The queen of country music doesn’t need a throne; she’s already got a spinning red chair on “The Voice!”
When season 28 kicks off on September 22, 2025, Reba McEntire and her fellow coaches — Snoop Dogg, Niall Horan, and Michael Bublé — will be back in their iconic chairs, waiting to hit the button that spins them around to see whose singing has perked up their ears.
But those chairs do more than just turn around. They’re full of fun features to keep the celebrity coaches comfortable and the crowd wowed.
‘The Voice’ Red Chairs Have Been Part of the Show Since It Started
The iconic chairs on “The Voice” have been part of the show since its launch in 2011. They are designed to turn 180 degrees as soon as a coach, with his or her name illuminated on the back, hits that big red button.
A four-chair turn is the best response an Artist can get, meaning all four coaches have spun around, willing to fight to get the singer on their team.
But according to NBC Insider, there’s no chance the coaches will get dizzy, thanks to three levels of safety features programmed into the controller to ensure the chair will not spin past 180 degrees.
Each chair’s armrest has an integrated chrome cup holder and a fold-away table each coach can write on or use to look at a tablet. The comfortable chairs also have stereo headrest speakers.
Snoop Dogg & Reba McEntire Use the Seat Warmers Regularly
And if the coaches get chilly in the studio, the chairs can help with that, too. Former coach Chance The Rapper was the first to spill the beans about the temperature controls that are built into “The Voice” chairs.
“I’m the leak — I’m the one who dropped the info,” Chance laughed on “The Today Show” in 2023. “Yeah, basically our chairs, the famous red spinning chairs on the show — a lot of people don’t know this — there is a heating setting underneath it to get yourself warm, and a cool setting too.”
On September 19, Snoop told Access Hollywood, “They got butt warmers — me and Reba are the butt warming kings!”
McEntire chimed in, “They gotta be on,” and Snoop hilariously added, “87 degrees — there’s a little button under there. When it gets just right, I just put ’em in the middle and they just marinate.”
Meanwhile, Horan and Bublé said they’re the opposite, and never use the seat heaters.
Horan told Access Hollywood, “Oh, I’m always running hot. Like, that studio is freezing because there’s so many lights and stuff in there, they have to keep it cold. So that’s why they have the heated seats, but I’m just hot all the time.”
‘The Voice’ Chairs Are Also Super High-Tech
NBCOver the years, the seven-foot-four red chairs, which weigh 755 pounds each, have grown increasingly high-tech.
According to the production crew, per NBC Insider, each chair is “fabricated and assembled by a team that builds training simulators for the Special Forces Division of the U.S. military, using some of the same mechanical components.”
NBC Insider also reports that every red chair on “The Voice” has more than 1,400 individual, color-changing LED lights, allowing for over 16 million color display options. There are 30 independent lighting channels to control the various parts of each chair, and over 200 feet of electrical cable throughout the interior and base.
