Japan awards fandoms

MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN 2026 has turned fandom into a ranked competition, with Mrs. GREEN APPLE leading a newly created fan award chart ahead of Number_i and BTS. (music.line.me) The chart is for “Best Fandom Artist powered by LINE MUSIC & Yahoo! JAPAN Search,” a special prize added for the 2026 awards cycle. The ranking page says points come from LINE MUSIC song plays and Yahoo search activity during the counting period. (musicawardsjapan.com) (music.line.me) On the current weekly top 10 shown on the official page, Mrs. GREEN APPLE has 22,102,310 points, Number_i has 15,827,959, and BTS has 14,972,113. Nogizaka46, Snow Man, BE:FIRST, M!LK, Arashi, JO1, and HANA round out the rest of the top 10. (music.line.me) The award measures fan behavior rather than industry voting. The page says repeated support is allowed, with no limit on how many times users can stream or search during the eligibility window. (music.line.me) That makes this category different from the main MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN program, which the organizers say is decided through voting by more than 5,000 music-industry members, including artists, creators, label staff, promoters, publishers, and international award jurors. (musicawardsjapan.com) The fandom prize is one of several public-facing categories that pull ordinary listeners into an award system otherwise built around industry ballots. The 2026 site lists other partner-backed categories including Spotify listeners’ choice, a USEN request award, karaoke awards, and a family song prize. (musicawardsjapan.com 1) (musicawardsjapan.com 2) The schedule helps explain why the ranking spread quickly online: weekly updates began on March 12, 2026, and the count runs from March 2 at 11 a.m. through May 31 at 11:59 p.m. Japan time. The final winner is set to be announced at MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN 2026 on June 13, 2026. (music.line.me) MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN says the 2026 ceremony will be held at TOYOTA ARENA TOKYO, with NHK carrying the show live in Japan and YouTube streaming it worldwide. By then, the fandom chart will have done what it was built to do: turn listening and searching into a visible scoreboard of fan intensity. (musicawardsjapan.com)