For Your Favorite Country Songs Of Poll 2: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the WBKR country songs poll is and who runs it

WBKR is a country radio station serving Kentucky, and For Your Favorite Country Songs Of Poll 2 is the station's year-end listener ballot for country music. The feature belongs to the best-of family of ballots, but its subject is songs rather than local businesses, and its home is the station's own website. WBKR runs the vote directly at wbkr.com, so no outside balloting service stands between the listener and the list; the ballot, the song list and the station's instructions all sit at wbkr.com.

The confirmed ballot address is https://wbkr.com/vote-for-your-favorite-country-songs-of-2017-poll-2/, and the page carrying it is titled Vote for Your Favorite Country Songs of 2017 [Poll]. The station's registry listing classifies WBKR as a radio outlet, and its site mixes music coverage with Kentucky lifestyle features, which is the audience this ballot speaks to: country music listeners who already follow the station's December programming.

Because the station is both the publisher and the vote administrator, everything a supporter needs to know appears on WBKR's own pages. There is no separate contest platform with its own help pages, which makes the ballot page itself the single place to watch as each December cycle arrives.

The dated record for the WBKR year-end songs ballot

The voting window falls in December. The 2017 edition's page was published on December 26, 2017, credited to Chadwick Benefield, which places that cycle's ballot in the last week of the year and matches the station's pattern of running the feature as year-end programming.

Confirmed ballots exist for 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The years between them, 2020, 2021 and 2023, have no ballot confirmed, so the run is annual in the station's own description but not unbroken in its page history. The most recent confirmed run is 2026, and the next would be expected in 2027.

WBKR's own words describe the feature as "our annual on-air and online event that allows YOU to vote for your favorite country songs of the year," a sentence the station published alongside its 2025 edition. The year-end songs coverage on the station's site reaches back to at least 2015, when a page titled The Top Ten Country Songs of 2015 ran, though that earlier page predates the confirmed ballot run.

Several facts sit outside the published pages. The station prints no day-level opening and closing dates for the December window; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. No category list beyond the song ballot itself appears on the published pages, and no rules text covering eligibility or per-supporter limits is published anywhere on the station's site.

How a supporter votes on the WBKR song ballot today

Voting takes little setup. On the wbkr.com ballot page, a supporter reads the list of country songs released and on the charts during the year being voted on, and picks favorites. The 2017 ballot's instruction read "You can choose up to ten! Vote now at WBKR.com!", so the pick-ten limit and the call to action were printed together on the page itself.

Because the ballot is a list of songs rather than businesses, a supporter's choices are musical ones: titles they heard on the station or on the charts that year. The up-to-ten format matters for how support works, since a ballot can spread across several favorites instead of concentrating on a lone pick, and a song with devoted listeners can collect slots from the same supporters who also back other titles.

What the published pages do not settle is the fine print around the mechanic. Whether a supporter may return on a later day and vote again is not stated on the ballot page. Whether voting requires any sign-in is likewise absent from the printed instructions, which simply tell the reader to vote at WBKR.com. And the day-level dates inside the December window are not printed ahead of a cycle.

The practical reading is that the ballot page is self-contained: whatever limits, sign-in steps or deadlines apply will be visible on the page a supporter is looking at, so the page itself is the authority for each December's rules.

How this ballot sits beside its Kentucky neighbours

WBKR's song poll is one of several Kentucky best-of ballots, but it is the only music-focused one in the set. Its neighbours are civic and business readers' choice contests: Best of Bowling Green, Best in Kentucky, Best of Lexington KY, Best Places to Work in Kentucky, BroadwayWorld Louisville Awards and Chevy Chaser Best of Lex.

Those programmes vote on places, employers and stage productions, and most are run by publications or award bodies rather than a radio station. WBKR's ballot instead asks a cultural question, which songs defined the year in country music, and it reaches the audience through the station's broadcast as well as its website. That dual on-air and online character is what the station itself emphasizes in describing the feature.

The hosting arrangement also differs. Several Kentucky best-of ballots run on dedicated contest platforms with nomination rounds and category pages, while WBKR's vote is served straight from wbkr.com with no separate platform in between. For a supporter, that means fewer steps to reach the ballot and fewer places to check for rules, since the station's page is the whole apparatus.

For anyone following Kentucky public votes generally, the song poll is the December entry in a calendar that otherwise clusters around business and community recognition, and it is the one whose ballot content changes completely every year as a new class of chart songs replaces the last.

Strengthening support for a song on the WBKR ballot

The pick-ten format shapes what effective support looks like here. A supporter who backs your favorite song can also back several others, so the ask that matters is not just a click but a place on a personal shortlist. Sharing the station's ballot link with friends who genuinely listen to country music, and saying which titles you want them to include among their ten, fits the ballot's own design.

Timing follows the December window. Because the ballot is year-end programming tied to the station's broadcast schedule, support built while the list is fresh has the whole window to work, whereas a push in the final days competes with the deadline the station has not printed in advance.

On outside help, WBKR publishes no stated position: the ballot page carries no rules text addressing purchased votes or voting software, so the station's stance is unknown. What is certain is the ballot's own shape, a free public vote on the station's site, and any support effort should be weighed against the risk that an organizer may discard votes it considers illegitimate. The award votes page and the votes guide on this site cover the considerations without promising outcomes.