Super Singer 9

Season of television series

Super Singer 9

Season 9

Super Singer 9 finalists

Release
Original network| Star Vijay
Original release| 19 November 2022 (2022-11-19) –
25 June 2023 (2023-06-25)
Presented by|

* Makapa Anand
* Priyanka Deshpande

Judges|

* Anuradha Sriram
* P. Unnikrishnan
* Benny Dayal
* Shweta Mohan

Winner| Aruna Sivaya
Season chronology

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Super Singer Season 9 is a 2022-2023 Indian Tamil-language reality television singing competition show. The ninth season of Super Singer, which airs on Star Vijay[1][2] and streams on Disney+ Hotstar, telecasts every Saturday and Sunday at 6:30 PM, which started from 19 November 2022.[3][4][5] MRF Vapocure Paints is the main sponsor for this season.[6]

Makapa Anand and Priyanka Deshpande return as hosts once again for this season. The judging panel consists of four popular playback singers, Anuradha Sriram, P. Unnikrishnan, Benny Dayal, and Shweta Mohan.

The Grand Finale was held on 25 June 2023. At the finals, Aruna Sivaya was the title winner. Aruna is the first woman to become the title winner of Super Singer.

## Format

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The show begins with a mega musical battle with auditioned top 20 contestants of this season.[7] Each contestant is ranked based on their performance and the top scorer will be given a spot in the super 5 zone.[8] Position in the super five zone keeps changing based on their performance week on week. As contestants are eliminated, the super five zone will become super three zone. Weekly, Super singer has introduced special guests during the season such as Gangai Amaran, Karthik Raja, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Deva (composer), Vidyasagar (composer), Harris Jayaraj, Sam C. S., Hiphop Tamizha(Adhi Ramachandran ), Nivas K. Prasanna, S. P. Charan, S. P. Sailaja, Vijay Antony, T. Rajendar, K. Bhagyaraj, Siddharth (actor), Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, Santhosh Prathap, RJ Balaji, Pushpavanam Kuppusamy, K. S. Chithra, Meena (actress), Khushbu, Haricharan, Santhosh Narayanan, Anthony Daasan, Shakthisree Gopalan, Vijay Yesudas, Sujatha Mohan, Vinusha Devi, Senthil Ganesh, Ananth Vaidyanathan, Binni Krishnakumar, Rajalakshmi Senthil, Meenakshi Elayaraja.

## Judges

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Judges  | Notes

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Benny Dayal | Indian playback singer. He has sung more than 3500 songs in 19+ Indian languages.[9]
Anuradha Sriram | Indian carnatic and playback singer and child actress who hails from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. She has sung more than 700 songs in Tamil, Telugu, Sinhala, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali and Hindi films.
Shweta Mohan | Indian playback singer. She has recorded more than 700 songs and albums in all the four south Indian languages namely Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, she has also recorded songs for Hindi films and has established herself as a leading playback singer of South Indian cinema.
P. Unnikrishnan | Indian Carnatic vocalist and playback singer.[10]

## Hosts

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Host  | Notes

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Makapa Anand | Indian television presenter, host and actor. He predominantly works in Tamil television and film industry.
Priyanka Deshpande | Indian television presenter, host and actress. She predominantly works in Tamil television and film industry.

## Episodes

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Air Date(s) | Round Name  | Super 3/5 Zone  | Special Guest(s) & Judge(s)

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3 December 2022  | Top 5 Zone Selection Round  | Abhijith Anil Kumar (BP)
Pooja Venkatraman
Priya Jerson
Keshav Ram

Aruna Sivaya
Dinesh (BE)

4 December 2022
10 December 2022
11 December 2022
17 December 2022  | Time Travel Round  | Aparna Narayanan (BP)
Dinesh
Karthik (BE)
Anantha Gopan
Prasanna Adhisesha  |
18 December 2022
24 December 2022  | Thara Local Round  | Abhijith Anil Kumar (BP)
Aruna Sivaya
Sashank (BE)
Pooja Venkatraman
Yazhini  |
25 December 2022
31 December 2022  | Hits of 2022  | Anantha Gopan (BP)
Priya Jerson
Keshav Ram
Karthik
Chanderan Chan (BE)  | K. S. Chithra
1 January 2023
7 January 2023  | Devotional Round  | Aruna Sivaya (BP)
Sneha Padmanabhan (BE)
Abhijith Anilkumar
Pooja Venkatraman
Prasanna Adhisesha  |
8 January 2023
14 January 2023  | Pongal Celebration Round  | Karthik (BP)
Prasanna Adhisesha (BE)  |
21 January 2023  | Wild Card Round  | Hari Vignesh
Ancy Mary
28 January 2023  | Evergreen 90s Round  | Yazhini (BP)
Anantha Gopan
Karthik
Aparna Narayanan (BE)
Sashank  | Khushbu
29 January 2023  | Meena (actress)
4 February 2023  | Romance Round  | Abhijith Anilkumar (BE)
Pooja Venkatraman (BP)
Aruna Sivaya
Aparna Narayanan
Karthik  | RJ Balaji

Sam C. S.

