Myanmar Idol season 4 explained

Module1:
Host:Kyaw Htet Aung
Judges:Aung Ko Latt
Tin Zar Maw
Phyu Phyu Kyaw Thein
Finals Venue:Haxagon Complex
Winner:Esther Dawt Chin Sung
Runner Up:Aye Mya Phyu
Benjamin Sum
Label1:Wild Card Winner
Data1:Tan Khun Kyaw
Network:Channel 9

The fourth season of Myanmar Idol premiered on September 6, 2019 and continued until December 28, 2019. It was won by Esther Dawt Chin Sung. The fourth season was co-hosted by Kyaw Htet Aung, the latter of whom left the show after the season ended.[1] [2]

Regional auditions

Auditions were held in Taungoo, Hpa-an, Taunggyi, Yangon, and Mandalay from June to July 2019, and around 10,000 attended the auditions.

Episode Air DateAudition CityDateAudition VenuesGolden Tickets
September 6, 2019MandalayJune 24, 2019Swan HotelN/A
September 13, 2019TaunggyiJune 16, 2019City HallN/A
September 20, 2019TaungooJuly 2, 2019Royal Katumadi HotelN/A
September 20, 2019Hpa-anJuly 10, 2018Zwe Kapin State HallN/A
September 27, October 4, 2019YangonJuly 18–19, 2019Shwe Htut TinN/A
Total Tickets to Golden WeekN/A

Structure of auditions

There are usually two stages in the audition process. The first round is casting round and they sing in front the executive producers and more are eliminated. In the second round those who survive the first stage sing in front of the judges and this is the audition shown on television. Those who gain at least two "yes" votes from the three judges then receive a golden ticket to Golden Week.

Golden Week

It featured three rounds: Round 1, Group Round, and Solo Round. In the first round, each contestant sang individually, and after they sang, they gathered in a line. Those who impressed the judges advanced to the next round where the contestants performed in groups of four or five, singing a song together. The remaining auditionees who passed the group rounds performed their final solos to advance in the Green Mile.

Top 11 Finalists and stages

Yaw Kee, Benjamin Sum, Naw Say Say Htoo, Tan Khun Kyaw, Chuu Sitt Han, Htet Inzali, Hnin Ei Ei Win, Esther Dawt Chin Sung, Nay Lin Kyaw, Mooler, Aye Mya Phyu.

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Week 1: Top 11–

OrderContestantSong (Burmese name)Result
1Yaw Kee"Ta Ko Yay Lwan Sut Mu" (တစ်ကိုယ်ရေလွမ်းဆွတ်မှု)Safe
2Benjamin Sum"May May Nay Kaung Lar" (မေမေနေကောင်းလား)Safe
3Naw Say Say Htoo"Lu Nyar Gyi" (လူညာကြီး)Safe
4Tan Khun Kyaw"Lann Kwe" (လမ်းခွဲ)Safe
5Chuu Sitt Han"Cherry Street" (ချယ်ရီလမ်း)Eliminated
6Htet Inzali"Tha Khin" (သခင်)Safe
7Hnin Ei Ei Win"Pa Hta Ma Chay Lann" (ပထမခြေလှမ်း)Bottom 3
8Esther Dawt Chin Sung"Ko A Twat Eain Mat Min Mat Lar" (ကိုယ့်အတွက်အိပ်မက်မင်းမက်လား)Safe
9Nay Lin Kyaw"A Thel Na Lone Ma Shi Tae Lu" (အသည်းနှလုံးမရှိတဲ့လူ)Safe
10Mooler"A Naing Nae Paine" (အနိုင်နဲ့ပိုင်း)Bottom 3
11Aye Mya Phyu"Lwan Kwint Lay" (လွမ်းခွင့်လေး)Safe

Week 2: Top 10 – Rock Music

There was no elimination because Naw Say Say Htoo was saved by judges.

OrderContestantSong (Burmese name)Result
1Aye Mya Phyu"Myin Thaw Ngo Thaw Myet Lone Myar" (မြင်သောငိုသောမျက်လုံးများ)Safe
2Nay Lin Kyaw"Lann Sat Shaut Mal" (လမ်းဆက်လျောက်မယ်)Safe
3Naw Say Say Htoo"Sue Lay" (ဆူးလေး)Saved by judges
4Yaw Kee"Wan Nae Tat Tae Chit Thu" (ဝမ်းနည်းတတ်တဲ့ချစ်သူ)Bottom 3
5Tan Khun Kyaw"Nga Kyaung" (ငါ့ကြောင့်)Safe
6Hnin Ei Ei Win"Gan Dar Yi" (ဂန္ဓာရီ)Safe
7Htet Inzali"Ya Par Tal" (ရပါတယ်)Bottom 3
8Esther Dawt Chin Sung"Yin Ko Phwint Lite Sann" (ရင်ကိုဖွင့်လိုက်စမ်း)Safe
9Benjamin Sum"Twar Mal Ma Twar Nae" (သွားမယ်မတားနဲ့)Safe
10Mooler"Di Lo Thay Char Tal" (ဒီလိုသေချာတယ်)Safe

Week 3: Top 10 – University songs

Double elimination because Naw Say Say Htoo was saved by judges in previous week.

