The second season of Myanmar Idol premiered on December 2, 2016, and continued until March 25, 2017. It was won by Thar Nge. The second season was co-hosted by Kyaw Htet Aung, the latter of whom left the show after the season ended.
Regional auditions Auditions were held in Nay Pyi Taw, Mandalay, Taunggyi, Hpa-an, and Yangon from September to October 2016, and around 10,000 attended the auditions.
Episode Air DateAudition CityDateAudition VenuesGolden Tickets December 2, 2016 Nay Pyi Taw September 17–18, 2016 Mingalar Vuhar 18 December 2, 2016 Hpa-an October 8–9, 2016 Zwekapin Hall 7December 9, 2016MandalaySeptember 24–25, 2016Swan Hotel20December 16, 2016 Taunggyi October 1–2, 2016 Shan Sar Pay and Yin Kyay Mu 19 December 23, 30, 2016 Yangon October 15–17, 2016 Shwe Htut Tin 22Total Tickets to Golden Week86
Structure of auditions There are usually two stages in the audition process. The first round is the casting round, and they sing in front of 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 10 Finalists and stages Ye Naung, Thar Nge, Zin Gyi, Mai Mai Seng, Chan Nyein, Poe Mi, A Mi Zan, Phyu Lay, Billy La Min Aye, Yoon
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Week 1: Top 10– Order Contestant Song (Burmese name) Result1 Ye Naung"Jet Sin Htet Ka La Yeik Pyar" (ဂျပ်ဆင်ထိပ်ကလရိပ်ပြာ)Safe And Highest Votes2Thar Nge"House" (အိမ်)Safe3 Zin Gyi"A Chit Mee" (အချစ်မီး)Bottom 34 Mai Mai Seng "Nay Yaung Aut Ka A Thet Shu Than Myar" (နေရောင်အောက်ကအသက်ရှူသံများ)Safe5 Chan Nyein"Myaw Lint Nay Mal" (မျှော်လင့်နေမယ်)Safe6 Poe Mi"A Shone Htet Po Thaw" (အရှုံးထက်ပိုသော)Bottom 37A Mi Zan"Myaw Lint Chin Kwin Pyin" (မျှော်လင့်ခြင်းကွင်းပြင်)Eliminated8 Phyu Lay"Myaw Lint Chin Lay" (မျှော်လင့်ခြင်းလေး)Safe9 Billy La Min Aye"Soe Yain Chit" (စိုးရိမ်ချစ်)Safe10 Yoon"Di Ka Saung Nay Thu" (ဒီကစောင့်နေသူ)Safe
Week 2: Top 9 – 1990s Order Contestant Song (Burmese name) Result1 Ye Naung"Swint Sar Mal A Chit" (စွန့်စားမယ်အချစ်)Safe And Highest Votes2 Poe Mi"Kal Tin Chin" (ကယ်တင်ခြင်း)Safe3 Thar Nge"Tha Chin Chit Thu" (သီချင်းချစ်သူ)Safe4Phyu Lay"25 minutes" (၂၅မိနစ်)Eliminated5 Mai Mai Seng"Ma Thi Lann" (မသိလမ်း)Bottom 36 Chan Nyein"Ko Kyaung" (ကိုယ့်ကြောင့်)Safe7 Yoon"A Sate Ngwe Kyay" (အဆိပ်ငွေကြေး)Bottom 38 Zin Gyi"Swae Lann Mu Pyat Tha Nar" (စွဲလမ်းမှုပြဿနာ)Safe9Billy La Min Aye"Tan Ta Tae Nya" (တမ်းတတဲ့ည)Safe
Week 3: Top 8 – Duet songs Poe Mi was saved by judges. So there was no elimination in this week. Color key:
OrderContestants and results Duet songs (Burmese name) 1Chan NyeinBottom 3Yoon Safe "Bar Kyaung" (ဘာကြောင့်) 2Ye NaungSafe And Highest Votes Poe MiSaved by Judges"Ti Shi Chin A Kyaung" (တည်ရှိခြင်းအကြောင်း) 3 Zin GyiBottom 3 Billy La Min AyeSafe "Lwe Nay Tae Sone Mat Myar" (လွဲနေတဲ့ဆုံမှတ်များ) 4 Thar Nge Safe Mai Mai Seng Safe "Lite Phat Tae Ba Wa" (လိုက်ဖက်တဲ့ဘဝ)
