Popstar (TV series)

For the international reality television franchise, see Popstars. For the SBT television show, see Popstars (Brazilian TV series). For other users, see Popstar (disambiguation).

Popstar (stylized PopStar) is a Brazilian daytime live reality television singing competition originally created, produced and aired by Rede Globo. The series premiered on Sunday, July 9, 2017 at 1:00 p.m. / 12:00 p.m. (BRT / AMT).^[1]

Popstar
Also known as	PopStar
Presented by	Taís Araújo Fernanda Lima João Côrtes Tiago Abravanel
Country of origin	Brazil
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	30
Production
Running time	75 minutes
Original release
Network	Rede Globo
Release	July 9, 2017 (2017-07-09) – present

The show features fourteen celebrity acts singing live in front of the nation and facing a panel of judges, known as Specialists, and the public vote in order to win the grand prize of R$250.000.^[2]

Fernanda Lima was the main host for the first season, while actor Tiago Abravanel served as backstage interviewer and social media correspondent from seasons one and two.^[1] Fernanda Lima was replaced by Taís Araújo in season two, while João Côrtes replaced Tiago Abravanel in season three.

Season chronology

Season	Number of acts	Number of weeks	Finalists
			Winner	Runner-up
1	14	10	André Frateschi	Cláudio Lins
2	14	10	Jeniffer Nascimento	João Côrtes
3	13	10	Jakson Follmann	Helga Nemeczyk

Ratings and reception

Brazilian ratings

All numbers are in points and provided by Kantar Ibope Media.

Season	Timeslot (BRT)	Premiered		Ended		TV season	SP viewers (in points)	Source
		Date	Viewers (in points)	Date	Viewers (in points)
1	Sunday 01:00 pm	July 9, 2017	13.7	September 10, 2017	15.1	2017–18	13.52	[3] [4]
2		September 16, 2018	12.0	November 18, 2018	12.1	2018–19	12.05	[5] [6]
3		October 27, 2019	11.5	December 29, 2019	10.4	2019–20	10.25	[7] [8]

• Each point represents a specific number of households in São Paulo.

2017: 70.500 households

2018: 72.000 households

2019: 73.000 households

References

1. "'PopStar' estreia dia 9 de julho". 19 June 2017.
2. "Conheça os participantes do 'PopStar', novo reality musical que estreia em julho". 16 June 2017.
3. "Na estreia, karaokê da Globo dá menos ibope que The Voice de crianças". 10 July 2017.
4. "No primeiro domingo de volta à Net, Record e SBT crescem, mas RedeTV! cai". 11 September 2017.
5. "Na estreia de Taís Araújo no lugar de Fernanda Lima, Popstar cai 12% no Ibope". 17 September 2018.
6. "Sob o comando de Taís Araújo, final do Popstar perde 20% de público". 19 November 2018.
7. "Karaokê de celebridades na Globo, Popstar tem pior estreia de temporada". 28 October 2019.
8. "Com ícones da MPB no Ding Dong, Domingão do Faustão fica atrás da Temperatura Máxima". 30 December 2019.

External links

• PopStar on Gshow.com