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

What the Best Country Artist Fan Moment Fan Choice Awards is and who runs it

The Best Country Artist Fan Moment Fan Choice Awards is a public-vote award programme run by KYKS, a Texas radio station whose home on the web is kicks105.com. It is not a ballot on an outside voting platform: the vote is hosted on the organiser's own site, which matters for supporters because everything happens on one domain and the address a reader types is the station's own.

The programme sits inside the Taste of Country Fan Choice Awards, a fan-voting format the station carried for its country music audience. Within that format, this ballot covered the Best Artist/Fan Moment category for 2017. The page presented nominated videos and warned readers they were likely to cry happy and sad tears watching them, which tells you the tone of the category: it is about the emotional meeting between a country artist and the fans, not about chart positions or sales totals.

One nomination illustrates it. The 2017 material describes a singer surprising fans at WE Fest in Minnesota the summer before, a gesture that left at least one recipient in tears and that ended with the artist giving away his guitar. That kind of story is exactly what the category rewards: the moment itself, judged by the public rather than by a panel.

Dates and editions: the 2017 window and what is not published

The dated facts for this programme come from a small but clear set. The edition years tied to this programme are 2017, 2019, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The 2017 edition is the best documented, because its ballot page carries the timing: the winner was announced after all Taste of Country Fan Choice Awards polls closed at 11:59 PM ET on December 7, 2017. That closing time places the whole voting window inside December 2017.

Recurrence is strong. After the 2017 start, the programme appears in 2019 and then continuously from 2023 through 2026, making the recent run an annual fixture on the kicks105.com domain. If that pattern continues, the next edition would fall in 2027.

Several facts the organiser has not published in the material for this programme, and they are the ones a nominee most wants: the day-level opening and closing boundaries beyond December, the full category roster, and any vote cap, daily-vote limit or eligibility rule. The page for the programme does not carry them, and no rules text exists anywhere else for this ballot, so confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

One practical consequence follows from the 2017 closing time. Because the winner was announced only after every Taste of Country Fan Choice Awards poll closed, this category's result arrived at the end of the station's voting season rather than on its own schedule. A supporter planning a late push in any modern edition should treat the station-wide close, not the category page, as the real deadline, and verify the date printed on the live page before counting on extra hours.

How a supporter votes today on the KYKS ballot

Voting here is the simplest shape in the field: a public vote on the ballot page itself. A supporter opens the best-country-artist-fan-moment page on kicks105.com, reviews the nominated moments, picks a favourite and submits it right there. No third-party voting platform, no login step and no separate nomination portal are named anywhere in the material for this programme, so the on-page control is the entire interaction.

In the 2017 edition, the ballot presented videos nominated in the Best Artist/Fan Moment category. A supporter's job was to watch the candidates and vote for the moment that moved them most. The emotional framing on the page, happy and sad tears alike, suggests the nominees compete on feeling rather than on any measured metric, which is why this category rewards genuine fan communities: the people who lived the moment are the ones most motivated to vote for it.

Just as important is what the ballot leaves unsaid. The organiser has published no daily-vote limit, no per-person cap and no eligibility rule for this programme. That silence means a supporter cannot know from this page whether returning the next day to vote again is welcome, tolerated or against the rules, and the honest answer is to follow whatever the live page says when the vote is open.

Deadline timing matters as much as the click itself. The 2017 result was held until every Taste of Country Fan Choice Awards poll had closed, so a vote cast late in the window still counted. Later editions' closing times are not published here, so check the live page before planning anything that depends on a deadline.

How this ballot sits beside its Texas neighbours

Most best-of ballots in Texas answer a different question from this one. The state's major readers polls ask consumers to name a favourite local business in a single city: Best of Austin Readers Poll, Best of Dallas Readers' Choice, Best of El Paso, Best of Houston, Best of San Antonio and Best of Fort Worth. Each is run by a city publisher, each is built on local commerce, and each treats the whole state as out of scope.

This programme inverts that shape. KYKS's ballot is a statewide radio fan vote about country music moments, not a city-by-city business directory. A restaurant cannot win it and a fan moment in another state, such as the WE Fest surprise in Minnesota that anchored the 2017 category, can be a nominee, because the subject is the relationship between artists and their fans rather than the location of a shop.

The host differs too. The six city readers polls sit on publisher sites with structured nomination and voting rounds, while this ballot lives on the organiser's own kicks105.com domain with no outside platform named. That keeps the supporter journey short but leaves the organiser's rules the only authority on repeat voting, caps and eligibility, none of which are published for this programme.

For a nominee, the practical takeaway is that this ballot and the city polls never compete for the same vote. Support built for a Houston readers poll carries no weight here, and vice versa.

Strengthening support for a nominee on this ballot

Because this is a plain public vote on kicks105.com, effective support in this programme looks like mobilising the people who actually lived the fan moment: the concertgoers, the social media followers and the artist's own fan community. The 2017 nominees competed on emotion, so the most persuasive appeal is the story behind the moment, retold where the fans already gather, with a direct link to the ballot page so nobody has to search for it.

The organiser publishes no rule text about outside help for this ballot, which cuts both ways: nothing on the page authorises purchased support, and nothing condemns it. Check whatever terms the live ballot prints before acting. General tactics suited to public-vote ballots, from timing a push to widening the ask beyond the core fanbase, are covered in our votes guide.