The songs opened with mixed reviews from critics but was well received by audience for its "city based numbers" in the music album.

[5][6] The composer eventually stated that he will start his road trip from Chennai to Singapore crossing Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia.

[15] Ghibran along with the film's director Abbas Akbar, cinematographer Karthik Nallamuthu, Shiv Keshav who was the media manager in charge of social-media updates about the trip, and the composer's assistant Aravind were part of the audio drive.

During the drive, Ghibran also worked in other projects so he made a mini studio set-up in his car along with battery backup.

[16] The second song "Poda" was released in Bhutan on 13 June, which was sung by actor RJ Balaji, in his maiden attempt in playback singing.

[28] To accommodate the success of the audio drive, the female version of "Pogadhe" was unveiled as a bonus track on 31 July 2016 in Chennai.

The event garnered an outstanding media presence and wide publicity for the film and its prolific efforts to release each single,[34][35] with Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth amongst other celebrities praised Ghibran's initiative for the offbeat promotions of the soundtrack.

[40] Moviecrow further summarised "Ghibran continues to push boundaries in term of musical quality irrespective of the scope of the project and Chennai 2 Singapore is not different" and gave a rating of 3.25 out of 5.

[42] Karthik Srinivasan of Milliblog further added "Chennai 2 Singapore's hyper-inventive soundtrack is Ghibran's mic drop moment!