Pinoy Boyband Superstar
Genre	Reality
Created by	Simon Cowell
Written by	Aol Rivera Kaye Etong
Directed by	Johnny Manahan
Presented by	Billy Crawford
Judges	Aga Muhlach Yeng Constantino Sandara Park Vice Ganda
Country of origin	Philippines
Original language	Filipino
No. of episodes	30
Production
Executive producer	Peter Edward Dizon
Producer	Allan Sunga
Production locations	Muntinlupa Sports Complex, Muntinlupa (Judges' Audition) Studio 10, ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center, Quezon City (Middle Rounds) Studio 2, ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center, Quezon City (Live Shows) ABS-CBN Compound, Quezon City (The Grand Reveal)
Camera setup	Multicamera
Running time	30-45 minutes
Production companies	ABS-CBN Entertainment FremantleMedia Asia
Original release
Network	ABS-CBN
Release	September 10, 2016 (2016-09-10) – January 1, 2017 (2017-01-01)

Pinoy Boyband Superstar is a Philippine reality singing competition shown on ABS-CBN. The show is hosted by Billy Crawford. The judges of the show are composed of Aga Muhlach, Yeng Constantino, Sandara Park and Vice Ganda. The show premiered on September 10, 2016, replacing the third season of The Voice Kids. The goal of the show is to find the members for the newest "Pinoy boyband" (all-male Filipino pop group).

The 5-member Pinoy Boyband would win a talent management contract from Star Magic, a recording contract from Star Music, 5 units of Yamaha Mio motorcycles and a total cash prize of ₱5,000,000 tax free from Yamaha and ABS-CBN.

Niel Murillo, Russell Reyes, Ford Valencia, Tristan Ramirez and Joao Constancia are the members of the first Pinoy Boyband called BoybandPH. They performed their first single, "We Made It", at the end of the show.

The show ended on January 1, 2017, and was replaced by Kapamilya Weekend Specials and the first season of Your Face Sounds Familiar Kids.

Overview

Pinoy Band Superstar is based on the Latin-American singing competition series La Banda created by Simon Cowell and shown on Univision.^[1] According to ABS-CBN: "the reality show aims to find new Pinoy boy bands that will bring romance and good music to television viewers."^[2]

Format

The audience will have a big part in choosing the boy bands. According to the host, performers will have to go through the all-female audience first and have at least 75% of them for approval before performing in front of the judges. Crawford also acknowledged that it would not be easy to look for new boy bands. He stated: "...it's not all about the looks -- it's about the charm, about the performance. [Judges would also have] special technical aspects [in order for them] to save a performer from the audience..."^[3]

Development

On August 6, ABS-CBN uploaded a video teaser of Pinoy Boyband Superstar on YouTube. With the introduction of La Banda, the video reiterates the show's mechanics.^[4] A week later, video teasers of the four judges were shown on television one-by-one: Vice Ganda was shown first,^[5] followed by Sandara Park,^[6] and Yeng Constantino.^[7] The fourth judge was revealed to be Aga Muhlach, who made a comeback in ABS-CBN.^[8] A few days before the premiere, a trailer showing Simon Cowell promoting the show was released.^[9]

Host

The judges and host of Pinoy Boyband Superstar

Vice Ganda

Sandara Park

Billy Crawford

After signing his new contract with ABS-CBN, Billy Crawford was announced to host the talent show on August 16. As one of the in-demand hosts of the Philippine television today, he is set to host this show together with other television talent shows, including the Kids edition of Your Face Sounds Familiar, and the Philippine edition of Dancing With The Stars. Upon announcing his new stint, he said: "This is a new franchise and this is going to be wonderful and going to be exciting."^[3]

Auditions

Calasiao

San Jose del Monte

Cagayan de Oro

Zamboanga City

Muntinlupa

General Santos

Legazpi

Bacolod

Baguio

Mandaue

Davao City

Locations where the open auditions were held

The open auditions for boys, 14 to 25 years old and can sing and groove were held in the following locations:^{[14][15][16][17]}

Date(s)	Venue	Location
June 10, 2016	Robinsons Place Pangasinan	Calasiao, Pangasinan
June 11–12, 2016	Starmall San Jose del Monte	San Jose del Monte, Bulacan
June 15–16, 2016	Centrio Mall	Cagayan de Oro, Misamis Oriental
June 17–18, 2016	KCC Mall de Zamboanga	Zamboanga City, Zamboanga del Sur
June 18–19, 2016	Starmall Alabang	Muntinlupa
June 22, 2016	KCC Mall of GenSan	General Santos, South Cotabato
June 24–25, 2016	Pacific Mall Legazpi	Legazpi, Albay
June 25–26, 2016	ABS-CBN Bacolod	Bacolod, Negros Occidental
	Sierra Pines Hotel	Baguio, Benguet
July 16–17, 2016	Pacific Mall Mandaue	Mandaue, Cebu
July 23, 2016	Gaisano Mall of Toril	Davao City, Davao del Sur
July 24, 2016	Gaisano Mall of Davao

