popmusiclife: The Voice announces return of Christina Aguilera & Cee Lo Green

NBC’s hugely successful series The Voice has announced the return of coaches Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green.

The pair, who took this season off to work on music projects, will rejoin the program for its fall 2013 run.

Shakira and Usher are currently filling the coaches seats temporarily vacated by Aguilera and Green.

The rookie mentors will be back again for the fifth season of The Voice next winter, when the show will receive plenty of promotion during NBC’s coverage of the February Winter Olympics from Sochi, Russia.

The current cycle of The Voice is averaging a 5.2 rating, 14 share in adults 18-49 and 14.5 million viewers overall on Monday nights, making it the season’s #3 primetime series on ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox in adults 18-49, as well as the #2 entertainment series and the #1 reality series, according to “most current” results from Nielsen Media Research.

The Tuesday edition is averaging a 4.7/14 in 18-49 and 13.4 million viewers overall, making it the #4 entertainment series on in 18-49. Every telecast of “The Voice” so far this cycle, excluding recap episodes, has won its time period in adults 18-49.