America's Got Talent 13

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Season thirteen of the reality competition series America's Got Talent premiered on May 29, 2018, on NBC. Howie Mandel, Mel B, Heidi Klum and Simon Cowell returned as judges for their respective ninth, sixth, sixth, and third seasons. Meanwhile, Tyra Banks returned for her second season as host.

The live shows return to the Dolby Theatre, beginning August 14, 2018.

AGT is co-produced by FremantleMedia North America and Syco Entertainment, Cowell's company.

Dunkin Donuts is a sponsor for a fourth consecutive season.

Preliminary auditions

The season had preliminary open call auditions in Orlando, Cincinnati, Savannah, Milwaukee, Houston, Las Vegas, New York City, Nashville, and Los Angeles. As in years past, prospective contestants could also submit online auditions.

Judges' auditions were taped from March 6-23 at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Los Angeles.

Golden buzzer

The golden buzzer will return for its fifth consecutive season. Any act that receives the golden buzzer during the judges' auditions will be sent directly to the live shows and will not compete in the Judge Cuts round. In the first episode, Tyra Banks was the first to press the golden buzzer for acrobatic and dance group Zurcaroh. Simon Cowell was second to press it for 40-year-old singer Michael Ketterer. Howie Mandel was third to press it for 13 year old singer Courtney Hadwin.

Top 36 acts

Key	Winner	Runner-up	Third Place	Top 5	Finalist	Semifinalist (lost judges' vote)	Semifinalist (lost audience vote)	Quarterfinalist (lost judges' vote)	Quarterfinalist (lost audience vote)	Golden buzzer (Auditions)	Golden buzzer (Judge Cuts)	Judges' wild card (quarterfinals)	Judges' wild card (semifinals)

Name of Act	Age(s)	Genre	Act	Hometown
Courtney Hadwin	13	Singing	Singer and Dancer	County Durham, England
Michael Ketterer	40	Singing	Singer	Orange County, California
Zurcaroh	8-39	Acrobatics	Acrobatic Group	Gtzis, Austria

International broadcast

This season is being aired in Asia within 48 hours of being broadcast in the US. It airs on AXN starting May 31, 2018 ([[UTC+08:00|UTC+8]]).

In the United Kingdom and Ireland the first episode was brought to Netflix on May 31. In Singapore, the show was broadcast on MediaCorp Channel 5 every Thursdays starting May 31, 2018.

Ratings

U.S. Nielsen Ratings

Episode	Title	First air date	Timeslot (EDT)	Rating (18-49)	Share (18-49)	Viewers	Nightly Rank	Weekly Rank
1	Auditions Week 1	May 29, 2018	Tuesday 8:00 p.m.	2.5	11	12.16	1	3
2	Auditions Week 2	June 5, 2018		2.2	10	11.27	1	3
3	Auditions Week 3	June 12, 2018		2.3	10	11.46	1
4	Auditions Week 4	June 19, 2018
5	Auditions Week 5	June 26, 2018
6	Auditions Week 6	July 10, 2018
7	Judge Cuts 1	July 17, 2018
8	Judge Cuts 2	July 24, 2018

Special Episodes

Specials	Title	First air date	Timeslot (EDT)	Rating (18-49)	Share (18-49)	Viewers	Nightly Rank	Weekly Rank
S1	Best of Auditions	July 3, 2018	Tuesday 8:00 p.m.

Contestants who appeared in other seasons or shows

Act	Television show	Season	Result	Notes
Silicon Valley Girls	America's Got Talent	11	Cut Before Judge Cuts	Auditioned as "Trio Grace"
Junior New System	Asia's Got Talent	1	Finalist	Received the golden buzzer during the semifinals.
The Sacred Riana		2	Winner
Yumbo Dump		2	Semi-Finalist
Aaron Crow	Britain's Got Talent	7	Semi-Finalist
Aaron Crow	La France a un incroyable talent	11	Semi-Finalist
Zurcaroh	La France a un incroyable talent	12	Finalist
Noah Guthrie	Glee	6	N/A	Played Roderick Meeks Recurring role; 12 episodes.
Shin Lim	Penn & Teller: Fool Us	2	Fooler
Shin Lim		4	Fooler
Jimmy Ichihana		4	Non-Fooler
Flau'jae	The Rap Game	3	Final Four
Courtney Hadwin	The Voice Kids (UK)	1	Finalist

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