Music Show Criteria: Voting
Every music show has fan voting as part of their criteria. Voting is generally the second most heavily weighted music show category with an average weighting of 15.64%. It is very important to familiarise yourself with voting platforms because voting is a very powerful way to support XLOV, especially during comeback promotions.
The voting platforms mentioned here can also be used to support XLOV in other aspects, such as ad promotion and year-end award shows, but this guide focuses on voting that helps XLOV for music shows, either for the music show voting categories themselves or for supporting digitals, broadcast, SNS or physicals.
NOTE: XLOV are not guaranteed to be a candidate for every single one of the voting polls mentioned here. Music show live voting is only between the top 2-3 candidates, and there are some comeback support polls for which we are unsure whether XLOV will be nominated.
Voting Platforms, Currencies and Polls
IDOLCHAMP
Used for Show Champion pre-voting, Stage Champion voting, Music Core broadcast support
Currency to Collect
Ruby chamsims 🩷
Time chamsims 🩵
Star chamsims ⭐️ (to convert to 🩷)
Currency Expiry
🩷 90 days after collecting (no expiry if bought)
🩵 on the last day of each month at 23:59 KST
⭐️ no expiry
Account Limit
Multiple accounts are allowed, but 🩵 collecting is limited to 1 account per device
Ways to Collect Ruby Chamsims 🩷
- watching ads
- after attendance (1x per day)
- in the shop (10x per day)
- after casting votes (up to 4x per day, only available at certain times of day, often every 6 hours)
- you can either vote on an ongoing poll OR you can drop chamsims on the daily chart/fandom ad support (recommended 1🩵 at a time but you may want to drop more if it's close to the end of the month)
- after leveling up (your level increases as you cast votes)
- completing missions
- completing the relay quiz 5 days in a row
- participating in star donation (requires ⭐️)
- participating in attendance events
- in-app purchase (🩷s bought via in-app purchase don't expire)
Ways to Collect Time Chamsims 🩵
- daily attendance
- doing quizzes
- writing a community post with 30+ likes
- leveling up (your level increases as you cast votes)
Ways to Collect Star Chamsims ⭐️
Voting Period (KST): Friday 8pm - Monday 2:59pm
1 Vote = 1 ticket (1 ticket = 5🩵 OR 1🩷)
Voting Limit: Unlimited
Gap Matters? Yes
Reward Info: The winner earns 2,000 points for their Show Champion voting score.
The other candidates' voting scores are based on the number of votes proportional to the winner.
Voting Period (KST): Wednesday 7pm - Saturday 10:59pm
1 Vote = 10 chamsims (🩵 OR 🩷)
Voting Limit: Unlimited
Gap Matters? No
Reward Info: The top 3 are announced on the following Show Champion live broadcast and the winner receives the Stage Champion trophy (not an official music show win, but still a meaningful award)
Voting Period (KST): Thursday 10am - Wednesday 11:59pm (the poll only runs once every 2 weeks)
1 Vote = 20 🩷
Voting Limit: Unlimited
Gap Matters? No
Reward Info: The winner's song will be played on MBC Radio. This will increase broadcast points for Music Core.
Mnet Plus
Used for M Countdown pre-voting, M Countdown live voting
Currency to Collect
There is no voting currency for M Countdown voting, so you don't need to collect anything.
Account Limit
1 account per device
Voting Period (KST): Saturday 12am - Monday 11:59pm
Voting Limit: 5 votes per account per day
Gap Matters? Yes
Reward Info: The winner earns 1,000 points for their M Countdown pre-vote score.
The other candidates' scores are based on the number of votes proportional to the winner.
Voting Period (KST): Thursday during M Countdown broadcast @6pm
Voting Limit: 5 votes per account
Gap Matters? Yes
Reward Info: The winner earns 1,000 points for their M Countdown live vote score.
The other candidate's score is based on the number of votes proportional to the winner.
Fancast
Used for
Music Bank pre-voting, Fan's Stage Pick voting
Currency to Collect
Blue hearts 💙
Gold hearts 💛
Currency Expiry
💙 30 days after collecting
💛 no expiry
Account Limit
Multiple accounts allowed
- daily check-in
- watching ads (1 ad = 20💙, can watch 3 ads every 10 minutes, max 60 ads/day)
- completing missions
- redeeming coupons (purchased on IDOLCHAMP using ruby chamsims 🩷)
Voting Period (KST): Sunday 3pm - Wednesday 11am
1 Vote = 50💙 OR 50💛
Voting Limit: Can cast max 500 votes at once, can cast votes once every 10 minutes
Gap Matters? Yes
Reward Info: The winner earns 2,000 points for their Music Bank voting score.
The other candidates' voting scores are based on the number of votes proportional to the winner.
