Star Awards for Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes


The Star Awards for Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes is an award presented annually at the Star Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1994.
The category was introduced in 1994, at the 1st Star Awards ceremony; Chen Liping, Chen Xiuhuan, Pan Lingling, Aileen Tan, and Zoe Tay received the award as the Top 5 Most Popular Female Artistes award and it is given in honour of Mediacorp female artistes who were deemed as the top five most popular among the television audience. The winners are determined and selected by a majority vote from the public via telephone or online voting. Between 1994–1996, only the top five female artistes were given the award. From 1997 onwards, the award winners were increased from five to ten and hence the award was renamed as Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes. In 2017, the award nominees were increased from 20 to 24, where four artistes will be eliminated after the prelude shows while the other 20 continue to compete in the category the week up to the main presentation.
Before 1997, only Mediacorp actresses were eligible to be nominated for the award. This rule was removed in 1997 onwards to allow the Mediacorp female artistes from the variety sector to contest for the award.
Between 1994 and 1995, the Most Popular Female Artiste award was also awarded. It was a separate award from the Top 5 Most Popular Female Artistes award and was given out to the female artiste who topped the votes of the latter award. Tay received the award in 1994 and 1995, and hence was the only recipient of this award.
Since its inception, the award has been given to 43 female artistes. Chen Xiuhuan, Felicia Chin, Paige Chua, Hong Huifang, Rebecca Lim, Jesseca Liu, Lina Ng, Pan, Carrie Wong, and Ya Hui are the most recent winners in this category.
Since the ceremony held in 2019, Felicia Chin remains as the only female artiste to have the most wins without achieving the All-Time Favourite Artiste award, with nine. Rebecca Lim and Carrie Wong are currently the only female artistes who hold winning streaks that are uninterrupted since their first wins. In addition, Pan has been nominated on 22 occasions, more than any other female artiste. Patricia Mok holds the record for the most nominations without a win, with 11.
11 female artistes have received the award for ten times and were given the All-Time Favourite Artiste award, and are no longer eligible for the running of the award.

Recipients

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Artiste received the All-Time Favourite Artiste award
Artiste won the award
Artiste was nominated for the award
Artiste was not nominated for the award
Artiste is nominated for the award but results have yet to be announced

Each year is linked to the article about the Star Awards held that year.

Elimination chart

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