# Super Singer 9

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 and streams on Disney+ Hotstar, telecasts every Saturday and Sunday at 6:30 PM, which started from 19 November 2022. MRF Vapocure Paints is the main sponsor for this season.
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

The show begins with a mega musical battle with auditioned top 20 contestants of this season. Each contestant is ranked based on their performance and the top scorer will be given a spot in the super 5 zone. 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

| Judges | Notes |
| Benny Dayal | Indian playback singer. He has sung more than 3500 songs in 19+ Indian languages. |
| 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. |

## Hosts

| Host | Notes |
| 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

| Air Date(s) | Round Name | Super 3/5 Zone | Special Guest(s) & Judge(s) |
| 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 | Top 5 Zone Selection Round | Abhijith Anil Kumar (BP) Pooja Venkatraman Priya Jerson Keshav Ram Aruna Sivaya Dinesh (BE) | |
| 10 December 2022 | Top 5 Zone Selection Round | Abhijith Anil Kumar (BP) Pooja Venkatraman Priya Jerson Keshav Ram Aruna Sivaya Dinesh (BE) | |
| 11 December 2022 | Top 5 Zone Selection Round | Abhijith Anil Kumar (BP) Pooja Venkatraman Priya Jerson Keshav Ram Aruna Sivaya Dinesh (BE) | |
| 17 December 2022 | Time Travel Round | Aparna Narayanan (BP) Dinesh Karthik (BE) Anantha Gopan Prasanna Adhisesha | |
| 18 December 2022 | Time Travel Round | Aparna Narayanan (BP) Dinesh Karthik (BE) Anantha Gopan Prasanna Adhisesha | |
| 24 December 2022 | Thara Local Round | Abhijith Anil Kumar (BP) Aruna Sivaya Sashank (BE) Pooja Venkatraman Yazhini | |
| 25 December 2022 | Thara Local Round | Abhijith Anil Kumar (BP) Aruna Sivaya Sashank (BE) Pooja Venkatraman Yazhini | |
| 31 December 2022 | Hits of 2022 | Anantha Gopan (BP) Priya Jerson Keshav Ram Karthik Chanderan Chan (BE) | K. S. Chithra |
| 1 January 2023 | Hits of 2022 | Anantha Gopan (BP) Priya Jerson Keshav Ram Karthik Chanderan Chan (BE) | K. S. Chithra |
| 7 January 2023 | Devotional Round | Aruna Sivaya (BP) Sneha Padmanabhan (BE) Abhijith Anilkumar Pooja Venkatraman Prasanna Adhisesha | |
| 8 January 2023 | Devotional Round | Aruna Sivaya (BP) Sneha Padmanabhan (BE) Abhijith Anilkumar Pooja Venkatraman Prasanna Adhisesha | |
| 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 | Evergreen 90s Round | Yazhini (BP) Anantha Gopan Karthik Aparna Narayanan (BE) Sashank | 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 | Romance Round | Abhijith Anilkumar (BE) Pooja Venkatraman (BP) Aruna Sivaya Aparna Narayanan Karthik | RJ Balaji Sam C. S. |
| 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 | SPB Special Round | Shashank (BP) Pooja Venkatraman (BE) Hari Vignesh Priya Jerson Aruna Sivaya | S. P. Charan S. P. Sailaja S. P. Pallavi |
| 18 February 2023 | Deva Ragam Special Round | Abhijith Anilkumar (BP) Pooja Venkatraman Aruna Sivaya Priya Jerson (BE) Karthik | Deva (composer) |
| 19 February 2023 | Deva Ragam Special Round | Abhijith Anilkumar (BP) Pooja Venkatraman Aruna Sivaya Priya Jerson (BE) Karthik | Deva (composer) |
| 25 February 2023 | Strong Music Genre Challenge Round | Prasanna Adhisesha (BP) Abhijith Anilkumar Karthik Chanderan Chan (BE) | Varalaxmi Sarathkumar Santhosh Prathap |
| 26 February 2023 | Strong Music Genre Challenge Round | Prasanna Adhisesha (BP) Abhijith Anilkumar Karthik Chanderan Chan (BE) | Varalaxmi Sarathkumar Santhosh Prathap |
| 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 | Folk Songs Round | Pooja Venkatraman (BP) Aruna Sivaya (BE) Prasanna Adhisesha | Senthil Ganesh Pushpavanam Kuppusamy Kidakkuzhi Mariyammal V M Mahalingam Rajalakshmi Senthil |
