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🌏 The Show
πŸ‘‘ Show Champion
⏲️ MCountdown
πŸ’“ Show Music Core
🎢 Music Bank (pre-voting)
✨ Inkigayo (pre-voting)
🌟 Inkigayo (live-voting & hotstage)
✨ You can create and use several accounts to collect more votes ✨DKB has the highest chance to get a nomination & win on The Show. Prioritize the Star Planet app, if you don't have time to watch ads & do missions on several apps.If you want to know, how the winner is decided: Music Shows points system explanation

How is the winner decided?Music shows select a winner of the show using several criterias:
- Sales: Digital (streaming services) and Physical (albums)
- SNS: MV views from Youtube
- Voting: Pre-Voting (for every participant) and Live-Voting (nominees only) on specialized apps
- Broadcast: different for each show, unpredictable
Criteria credits: @KshowAnalysis & Namu Wiki
D = digital; P = physical; Circle = Circle Chart; Hanteo = Hanteo Chart; Global = Global Circle Chart; CMT = Voting Committee; Text = SMS voting; Melon = voting on Melon, Korea only

ShowAppVotingSalesSNSBC
The Show
(tracking: Sat-Fr)
(Total points: 10000)
Star Planet
Play Market
App Store
500 pre
1000 live
4000(D)
[Circle]
1000 (P)
[hanteo]
20001500
Show Champion
(tracking: Mon-Sun)
(Total points: 10000)
IdolChamp
Play Market
App Store
2000 pre3500 (D)
1500 (P)
[hanteo]
10002000
MCountdown
(tracking: Mon-Sun)
(Total points: 11000)
mnet plus
Website
Play market
app store
1000 pre
1000 live
5000 (D)
[Global]
1500 (P)
[Circle]
1500
[MV,
TIKTOK]
1000
Music Bank
(tracking: Mon-Sun)
(Total points: 200000)
FANCAST
Play Market
App Store
2000 PRE120000 (D)
10000 (P)
[Circle]
10000
[Circle]
40000
Show Music Core
(tracking: Mon-Mon)
(Total points: 10000)
Mubeat
Play Market
App Store
500+500 pre
(kr viewers + APP)
500+500 live
(kr text + APP)
5000 (D)
[Circle]
1000 (P)
[Circle]
10001000
Inkigayo
(tracking: Mon-Mon)
(Total points: 11500)
linc
Play Market
App Store

higher
Play Market
App Store
500 pre
(linc)
500 live (higher)
5500 (D)
1000 (P)
[Circle]
20001000

The only criteria BBs cannot affect is Broadcast. Streaming MV, buying albums and voting helps DKB secure the nomination.How are points calculated?All shows except Music Bank:Let's take The Show as an example.Example 1: SNS pointsMaximum points for SNS = 2000 pointsImagine three participants with the following MV views numbers:
1) A - 7M;
2) B - 10M;
3) C - 3M.
The winner in SNS criteria is participant B with 10M views.Participant B receives a maximum of 2000 points.
Participant A receives (7M / 10M) * 2000pts = 1400 points.
Participant C receives (3M / 10M) * 2000pts = 600 points.
Example 2: Early votingMaximum points for early voting = 500 pointsImagine three participants with the following percentages in voting:
1) A - 50%
2) B - 30%
3) C - 5%
The winner in Early Voting is participant A with 50% of votes.Participant A receives a maximum of 500 points.
Participant B receives (30% / 50%) * 500pts = 300 points.
Participant C receives (5% / 50%) * 500pts = 50 points.
Music Bank:Music Bank scores are based on total market share.For example, physical albums:
If in one week 1 million albums have been sold taking into account every single artist, and 700,000 were sold by artist A and 30000 by artist B, artist A will receive 7000 points, artist B will receive 300 points.
The same happens with digital points. Even though the maximum points are 130000, after taking into consideration every single song that was streamed that week, even if the artist tops the charts, they're still most likely to get no more than 5% overall market share and get no more than 6500 points.

