The Star Awards for Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes is an award presented annually at the Star Awards since its inception in 1994.
History
Terence Cao, Chew Chor Meng, Li Nanxing, Sean Say, and Desmond Sim were the five male recipients of the inaugural 10 Most Popular Artistes award. The winners were determined by a majority vote from the public via telephone and SMS text voting.
In 1994 and 1995, the Most Popular Actor award was also awarded to the male artiste who topped the votes. Li and Chen Hanwei were the recipients of this award in 1994 and 1995 respectively.
Since 1997, the number of recipients for each category was expanded to ten and the award was renamed as Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes.
In 2004, the All-Time Favourite Artiste was introduced. Artistes who had received ten prior Star Awards for Top 10 Most Popular Male / Female Artistes were automatically conferred the title, and were removed from the nomination pool permanently. A total of 17 male artistes have since achieved this status and are no longer eligible to be nominated.
In 2023, the Most Popular Rising Stars award was introduced for artistes who have been in the entertainment industry for five years or less. A win in this category will also count towards the overall Top 10 tally.
Eligibility Initially, only full-time Mediacorp actors were eligible to be nominated. In 1997, a rule change allowed artistes from the variety sector to contest for the award.
In 2018, the rules were changed again to allow contracted, project-based and/or non-Mediacorp artistes to be nominated.
Recipients Since its inception, the award saw a total of male artistes being nominated, of which 59 artistes had won at least one award, and 17 artistes had been conferred the All-Time Favourite Artiste. Shaun Chen, Marcus Chin, Jeff Goh, Guo Liang, Richie Koh, Ayden Sng, Benjamin Tan, Desmond Tan, Nick Teo and Xu Bin are the most recent winners in the Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes category.
Tyler Ten and Zhang Zetong are the most recent winners in the Most Popular Rising Stars category.
+ Colour key Artiste received or expected to receive 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
ArtisteYearWins Chew Chor Meng 10 10Li Nanxing 10 10Xie Shaoguang 10 10Christopher Lee 10 12Mark Lee 10 11Tay Ping Hui 10 12Chen Hanwei 10 15Bryan Wong 10 10Qi Yuwu 10 11Elvin Ng 10 10Dasmond Koh 10 14Dennis Chew 10 16Zheng Geping 10 11Pornsak 10 14Romeo Tan 10 12Guo Liang 10 23Desmond Tan 10 11 Shaun Chen 8 13 Xu Bin 7 9Zhang Yaodong 6 13 Lee Teng 6 12 Marcus Chin 6 14 Pierre Png 5 16 Thomas Ong 4 9 Jeff Goh 4 4 Ayden Sng 1 2 3 4 4 Ben Yeo 3 8 Zhang Zhenxuan 3 4 Shane Pow 3 8 Jeremy Chan 3 4 Richie Koh 1 3 4 Benjamin Tan N 3 4 Zhang Ze Tong N 1 2 3 3 4 Ian Fang 2 5 Desmond Ng 2 6 Chen Shucheng 2 25 Brandon Wong 2 5 Tyler Ten N N 1 2 2 4 Zhu Houren 1 20 James Seah 1 5 Zong Zijie 1 4 Nick Teo 1 4Artistes who have not won in the past 10 years Terence Cao 7 21 Edmund Chen 7 9 Jack Neo 6 7 Vincent Ng 5 8 Gurmit Singh 5 11 James Lye 2 2 Henry Thia 2 9 Dai Xiangyu 2 5 Huang Wenyong 2 16 Sean Say 1 2 Desmond Sim 1 1 Peter Yu 1 4 Rayson Tan 1 11 Chen Tianwen 1 10 Mak Ho Wai 1 4 Billy Wang 1 2 Moses Lim 1 5 Kelvin Tan 1 1 Jeffrey Xu 1 7 Aloysius Pang 1 2 Richard Low 0 18 Yao