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.
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 Date Audition City Date Audition Venues Golden Tickets September 6, 2019 Mandalay June 24, 2019 Swan Hotel N/A September 13, 2019 Taunggyi June 16, 2019 City Hall N/A September 20, 2019Taungoo July 2, 2019 Royal Katumadi Hotel N/A September 20, 2019 Hpa-an July 10, 2018 Zwe Kapin State Hall N/A September 27, October 4, 2019 Yangon July 18–19, 2019 Shwe Htut Tin N/ATotal 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– Order Contestant Song (Burmese name) Result1 Yaw Kee"Ta Ko Yay Lwan Sut Mu" (တစ်ကိုယ်ရေလွမ်းဆွတ်မှု)Safe2Benjamin Sum"May May Nay Kaung Lar" (မေမေနေကောင်းလား)Safe3 Naw Say Say Htoo"Lu Nyar Gyi" (လူညာကြီး)Safe4 Tan Khun Kyaw"Lann Kwe" (လမ်းခွဲ)Safe5Chuu Sitt Han"Cherry Street" (ချယ်ရီလမ်း)Eliminated6 Htet Inzali"Tha Khin" (သခင်)Safe7 Hnin Ei Ei Win "Pa Hta Ma Chay Lann" (ပထမခြေလှမ်း)Bottom 38 Esther Dawt Chin Sung"Ko A Twat Eain Mat Min Mat Lar" (ကိုယ့်အတွက်အိပ်မက်မင်းမက်လား)Safe9 Nay Lin Kyaw"A Thel Na Lone Ma Shi Tae Lu" (အသည်းနှလုံးမရှိတဲ့လူ)Safe10 Mooler"A Naing Nae Paine" (အနိုင်နဲ့ပိုင်း)Bottom 311 Aye 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. Order Contestant Song (Burmese name) Result1 Aye Mya Phyu"Myin Thaw Ngo Thaw Myet Lone Myar" (မြင်သောငိုသောမျက်လုံးများ)Safe2 Nay Lin Kyaw"Lann Sat Shaut Mal" (လမ်းဆက်လျောက်မယ်)Safe3 Naw Say Say Htoo"Sue Lay" (ဆူးလေး)Saved by judges4 Yaw Kee "Wan Nae Tat Tae Chit Thu" (ဝမ်းနည်းတတ်တဲ့ချစ်သူ)Bottom 35 Tan Khun Kyaw"Nga Kyaung" (ငါ့ကြောင့်)Safe6 Hnin Ei Ei Win"Gan Dar Yi" (ဂန္ဓာရီ)Safe7 Htet Inzali"Ya Par Tal" (ရပါတယ်)Bottom 38 Esther Dawt Chin Sung"Yin Ko Phwint Lite Sann" (ရင်ကိုဖွင့်လိုက်စမ်း)Safe9Benjamin Sum"Twar Mal Ma Twar Nae" (သွားမယ်မတားနဲ့)Safe10 Mooler"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. Order Contestant Song (Burmese name) Result 1Nay Lin Kyaw"Kant Kaw Wai Da Nar" (ကံကော်ဝေဒနာ)Eliminated2Hnin Ei Ei Win"Ta Chain Tone Ka Tet Ka Tho" (တစ်ချိန်တုန်းကတက္ကသိုလ်)Eliminated 3 Tan Khun Kyaw "Kant Kaw Myo Taw" (ကံကော်မြို့တော်)Safe 4 Yaw Kee "Nway Kyaung Pate Yat Ma Lo Chin" (နွေကျောင်းပိတ်ရက်မလိုချင်)Safe 5 Mooler "A Saung Tha Ye" (အဆောင်သရဲ)Safe 6 Naw Say Say Htoo "Toe Tha Ti Ya Nay Mar Par" (တို့သတိရနေမှာပါ)Bottom 3 7 Esther Dawt Chin Sung "A Chit Phint Lwan Say" (အချစ်ဖြင့်လွမ်းစေ)Safe 8 Htet Inzali "Kyaung Phwint Chain" (ကျောင်းဖွင့်ချိန်)Safe 9 Benjamin Sum "Adipati Lan Ka Chay Yar Myar" (အဓိပတိလမ်းကခြေရာများ)Safe 10 Aye Mya Phyu "The Moon From University" (တက္ကသိုလ်ကျောင်းကငွေလမင်း)Safe
Week 4: Top 8 – Country Music Order Contestant Song (Burmese name) Result 1 Naw Say Say Htoo "Nway Oo Wai Da Nar" (နွေဦးဝေဒနာ)Safe 2 Yaw Kee "Mee Pya Tite" (မီးပြတိုက်)Safe3Tan Khun Kyaw"Yangon Thar" (ရန်ကုန်သား)Eliminated 4 Mooler "Taung Pan Par Yin Min Si Ko" (တောင်ပံပါရင်မင်းဆီကို)Safe 5 Htet Inzali "Cowboy" (ကောင်းဘွိုင်)Safe 6 Benjamin Sum "Min Ma Shi Tae Nay Ye Nya" (မင်းမရှိတဲ့နေ့ရယ်ည)Safe 7 Aye Mya Phyu "Taut Pa Khe Tae Nay Yet Myar" (တောက်ပခဲ့တဲ့နေ့ရက်များ)Bottom 3 8 Esther Dawt Chin Sung "Brake Ma Par Tae Car" (ဘရိတ်မပါတဲ့ကား)Bottom 3
