For The Best Alan Jackson Song Of All Time Poll: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Alan Jackson song poll is and who runs it

For The Best Alan Jackson Song Of All Time Poll is a public-vote music ballot run by KXKX, a country radio station in Missouri. Unlike the multi-category readers-choice ballots that dominate the state's best-of scene, this program asks a single question: which of Alan Jackson's hit songs is your favorite. The ballot sits in-house at kxkx.com instead of an outside balloting service, so the poll page carries the station's navigation, branding and promotions alongside the vote form.

The page's framing ties the poll to Alan Jackson's appearance at the Missouri State Fair on Saturday, August 12. That fair-date hook is the editorial reason the ballot exists: the station is inviting its listeners to weigh in on the artist's catalog while his Missouri appearance is in the news. The page's own category tags place it under Concerts, Country News, Poll and the station's local news coverage, and the site presents itself under the KIX 105 brand with syndicated country programming such as Big D & Bubba in its on-air lineup.

Facts at a glance

Because the host and the organizer are the same entity, everything a supporter needs sits on a single page. No separate platform login exists, no nomination round sits on another domain, and no third-party contest site stands between the fan and the form. That simplicity is the defining feature of this ballot compared with the chamber- and magazine-run programs elsewhere in the state.

Dated facts and the edition history of this Missouri radio poll

The poll has a confirmed annual run. Editions are on file for 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, with a fifth in 2026, all on the same kxkx.com address, and 2027 is the natural slot for the next cycle. The earliest dated evidence for the voting window comes from a May page: the ballot's published window ran from May 1 through May 31 in 2017, which anchors the program's timing to the month of May even though the confirmed edition years begin later.

Equally useful is what the station leaves off the page. The poll carries no exact opening or closing day for the current cycle, no stated ceiling on repeat submissions, and no eligibility text of any kind. KXKX has also not published a formal schedule announcing when each year's window opens. Anyone planning outreach around this ballot should therefore watch the live page for timing; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

The fair connection gives the window its context. Alan Jackson's Missouri State Fair appearance falls on Saturday, August 12, and the poll page's editorial copy leads with that concert. The gap between a May voting window and an August show suggests the station uses the poll as advance coverage of the fair date, though the station itself does not spell out that reasoning on the page.

For a program with five confirmed editions, the published details are unusually thin on rules. Nothing on the ballot states a prize, a winner announcement date, or a results page. The vote appears to exist purely as listener engagement, and the station refreshes the same URL each year rather than launching a new address per edition.

How a supporter votes in the KXKX poll today

The voting action here is about as light as a public ballot gets. A supporter opens the poll page at kxkx.com/vote-for-the-best-alan-jackson-song-of-all-time-poll/, reads the single question, which asks which of Alan Jackson's hit songs is the favorite, selects an answer from the options shown, and submits. No signup, no email verification and no login appear anywhere on the page, so the submission itself is the entire action.

Because the ballot is hosted in-house by the broadcaster, the surrounding page is a normal radio-station article: station navigation, on-air schedule links, and current promotions sit alongside the vote form. A supporter who lands there from a search result should confirm the address in the browser bar matches the kxkx.com path above, since the station reuses the same URL across editions and an outdated search result can point at a closed cycle.

The song options themselves appear only on the live ballot. KXKX has not published the list of songs anywhere away from the poll page, and the lineup may differ between cycles. A supporter with a particular song in mind should check the ballot directly rather than assuming a track from a previous year is still an option.

Nothing on the page describes a round structure, a nomination phase or a runoff. The poll reads as a straight single-question vote with a May window, which means a supporter's entire opportunity is contained in that month and in whatever submission frequency the form itself permits. Any limit on repeat participation is not stated on the page and can only be read off the live form's behavior.

How this ballot sits beside its Missouri neighbours

Missouri's public-vote landscape in this corpus is dominated by city and regional best-of programs: the A-List St. Louis Magazine, Best of KC, Best of Southwest Missouri, the Columbia Missourian Reader's Choice Awards, Columbia MO CommunityVotes and the Feast Magazine FEAST 50. Every one of those ballots spreads dozens of categories across local businesses and asks voters to fill out long forms, often with nomination rounds before voting opens.

The KXKX poll is a different animal. It is statewide rather than city-anchored, it comes from a radio station instead of a magazine or community platform, and it asks a single entertainment question instead of scoring a field of local merchants. A vote here is a statement about music taste, not a recommendation of a restaurant or a service provider, which changes who cares about the result and why.

That difference matters for anyone comparing programs. The magazine and community ballots reward sustained multi-week campaigns by businesses with customer bases to mobilize. The Alan Jackson poll rewards reach into the country radio audience, and the natural constituency is fans of the artist rather than customers of a named business. The A-List St. Louis Magazine and the Feast Magazine FEAST 50 pages show the contrast in structure most clearly.

It also matters that the ballot sits on the broadcaster's own domain. The CommunityVotes and magazine programs run on dedicated contest platforms with their own rules engines, while KXKX keeps the vote in-house. Supporter behavior that works on a platform ballot, such as relying on a platform's published daily-vote rule, has no published equivalent here, because the station has printed no rules at all on the poll page.

Strengthening support for your favorite Alan Jackson song

Because this ballot is a single question with a May window, effective support looks different from a months-long business campaign. The pool of people who care is Alan Jackson's fan base, and the fastest honest gain is simply telling them the poll exists: share the kxkx.com ballot link in fan groups, on social accounts devoted to the artist, and anywhere country music listeners in Missouri gather online. A direct ask from a fellow fan carries more weight here than volume from strangers, since the question is about taste rather than local loyalty.

Timing matters more than on most ballots. With the window falling in May and the fair-date coverage in August, the poll's audience peaks when the station is actively promoting the artist's Missouri appearance. Pushing support early in the window, while the page is fresh in the station's rotation, is the sensible play.

KXKX has posted no rule about outside help, purchased votes or automation on the poll page, which cuts both ways: nothing forbids it, and nothing protects it either. Before considering paid support, read our guide to getting more votes online and weigh it against the risk that an organizer who has printed no rules still holds full discretion over the result. For the mechanics of paid support in general, our award-votes page explains the category without promising any outcome.