K-pop fans sell pre-votes ₱80 for 2,000 hearts

Filipino K-pop fan accounts on May 23 circulated posts offering to buy, sell and trade pre-votes used in South Korean music-show competitions, according to screenshots shared on X and fan guides for the apps involved. The posts pointed to a small secondary market built around voting currencies such as “blue hearts,” which fans collect or purchase and then use to support artists in weekly rankings. One X post cited a specific rate of 2,000 blue hearts for 80 Philippine pesos. Fancast and Mnet Plus are official voting platforms tied to major music-show ecosystems. Google Play and Apple App Store listings describe Fancast as the official voting platform for KBS Music Bank, while Mnet Plus is the platform used for M Countdown voting. Fan-made voting guides reviewed on May 23 show how those app currencies are accumulated and spent during pre-vote windows. ### Where are these votes being sold? An X post visible on May 23 showed screenshots of fan-group listings advertising pre-votes for sale, including an offer of 2,000 blue hearts for 80 pesos. The screenshots were presented as examples from Filipino fan spaces, where users were posting rates and availability for voting resources. Fan communities have long organized “mass voting” drives around weekly music shows, and those campaigns often involve pooling app currencies from multiple accounts. A Weverse fan post reviewed this weekend urged users to “collect hearts” for Music Bank voting on Fancast, illustrating how organized fan groups already treat hearts as a resource to be gathered and deployed. ### What exactly are “blue hearts”? Fancast’s app-store listing says users can earn voting resources through daily check-ins, ads and missions, and use them for official voting tied to Music Bank. A fan tutorial reviewed on May 23 described “gold & blue hearts” as currencies used for voting, with blue hearts functioning as one of the units fans spend inside the app. TikTok and independent fan guides also describe Music Bank pre-voting as using blue and gold hearts, with unlimited voting once users have enough currency. One guide says one Music Bank pre-vote costs five hearts, which means 2,000 hearts would translate into 400 votes if used entirely for that ballot. ### Which music shows are tied to these apps? KBS Music Bank is linked to Fancast, according to both the app-store descriptions and multiple fan voting guides. The Google Play listing for Fancast says Music Bank pre-votes are reflected in the K-Chart. M Countdown uses Mnet Plus, according to Mnet Plus materials and fan guides. A guide reviewed on May 23 says M Countdown pre-voting typically runs from Saturday through Monday in Korea time and allows repeated daily votes within platform limits. ### Are these votes official or unofficial? Fancast and Mnet Plus are official platforms for casting votes. The resale or transfer of voting currency between fans, however, sits outside the official app-store descriptions, which focus on earning hearts through platform activity or in-app purchases and then using them inside the apps. The screenshots on X did not show the platforms themselves offering resale marketplaces. They showed fans creating their own side market around the currencies those platforms use. ### Why does a peso price matter? The 80-peso listing gives a concrete price for something that is usually discussed only inside fandom spaces. At that rate, each heart costs about 0.04 peso, and a block of 2,000 hearts becomes a low-cost way for a buyer to add hundreds of votes in a pre-vote campaign. Music Bank and M Countdown both continue to run fan-voting systems through their respective apps. As of May 23, Fancast remained listed as Music Bank’s official voting platform and Mnet Plus remained the home for M Countdown voting, where fan-organized campaigns and resale offers can be tracked through public fan posts and platform guides.