Pakistan Music Stars

This show is different from the music reality shows happened in the past. The format of this show is there will be six teams led by six prominent members of the Pakistan Music Industry who compete against one another for the title of the "Ultimate Pop Sensation".[2] Each singer will have four local singers in their teams and work together the entire show. After round encounters between these six teams only four will advance to the semi-finals and only two to the Grand Finale. The show is hosted by Nouman Javaid & VJ Anoushey Ashraf.

The candidates for this show were called in for auditions in July 2011 by the organizers. Over three hundred people auditioned, but only twenty-six got in.

Out of those twenty-six candidates, twenty-four of them were selected via balloting done by the captains while two candidates were rejected.

The format of this show is different from the past music reality shows of Pakistan. Out of the six professionals leading their teams of four local celebrities, two of them will compete against one another while the rest of the four will judge the performances along with the audience. The toss of the coin determines who will perform first or give the chance to perform first to the other. The show comprises four different segments in which teams will compete against one another to score the maximum points. The segments of this show are as follows:

• Ikkay Pe Ikka
• Aar Ya Paar
• Awaz Ka Jadoo
• Zarra Hut Kay

There are six judges, but only four judge each episode, while the remaining two appear as the team captains. The judges are Fariha Pervez,[3] Sheraz Uppal, Haroon (singer) Rashid, Faakhir Mehmood, Rahim Shah, and Rameez Mukhtar (Fuzön).

Haroon (singer) joined & replaced Ahmed Jahanzeb, who was unavailable for the show.

Twenty-six contestants were selected after the auditions for the main event. The names of the contestants are:

• Ali Raza (Karachi)
• Nauman Shafi (Karachi)
• Nazia (Karachi)
• Shaz Khan (Karachi)
• Waqas Azeem (Karachi)
• Wajeeh Uddin (Karachi)
• Imran Ali (Karachi)
• Rafeh Ali (Karachi)
• Anmol (Lahore)
• Azeem ([Faisalabad])
• Ahmer Abbas (Karachi)
• Ali Raza (Karachi)
• Abdul Qadir (Karachi)
• Amjad Warsi (Karachi)
• Latif Ali (Hyderabad) - Latif (due to some personal problems) was later replaced by Zain Hassan from Lahore.
• Ali Asad (Karachi)
• Faraz Ali (Karachi)
• Ghazal Ali (Karachi)
• Abdul Basit (Karachi)
• Hina Makhani (Karachi)
• Mohammad Raheel Langa (Karachi)
• Kashif Khan (Lahore)
• Kumail Abbas (Karachi)
• Asad Ali (Karachi)
• Tauqeer Tahir (Lahore)
• Rose Merry (Karachi)
• Humera

Twenty-four contestants out these twenty-six were selected, but Imran Ali and Nazia were sent home.

There are six teams in the show. The names of the teams are:

Nineteen episodes[5] of the show has been announced. The first episode aired on 4 September 2011. Then there was a two-week gap, so the second episode of the show was aired on 25 September 2011. Now, new episodes are aired once every week.

Each team will play five-round matches against the other team. The top four team will advance to the semi-finals. Below is the points table for the current statistics.