5 February 2023
11 February 2023  | SPB Special Round  | Shashank (BP)
Pooja Venkatraman (BE)
Hari Vignesh
Priya Jerson
Aruna Sivaya  | S. P. Charan

S. P. Sailaja

S. P. Pallavi

12 February 2023
18 February 2023  | Deva Ragam Special Round  | Abhijith Anilkumar (BP)
Pooja Venkatraman
Aruna Sivaya
Priya Jerson (BE)
Karthik  | Deva (composer)
19 February 2023
25 February 2023  | Strong Music Genre Challenge Round  | Prasanna Adhisesha (BP)
Abhijith Anilkumar
Karthik
Chanderan Chan (BE)  | Varalaxmi Sarathkumar
Santhosh Prathap
26 February 2023
4 March 2023  | Folk Songs Round  | Pooja Venkatraman (BP)
Aruna Sivaya (BE)
Prasanna Adhisesha  | Senthil Ganesh
Pushpavanam Kuppusamy
Kidakkuzhi Mariyammal
V M Mahalingam
Rajalakshmi Senthil
5 March 2023
11 March 2023  | Top 10 Celebration  | Abhijith Anilkumar (BP)
Karthik (BE)  | Haricharan
Santhosh Narayanan
Vijay Yesudas
Shakthisree Gopalan
Sam C. S.
Sathyaprakash Dharmar
12 March 2023
18 March 2023  | Classic Hits Round  | Abhijith Anilkumar (BP)
Pooja Venkatraman
Prasanna Adhisesha (BE)  | Sujatha Mohan
Vijay Yesudas
19 March 2023
25 March 2023  | Anbudan Naan Round  | Abhijith Anilkumar (BP)
Pooja Venkatraman
Priya Jerson (BE)  |
26 March 2023
1 April 2023  | 80s Remix Round  | Karthik (BP)
Abhijith Anilkumar
Priya Jerson (BE)  | Vijay
Iykki Berry
KJ Iyenar
ADK
2 April 2023
8 April 2023  | STR Hits Round  | Abhijith Anilkumar (BP)
Prasanna Adhisesha
Pooja Venkatraman
Priya Jerson (BE)  | T. Rajendar
9 April 2023  | K. Bhagyaraj
T. Rajendar
15 April 2023  | Doubles Round  | Pooja Venkatraman (BP)
Aruna Sivaya (BP)
Priya Jerson (BE)  |
16 April 2023
22 April 2023  | Performance with Vijay Stars  | Dinesh Kumar (BP)
Karthik (BE)  | Vinusha Devi
Raveena Daha
VJ Vishal
Myna Nandhini
VJ Deepika Lakshmanapandian
Yogeswaram
Navin Vetri
23 April 2023
29 April 2023  | Vidyasagar Special  | Abhijith Anilkumar (BP)
Pooja Venkatraman
Aruna Sivaya (BE)  | Vidyasagar (composer)
30 April 2023
6 May 2023  | Big Battle Round  | Prasanna Adhisesha (BP)
Aruna Sivaya (BE)  |
7 May 2023
13 May 2023  | Top 5 Celebration Round  | Pooja Venkatraman (BP)
Priya Jerson (BE)  | Yuvan Shankar Raja
14 May 2023
20 May 2023  | Ticket to Finale  | Abhijith Anilkumar  | Vijay Antony
21 May 2023
27 May 2023  | Semi Finals  | Aruna Sivaya
Pooja Venkatraman  | Hiphop Tamizha(Adhi Ramachandran )
28 May 2023
3 June 2023  | Wild Card Round  | Hari Vignesh
Aparna Narayanan
Karthik
Prasanna Adhisesha
Keshav Ram  | Ananth Vaidyanathan
Anthony Daasan
Binni Krishnakumar
4 June 2023
10 June 2023  | Celebration Round  | Aruna Sivaya

