Airtel Super Singer

The first season premiered on 28 April 2006, with a series of episodes which telecast auditions for the show.[4] Auditions were held across the state of Tamil Nadu in the cities of Coimbatore, Chennai, and Madurai. Performances by auditioning contestants were judged by singers S. P. Sailaja, Jency, Malaysia Vasudevan, Sirkazhi Sivachidambaram, Mahathi, and music director D. Imman.[5]

The show was hosted by playback singer Chinmayi. Later stages of the competition were held at a specially designed studio set, and performances were judged by a panel of permanent judges consisting of playback singers Anuradha Sriram, Srinivas, and P. Unnikrishnan.[4] Contestants were eliminated during the competition, and finalists received special training from voice expert Ananth Vaidyanathan in the final stages of the competition.

Season 1 title winner Nikhil Mathew was formally introduced as a playback singer after he sang the song "Enadhuyire" in the Tamil film Bheema for music director, Harris Jayaraj.[6][7] Season 1 runner up and viewer's choice, Anitha V. (now known as Anitha Karthikeyan) was formally introduced as a playback singer in the Tamil film Marudhamalai by music director D. Imman.[6][8]

The second season premiered on 7 July 2008, with a series of episodes which telecast auditions for the show. Auditions for the show, which commenced on 27 June 2008, were held across three cities in the state of Tamil Nadu. Performances by auditioning contestants were judged by playback singers S. P. Sailaja & Srilekha Parthasarathy in the city of Coimbatore, Sunitha Sarathy and Deepan Chakravarthy in the city of Chennai, as well as Mahathi & Mathangi in the city of Trichy.

Playback singer Chinmayi returned as a permanent host of the show up to and including 21 January 2009, following which she left the show much to the disappointment of many fans of the show. She was replaced by a duo, singer-actor Yugendran and his wife Malini for the remainder of the show in 2009. Playback singers P. Unnikrishnan and Srinivas returned as permanent judges of the show, and a new permanent judge, playback singer Sujatha replaced Anuradha Sriram (who instead appeared as a guest judge through the season). Contestants were eliminated during the competition, and finalists received special training from voice expert Ananth Vaidyanathan in the final stages of the competition.

Ajeesh won the competition and was chosen by Yuvan Shankar Raja to sing the song Idhu Varai for the soundtrack of Tamil film, Goa.[9][10]

The auditions were held in various parts of Tamil Nadu, and were judged by singers including S. P. Sailaja, Nithyasree Mahadevan, Unni Menon, Sowmya, Harish Raghavendra, Pop Shalini, Mahathi, and Malgudi Shubha. Sujatha, P. Unnikrishnan and Srinivas continued to be the permanent judges for the second consecutive season.

Saicharan won the competition,[11] and was chosen by A. R. Rahman and D. Imman to sing in the films Godfather, Manam Kothi Paravai, and Saattai.

The auditions were held in various parts of Tamil Nadu, and were judged by singers including S. P. Sailaja, Nithyasree Mahadevan, Unni Menon, Sowmya, Devan Ekambaram, Pop Shalini, Mahathi, Malgudi Shubha and Ananth Vaidyanathan. Sujatha, P. Unnikrishnan and Srinivas continued to be the permanent judges for the third consecutive season.

Diwakar won the competition,[12][13][14] and was chosen by music directors D. Imman, Vivek-Mervin, and Kannan to sing in the films Panjumittai, Vadacurry, and Kalkandu.

The fifth season was hosted by Priyanka Deshpande, Makapa Anand, and Bhavna Balakrishnan.

The auditions were held in various parts of Tamil Nadu, and were telecast until 3 July. First round audition judges included season 3 winner Saisharan, season 4 winner Diwakar, and former contestants from those seasons such as D. Sathyaprakash, Pooja Vaidyanath, Santhosh Hariharan, and Sonia. Second and third round audition judges included S. P. Charan, Pushpavanam Kuppusamy, Devan Ekambaram, James Vasanthan, Mahathi, S. Sowmya, and Pop Shalini. Zonal audition judges were permanent judges from the junior version of the show, Malgudi Shubha, Mano, and K. S. Chithra. A total of 33 contestants were selected for the finals, including local, international, and former contestants.

