Myanmar Idol (season 2)
# Myanmar Idol (season 2)

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 Date | Audition City | Date | Audition Venues | Golden 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 | 7 |
| December 9, 2016 | Mandalay | September 24–25, 2016 | Swan Hotel | 20 |
| December 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 | 22 |
| Total Tickets to Golden Week | Total Tickets to Golden Week | Total Tickets to Golden Week | Total Tickets to Golden Week | 86 |

### 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 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

Color key:

### Week 1: Top 10–

| Order | Contestant | Song (Burmese name) | Result |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Ye Naung | "Jet Sin Htet Ka La Yeik Pyar" (ဂျပ်ဆင်ထိပ်ကလရိပ်ပြာ) | Safe |
| 2 | Thar Nge | "House" (အိမ်) | Safe |
| 3 | Zin Gyi | "A Chit Mee" (အချစ်မီး) | Bottom 3 |
| 4 | Mai Mai Seng | "Nay Yaung Aut Ka A Thet Shu Than Myar" (နေရောင်အောက်ကအသက်ရှူသံများ) | Safe |
| 5 | Chan Nyein | "Myaw Lint Nay Mal" (မျှော်လင့်နေမယ်) | Safe |
| 6 | Poe Mi | "A Shone Htet Po Thaw" (အရှုံးထက်ပိုသော) | Bottom 3 |
| 7 | A Mi Zan | "Myaw Lint Chin Kwin Pyin" (မျှော်လင့်ခြင်းကွင်းပြင်) | Eliminated |
| 8 | Phyu Lay | "Myaw Lint Chin Lay" (မျှော်လင့်ခြင်းလေး) | Safe |
| 9 | Billy La Min Aye | "Soe Yain Chit" (စိုးရိမ်ချစ်) | Safe |
| 10 | Yoon | "Di Ka Saung Nay Thu" (ဒီကစောင့်နေသူ) | Safe |

### Week 2: Top 9 – 1990s

| Order | Contestant | Song (Burmese name) | Result |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Ye Naung | "Swint Sar Mal A Chit" (စွန့်စားမယ်အချစ်) | Safe |
| 2 | Poe Mi | "Kal Tin Chin" (ကယ်တင်ခြင်း) | Safe |
| 3 | Thar Nge | "Tha Chin Chit Thu" (သီချင်းချစ်သူ) | Safe |
| 4 | Phyu Lay | "25 minutes" (၂၅မိနစ်) | Eliminated |
| 5 | Mai Mai Seng | "Ma Thi Lann" (မသိလမ်း) | Bottom 3 |
| 6 | Chan Nyein | "Ko Kyaung" (ကိုယ့်ကြောင့်) | Safe |
| 7 | Yoon | "A Sate Ngwe Kyay" (အဆိပ်ငွေကြေး) | Bottom 3 |
| 8 | Zin Gyi | "Swae Lann Mu Pyat Tha Nar" (စွဲလမ်းမှုပြဿနာ) | Safe |
| 9 | Billy 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:

| Order | Contestants and results | Contestants and results | Contestants and results | Contestants and results | Duet songs (Burmese name) |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Chan Nyein | Safe | Yoon | Safe | "Bar Kyaung" (ဘာကြောင့်) |
| 2 | Ye Naung | Bottom 3 | Poe Mi | Saved by Judges | "Ti Shi Chin A Kyaung" (တည်ရှိခြင်းအကြောင်း) |
| 3 | Zin Gyi | Bottom 3 | Billy La Min Aye | Safe | "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 |
| 2 | Chan Nyein | "A Date Bal Shi Thaw Thu" (အဓိပ္ပါယ်ရှိသောသူ) | Eliminated |
| 3 | Yoon | "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 |
| 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 |
| 2 | Zin 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 | "Eain Met Hte Ta Wae Lal Lal" (အိပ်မက်ထဲတဝဲလည်လည်) | Safe |
| 6 | Thar Nge | "Ma Ma Moe" (မမမိုး) | Safe |

### Week 6: Top 5 – Popular songs

| Order | Contestant | Song (Burmese name) | Result |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Thar Nge | "Makeup Ma Kyite Thaw Tha Chin Myar" (မိတ်ကပ်မကြိုက်သောသီချင်းများ) | Safe |
| 2 | Billy La Min Aye | "Ta Kal So Yin A Chit Pal Lo Dal" (တကယ်ဆိုရင်အချစ်ပဲလိုတယ်) | Bottom 3 |
| 3 | Ye 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 |
| 3 | Mai Mai Seng | "Paris Myo Nae Ma Lae Naing Bu" (ပဲရစ်မြို့နဲ့မလဲနိုင်ဘူး) | Eliminated |
| 4 | Zin Gyi (wild card winner) | "A May Ye Dote Kha Ao Lay" (အမေ့ရဲ့ဒုက္ခအိုးလေး) | 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 |
| 2 | Poe Mi | "Yone Kyi Yar" (ယုံကြည်ရာ) | Eliminated |
| 3 | Thar Nge | "Pae Kaing" (ပဲ့ကိုင်) | Safe |

### Week 9: Finale

The Top two performed their winner’s song Judges chose song and contestants chose themselves song.

| Contestant | Order | First Song (Burmese name) | Order | Second Song (Burmese name) | Order | Third Song (Burmese name) | Result |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Billy La Min Aye | 1 | "A Chit Myar Lat Saung" (အချစ်များလက်ဆောင်) | 4 | "Phayar Suu" (ဘုရားစူး) | 6 | "Lan Ka Lay" (လမ်းကလေး) | Runner-up |
| Thar Nge | 2 | "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 Nge | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Winner |
| 2 | Billy La Min Aye | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom 3 | Safe | Bottom 3 | Bottom 3 | Safe | Runner-up |
| 3 | Poe Mi | Bottom 3 | Safe | Saved by judges | Safe | Bottom 3 | Safe | Safe | Eliminated |
| 4 | Mai Mai Seng | Safe | Bottom 3 | Safe | Safe | Bottom 3 | Bottom 3 | Eliminated |
| 5 | Zin Gyi | Bottom 3 | Safe | Bottom 3 | Safe | Eliminated | | Returned by Wild Card and eliminated |
| 6 | Ye Naung | Safe | Safe | Bottom 3 | Safe | Safe | Eliminated |
| 7 | Chan Nyein | Safe | Safe | Safe | Eliminated |
| 8 | Yoon | Safe | Bottom 3 | Safe | Eliminated |
| 9 | Phyu Lay | Safe | Eliminated |
| 10 | A Mi Zan | Eliminated |