Star Planet (The Show)
Jellies expire every 16th of the month

Play Market
App Store
Early voting: 10 Heart Jellies = 1 vote. Unlimited amount.
Live voting: 100 Heart Jellies = 1 vote. 5 votes per person.
βœ… New accounts are given 100 Heart Jellies.❌ If there aren't active votings, do not create new accounts before 16th of the month as your bonus jellies for creating an account will expire.❀️ Buzzvil missions give a lot of Heart Jellies.✨ If Buzzvil always shows "Sorry! There're no available offers at this time", you need to change your location to South Korea using VPN. For example, you can use Veilduck: you can download it from App Store or Play Market, or TunnelBear: App Store or Play Market
After turning it on, check that your IP was changed and is in the right location: https://whatismyipaddress.com/ Even if this method doesn't work once, try again a few hours later.
Try to check for new missions at 00:00 - 01:00 AM KST. Buzzvil missions may be unavailable at later hours.Buzzvil & Tapjoy missions take time to confirm participation, jellies are received in 24 hours after completing a mission.Buzzvil sometimes shows "broken" missions. Skip these missions and try others.

Idolchamp (Show Champion)
Blue Hearts πŸ’™ expire in the end of each month, Ruby Hearts ❀️ expire in 90 days
Play Market
App Store
Answers for quizzes can be found here: idolchampquiz or @onlyquizanswers10 hearts (❀️ or πŸ’™) = 1 vote. Unlimited.❌ If you want to use multiple accounts on the same device, clear all of the app data every time you log out, otherwise do not use multiple accounts on the same device for Idolchamp.βœ… Check attendance daily⭐ Collect Stars by watching ads as well. They can be exchanged to Ruby Hearts through Star Donation! 5 stars = 1 ruby heart ❀️ (amount increases with your level)πŸ’™ You can get an extra 20 blue hearts if your post reaches 30 likes. Like BBs posts to help each other get more hearts.βœ… If comeback is after the end of the current month, spend Blue Hearts πŸ’™ on daily chart. But do not spend Ruby Hearts ❀️ on Daily Chart!βœ… Spend 1 πŸ’™ on dailu chart to play roulette. This way you can exchange 1 πŸ’™ at least into 1 ❀️ (or more!)

Mnetplus World (MCountdown)Website
Play market
App store
1 account = 5 votes per day.
Voting time: 3 days. Voting resets every day at 00:00 KST.
Turn off an adblocker, if you use it. Voting requires watching an ad.

Mubeat (Show Music Core)
Hearts expire in 90 days, tickets expire in 30 days
Play Market
App Store
Answers for quizzes can be found here: @MubeatQuizPre voting: 3 Beats = 1 vote. Unlimited.
Live voting: Exchange 30 Beats into 1 voting ticket. 5 votes per person.

Higher (Inkigayo Live Voting & Hot Stage)
Rubies expire in 90 days
It's a rebranded Super Star X app, you can use your Super Star X credentials to login (the rubies you previously collected should still be available)Play Market
App Store
Live vote: 50 ruby = 1 vote. 5 votes
Hot Stage: 30 ruby = 1 vote. 10 votes per day
✨ The Hot Stage winner is decided only through fan voting. The winner is announced during the live broadcast and receives a trophy.For Hot Stage you need 1500 hearts per account, for Live vote you need 250 hearts per account to give full votes for one week of promotions.

Fancast (Music Bank pre-voting & post-voting)
Hearts expire in 30 days
Play Market
App Store
Pre voting: 50 hearts = 1 vote. Unlimited amount, but max 500 per 10 minutes.✨ The Post Vote winner is decided only through fan voting. The winner is announced during the live broadcast and receives a trophy.

LiNC (Inkigayo pre-voting)
Points expire in 180 days
Play Market
App Store
Pre voting: 30 fan points = 1 vote. Max 10 times per day.

What is DuckAd?
The votes expire 90 days after you've obtained them.
Play Market
App Store
DuckAd is an app where you can collect and exchange votes to different advertisements, most importantly to streams on korean music platforms.You can use votes to request other app users to listen to the song you put the votes into.1 stream = 500 votes. User who listened to the song will get 300 votes as a reward.The easiest way to get votes is by checking in daily and clicking a banner. You can get 390 votes + up to 1000 extra votes if you check-in every dayDo not use votes on the ranking. Streams are priority. If you want to add votes to ranking, check how to do it using "Bias hour" below!Recommend (referral code): 109197727763824591848
If you use referral code, you will get 20 votes. The person whose referral code you've used will get 50 votes.