Wenlong 0 13 Darren Lim 0 8 Andie Chen 0 6 Cavin Soh 0 5 Chua En Lai 0 4 Joel Choo N 0 4 Feng Jian Bin 0 4 Kenneth Kong 0 4 Pan Jia Biao 0 4 Qiu Sheng Yang 0 4 Wallace Ang 0 4 Zhai Siming 0 4 Zhong Kun Hua 0 4 Lyu Linxuan N 0 4 Damien Teo N N 0 4 Das DD N N 0 4 Herman Keh N N N N 0 4 Lim Pin Juen N N N N 0 4 Zhu Zeliang N N N N 0 4 Edwin Goh 0 3 Wang Yuqing 0 3 Shawn Thia N N 0 3 Brian Ng 0 3 Joe Tsoi 0 3 Kevin Chua N N N 0 3 Tan Ting Fong N N N 0 3 Bernard Tan 0 2 Danny Yeo 0 2 Chen Xi 0 2 Yang Shibin 0 2 Ivan Lo N N 0 2 Eric Lay 0 2 Vincent Lim 0 2 Soo Wee Seng 0 2 Yan Wei Xiao Er 0 2 Billy Seow N N 0 2 Jian Ruyi N 0 2 Yang Yan N N 0 2 Chef Melvyn 0 2 Benzo Zhong N N 0 2 Raynold Tan N N 0 2 Yong Jack Hao N N 0 2 Ha Yu 0 1 Wang Weiliang 0 1 Joshua Tan 0 1 Zhang Wei 0 1 Jarrell Huang N 0 1 Tang Shao Wei N 0 1 Charlie Goh 0 1 Kim Jae Hoon 0 1 Alfred Sun 0 1 Kyle Chan N 0 1 David Loo N 0 1 Richard Ter N 0 1 Hank Wang N 0 1 Jansen Wang N 0 1 Bunz Bao 0 1 Elvis Chin 0 1 Zen Chong 0 1 Gary Gan 0 1 Jason Godfrey 0 1 Henry Heng 0 1 Huang Shi Nan 0 1 Hugo Ng 0 1 Rao Zi Jie 0 1 Aden Tan 0 1 Alan Tan 0 1 Chase Tan 0 1 Teddy Tang 0 1 Teo Boon Seong 0 1 James Wen 0 1 Leon Eng N 0 1 Hang Qian Chou N 0 1 Max Ma N 0 1 Colin Qi N 0 1 Kevin Tan N 0 1 Andrew Lua 0 1 Cansen Goh 0 1 Chef James 0 1 Danny Lee 0 1 Darius Tan 0 1 Gavin Teo 0 1 Jared Soh 0 1 Jaspers Lai 0 1 Johnny Ng 0 1 Kenji Sawahii 0 1 Leon Lee 0 1 Roy Li 0 1 Louis Wu 0 1 Thomas K 0 1 Yuan Teng 0 1 Cai Cheng Jun N 0 1 Niklaus Chia N 0 1 Clement Yeo N 0 1 Jona Chung N 0 1 Marcus Sim N 0 1 Tan Zi Sheng N 0 1 Tim Law N 0 1 Zhin Sadali N 0 1Artistes who have not been nominated in the past 10 years Adrian Pang 0 4 Huang Yiliang 0 3 Huang Bingjie 0 2 Jeff Wang 0 2 0 1 Ix Shen 0 1 Ang Puay Heng 0 1 Jason Oh 0 1 Jerry Chang 0 1 Kenneth Tsang 0 1 Nick Shen 0 1 Julian Hee 0 1 Joshua Ang 0 1 Justin Ang 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 (Only incld. artists who have won in the past 10 years) Shaun Chen 8 wins 2015, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2026 Most consecutive wins without All-Time Favourite Artiste award (Only incld. artists who have won in the past 10 years) Shaun Chen 6 wins 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024Marcus Chin2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 Longest gap between wins Thomas Ong 19 years 1999—2018 Most nominations with All-Time Favourite Artiste award Guo Liang 23 nominations 1997, 1998, 1999, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 Most nominations without All-Time Favourite Artiste award Chen Shucheng 25 nominations 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 Most consecutive nominations with All-Time Favourite Artiste award Guo Liang 20 nominations 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 Most consecutive nominations without All-Time Favourite Artiste award Chen Shucheng 17 nominations 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 Most nominations before first award 18 nominations Won first award (19th nomination) in 2019 Most nominations without a win Richard Low 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 Longest gap between nominations Bernard Tan 28 years 1997—2025 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
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