Megasztár - Voice of the Year is a Hungarian music talent show that started in 2003 on TV2.
While it is widely considered an unlicensed clone of the British television show Pop Idol (and sometimes even referred to as Hungarian Idol), TV2 maintains that it is a distinct format created by SBS management member Christoph Buerge.
The show is notable for not only stirring up but, in the end, radically changing the pop music world in the Hungary of the 2000s, often criticized due to the lack of original talent that Megasztár set out to find.
In these, entrants (the number of whom reached several tens of thousands by season 3) each introduce themselves in front of the jury (already familiar with their application, consisting of a CV and a number of songs given as favorites) with a song either selected by them or the jury, who may either ask them to stop or continue based on their performance.
The finals are organized in the spring, where finalists are eliminated one by one, based on the audience's votes.