[1] Apart from gaining recognition from acclaimed names of the music industry and being a child singing icon, the show promised that its winner would be honored with a 3-bedroom Villa worth Rs.60 lakhs from its sponsor, Arun Excello Temple Green Township.
A number of eminent playback singers and music directors appeared during the season as guest judges, including P. B. Sreenivas, M. S. Viswanathan, P. Susheela, S. Janaki, Sadhana Sargam, Nithyasree Mahadevan, Sudha Raghunathan, Sowmya, Aruna Sairam, Pushpavanam Kuppuswamy, Rajkumar Bharathi, and Bombay Sisters.
The grand opening week was hosted by actresses and television anchors, Kalyani and Ramya.
Judges throughout launch week were Manikka Vinayagam, S. P. Sailaja, Pushpavanam Kuppuswamy, and Mahathi.
The ground level auditions in Trichy and Coimbatore were judged by former contestants of Airtel Super Singer 2, being Ajeesh, Prasanna, Srinivas and Ragini.
This round required the top 7 contestants to sing songs which fitted in the Carnatic music ("classical") genre.
This week's orchestra accompanying the contestants consisted of 7 special guest performers (instrumentalists).