OrderContestantSong (Burmese name)Result
1Nay Lin Kyaw"Kant Kaw Wai Da Nar" (ကံကော်ဝေဒနာ)Eliminated
2Hnin Ei Ei Win"Ta Chain Tone Ka Tet Ka Tho" (တစ်ချိန်တုန်းကတက္ကသိုလ်)Eliminated
3Tan Khun Kyaw"Kant Kaw Myo Taw" (ကံကော်မြို့တော်)Safe
4Yaw Kee"Nway Kyaung Pate Yat Ma Lo Chin" (နွေကျောင်းပိတ်ရက်မလိုချင်)Safe
5Mooler"A Saung Tha Ye" (အဆောင်သရဲ)Safe
6Naw Say Say Htoo"Toe Tha Ti Ya Nay Mar Par" (တို့သတိရနေမှာပါ)Bottom 3
7Esther Dawt Chin Sung"A Chit Phint Lwan Say" (အချစ်ဖြင့်လွမ်းစေ)Safe
8Htet Inzali"Kyaung Phwint Chain" (ကျောင်းဖွင့်ချိန်)Safe
9Benjamin Sum"Adipati Lan Ka Chay Yar Myar" (အဓိပတိလမ်းကခြေရာများ)Safe
10Aye Mya Phyu"The Moon From University" (တက္ကသိုလ်ကျောင်းကငွေလမင်း)Safe

Week 4: Top 8 – Country Music

OrderContestantSong (Burmese name)Result
1Naw Say Say Htoo "Nway Oo Wai Da Nar" (နွေဦးဝေဒနာ)Safe
2Yaw Kee"Mee Pya Tite" (မီးပြတိုက်)Safe
3Tan Khun Kyaw"Yangon Thar" (ရန်ကုန်သား)Eliminated
4Mooler"Taung Pan Par Yin Min Si Ko" (တောင်ပံပါရင်မင်းဆီကို)Safe
5Htet Inzali"Cowboy" (ကောင်းဘွိုင်)Safe
6Benjamin Sum"Min Ma Shi Tae Nay Ye Nya" (မင်းမရှိတဲ့နေ့ရယ်ည)Safe
7Aye Mya Phyu"Taut Pa Khe Tae Nay Yet Myar" (တောက်ပခဲ့တဲ့နေ့ရက်များ)Bottom 3
8Esther Dawt Chin Sung"Brake Ma Par Tae Car" (ဘရိတ်မပါတဲ့ကား)Bottom 3

Week 5: Top 7 – Soe Lwin Lwin's songs

OrderContestantSong (Burmese name)Result
1Aye Mya Phyu"Chit Thu Sate Kuu" (ချစ်သူစိတ်ကူး)Bottom 3
2Benjamin Sum"Sate Phyay Tha Chin" (စိတ်ဖြေသီချင်း)Safe
3Htet Inzali"Nge Nge Tone Ka Htet Po Chit Tal" (ငယ်ငယ်တုန်းကထက်ပိုချစ်တယ်)Eliminated
4Naw Say Say Htoo"Ta Chat Lout Taw Nge Kyi Thint Par Tal" (တစ်ချက်လောက်တော့ငဲ့ကြည့်သင့်ပါတယ်)Safe
5Mooler"Ko Chit" (ကိုယ်ချစ်)Bottom 3
6Esther Dawt Chin Sung"Soe Sate Toe Tate Lwan Chain" (စိုးစိတ်တိုးတိတ်လွမ်းချိန်)Safe
7Yaw Kee"Yin Saing Sa Yar Swan Arr Ma Shi Tawt Lo" (ရင်ဆိုင်စရာစွမ်းအားမရှိတော့လို့)Safe

Week 6: Top 6 – Winter songs

OrderContestantSong (Burmese name)Result
1Naw Say Say Htoo"Saung Eain Mat" (ဆောင်းအိပ်မက်)Eliminated
2Yaw Kee"Eain Mat Saung Nya" (အိပ်မက်ဆောင်းည)Bottom 3
3Aye Mya Phyu"Di Saung Ta Nya" (ဒီဆောင်းတစ်ည)Safe
4Benjamin Sum"December Nan Nat Khin" (ဒီဇင်ဘာနံနက်ခင်း)Safe
5Esther Dawt Chin Sung"Sway" (ဆွေး)Bottom 3
6Mooler"A Lwan Nya Hay Man" (အလွမ်းညဟေမာန်)Safe

