Best Music Video Fan Choice Awards: How Voting Works & How to Win

A music-video fan vote on a radio station's own site, not a city readers' poll

Most best-of ballots in Texas on this site ask readers to crown local businesses: a favorite taco spot, a trusted plumber, a beloved bookshop. This program answers a different question entirely. The Best Music Video Fan Choice Awards is a fan vote on popular music, run by the radio station KXSS-FM on its own website, kissfm969.com, and presented under the PopCrush Fan Choice Awards banner. Where a city readers' poll fills its ballot with hundreds of local categories, this one puts a single cultural prize in front of the audience: which act made the year's best music video.

The platform distinction matters for supporters. Everything sits on a single page under the organizer's own domain instead of an outside balloting service, so the whole experience is station-controlled from start to finish. The 2016 edition's page introduced the vote with a simple frame: vote between popular acts like Britney Spears, BLACKPINK and Beyoncé to determine that year's best music video. Those were the kinds of globally recognized nominees this ballot attracts, which sets it apart from strictly local programs.

The table below collects the confirmed details about the program side by side.

The dated history: six confirmed editions and a December results day

Confirmed editions of this program ran in 2016, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025. That six-year spread qualifies the ballot as an annual program on this site, even though the early years show gaps before the run stabilized from 2023 onward. The earliest confirmed edition carries the fullest dated detail: its page was titled Best Music Video of 2016, and the station stated it would reveal the results right there on Friday, December 30. That places the 2016 cycle's finish at the very end of the December calendar, a natural slot for a year-end best-of prize.

What the station has not published is the exact open and closing days for the live window, and whether later editions kept the same late-December results day; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. No platform round dates are printed for this market either, since the ballot runs on the station's domain instead of a promotion platform.

On categories, the printed page offers fragments rather than a roster. Phrases for Best Music Video, Best Pop Albums and Best Pop Videos appear, which suggests the PopCrush Fan Choice Awards banner has covered more than one music prize, but the page never presents those as the complete category set. The station also prints no vote cap, no one-vote-per-day rule and no eligibility terms on the page cited here. Each of those gaps is worth checking on the live form before a supporter builds any plan around this ballot.

How a supporter votes on the ballot today

Voting is deliberately simple because the whole thing lives on one page the station controls. A supporter opens kissfm969.com and navigates to the Best Music Video Fan Choice Awards ballot, the page carrying the PopCrush Fan Choice Awards banner. The station's site wraps its ballots in the usual radio-site furniture: trending promotions, contest giveaways, station news. The voting block sits within that page, so the practical first step is scrolling to the list of nominated acts.

Once there, the choice is a straight fan pick. The 2016 page described it plainly: vote between popular acts like Britney Spears, BLACKPINK and Beyoncé to determine this year's best music video. A supporter selects the act they want to see win, confirms the pick, and submits it on the page. No account creation, fee or nomination step is described on the cited page, though the station has not printed the fine print governing repeat casting. Whether a single fan may vote once, once a day, or without limit is not stated; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

For an artist's fanbase, the practical playbook follows from that mechanic. Because the ballot is a single page with a single question, mobilizing support means sending fans to that exact URL and having each one cast a pick for the same act. Anyone advising a campaign should read whatever voting instructions the live form displays on the day, since the station controls its own rules and can change them between editions.

Where this ballot sits among Texas's best-of programs

This page's closest neighbours on this site are all city readers' polls: the 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 of those is anchored to a specific city and run by a local publisher, and each crowns local businesses across many categories. This program shares the best-of vertical but none of the geography: it belongs to a radio station and to popular music, not to any one city's business community.

That contrast has practical consequences for a supporter. In a city readers' poll, a campaign targets a defined local audience and a long category list; here, the electorate is a fanbase, and the prize is a single title. A campaign that works for a restaurant in one of those city polls, and our award votes overview describes that context, does not map one to one onto a music fan vote.

It is also the only program in this Texas set running on the organizer's domain instead of a dedicated balloting platform, which keeps the supporter's path short: one page, one question, one submit. For supporters weighing several Texas ballots at once, the deciding factors are audience fit and rule differences, and this overview of buying votes online frames how those differences matter in practice.