Star Awards for Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes

Star Awards for Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes
十大最受欢迎男艺人
Awarded forMost Popular Male Artistes
CountrySingapore
Presented byMediacorp
First awarded1994
Most recent winnersTop 10 Most Popular Male Artistes:
1) Romeo Tan
2) Marcus Chin
3) Jeff Goh
4) Zhang Yaodong
5) Pornsak
6) Desmond Tan
7) Benjamin Tan
8) Shaun Chen
9) James Seah
10) Jeremy Chan (2024)
Most Popular Rising Stars:
1) Ayden Sng
2) Zhang Zetong (2024)
Most awardsRomeo Tan (9, non All-Time Favourite Artiste award recipient)
Most nominationsChen Shucheng (23)

The Star Awards for Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes is an award presented annually at the Star Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1994.

In 2023, the Most Popular Rising Stars award was introduced for artistes who have been in the entertainment industry for five years or less, regardless of gender.

History

Initially, the awards were 10 Most Popular Artistes with five male and five female artistes receiving it.

The category was introduced in 1994, at the first Star Awards ceremony; Terence Cao, Chew Chor Meng, Li Nanxing, Sean Say, and Desmond Sim received the award as five of the male artistes of the 10 Most Popular Artistes award.[1] The winners are determined by a majority vote from the public via telephone and SMS text voting.

During 1994 and 1995, the Most Popular Actor award and Most Popular Actress were also awarded. It was a separate award from the 10 Most Popular Artistes award and was given out to the male artiste who topped the votes of the latter award. Li[1] and Chen Hanwei were the recipients of this award in 1994 and 1995, respectively. In 1996, the Most Popular Actor award was retired.[2]

Since 1997, the number of recipients for each category were expanded to ten and the award was renamed as Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes.[2]

In 2023, the Most Popular Rising Stars award was introduce with similar eligibility requirements for the Top 10 Most Popular Artistes, aimed for artistes with no more than five years of career experience. The criteria for the "All-Time Favourite Artiste" was also modified such that wins for the "Most Popular Rising Star Award" will count towards the cumulative total of 10 needed to be conferred the "All-Time Favourite Artiste" award. Ayden Sng and Richie Koh were the first male recipients of this award in the ceremony.

Since the ceremony held in 2024, Romeo Tan remains as the only male artiste to have the most wins without achieving the All-Time Favourite Artiste award, with nine. Jeremy Chan, Jeff Goh and Ayden Sng are currently the only male artistes who hold a winning streak that is uninterrupted since their first nomination, with Sng holding a streak for the Most Popular Rising Stars award.

In addition, Chen Shucheng have been nominated on 23 occasions, more than any other male artiste. Richard Low is currently the male artiste who has the most nominations without a win, with 16. Dennis Chew has the most consecutive nominations with All-Time Favourite Artiste award with 16.

Eligibility

Before 1997, only Mediacorp actors were eligible to be nominated for the award. This rule was removed in 1997 onwards to allow the Mediacorp male artistes from the variety sector to contest for the award.

In 2018, the rules were changed to allow contracted and project-based artistes to be nominated and/or receive the award.[3]

In 2023, the Most Popular Rising Stars was added, which would be presented to three artistes (regardless of gender) who have been in showbiz for five years or less.

There are currently 13 male artistes have received the award for ten times and were given the All-Time Favourite Artiste award, and are no longer eligible for the running of the award.

Pornsak was not added in the list as he will be receiving the All-Time Favourite Artiste award in Star Awards 2025.

Recipients

Since its inception, the award has been given to 59 male artistes. Romeo Tan, Marcus Chin, Jeff Goh, Zhang Yaodong, Pornsak, Desmond Tan, Benjamin Tan, Shaun Chen, James Seah and Jeremy Chan are the most recent winners in the Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes category while Ayden Sng and Zhang Zetong are the most recent winners in the Rising Stars category.