Week 4: Top 8 – Rock Music Double elimination because Poe Mi was saved by judges in previous week. Order Contestant Song (Burmese name) Result 1 Poe Mi "Chaut Khan Thwar Thaw Pin Lal Pyin" (ခြောက်ခမ်းသွားသောပင်လယ်ပြင်)Safe 2Chan Nyein"A Date Bal Shi Thaw Thu" (အဓိပ္ပါယ်ရှိသောသူ)Eliminated 3Yoon"Pa Hta Ma Chay Lann" (ပထမခြေလမ်း)Eliminated 4 Thar Nge "See Ka Rat Mee Kho Myar" (စီးကရက်မီးခိုးများ)Safe 5 Zin Gyi "Nya Ye Sue" (ညရဲ့ဆူး)Safe 6 Billy La Min Aye "Min A Twat A Thet Shin Thu" (မင်းအတွက်အသက်ရှင်သူ)Bottom 3 7 Ye Naung "Ko Kin" (ကိုကင်း)Safe And Highest Votes 8 Mai Mai Seng "Pyut Sone Thwar Mar Soe" (ပျောက်ဆုံးသွားမှာစိုး)Safe
Week 5: Top 6 – Win Oo's songs Order Contestant Song (Burmese name) Result 1 Mai Mai Seng "Htu Char Tae Eain Mat" (ထူးခြားတဲ့အိပ်မက်)Bottom 3 2Zin Gyi"Maung Toe Cherry Myay" (မောင်တို့ချယ်ရီမြေ)Eliminated 3 Ye Naung "Omega" (အိုမီဂါ)Safe 4 Poe Mi "Tain Lwar Mo Mo Lwin" (တိမ်လွှာမို့မို့လွှင်)Bottom 3 5 Billy La Min Aye "Kabar Hte Ta Lal Lal" (ကမ္ဘာထဲတလည်လည်)Safe 6 Thar Nge "Ma Ma Moe" (မမမိုး)Safe And Highest Votes
Week 6: Top 5 – Popular songs Order Contestant Song (Burmese name) Result 1 Thar Nge "Makeup Ma Kyite Thaw Tha Chin Myar" (မိတ်ကပ်မကြိုက်သောသီချင်းများ)Safe And Highest Votes 2 Billy La Min Aye "Ta Kal So Yin A Chit Pal Lo Dal" (တကယ်ဆိုရင်အချစ်ပဲလိုတယ်)Bottom 3 3Ye Naung"A Yin Ka Zat Lann Lay" (အရင်ကဇာတ်လမ်းလေး)Eliminated 4 Mai Mai Seng "A Chit Lo Khaw Tha Lar" (အချစ်လို့ခေါ်သလား)Bottom 3 5 Poe Mi "Ma Sone Thaw Lann" (မဆုံသောလမ်း)Safe
Week 7: Top 4 + Wild Card winner – Blues Music Double eliminated because Zin Gyi was returned by Wild Card. Order Contestant Song (Burmese name) Result 1 Poe Mi "Thay Dan" (သေဒဏ်)Safe 2 Thar Nge "A Mone Myo Ye A Way Mar" (အမုန်းမြို့ရဲ့အဝေးမှာ)Safe And Highest Votes 3Mai Mai Seng"Paris Myo Nae Ma Lae Naing Bu" (ပဲရစ်မြို့နဲ့မလဲနိုင်ဘူး)Eliminated 4Zin Gyi (wild card winner)"A May Ye Dote Kha Ao Lay" (အမေ့ရဲ့ဒုက္ခအိုးလေး)Returned by wild card but eliminated 5 Billy La Min Aye "Stop !" (ရပ် !)Bottom 3
Week 8: Top 3 – Strong Music Order Contestant Song (Burmese name) Result 1 Billy La Min Aye "Sate Ma Nyit Nae" (စိတ်မညစ်နဲ့)Safe 2Poe Mi"Yone Kyi Yar" (ယုံကြည်ရာ)Eliminated 3 Thar Nge "Pae Kaing" (ပဲ့ကိုင်)Safe And Highest Votes
Week 9: Finale The Top two performed their winner’s song Judges chose their song, and the contestants chose their own song.
Contestant Order First Song (Burmese name) Order Second Song (Burmese name) Order Third Song (Burmese name) Result Billy La Min Aye1"A Chit Myar Lat Saung" (အချစ်များလက်ဆောင်)4"Phayar Suu" (ဘုရားစူး)6"Lan Ka Lay" (လမ်းကလေး)Runner-upThar Nge2"Lan Kwe" (လမ်းခွဲ)3"Zat Taw Hte Mar A Lwan Sone" (ဇာတ်တော်ထဲမှာအလွမ်းဆုံး)5"Lan Ka Lay" (လမ်းကလေး)Winner
Elimination Chart Order Contestant Top 10 Top 9 Top 8 Top 8 Top 6 Top 5 Top 4+1 Top 3 Finale 1 Thar NgeSafeSafeSafeSafeHighest VotesHighest VotesHighest VotesHighest VotesWinner 2 Billy La Min AyeSafeSafeSafeBottom 3SafeBottom 3Bottom 3SafeRunner-up 3 Poe MiBottom 3SafeSaved by judgesSafeBottom 3SafeSafeEliminated 4 Mai Mai SengSafeBottom 3SafeSafeBottom 3Bottom 3Eliminated 5 Zin GyiBottom 3SafeBottom 3SafeEliminatedReturned by Wild Card and eliminated 6 Ye NaungHighest VotesHighest VotesHighest VotesHighest VotesSafeEliminated 7 Chan NyeinSafeSafeBottom 3Eliminated 8 YoonSafeBottom 3SafeEliminated 9 Phyu LaySafeEliminated 10 A Mi ZanEliminated
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