| 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 | Top 10 Celebration | Abhijith Anilkumar (BP) Karthik (BE) | Haricharan Santhosh Narayanan Vijay Yesudas Shakthisree Gopalan Sam C. S. Sathyaprakash Dharmar |
| 18 March 2023 | Classic Hits Round | Abhijith Anilkumar (BP) Pooja Venkatraman Prasanna Adhisesha (BE) | Sujatha Mohan Vijay Yesudas |
| 19 March 2023 | Classic Hits Round | Abhijith Anilkumar (BP) Pooja Venkatraman Prasanna Adhisesha (BE) | Sujatha Mohan Vijay Yesudas |
| 25 March 2023 | Anbudan Naan Round | Abhijith Anilkumar (BP) Pooja Venkatraman Priya Jerson (BE) | |
| 26 March 2023 | Anbudan Naan Round | Abhijith Anilkumar (BP) Pooja Venkatraman Priya Jerson (BE) | |
| 1 April 2023 | 80s Remix Round | Karthik (BP) Abhijith Anilkumar Priya Jerson (BE) | Vijay Iykki Berry KJ Iyenar ADK |
| 2 April 2023 | 80s Remix Round | Karthik (BP) Abhijith Anilkumar Priya Jerson (BE) | Vijay Iykki Berry KJ Iyenar ADK |
| 8 April 2023 | STR Hits Round | Abhijith Anilkumar (BP) Prasanna Adhisesha Pooja Venkatraman Priya Jerson (BE) | T. Rajendar |
| 9 April 2023 | STR Hits Round | Abhijith Anilkumar (BP) Prasanna Adhisesha Pooja Venkatraman Priya Jerson (BE) | K. Bhagyaraj T. Rajendar |
| 15 April 2023 | Doubles Round | Pooja Venkatraman (BP) Aruna Sivaya (BP) Priya Jerson (BE) | |
| 16 April 2023 | Doubles Round | Pooja Venkatraman (BP) Aruna Sivaya (BP) Priya Jerson (BE) | |
| 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 | Performance with Vijay Stars | Dinesh Kumar (BP) Karthik (BE) | Vinusha Devi Raveena Daha VJ Vishal Myna Nandhini VJ Deepika Lakshmanapandian Yogeswaram Navin Vetri |
| 29 April 2023 | Vidyasagar Special | Abhijith Anilkumar (BP) Pooja Venkatraman Aruna Sivaya (BE) | Vidyasagar (composer) |
| 30 April 2023 | Vidyasagar Special | Abhijith Anilkumar (BP) Pooja Venkatraman Aruna Sivaya (BE) | Vidyasagar (composer) |
| 6 May 2023 | Big Battle Round | Prasanna Adhisesha (BP) Aruna Sivaya (BE) | |
| 7 May 2023 | Big Battle Round | Prasanna Adhisesha (BP) Aruna Sivaya (BE) | |
| 13 May 2023 | Top 5 Celebration Round | Pooja Venkatraman (BP) Priya Jerson (BE) | Yuvan Shankar Raja |
| 14 May 2023 | Top 5 Celebration Round | Pooja Venkatraman (BP) Priya Jerson (BE) | Yuvan Shankar Raja |
| 20 May 2023 | Ticket to Finale | Abhijith Anilkumar | Vijay Antony |
| 21 May 2023 | Ticket to Finale | Abhijith Anilkumar | Vijay Antony |
| 27 May 2023 | Semi Finals | Aruna Sivaya Pooja Venkatraman | Hiphop Tamizha(Adhi Ramachandran ) |
| 28 May 2023 | Semi Finals | Aruna Sivaya Pooja Venkatraman | Hiphop Tamizha(Adhi Ramachandran ) |
| 3 June 2023 | Wild Card Round | Hari Vignesh Aparna Narayanan Karthik Prasanna Adhisesha Keshav Ram | Ananth Vaidyanathan Anthony Daasan Binni Krishnakumar |
| 4 June 2023 | Wild Card Round | Hari Vignesh Aparna Narayanan Karthik Prasanna Adhisesha Keshav Ram | Ananth Vaidyanathan Anthony Daasan Binni Krishnakumar |
| 10 June 2023 | Celebration Round | Aruna Sivaya Hari Vignesh Karthik | Siddharth (actor) Nivas K. Prasanna |
| 11 June 2023 | Celebration Round | Aruna Sivaya Hari Vignesh Karthik | Siddharth (actor) Nivas K. Prasanna |
| 17 June 2023 | Pre-Finals Round | | Gangai Amaran K. S. Chithra Ananth Vaidyanathan Pushpavanam Kuppusamy Binni Krishnakumar |
| 18 June 2023 | Pre-Finals Round | | Gangai Amaran K. S. Chithra Ananth Vaidyanathan Pushpavanam Kuppusamy Binni Krishnakumar |
| 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

| Name | Status |
| Aruna Sivaya | Winner |
| Priya Jerson | 1st Runner-up |
| Prasanna Adhisesha | 2nd Runner-up |
| Abhijith Anil Kumar | Professional Winner |
| Pooja Venkatraman | Professional 1st Runner-up |
| 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