Week 7: Top 5 – Hits songs

OrderContestantSong (Burmese name)Result
1Mooler"Ta Yauk Tae Lar" (တစ်ယောက်တည်းလား)Safe
2Aye Mya Phyu"A Sin Pyay Par Tal" (အဆင်ပြေပါတယ်)Safe
3Esther Dawt Chin Sung"A Thel Kwe A Htate A Mat" (အသည်းကွဲအထိမ်းအမှတ်)Bottom 3
4Yaw Kee"Ma Shi Tawt Buu" (မရှိတော့ဘူး)Eliminated
5Benjamin Sum"Say" (ဆေး)Bottom 3

Week 8: Top 4 + Wild Card winner – theme songs and strong music

Double elimination because Tan Khun Kyaw was returned by Wild Card.

ContestantOrderFirst Song (Burmese name)OrderSecond Song (Burmese name)Result
Tan Khun Kyaw1"Ta Pyi Thu Ma Shwe Htar" (တပြည်သူမရွှေထား)6"Gabar Myay Nyein Chan Par Say" (ကမ္ဘာမြေငြိမ်းချမ်းပါစေ)Eliminated
Benjamin Sum2"A Chit The Lay Pyay" (အချစ်သည်လေပြေ)7"Gabar Myay A Twat Tha Chin" (ကမ္ဘာမြေအတွက်သီချင်း)Safe
Aye Mya Phyu3"Myet Won Le Pyar Pyar" (မျက်ဝန်းလဲ့ပြာပြာ)8"Kaung Kin May May" (ကောင်းကင်မေမေ)Safe
Mooler4"Ma Pyo Di Moe" (မပြိုသည့်မိုး)9"Than Ma Ni Late Pyar" (သံမဏိလိပ်ပြာ)Eliminated
Esther Dawt Chin Sung5"Myint Mo Htet Myint Thaw" (မြင်းမိုရ်ထက်မြင့်သော)10"Nay Thit" (နေ့သစ်)Safe

Week 9: Finale

The Top three performed judges chose song, contestants chose themselves song and their winner’s song

ContestantOrderFirst Song (Burmese name)OrderSecond Song (Burmese name)OrderThird Song (Burmese name)Result
Aye Mya Phyu1"Lar Mae Nit Mar Yee Sar Htar Mal" (လာမယ့်နှစ်မှာရည်းစားထားမယ်)4"Pin Taing San A Twat A Chit Ye A Lin Yaung" (ပင်တိုင်စံအတွက်အချစ်ရဲ့အလင်းရောင်)8"A Phyu Yaung" (အဖြူရောင်)Runner-up
Esther Dawt Chin Sung2"Sin Sar Mar Pot" (စဉ်းစားမှာပေါ့)6"Thit Sar Ma Pyat Kyay" (သစ္စာမပျက်ကြေး)9"A Phyu Yaung" (အဖြူရောင်)Winner
Benjamin Sum3"Ma Ma Chit Lo Ma Phit" (မမချစ်လို့မဖြစ်)5"Myet Na Phone" (မျက်နှာဖုံး)7"A Phyu Yaung" (အဖြူရောင်)Runner-up

Elimination Chart

OrderContestantTop 11Top 10Top 8Top 7Top 6Top 5Top 4+1Finale
1Esther Dawt Chin SungHighest VotesSafeSafeBottom 3SafeBottom 3Bottom 3SafeWinner
2Aye Mya PhyuSafeSafeSafeBottom 3Bottom 3SafeSafeSafeRunner-up
3Benjamin SumSafeSafeSafeSafeSafeSafeBottom 3SafeRunner-up
4Moo LerBottom 3SafeSafeSafeBottom 3SafeSafeEliminated
5Tan Khun KyawSafeSafeSafeEliminatedWild CardEliminated
6Yaw KeeSafeBottom 3SafeSafeSafeBottom 3Eliminated
7Naw Say Say HtooSafeSaved by JudgesBottom 3SafeSafeEliminated
8Htet InzaliSafeBottom 3SafeSafeEliminated
9Nay Lin KyawSafeSafeEliminated
10Hnin Ei Ei WinBottom 3SafeEliminated
11Chuu Sitt HanEliminated

Wild Card Winner

Tan Khun Kyaw was the Channel 9 wild card winner after beating Yaw Kee. The following day alongside Moo Ler, he failed to progress to the finals.

Notes and References

  1. News: Myanmar Idol season 4 . Mizzima.
  2. News: Myanmar Idol season 4 Top 11 . The Irrawaddy.