The fifth season of Finnish Idol

Idols (Finland)

Idols is a Finnish reality-television singing competition that airs on MTV3 . It debuted in the summer of 2003, and went on to become one of the most popular shows on Finnish television...

 premiered on February 3, 2011 on MTV3

MTV3

MTV3 is a Finnish commercial television station owned by Bonnier. It had the biggest audience share of all Finnish TV channels until Finnish Broadcasting Company’s YLE1 took the lead. The letters MTV stand for Mainos-TV , due to the channel getting its revenue from running commercials...

. Nina Tapio

Nina Tapio

Nina Tapio is a Finnish singer, songwriter, musical actor, and session musician. Her singing career started already at the age of five, when she sang on a children's record in 1977....

 and Jone Nikula

Jone Nikula

Antti Joonas "Jone" Nikula is Finnish television and radio personality and a jack-of-all-trades in the music industry. He became well-known as a judge in the TV show Idols. He is the only judge to appear in all the seasons of Idols...

 returned as judges, and Sami Pitkämö replaced Patric Sarin as a judge. Heikki Paasonen returned as the show's host, but his co-hosts from the previous season did not return as they were replaced by Niina Herala.

Idols tekee hyvää, a Finnish version of the hugely acclaimed American Idol Gives Back

Idol Gives Back

Idol Gives Back is the name of a charitable campaign that spanned two episodes of American Idol during its sixth season. A second Idol Gives Back concert and fundraiser occurred on April 9, 2008, during the seventh season of the show. Idol Gives Back was not held in 2009 due to the ongoing...

 program, was held for the first time on April 24, 2011. The concert was hosted by Heikki Paasonen and Idols' original hostess Ellen Jokikunnas, who replaced Niina Herala for that one episode.

This season also includes a new show called Idols Studio, which replaces Idols Extra. Hosted by Idols Extra's earlier host Janne Kataja, the show includes conversations with varying guests. The show is aired on Saturday evenings at 7:30 pm (earlier 6:30 pm) on MTV3.

Regional auditions

Episode Air Date	Audition City	Date	Audition Venue	Golden Tickets
February 3, 2011	Kuopio Kuopio Kuopio is a city and a municipality located in the region of Northern Savonia, Finland. A population of makes it the ninth biggest city in the country. The city has a total area of , of which is water and half forest...	October 19-20, 2010	Kuopion musiikkikeskus	15
February 6, 2011	Rovaniemi Rovaniemi Rovaniemi is a city and municipality of Finland. It is the administrative capital and commercial centre of Finland's northernmost province, Lapland. It is situated close to the Arctic Circle and is between the hills of Ounasvaara and Korkalovaara, at the confluence of the Kemijoki River and its...	October 26-27, 2010	Rovaniemen kaupungintalo	9
February 10/13, 2011	Tampere Tampere Tampere is a city in southern Finland. It is the most populous inland city in any of the Nordic countries. The city has a population of , growing to approximately 300,000 people in the conurbation and over 340,000 in the metropolitan area. Tampere is the third most-populous municipality in...	December 3-4, 2010	Tampere Hall Tampere Hall The Tampere Hall is the largest concert and congress centre in the Nordic countries, located in the southern edge of Sorsapuisto, in the centre of Tampere, Finland. Opposite of the Tampere Hall is the main building of the University of Tampere, and the Tampere railway station is only half a...	27
February 17/20, 2011	Helsinki Helsinki Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...	December 18-19, 2010	Tapahtumatalo Bank	28
Total Golden Tickets				79

Elimination Chart

There were twelve semifinalists, six females and males.

Legend

Top 12	Winner

Safe

Eliminated

Stage:		Semi-Finals						Finals
Week:		3/6	3/10	3/13	3/17	3/20	3/24	4/3	4/10	4/17	5/1	5/8
Place	Contestant	Result
1	Martti Saarinen Martti Saarinen Martti Saarinen is a Finnish singer and the winner of the fifth series of the Idols in 2011....											Winner
2	Ali Elkharam											Elim
3	Hennariikka Syvänne										Elim
4	Ilpo Kaikkonen									Elim
5	Stina Girs								Elim
6	Lotta Sandholm							Elim
7–8	Jerkka Virtanen						Elim
	Fatima Koroma						Elim
9	Jusu Wirekoski				Elim
10	Anna Paatero			Elim
11	Vilikasper Kanth		Elim
12	Laura Itkonen	Elim

• Lassi Valtonen was selected as one of the semi-finalists, but he decided to withdrew. He was replaced by a new competitor (Vilikasper Kanth), which was selected 10th March, 2011.