Hosted by Billy Crawford and judges by Aga Muhlach, Yeng Constantino, Sandara Park and Vice Ganda, it aired on the network's Yes Weekend line up from September 10 to December 11, 2016, replacing the third season of The Voice Kids and was replaced by first season of Your Face Sounds Familiar Kids .

The goal of the show is to find the members for the newest "Pinoy boyband" (all-male Filipino pop group).

Niel Murillo, Russell Reyes, Ford Valencia, Tristan Ramirez and Joao Constancia are the members of the first Pinoy Boyband called BoybandPH.

Pinoy Band Superstar is based on the Latin-American singing competition series La Banda created by Simon Cowell and shown on Univision.

[1] According to ABS-CBN: "the reality show aims to find new Pinoy boy bands that will bring romance and good music to television viewers.

[Judges would also have] special technical aspects [in order for them] to save a performer from the audience..."[3] On August 6, ABS-CBN uploaded a video teaser of Pinoy Boyband Superstar on YouTube.

[9] After signing his new contract with ABS-CBN, Billy Crawford was announced to host the talent show on August 16.

"[3] During the trade launch on June 28, Vice Ganda, Yeng Constantino, Aga Mulach and Sandara Park were announced to be judges for the then-upcoming talent show Pinoy Band Superstar.

Star Cinema's Mico del Rosario also uploaded a short greeting of Park on Instagram as a teaser for the show.

From 40 contestants who passed the auditions, the judges will choose the top 20 boys with their best combination of charm, personality and knowledge of singing.

Some of the contestants were given an assignment by the judges and it is to study the Filipino language to sing the OPM songs which is important in a Pinoy boyband.

James Ryan Cesena, Sef Hynard and Russell Reyes were requested by the judges to perform on stage and sing an OPM song.

After the judges heard the Tagalog performances of Russell, James and Sef, the top 20 boys were completed.

At the end of the deliberation, the judges formed from top 20 boys into 4 groups with 5 members each who are to sing in the Middle Rounds' Performance Night.

Each group will perform a boyband hit assigned to them: a ballad, a pop song, acoustic, upbeat and of course R&B.

Seven remaining heartthrobs are left in the grand finals to prove to the judges and the public that they deserve a spot on the Superstar Boyband.

The superstar judges will give individual scores based on the performances of the grand finalists, it will be combined to make the half of the criteria completed.

Niel Murillo garnered a total of 98.63% of the combined judges scores and public votes declaring him the first member of BoybandPH.

The top 6 remaining grand finalists will prove once again to the judges and the public for the very last time that they deserved to be a member of the BoybandPH.

Russell Reyes, Ford Valencia, Tristan Ramirez and Joao Constancia announced as the other 4 members of the Superstar Boyband.

They emerged as the winners of the competition aside Niel Murillo to form the Superstar Boyband called "BoybandPH".

Note: (*) Niel Murillo enters the first cut to make on the Superstar Pinoy Boyband by receiving the highest percentage of combined judges scores and public votes.

Television ratings for the Pinoy Boyband Superstar on ABS-CBN were gathered from two major sources, namely from AGB Nielsen and Kantar Media.