Best Country Album Fan Choice Awards: How Voting Works & How to Win

Who votes and who runs the Best Country Album Fan Choice Awards

The Best Country Album Fan Choice Awards is a listener ballot run by KXKS-FM, a country radio station in Louisiana that broadcasts under the Kiss Country 93.7 name. The program is a fan choice format: the station builds a ballot of country albums, opens it to the public, and lets readers of mykisscountry937.com decide the winner. There is no judging panel and no entry fee on the supporter side; the audience is the electorate.

Balloting happens on the station's own web domain, not through a third-party voting service. The confirmed 2018 ballot sat at the Best Country Album Fan Choice Awards address on mykisscountry937.com, which means the station controls the page, the deadline messaging and the results announcement end to end. For a supporter, that matters in a practical way: every instruction, cutoff and result comes from one publisher, and there is no separate platform account or login chain to work through.

The ballot's framing is what gives the program its character. The confirmed page notes that two Grammy nominees appear on the Fan Choice Awards ballot for Best Country Album, but it also warns that the favorites may be albums that were not eligible for the industry awards. In other words, this is a popularity reading of the year in country music, not a mirror of the Grammy slate, and Louisiana listeners are free to back an album the industry overlooked.

Facts at a glance

The dated history: editions, the December window and what is unannounced

The program's confirmed editions are 2018 and 2019. Both are tied to the station's year-end coverage of country music, and the confirmed 2018 ballot carried the year in its own address, framing the question as a vote on the best country album of 2018. No edition after 2019 has been announced by the station in any dated form.

The confirmed voting window fell in December. The station's own deadline language urged readers to act quickly because the Taste of Country Fan Choice Awards wrapped on Sunday, Dec. 16, at 11:59 p.m. ET. That gives supporters the shape of the cycle, a short year-end sprint with a hard Sunday-night cutoff, but only for the confirmed edition. The day that window opened was not printed alongside the close.

Several facts a planner would want sit outside the confirmed page. The station has not printed the precise opening and closing days of any cycle beyond the December close already noted, nor a list of the ballot's categories, nor any rule limiting repeat voting or spelling out who may take part; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The year of the next edition is likewise unannounced, and no separate promotion schedule for this market has been posted by the station.

Put together, the history shows a Louisiana country station running a December fan vote on albums in 2018 and again in 2019, with everything past those two runs depending on what KXKS-FM posts next on mykisscountry937.com.

How a supporter votes on the ballot today

Voting takes little effort. The supporter loads the ballot page on mykisscountry937.com, reads the album options, selects a favorite and submits the choice online. There is no nomination round for the public to work through and no second stage; the confirmed program is one public vote on one category, Best Country Album, with the station handling tallying on its own site.

Because the host is the station itself, the supporter's job is contained to a single visit. There is no third-party platform account to create and no external balloting domain to trust; the page, the submit action and the deadline clock all live under the station's own branding. The confirmed page's tone reflects that simplicity: the station told readers to do it quick, because the window closed on Sunday, Dec. 16, at 11:59 p.m. ET, and a vote sent after a cutoff does nothing for the album it backs.

What the ballot does not spell out is the fine print around the click. No published text states whether one person may submit more than once, whether any login or email step gates the submission, or what the station does about repeated submissions. Those points are decided by whatever rules KXKS-FM prints on the live ballot for the cycle in question, and anyone planning repeat voting should read that page rather than assume a pattern from the confirmed edition.

For anyone backing an album, the practical sequence is therefore: find the current ballot address through the station's own links, check the printed cutoff, vote once, and follow the station's channels for the result.

How this ballot sits beside Louisiana's other fan vote programs

Louisiana has a busy fan vote scene, and most of it looks different from this program. The state's best-of ballots are community awards run by local publishers: the Alexandria Community's Choice Awards, the Bayou's Best Community's Choice Awards in Houma, Best of Baton Rouge, Best of SWLA, Best of New Orleans from Gambit, and Best of The River Parishes. Those programs spread a ballot across dozens of local business categories and lean on each city's readership.

The Best Country Album Fan Choice Awards takes the opposite bet. It is a single-category, single-topic ballot from one country station, so its competitive field is albums rather than businesses, and its electorate is the station's country audience rather than a city's general readers. That focus changes the campaign math for a nominee: there is one prize, one list of options, and a short December window, so support concentrates instead of spreading across a slate.

It also changes who competes. A business in one of the community ballots rallies its own customers; an album here rallies a listening audience that may back a release the Grammy process never shortlisted. The confirmed page makes that point itself, noting the favorites may be albums that were not eligible for the industry awards. Anyone choosing where to put campaign energy should note the difference: this ballot rewards depth of fan feeling about one album, while the community ballots reward breadth across a local customer base.

Strengthening support for an album on this ballot

Support on this ballot is a race against a short December window with a hard cutoff, so timing is the first lever. The confirmed cycle closed late on a Sunday night, Eastern time, at 11:59, which means the last full weekend is where a push either lands or misses. A supporter backing an album should plan asks around the days the window is actually open, not around the deadline alone.

The second lever is the audience itself. Because the electorate is KXKS-FM's country listenership, the people most likely to vote are already tuned to the station and its Kiss Country 93.7 branding, its site and its social channels. A fan push that travels through country music communities, rather than a generic ask, reaches readers who will actually recognize the albums on the list.

The third lever is the rules, and here honesty matters. The station has printed no per-person voting limit and no outside-help policy for this program, so a supporter should read whatever terms the live ballot carries before organizing repeat voting or any paid support. For a plain-language walkthrough of support options on public ballots, see buying award votes, and treat the station's own printed rules as the final word for this cycle.