Serie C1 2006-07

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Project SuperStar Season 2 (2006-07)

Project SuperStar is a singing talent search competition organised by MediaCorp and broadcast every Wednesday and Thursday at 8pm on Channel U in Singapore. Project SuperStar was organised to uncover and develop young talent in Mandarin pop in Singapore. Closely modelled after the Pop Idol, 24 contestants were selected to enter the Quarter Finals of the competition. For both seasons, it was hosted by Quan Yifeng and Jeff Wang. Episodes were pre-recorded, and broadcast on Wednesday for male contestants, while episodes on Thursday feature female contestants. Result shows were also pre-recorded, and shown on the same Thursday of the week at 11.30pm.

This article is on Season 2.

Project SuperStar 2006-07 (Season 2)

Season 2 was broadcast from 8 November, 2006 to 4 February, 2007.

When the auditions are launched in early September, over 6000 aspirants came to audition, breaking the record of all star-searching contests in Singapore.

The table below shows the 24 contestants who competed.

Contestant	Chinese Name	Age	Order Of Elimination
Daren Tan Sze Wei	陈世维	23	Male Champion Overall Champion
Lydia Tan Di Ya	陈迪雅	21	Female Champion Eliminated 4 Feb 2007
Nathaniel Tan Kern Bai	陈铿百	20	Eliminated 18 Jan 2007
Carrie Yeo Chia Ying	杨佳盈	25	Eliminated 18 Jan 2007
Kelvin Soon Boon Hai	孙文海	25	Eliminated 11 Jan 2007
Averil Chan Shi Yun	陈诗韵	22	Eliminated 11 Jan 2007
Zhang Le Sheng	张乐声	25	Eliminated 04 Jan 2007
Michelle Lew Ruo Wen	刘若雯	24	Eliminated 04 Jan 2007
Jon Toh Hong Lim	卓坊林	27	Eliminated 28 Dec 2006
Maxilian Chan Yu Shu	曾裕淑	19	Eliminated 28 Dec 2006
Jeremy Chan Ming Yao	田铭耀	25	Eliminated 14 Dec 2006
Chua Wee Jian	蔡伟健	19	Eliminated 14 Dec 2006
Charlotte Loh Feng Yi	罗凤仪	25	Eliminated 14 Dec 2006
Jeremy Kwan Jing Han	官镜瀚	23	Eliminated 07 Dec 2006
Sheila Ou Qian Yu	欧千瑜	21	Eliminated 07 Dec 2006
Dawn Wong Chuan Mei	黄川美	22	Eliminated 07 Dec 2006
Anson Goh Heng Yong	吴幸荣	27	Eliminated 30 Nov 2006
Jeff Teay Che Wai	谢子伟	26	Eliminated 30 Nov 2006
Lee Her Ching	李何菁	23	Eliminated 30 Nov 2006
Tang Ling Yi	汤灵伊	19	Eliminated 30 Nov 2006
Kenny Lim Dao Wen	林道文	22	Eliminated 23 Nov 2006
Huang Shi Yu	黄仕昱	24	Eliminated 23 Nov 2006
Magdalene Yeong Yan Yi	杨艳宜	22	Eliminated 23 Nov 2006
Veron Yang Xue Ni	杨雪妮	24	Eliminated 23 Nov 2006

Due to some contract violation, a quarter-finalist and hot favourite Tay Ke Wei was disqualified from the Top 24, the latter's position was given to Sheila Ou Qian Yu, a customer service officer, who was ousted in the top 40 audition.

Themes

Top 16 : Retro Night: The 1980s to 1990s
Top 10 : A slow song and a dance item
Top 8 : Oldies Night: The 1940s to 1970s
Top 6 : Theme song of a local drama
Top 6 : Theme song of a movie
Top 4 : One English song of their choice
Top 4 : One Chinese song of their choice
Top 4 : Productions choice, same song, different rendition
Top 2 : One rock song (will require the finalist to dance, live band will be accompanied)
Top 2 : One unplugged song (live band will be accompanied)
Top 2 : One hip-hop song (will require the finalist to dance)
Top 2 : One jazz/bossa nova song (live band will be accompanied)
Top 2 : One personally selected pop song (live band will be accompanied)

Among the 10 semi-finalists, Carrie Yeo Chia Ying made it to the top 4, and became the eventual 1st runner-up in the female category, while Daren Tan Sze Wei emerged the overall winner!

The highest record in this season was 44.5 marks by Carrie Yeo in one of the Final's performance.

The lowest was 23 marks by Charlotte Loh Feng Yi, when she lost her confidence when she was ousted in the Quarter-Final and sang "terribly" (quoted from the judges) in the Revival Round.

On 18 January 2007, the 4 finalists competed. Lydia Tan Di Ya emerged as the female champion, with a higher overall score of public votes and judges score, accounting 62.1% as compared to Carrie Yeo's 37.9%. It was a tougher fight for the males, with Daren Tan Sze Wei, the male champion, accounting for 52.72% as compared to Nathaniel Tan's 47.28%.