Colour key
          Artiste received the All-Time Favourite Artiste award
          Artiste won the Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes award
          Artiste won the Most Popular Rising Stars award
          Artiste was nominated for the Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes award
          Artiste was nominated for the Most Popular Rising Stars award
          Artiste was not nominated for the award
Artiste Year Wins Noms
1994
1995
1996
1997
1999
Chew Chor Meng 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ✔ 10 10
Li Nanxing 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ✔ 10 10
Xie Shaoguang 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ✔ 10 10
Christopher Lee 1 2 N 3 N 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ✔ 10 12
Mark Lee 1 2 N 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ✔ 10 11
Tay Ping Hui N 1 2 N 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ✔ 10 12
Chen Hanwei 1 2 3 4 N N N 5 N N 6 7 8 9 10 ✔ 10 15
Bryan Wong 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ✔ 10 10
Qi Yuwu 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 N 9 10 ✔ 10 11
Elvin Ng 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ✔ 10 10
Dasmond Koh 1 2 3 4 N N 5 N N 6 7 8 9 10 ✔ 10 14
Zheng Geping 1 2 3 4 5 6 N 7 8 9 10 ✔ 10 11
Dennis Chew N N N N N 1 2 3 4 5 N 6 7 8 9 10 ✔ 10 16
Pornsak 1 N 2 N 3 4 5 N 6 7 8 9 N 10 10 14
Romeo Tan N 1 2 N 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 9 11
Guo Liang 1 2 3 N N N N 4 N N N N N N N 5 N 6 7 8 N 8 21
Desmond Tan 1 N 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 9
Terence Cao 1 N N N 2 3 4 5 N N 6 7 N N N N N N N N N 7 21
Edmund Chen N N 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 7 9
Shaun Chen N N N 1 N N 2 3 4 5 6 7 7 12
Jack Neo 1 2 3 4 5 6 N 6 7
Zhang Yaodong 1 N 2 3 4 5 N N N N N 6 6 12
Lee Teng 1 2 3 4 5 N N 6 N N 6 10
Vincent Ng N 1 2 N N 3 4 5 5 8
Gurmit Singh 1 2 N 3 4 5 N N N N N 5 11
Pierre Png N N N N 1 N N N N N 2 3 4 5 N 5 15
Xu Bin 1 2 3 N N 4 5 5 7
Thomas Ong 1 2 3 N N N N 4 4 8
Marcus Chin N N N N N N N N 1 2 3 4 4 12
Ben Yeo N 1 2 3 N N 3 6
Zhang Zhenxuan 1 2 3 N 3 4
Shane Pow 1 2 3 N N N 3 6
James Lye 1 2 2 2
Henry Thia 1 N N N N N N 2 N 2 9
Dai Xiangyu 1 N N 2 N 2 5
Huang Wenyong N N N N N N N N N N N N N 1 N 2 2 16
Ian Fang N 1 2 N N 2 5
Desmond Ng 1 N 2 N 2 4
Chen Shucheng N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N 1 2 N N N 2 23
Brandon Wong 1 2 N 2 3
Jeremy Chan 1 2 2 2
Jeff Goh 1 2 2 2
Ayden Sng 1 2 2 2
Sean Say 1 N 1 2
Desmond Sim 1 1 1
Peter Yu N N 1 N 1 4
Mak Ho Wai 1 N N N 1 4
Chen Tianwen 1 N N N N N N N N N 1 10
Rayson Tan 1 N N N N N N N N N N 1 11
Billy Wang 1 N 1 2
Moses Lim N N N 1 N 1 5
Kelvin Tan 1 1 1
Aloysius Pang 1 N 1 2
Jeffrey Xu 1 N N N N 1 5
Zhu Houren N N N N N N N N N N N N N N 1 N N N N 1 19
Richie Koh 1 N 1 2
James Seah N N 1 1 3
Benjamin Tan N 1 1 2
Zhang Ze Tong N 1 1 2
Richard Low N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N 0 16
Yao Wenlong N N N N N N N N N N N 0 11
Darren Lim N N N N N N 0 6
Adrian Pang N N N N 0 4
Chua En Lai N N N N 0 4
Andie Chen N N N N 0 4
Huang Yiliang N N N 0 3
Edwin Goh N N N 0 3
Cavin Soh N N N 0 3
Zong Zijie N N N 0 3
Huang Bingjie N N 0 2
Danny Yeo N N 0 2
Jeff Wang N N 0 2
Chen Xi N N 0 2
Joel Choo N N 0 2
Wallace Ang N N 0 2
Kenneth Chung N N 0 2
Raymond Foong N N 0 2
Kenneth Kong N N 0 2
Phua Kia Peow N N 0 2
Nick Teo N N 0 2
Wang Yuqing N N 0 2
Yeow Seng Yong N N 0 2
Zhai Siming N N 0 2
Lu Linxuan N N 0 2
Das DD N N 0 2
Herman Keh N N 0 2
Lim Pin Juen N N 0 2
Tyler Ten N N 0 2
Damien Teo N N 0 2
Shawn Thia N N 0 2
Zhu Zeliang N N 0 2
Chunyu Shanshan N 0 1
Ix Shen N 0 1
Ang Puay Heng N 0 1
Bernard Tan N 0 1
Jason Oh N 0 1
Jerry Chang N 0 1
Kenneth Tsang N 0 1
Nick Shen N 0 1
Julian Hee N 0 1
Joshua Ang N 0 1
Justin Ang N 0 1
Ha Yu N 0 1
Wang Weiliang N 0 1
Joshua Tan N 0 1
Zhang Wei N 0 1
Yong Ser Pin N 0 1
Jarrell Huang N 0 1
Ivan Lo N 0 1
Tang Shao Wei N 0 1
Charlie Goh N 0 1
Kim Jae Hoon N 0 1
Eric Lay N 0 1
Vincent Lim N 0 1
Brian Ng N 0 1
Soo Wee Seng N 0 1
Alfred Sun N 0 1
Joe Tsoi N 0 1
Yan Wei Xiao Er N 0 1
Kyle Chan N 0 1
Kevin Chua N 0 1
Jian Ruyi N 0 1
David Loo N 0 1
Billy Seow N 0 1
Tan Ting Fong N 0 1
Richard Ter N 0 1
Hank Wang N 0 1
Jansen Wang N 0 1
Yang Yan N 0 1