Voting Period (KST): Friday 6:30pm - Thursday 5pm
1 Vote = 50💙 OR 50💛
Voting Limit: Can cast max 500 votes at once, can cast votes once every 10 minutes
Gap Matters? No
Reward Info: The top 3 are announced on Music Bank's social media. The winner receives the Fan's Stage Pick trophy (not an official music show win, but still a meaningful award)
Mubeat
Used For
Music Core pre-voting, Music Core live voting
Currency to Collect
Heart beats
Star beats (to convert to heart beats)
Currency Expiry
Heart beats expire 90 days after collecting
Star beats do not expire
Account Limit
Up to 5-6 accounts per device.
For collecting, there is a daily ad limit per device, and each quiz can only be completed once per week per device
- watching ads (1 ad = 3 heart beats, max 15 ads per account per day)
- completing missions
- doing quizzes
- dice/roulette (requires star beats)
Voting Period (KST): Tuesday 6pm - Thursday 11am
1 Vote = 3 heart beats
Voting Limit: Unlimited
Gap Matters? The gap in number/percentage of votes does not matter, but the gap in rank/position does.
Reward Info: The winner earns 500 points for their Music Core pre-voting score, 2nd place earns 450, 3rd place earns 400, etc.
Voting Period (KST): Saturday during Music Core broadcast @3:15pm
1 Vote = 1 ticket (1 ticket = 30 heart beats)
Voting Limit: 5 votes per account
Gap Matters? Yes
Reward Info: The winner earns 500 points for their Music Core live app vote score.
The other candidates' scores are based on the number of votes proportional to the winner.
LiNC (+tin)
Used for
LiNC: Inkigayo pre-voting, physicals support
tin: collecting FP to use to vote on LiNC
Currency to Collect
Fan Points FP (FP can be collected on both LiNC and tin)
Gems (only obtained on LiNC)
Currency Expiry
FP expire 180 days after collecting
Gems expire 5 years after purchasing
Account Limit
Multiple accounts allowed
- watching ads (1 ad = 6FP, 30 ads per day on LiNC, 20 ads per day on tin)
- completing missions (both in-app missions and external tapjoy-style missions)
- purchasing fandom support pass on LiNC
Voting Period (KST): Monday 12pm - Friday 11:59pm
(the candidates update on Wednesday at 6pm so if XLOV's comeback date is after Monday 12pm but before or at Wednesday 6pm then we will be able to vote starting Wednesday 6pm)
1 Vote = 30FP OR 8 gems
Voting Limit: 10 votes per account per day
Gap Matters? Yes
Reward Info: The winner earns 500 points for their Inkigayo pre-voting score.
The other candidates' voting scores are based on the number of votes proportional to the winner.
- FP can be donated to help boost album sales, which contribute to physicals.
- 1 album will be purchased for every 50,000FP donated.
- Minimum donation goal: 5,000,000FP
- Deadline: 12pm KST on the 6th day after the album release
- If the minimum donation goal is not met by the deadline, no album purchases will be made.
Higher
Used for
Inkigayo live voting, Hot Stage voting
Currency to Collect
Rubies
Diamonds
Currency Expiry
Rubies expire 90 days after collecting
Diamonds don't expire
Account Limit
Multiple accounts allowed
- watching ads (1 ad = 1 ruby, 50 ads per day)
- daily check-in
- lucky roulette
- ladder game
- exchanging diamonds (1 diamond - 10 rubies)
Voting Period (KST): Sunday during Inkigayo broadcast @3:20pm
1 Vote = 50 rubies OR 5 diamonds
Voting Limit: 5 votes per account
Gap Matters? Yes
Reward Info: The winner earns 500 points for their Inkigayo live app vote score.
The other candidates' scores are based on the number of votes proportional to the winner.
Voting Period (KST): Sunday after Inkigayo broadcast - Thursday 12pm
1 Vote = 30 rubies OR 3 diamonds
Voting Limit: 10 votes per account per day
Gap Matters? No
Reward Info: The top 3 are announced on the following Inkigayo live broadcast. The top 2 are nominated for Monthly Hot Stage. The winner receives the Weekly Hot Stage trophy (not an official music show win, but still a meaningful award).
MUNIVERSE
^ this guide is currently outdated. will be updated soon.
Currency to Collect
Free Lumy
Gold Lumy
Currency Expiry
Free Lumys expire 30 days after collecting
Gold Lumys don't expire
Account Limit
Multiple accounts allowed
Voting Period (KST): Saturday 5pm - Thursday 11am
1 Vote = 10 Free Lumys OR 1 Gold Lumy
Voting Limit: 10 Free Lumy votes per account per day, Gold Lumy voting is unlimited
Gap Matters? No
Reward Info: The top 3 are announced on the following Music Core live broadcast. The winner receives the Stage M Pick trophy (not an official music show win, but still a meaningful award).