Both the male and female champion competed in Singapore Indoor Stadium on 4 February 2007. Unlike the 1st season, a contract is only limited to the overall champion, while the rest of the contestants have to wait for recording companies to sign them up.

Daren started off the night with a 60-40 lead in CD single sales. Out of the 5 round of singing, Diya won 3 rounds while Daren won 2 rounds in the hearts of the judges.

Daren won the title of the 2nd season's Singapore Project Superstar with the margin of 59% to Diya's 41%, the closest margin in any star searching competitions held in Singapore at this moment. Previous competition had margins of 61 to 39, 62 to 38, 65 to 35, 64 to 36 and 70 to 30.

Episodic Details (Season 2)

Quarter Final 1A

Index	Name	Score	Status
M1	Kenny Lim	28.5	OUT
M2	Jeremy Tian	27.5
M3	Kelvin Soon	35.5
M4	Jon Toh	29
M5	Huang Shiyu	33	OUT
M6	Jeremy Kwan Jing Han	27
F1	Averil Chan	30.5
F2	Dawn Wong	31.5
F3	Maxillian Chan	28
F4	Carrie Yeo	32
F5	Magdelene Yang	28.5	OUT
F6	Veron Yang	37	OUT

Quarter Final 1B

Index	Name	Score	Status
M1	Chua Wee Jian	32
M2	Nathaniel Tan	28.5
M3	Zhang Le Sheng	36
M4	Anson Goh	31.5	OUT
M5	Jeff Teay	31	OUT
M6	Daren Tan	28.5
F1	Charlotte Loh	27.5
F2	Michelle Lew	34.5
F3	Lee Her Ching	27	OUT
F4	Tang Ling Yi	37	OUT
F5	Sheila Ou	27
F6	Lydia Tan	37.5

Quarter-finals 2A

Index	Name	Score	Status
M1	Zhang Le Sheng	41
M2	Jeremy Kwan	30	OUT
M3	Jon Toh	33.5
M4	Daren Tan	36.5	OUT
F1	Dawn Wong	30	OUT
F2	Michelle Lew	35.5
F3	Averil Chan	27.5
F4	Sheila Ou	27	OUT

Quarter Finals 2B

Index	Name	Score	Status
M1	Jeremy Tian	36	OUT
M2	Nathaniel Tan	36
M3	Chua Wee Jian	30	OUT
M4	Kelvin Soon	41
F1	Maxillian Chan	26.5
F2	Charlotte Loh	30	OUT
F3	Lydia Tan	31.5
F4	Carrie Yeo	29.5	OUT

Revival Round

Index	Name	Score	Status
M1	Jeremy Kwan	26
M2	Chua Wee Jian	30
M3	Daren Tan	41.5	REVIVED
M4	Jeremy Tian	33
F1	Sheila Ou	28.5
F2	Charlotte Loh	23
F3	Carrie Yeo	34.5	REVIVED
F4	Dawn Wong	40.5

Semi-Final 1

Index	Name	Score	Status
M1	Jon Toh	29.5	OUT
M2	Kelvin Soon	38
M3	Zhang Le Sheng	34.5
M4	Nathaniel Tan	42
M5	Daren Tan	43
F1	Averil Chan	28
F2	Michelle Lew	29
F3	Maxillian Chan	26	OUT
F4	Lydia Tan	39
F5	Carrie Yeo	31

Semi-Final 2

Index	Name	Score	Status
M1	Zhang Le Sheng	32.5	OUT
M2	Daren Tan	44
M3	Kelvin Soon	38.5
M4	Nathaniel Tan	37
F1	Michelle Lew	27.5	OUT
F2	Lydia Tan	36.5
F3	Carrie Yeo	29
F4	Averil Chan	28

Semi-Final 3

Index	Name	Score	Status
M1	Kelvin Soon	40	OUT
M2	Nathaniel Tan	38.5
M3	Daren Tan	40.5
F1	Averil Chan	26	OUT
F2	Lydia Tan	35.5
F3	Carrie Yeo	38.5

Semi-Final 4

Index	Name	Score	Percentage	Status
M1	Daren Tan	39	52.72%	Male Winner
M2	Nathaniel Tan	37	47.28%	OUT
F1	Lydia Tan	37.5	62.1%	Female Winner
F2	Carrie Yeo	39.7	37.9%	OUT

Finale

Index	Name	Judges' Vote (Unaffected)	Percentage	Status
S1	Daren Tan Sze Wei	2	59%	Champion
S2	Lydia Tan Diya	3	41%	Runner-up

Trivia

Out of the 8 contestants who were eliminated in the semi-finals, Maxilian Chan had a call number F3, and Carrie Yeo had a call number F2. The other 6 contestants had either call numbers F1 or M1.

Out of the 9 contestants who were eliminated in the semi-finals, 6 of these contestants scored the lowest amongst their groupings, with the exceptions of Kelvin Soon and Carrie Yeo, who were eliminated despite scoring higher than their counterparts Nathaniel Tan and Lydia Tan respectively.

This also marks the only season and the very first time, that no music CDs is sold, reason on this is not given by Mediacorp.