Award records

Record Artiste Count Remarks
Won ten consecutive times since first nomination Chew Chor Meng 4 artistes 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998,
1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
Li Nanxing
Xie Shaoguang 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999,
2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
Elvin Ng 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011,
2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
Most wins without All-Time Favourite Artiste award Romeo Tan 9 wins 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018,
2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Most consecutive wins without All-Time Favourite Artiste award Edmund Chen 7 wins 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Longest gap between wins Thomas Ong 19 years 1999—2018
Most nominations with All-Time Favourite Artiste award Dennis Chew 16 nominations 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2012,
2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021
Most nominations without All-Time Favourite Artiste award Chen Shucheng 23 nominations 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014,
2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Most consecutive nominations with All-Time Favourite Artiste award Chen Hanwei 13 nominations 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Pornsak 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014,
2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022
Most consecutive nominations without All-Time Favourite Artiste award Guo Liang 18 nominations 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010,
2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016,
2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Most nominations before first award Chen Shucheng Won first award (19th nomination) in 2019
Most nominations without a win Richard Low 16 nominations 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003,
2004, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013,
2014, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Longest gap between nominations Danny Yeo 23 years 2000—2023
Won Best Newcomer and Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes or Most Popular Rising Stars in the same year James Lye 3 artistes 1997
Dasmond Koh 2000
Kelvin Tan 2006

References

  1. ^ a b Guan, Libing (28 February 1994). "Favourites win Star Awards". eresources.nlb.gov.sg. p. 11. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  2. ^ a b Chin, Soo Fang (23 June 1996). "Popularity sections to play minor role at Star Awards". eresources.nlb.gov.sg. p. 14. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  3. ^ "Here Are The Top 40 Most Popular Artistes For Star Awards 2018". 8 Days. Retrieved 27 April 2022. Apart from Mediacorp artistes, this year's award nominations also include artistes who have worked with Mediacorp on a project basis in the last year. The move is part of Mediacorp's push to recognise the contributions to local television more broadly, and also to evaluate local artistes based on their merit, notwithstanding of their contractual backgrounds.