DuckAd
Used for
Digitals support, SNS support
Currency Expiry
vts expire 90 days after collecting
Account Limit
Multiple accounts allowed, but comeback streaming vote and daily attendance are limited to 1 account per device per IP address
- daily attendance
- watching ads/videos/banners
- reading news articles
- completing quizzes
- completing surveys
- doing missions
- streaming songs (if you are going to collect this way make sure to not stream any songs that are being promoted at the same time as XLOV and do not stream any songs that XLOV are currently promoting)
- in-app purchase
Voting Period: Fanbases will notify
1 Vote = 1 vts
Voting Limit: 10 votes per account per day per device per IP address
Gap Matters? No
VOTING ALSO TAKES PLACE ON A TWITTER/X POLL. You may need to use a VPN with location set to Australia, New Zealand, Japan or Korea to access it.
Reward Info: The overall winner across both platforms earns 1,000 Melon streams, 100 Spotify streams and 100 YouTube MV streams, which contribute to digitals and SNS points.
- You can start requesting for XLOV's song to be added a few days before the release date (no earlier than 7 days before)
- You can start sponsoring streams as soon as DuckAd adds the song
- Fanbases will notify which platform(s) to focus on sponsoring streams for.
- It costs 500vts to sponsor 1 streaming ticket
- DO NOT use these tickets to stream XLOV's song. We want non-EVOLs to use the streaming tickets so that the number of unique listeners increases, which is important for digitals.
Kooky
Kooky official collecting guide
Currency Expiry
Loovys do not expire
Kookys expire at 12am KST on the 1st day of the 2nd month after collecting
(e.g. all Kookys obtained in the month of May will expire on July 1st @12am KST, regardless of whether it was collected on May 1st or May 31st)
Account Limit
Multiple accounts allowed, but you can only watch max 10 ads per device per day
Kooky official collecting guide
- daily check-in
- watching ads (3 ads every 10 minutes, max 10 ads per day per device)
- voting on a poll using at least 10 Kookys (1x per day)
- voting on a ranking
- visit a community (1x per day)
- liking a community post (1x per day)
- liking a Kooky voting poll/magazine/KookyTV (1x per day)
- Kooky Map event submission
- add a gender and birthday to your profile
- leave an app review
- Save the KOOKY Weekly K-POP Playlist on Spotify and follow the KOOKY Official Spotify account.
Comeback Streaming Promotion 🍈
Voting Period: Fanbases will notify
Voting Cost: 1 Kooky = 1 vote, 1 Loovy = 10 votes
Voting Limit: Unlimited
Gap Matters? No
Reward Info: The winner receives 500 Melon streams. 2nd place receives 300 Melon streams. The candidate with the most Loovy votes receives 100 Melon streams. Melon streams contribute to digitals.
Comeback Streaming Promotion 🩵
Voting Period: Fanbases will notify
Voting Cost: 1 Kooky = 1 vote, 1 Loovy = 10 votes
Voting Limit: Unlimited
Gap Matters? No
Reward Info: The winner receives 500 Genie streams. 2nd place receives 300 Genie streams. The candidate with the most Loovy votes receives 100 Genie streams. Genie streams contribute to digitals.
Exact details TBA, but generally:
- If the donation goal is met, streams will be provided for XLOV's song which will help with digitals.
- 1 Kooky = 1 credit, 1 Loovy = 100 credits
- There will be a limit to the number of Kookys each account can donate per day (e.g. 1000)
- There will be a limit to the total number of Kookys that can be donated per day (e.g. 20,000)
- Loovy donation is unlimited
idoki
Used for
Digitals support, SNS support
Currency Expiry
Free and Bonus Hearts expire 30 days after collecting
Paid Hearts do not expire
Account Limit
Multiple accounts allowed
- daily check-in
- watching ads (once every ~8 minutes)
- share post
- complete survey (once per week, resets every Thursday)
- get likes on your post (1 like = 1 heart)
- referral code
- completing missions
- watching music videos (do not watch if the song is being promoted at the same time as XLOV unless it is XLOV)
- voting every day
- tap flying hearts
- in-app purchase
Voting Period: Fanbases will notify
1 Vote = 1 Heart
Voting Limit: Unlimited
Gap Matters? No
Reward Info: The winner receives 1000 Melon streams (helps with digitals) and the comeback title track MV will be posted in the app for 7 days (helps with SNS)
Korea-only Voting (Music Core)
Music Core has 2 votes that are only open to Korean viewers: Viewer Committee voting and live voting via text. If you are a Korean EVOL, follow @XLOVSTRM on X/Twitter for information about when and how to apply to join Music Core's Viewer Committee.
FAQ
When does music show voting open and close?
Note that this schedule is for 1 week of promotions. Generally we will be voting for 2 weeks of promotions. Because voting for 1 week of promotions spans across 2 weeks, there will be some overlap in voting.