At the finale of the show, contestant Anand Aravindakshan was declared as the winner of the season, while contestant Fareedha was declared first runner-up. Both finalists were promised an opportunity to sing for one of the upcoming films of music director Santhosh Narayanan. Contestant Rajaganapathy was chosen as the judge's choice scoring the highest marks, and being declared the second runner-up of the season.

The season landed in controversy as social media users accused the STAR Vijay Indian TV channel of wrongdoing.[15] Social media users expressed concern that audiences whom spent time and money to support talented youngsters were the victim of unethical practices, and criticised the channel for not being upfront about the fact that the winning contestant was already a professional playback singer - which was defended by the channel.[15]

The Sixth Season of Super Singer 6 was Hosted By Ma Ka Pa Anand and Priyanka Deshpande.This Show was Started from 21 January 2018 and Concluded on 15 July 2018 and Telecasted on Star Vijay

All the episodes of Super singer 6 are available on OTT platform Hotstar

Judges Panel Include Anuradha SriRam, P. Unnikrishnan, Swetha Mohan, Benny Dayal. A.R.Rahman was the Ambassador for this season Top 6 Finalist were Rakshitha, Sreekanth, Shakthi, Anirudh, Malavika and Senthil Ganesh

Senthil Ganesh was declared as the Winner of the Super Singer Season 6

Rakshitha Suresh became the first runner up of the season and gets applauded by everyone for being the "GOLDEN VOICE OF THE SEASON".

Malavika Rajesh Vaidya was the second runner up of the season and gets applauded by everyone for the same.

Sreekanth was the third runner up of the season.

Shakthi and Anirudh became the fourth and fifth runner ups of the season respectively.

The Seventh Season of Super Singer 7 started on 27 April 2019 and finished on 10 November on Star Vijay and was telecast from 8 PM onwards. Ma Ka Pa Anand and Priyanka Deshpande Return as the host for this Season

This Season Returns with the Same Judges Panel including, Anuradha SriRam, Unni Krishnan, Swetha Mohan, Benny Dayal. Anirudh Ravichandran is the Ambassador for this season. The top 5 were Mookuthi Murugan (SS3), Sam Vishal(SS7), Vikram(SS13), Gawtham, and Punya(SS 6).

Winners:-

*Murugan was declared as the Winner of the Super Singer Season 7and received 50 lakh worth house by Arun Excello.(Anuradha and Unnikrishnan team)

*Vikram was the first runner up of the season and was awarded with 25 lakh gold by Gold one(Anuradha and Unnikrishnan team)

*Punya (Shwetha and Benny team)who was getting the highest scores in all rounds of the season and even in grand finale , she failed to gather public votes and emerged as second runner up of the season along with Sam Vishal(Anuradha and Unnikrishnan team) who got the highest public votes.

*Gowtham(Shwetha and Benny team) was the third runner up of the season.

*Sivaangi krishnakumar(Anuradha and Unnikrishnan team)- Eliminated-Top 6

*Vaisaagan(Shwetha and Benny team)- Eliminated-Top 7

*Mufeedha(Shwetha and Benny team)Eliminated-Top 8

*Suganthi(Anuradha and Unnikrishnan team)-Eliminated-Top 9

*Roshini(Shwetha and Benny team)-Eliminated-Top 10

*Parthiban(Shwetha and Benny team) -Elimimated-Top 11

*Kannagi(Anuradha and Unnikrishnan team)-Eliminated-Top 12

*Sahana(Anuradha and Unnikrishnan team)-Eliminated-Top 13

*Guna(Anuradha and Unnikrishnan team)-Eliminated-Top 14

*Poornima(Anuradha and Unnikrishnan team)-Eliminated-Top 15

*Lakshmi Priya(Shwetha and Benny team) -Eliminated- Top 16

*Sindhuja(Shwetha and Benny team)-Elimimated-Top 17

*Abhinov(Shwetha and Benny team)-Eliminated-Top 18

*Yogi(Anuradha and Unnikrishnan team)Eliminated-Top 19

*Soujanya(Shwetha and Benny team)Eliminated-Top 20.

All the Episodes of This season is available on OTT Platform-Hotstar

The Eighth Season of Super Singer 8 scheduled to start on 24 January 2021 with a Grand launch of 9 hours program on Star Vijay.[16] All the episodes will be available on OTT Platform-Hotstar

• Official Super Singer Junior Forum