The online and social network auditions were also announced which ran from July 27 to August 10, 2016.^[18][19]

Contestants

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Judges' Audition

From the different parts of the Philippines: Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. Even from the different parts of the world: Asia, America and Europe. The journey for the boyband dream starts here. This is the first step before their auditions. They need to focus, to vocalize, to get rid of their tension because they will face the 500 girls. The girls will decide whether the contestant can enter the booth to audition for the judges. Each contestant needs to impress the girls through dancing, pick up lines and so on except singing. If they get 74% votes downward, the judges can override the girls' votes or may be it is the end of their journey but when they get 75% votes upward, they will proceed to the judges' booth and face the 4 superstar judges. In front of the judges, the contestant will perform his prepared song. He must get 3 or more yeses from the judges to pass to the next round.

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Middle Rounds

From 40 contestants who passed the auditions, the judges will choose the top 20 boys with their best combination of charm, personality and knowledge of singing. They will group the top 20 boys into 4 boybands with 5 members each. But there is also a 5th boyband. And this last boyband will come from 5 members of bottom 20 boys. 5 boybands will perform in front of the judges and the girls wherein they will choose who will be in the top 12 that will perform in the "Live Shows."

Live Shows

They will perform as a group. They will succeed as a group. And if they are careless, they will fail as a group. This is the test for the boys to perform in different groups. A young heartthrob will be eliminated every week until seven are left in the grand finals. And from the seven, five will be chosen to form the first superstar boyband of the country.

The superstar judges select the strongest and the weakest group. The strongest group will be declared as the boyband of the week. While the members of the weakest group would have to individually sing their survival songs. Aside from the talent, the young heartthrobs will be judge in their overall character and performance onstage.

One or two will be saved by the votes of the viewing public. One will be saved by the superstar judges. In case of a tie, the next highest number of public votes will be saved. And the remaining contestant will be eliminated from the competition.

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The Grand Reveal

They will perform in 3 groups consists of 2 duos and 1 trio. Seven remaining heartthrobs are left in the grand finals to prove to the judges and the public that they deserve a spot on the Superstar Boyband. And from the seven, five boyband aspirants will be chosen to form the first superstar boyband of the country will be named as "BoybandPH".

The superstar judges will give individual scores based on the performances of the grand finalists, it will be combined to make the half of the criteria completed. The other half of the criteria is done by public voting thru text and google votes.

One grand finalists will be named Saturday night as part of the Superstar Boyband, and four other members will be named Sunday night. And the remaining 2 grand finalists will not be mentioned will be eliminated from the competition and occasionally didn't make it to the Boyband.

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Elimination Chart

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Note: (*) Niel Murillo enters the first cut to make on the Superstar Pinoy Boyband by receiving the highest percentage of combined judges scores and public votes. Regardless, all scores of the 6 grand finalists are revert to zero, the remaining grand finalists battle for the last 4 coveted slots to make it to the Superstar Boyband namely "BoybandPH".

Contestants who appeared on previous shows

• Allen Cecilio and Mark Oblea were on the Spogify feat. Singing Baes segment of Eat Bulaga! and were eliminated during the daily round.^[21][22]
• Markus Paterson appeared on ASAP and as an occasional guest on ASAP Chillout.^[23]
• Ethan Salvador was one of the current Star Magic Artist and also he's a current co-host of "Swak Na Swak".
• Miggy Campbell was a supporting cast on You're My Home. He also appeared on the music video of "Pare, Mahal Mo Raw Ako", as well as the movie version of the same name.^[24]
• Jayvee Mendoza and Bjorn Mendoza were featured on the Ano Ka Hello? singing battle segment of Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho.^[25]
• Kokoy de Santos is a TV commercial actor and a former co-host in Walang Tulugan with the Master Showman. He was cast in various drama series (Futbolilits, Makapiling Kang Muli, Kidlat, My Husband's Lover, Oh My G!, #ParangNormal Activity) and films (Bromance: My Brother's Romance, Kimmy Dora: Ang Kiyemeng Prequel, Kid Kulafu, Kip Oebanda, Tumbang Preso). He also starred in numerous Maalaala Mo Kaya episodes including "Kamao", "Bimpo", "Family Picture", "Red Envelope", "Korona", "Sketch Pad", "Lubid", "Puno", "Picture", and "Hijab".^[26]
• Wilbert Rosalyn joined the Tawag ng Tanghalan segment of It's Showtime though he was eliminated during the daily round.^[27]
• Julijo Pisk was a contestant of ABS-CBN's Star Circle Summer Kid Quest and was named as the 2nd runner-up.^[28]
• Luigi D'Avola was a contestant of Myx VJ Search in MYX back in 2014 and was named as one of the winners of the show.^[29]
• Joao Constancia appeared in The Ryzza Mae Show as a contestant in Picture o Tanong? segment and in Eat Bulaga! as part of the audience.^[30]

Reception

Notes

References

External links

• Pinoy Boyband Superstar on ABS-CBN