Fanbases will notify when radio promotion (IDOLCHAMP) and streaming (Kooky, idoki, DuckAd) polls are open.
When should I start collecting for comeback?
IDOLCHAMP
🩷 upon comeback announcement or earlier
🩵 on the first day of the month voting starts (fanbases will notify)
⭐️ upon comeback announcement or earlier
We recommend collecting year-round on IDOLCHAMP (especially ⭐️ since they don't expire).
If you have expiring currency and XLOV aren't nominated for any votes:
Fancast
💙 30 days before voting starts (fanbases will notify)
Mubeat
Heart beats: upon comeback announcement or earlier
LiNC & tin
FP: upon comeback announcement or earlier
Higher
Rubies: upon comeback announcement or earlier
MUNIVERSE
Free Lumys: 1 days attendance gives enough free lumys for 1 days voting, so no need to collect in advance - only when voting is open.
DuckAd
vts: upon comeback announcement or earlier
Kooky
Kookys: upon comeback announcement or earlier
idoki
Hearts: upon comeback announcement unless fanbases announce otherwise.
How much voting currency do I need?
The amount of voting currency needed depends on whether there is a limit to the amount of votes you can cast in a poll.
IDOLCHAMP, Fancast, Mubeat, DuckAd, Kooky, idoki, LiNC/tin album support
- 1 days attendance gives enough Free Lumys for 1 days voting, but you are welcome to purchase as many Gold Lumys as you like to vote more.
- 1750 rubies per week of promotions (1500 hot stage + 250 live vote)
- (diamond equivalent: 1 diamond = 10 rubies)
For Higher, we recommend using multiple accounts and collecting 250-300 rubies on each account, rather than collecting heaps of rubies on one account. This is so that more votes can be cast for the Inkigayo live vote. If XLOV are not nominated for the Inkigayo live vote, these rubies can then be used to vote for Hot Stage.
We recommend collecting for AT LEAST 2 weeks of promotions.
I don't have time to collect on all these apps. Which ones should I prioritise?
If you don't have time to collect on everything, we recommend focusing on IDOLCHAMP, Fancast, Kooky and DuckAd.
Also ensure that you have made accounts for Mnet Plus and MUNIVERSE since these there is little to no collecting needed for these platforms.
How should we split voting for polls on the same platform? Which poll should we focus on?
After XLOV's comeback is announced, fanbases and voting teams will discuss, organise and communicate priorities. These priorities can change depending on XLOV's odds, and we will notify if there are any changes to which polls we are focusing on.
Generally, we will try to prioritise main music show votes over extra award votes (e.g. Show Champion pre-vote takes priority over Stage Champion vote on IDOLCHAMP). But if the odds of getting a music show win are not in XLOV's favour, we may decide to shift our focus to the auxiliary award to ensure that XLOV won't finish promotions completely empty handed.
Should I vote immediately or save my votes until near the end?
You can vote however you like, but last-minute voting is a recommended strategy FOR APPLICABLE POLLS.
⚠️IMPORTANT⚠️ Last-minute voting should only be done for polls where voting is unlimited, the rankings and gaps are visible and the closing time is known!!!
- Show Champion pre-vote (IDOLCHAMP)
- Stage Champion (IDOLCHAMP)
- Radio Promotion (IDOLCHAMP)
- Music Core pre-vote (Mubeat)
- Kooky will stream for you (Kooky)
- Comeback support voting (idoki)
What is last-minute voting: casting most of or all votes close to the end of the voting period (i.e. in the final minutes).
How it works: Suppose an artist with a large fandom is winning a voting poll with a big gap and XLOV are in 2nd place. Casting a whole heap of votes for XLOV at the last minute can make this gap smaller AND the large fandom won’t have time to widen the gap before voting closes.
If XLOV are in 1st place, last minute voting can widen this gap and other fandoms won’t have time to make it smaller before voting closes.
- Last-minute voting is a predictable and well-known strategy that is used by many fandoms.
- Apps can become slow or crash when there’s lots of traffic.
- There have been instances of voting polls closing earlier than the scheduled end time.
- Keep track of your expiring currency. Make sure that any currency you save for last-minute voting does not expire before voting closes.
- You don't have to vote last-minute. It is still good to have some votes cast throughout the voting period to establish a lead and maintain a gap (if XLOV are in 1st) / not let the gap get too big (if XLOV aren't in 1st)
Are fanbases raising funds to purchase voting currency?
Yes. Philippines-based XLOV fanbase EVOLution PH are accepting donations and funds will be used to purchase voting currency that will be used to vote for XLOV. This way, the fanbase can buy votes in bulk which is cheaper than individually buying smaller amounts of votes.
If you would like to donate or if you would like to know more, information about the All4XLOV donation drive can be found here.
This guide was made by XLOV SUPPORT @SupportXLOV