5 July (2012-07-05) – 20 September 2012 (2012-09-20)
Popstars 2012, also known as Popstars goes Ibiza, is the tenth season of the German reality TV series Popstars, in which young and aspiring singers compete for a place in a new band.
Pre-castings for the show started in March 2012, where competitors were selected and called back to sing and perform in front of the jury. Casting was held in Berlin and the "workshop" started shooting in June on Ibiza. Online casting also took place, and one contestant reached the workshop stage in this way.
Changes
During the casting stage, each jury member was able to give a contestant from zero to three points. To get into the re-call and later into the Workshop, the contestant had to earn eight points.
"Workshop"
During the Workshop phase, the point system continued. The groups are judged as one and needed to earn eight points to proceed into the next round. The groups which don't earn eight points must perform in a Survival Round, where they perform as a group or solo but get only judged as a solo contestant.
Episodes
Episode 01: Casting I
Aired on 5 July 2012
Contestants proceeding to the Workshop: Alessio, Gianina, Scarlet and Züleyha.
Episode 02: Casting II
Aired on 12 July 2012
Contestants proceeding to the Workshop: Viviana, Patrick and Chemseddin
Episode 03: Casting III
Aired on 19 July 2012
Contestants proceeding to the Workshop: Joanna, Zerna, Alex, Cem and Fabian
Episode 04: Casting IV
Aired on 26 July 2012
Contestants proceeding to the Workshop: Gaye, Steffi, Antonio, Katharina
Episode 05: Workshop I
Aired on 2 August 2012
Additionally progressed to the Workshop: Marie, Alessandro, Mira
Group 2: Mira, Steffi, Chemssedin and Alessandro-"Firework"
Group 3: Joanna, Marie, Fabian, Zulehya and Patrick-"Ich laufe-Tim Bendzko"
Group 4: Zerna, Viviana, Scarlet and Thuy-"Jar of Hearts"
Survival round : Group 2 and Group 4
Eliminated: Announced in Episode 07
Episode 07: Workshop III
Aired on 16 August 2012
In this episode the Survival round from the previous episode concluded. After that the contestants started to train for their next performance under the theme "Popstars Extravaganza". The episode finished without the contestants performing.
Guest Star: None
Survival round : Group 2 (Steffi, Chemssedin, Alessandro and Mira) and Group 4 (Viviana, Zerna, Thuy and Scarlet)
Eliminated:Alessandro, Zerna and Viviana.
Episode 08: Workshop IV
Aired on 23 August 2012
This week the training for the Popstars Extravaganza show continued. After performing, the Jury decided that the "Too Close" group should go into the survival round.
This week the contestants are divided into four groups and each group will be coached by one Jury member and perform their currently favourite song. Beside that in the contestants will hold a pool party with a special guest, Paul van Dyk. He was responsible for choosing certain contestants to record a special version of his song "Such a Feeling (Verano)"
Guest Star: Paul van Dyk
Group 1: Alex, Alessio and Steffi (coached by Senna)- "Ain't Nobody"
Group 2: Gianina, Mira and Gaye (coached by D)- "Domino"
Group 3: Zulehya and Joanna (coached by Ross)- "Call Me Maybe"
In this round the first three band members performed the first single "How Do You Do" with each remaining contestant and the viewers per tele-voting decided who will be the last band member.