Hari Vignesh

Karthik

| Siddharth (actor)
Nivas K. Prasanna
11 June 2023
17 June 2023  | Pre-Finals Round  |  | Gangai Amaran
K. S. Chithra
Ananth Vaidyanathan
Pushpavanam Kuppusamy
Binni Krishnakumar
18 June 2023
24 June 2023  | Set Finals Round  |  | Karthik Raja
K. S. Chithra
Ananth Vaidyanathan
Pushpavanam Kuppusamy
Binni Krishnakumar
25 June 2023  | GRAND FINALE |

Title Winner - Aruna Sivaya

First Runner Up - Priya Jerson

Second Runner Up- Prasanna Adhisesha

| Harris Jayaraj

(BP) Best Performer
(BE) Best Entertainer

## Contestants

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Name  | Status

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Aruna Sivaya  |  Winner
Priya Jerson  | 1st Runner-up
Prasanna Adhisesha  | 2nd Runner-up
Abhijith Anil Kumar  | Finalist
Pooja Venkatraman  | Finalist
Dinesh Kumar  | 17th Elimination (13 May 2023)
Karthik  | 16th Elimination (6 May 2023)
Chanderan Chan  | 15th Elimination (22 April 2023)
Sashank  | 14th Elimination (8 April 2023)
Yazhini  | 13th Elimination (25 March 2023)
Hari Vignesh  | 12th Elimination (11 March 2023)
Aparna Narayanan  | 11th Elimination (4 March 2023)
Anantha Gopan  | 10th Elimination (25 February 2023)
Sneha Padmanabhan  | 9th Elimination (18 February 2023)
Ancy Mary  | 8th Elimination (11 February 2023)

Keshav Ram  | 7th Elimination (5 February 2023)
Priya Padmanabhan  | 6th Elimination (4 February 2023)
Lakshmi  | 5th Elimination (14 January 2023)
Nishchitha Gowda  | 4th Elimination (7 January 2023)
Gowri Sankar  | 3rd Elimination (31 December 2022)
Lavanya  | 2nd Elimination (24 December 2022)
Emmanual EsclEen  | 1st Elimination (17 December 2022)

Title Winner
First Runner-up finalist
Second Runner-up finalist
Competing contestant
Eliminated contestant
Wild card contestant

## References

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1. ^ "கோலாகலமான தொடக்கத்துடன் சூப்பர் சிங்கர் சீசன் 10" [Super Singer Season 10 with a Bang]. Dinamalar (in Tamil). 19 November 2022. Archived from the original on 19 November 2022.
2. ^ "9!". tamil.news18.com (in Tamil). 17 November 2022.
3. ^ "Star Vijay to premiere Super Singer season 9 on 19th November". www.medianews4u.com. 17 November 2022.
4. ^ "துவங்கியது சூப்பர் சிங்கர் சீசன் 9.. ரசிகர்கள் உற்சாகம்!". tamil.filmibeat.com (in Tamil). 21 November 2022.
5. ^ "Super Singer Season 9 Grand Launch On Vijay Tv Channel – 19 November at 06.30 PM". www.indiantvinfo.com. 17 November 2022.
6. ^ "Grand finale of the Super Singer 2023 season 9". Total Reporter. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
7. ^ "Super Singer Season 9 Auditions Vijay TV". www.indiantvinfo.com.
8. ^ "Super Singer Season 9 Auditions Registration – How to participate in Super Singer 2022 Auditions?". thenewscrunch.com. 29 August 2022.
9. ^ "Scaling heights". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 11 October 2008. Archived from the original on 7 November 2012. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
10. ^ "Touch of class". The Hindu. 23 October 2003. Archived from the original on 17 November 2003. Retrieved 7 November 2011.

## External links

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* Super Singer 9 on Hotstar
* Super Singer 9 at IMDb

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* t
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Airtel Super Singer

Seasons|

* Season 1
* Season 2
* Season 3
* Season 4
* Season 5
* Super Singer 6
* Super Singer 7
* Super Singer 8
* Super Singer 9
* Super Singer 10

Hosts|

| Current|

* Ma Ka Pa Anand
* Priyanka Deshpande

|

Former|

* Chinmayi
* Malini Yugendran
* Yugendran Vasudevan Nair
* Divyadarshini
* Divya Vijaygopal
* Sivakarthikeyan
* Bhavana Balakrishnan

Special|

* Kalyani
* Priya

Permanent judges|

* Srinivas
* P. Unnikrishnan
* Sujatha Mohan
* Anuradha Sriram

Winners|

* Nikhil Mathew
* Ajeesh
* Saicharan
* Dhivakar

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