the percentage of the current bank money as mentioned. Possible percentages are: 5%, 10%, 20%, 30%, 35%, 45%, 50%, 75% and 100%. This twist was buffed in the 54th episode, where there is only 1-in-14 chance to keep 100% of their total winnings instead of 1-in-9.

Season 5A

 * Episode 1 (?)
 * Episode 50 (?) - New adjustments and twist introduced
 * Episode 54 (?) - Buffed twist
 * Episode 67 (?) - Twist dropped

Season 5B

 * Episode 1 (?)

Controversy
Since the introduction of Shot of Blessing twist, viewers have criticized the show for being too dramatic and it might negatively affect the game overall. During the 54th episode where the twist has been buffed under the reason of having more reliable results in the future, it further spawned heavier criticism from the viewers likely due to most of the winning songs of that time couldn't stand a single chance to enter the top 30 most winnings. The twist was reportedly dropped starting from the 67th episode and the rules of losing a match penalty was reverted to 50% of the current winnings.