Week 5: Top 7 – Soe Lwin Lwin's songs Order Contestant Song (Burmese name) Result 1 Aye Mya Phyu "Chit Thu Sate Kuu" (ချစ်သူစိတ်ကူး)Bottom 3 2 Benjamin Sum "Sate Phyay Tha Chin" (စိတ်ဖြေသီချင်း)Safe3Htet Inzali"Nge Nge Tone Ka Htet Po Chit Tal" (ငယ်ငယ်တုန်းကထက်ပိုချစ်တယ်)Eliminated4 Naw Say Say Htoo "Ta Chat Lout Taw Nge Kyi Thint Par Tal" (တစ်ချက်လောက်တော့ငဲ့ကြည့်သင့်ပါတယ်)Safe 5 Mooler "Ko Chit" (ကိုယ်ချစ်)Bottom 36 Esther Dawt Chin Sung "Soe Sate Toe Tate Lwan Chain" (စိုးစိတ်တိုးတိတ်လွမ်းချိန်)Safe7 Yaw Kee "Yin Saing Sa Yar Swan Arr Ma Shi Tawt Lo" (ရင်ဆိုင်စရာစွမ်းအားမရှိတော့လို့)Safe
Week 6: Top 6 – Winter songs Order Contestant Song (Burmese name) Result 1Naw Say Say Htoo"Saung Eain Mat" (ဆောင်းအိပ်မက်)Eliminated 2 Yaw Kee "Eain Mat Saung Nya" (အိပ်မက်ဆောင်းည)Bottom 3 3 Aye Mya Phyu "Di Saung Ta Nya" (ဒီဆောင်းတစ်ည)Safe4 Benjamin Sum "December Nan Nat Khin" (ဒီဇင်ဘာနံနက်ခင်း)Safe 5 Esther Dawt Chin Sung "Sway" (ဆွေး)Bottom 3 6 Mooler "A Lwan Nya Hay Man" (အလွမ်းညဟေမာန်)Safe
Week 7: Top 5 – Hits songs Order Contestant Song (Burmese name) Result 1 Mooler "Ta Yauk Tae Lar" (တစ်ယောက်တည်းလား)Safe 2 Aye Mya Phyu "A Sin Pyay Par Tal" (အဆင်ပြေပါတယ်)Safe 3 Esther Dawt Chin Sung "A Thel Kwe A Htate A Mat" (အသည်းကွဲအထိမ်းအမှတ်)Bottom 34Yaw Kee"Ma Shi Tawt Buu" (မရှိတော့ဘူး)Eliminated 5 Benjamin 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. Contestant Order First Song (Burmese name) Order Second Song (Burmese name) Result Tan Khun Kyaw1"Ta Pyi Thu Ma Shwe Htar" (တပြည်သူမရွှေထား)6"Gabar Myay Nyein Chan Par Say" (ကမ္ဘာမြေငြိမ်းချမ်းပါစေ)EliminatedBenjamin Sum2"A Chit The Lay Pyay" (အချစ်သည်လေပြေ)7"Gabar Myay A Twat Tha Chin" (ကမ္ဘာမြေအတွက်သီချင်း)SafeAye Mya Phyu3"Myet Won Le Pyar Pyar" (မျက်ဝန်းလဲ့ပြာပြာ)8"Kaung Kin May May" (ကောင်းကင်မေမေ)SafeMooler4"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 Contestant Order First Song (Burmese name) Order Second Song (Burmese name) Order Third 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-upEsther Dawt Chin Sung2"Sin Sar Mar Pot" (စဉ်းစားမှာပေါ့)6"Thit Sar Ma Pyat Kyay" (သစ္စာမပျက်ကြေး)9"A Phyu Yaung" (အဖြူရောင်)WinnerBenjamin Sum3"Ma Ma Chit Lo Ma Phit" (မမချစ်လို့မဖြစ်)5"Myet Na Phone" (မျက်နှာဖုံး)7"A Phyu Yaung" (အဖြူရောင်)Runner-up
Elimination Chart Order Contestant Top 11 Top 10 Top 8 Top 7 Top 6 Top 5 Top 4+1 Finale 1 Esther Dawt Chin SungHighest VotesSafeSafeBottom 3SafeBottom 3Bottom 3SafeWinner 2 Aye Mya PhyuSafeSafeSafeBottom 3Bottom 3SafeSafeSafeRunner-up 3 Benjamin SumSafeSafeSafeSafeSafeSafeBottom 3SafeRunner-up 4 Moo LerBottom 3SafeSafeSafeBottom 3SafeSafeEliminated 5 Tan Khun KyawSafeSafeSafeEliminatedWild CardEliminated 6 Yaw KeeSafeBottom 3SafeSafeSafeBottom 3Eliminated 7 Naw Say Say HtooSafeSaved by JudgesBottom 3SafeSafeEliminated 8 Htet InzaliSafeBottom 3SafeSafeEliminated 9 Nay Lin KyawSafeSafeEliminated 10 Hnin Ei Ei WinBottom 3SafeEliminated 11 Chuu 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.
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