Annual public-vote contests in the Philippines
Annual online contests in the Philippines with public voting include the Filipino Music Awards' People's Choice vote, the RAWR Awards, the Wish Music Awards and the VP Choice Awards, each run by its own media organiser. Their voting windows spread across the calendar: January for Wish 107.5, March to April for the VP Choice Awards, September to October for Billboard Philippines and October to November for LionhearTV's RAWR vote. Every date below comes from the organiser's own announcement, not from a summary published elsewhere.
Sources reopened on 8 October 2026.
Four recurring votes mark the annual calendar.
Four named events anchor the year. Billboard Philippines ran the People's Choice vote of the Filipino Music Awards 2026 from September 4 to October 4, closing the polls at 11:59 PM. LionhearTV opened the RAWR Awards 2026 vote on October 8 and held it open until November 4. Wish 107.5 closed voting for its 11th Music Awards at noon on January 2, 2026, and held the ceremony on January 11. RED Entertainment and Village Pipol ran the 6th VP Choice Awards vote from March 14 to April 15, 2025.
The organisers are publishers and broadcasters, not competition agencies. Billboard Philippines covers the music business, LionhearTV runs an entertainment news operation, Wish 107.5 is a radio station with its own awards brand, and Village Pipol is a lifestyle publication whose RED Entertainment unit produced the VP Choice Awards. That matters for a reader because each organiser controls its own calendar, its own platform and its own rules, and none of them follows a shared national timetable.
Spread out, the four windows cover most of the year. January belongs to Wish, spring to the VP Choice Awards, early autumn to the Filipino Music Awards and late autumn to the RAWR Awards. A reader who follows all four rarely waits more than a few months for the next open window, which is why these events function as a repeating calendar rather than one-off happenings. Dates do shift between editions, so the current year's announcement is always the one to trust.
- Every date in this section is taken from the organiser's own published announcement for that edition. The 11:59 PM close on the Filipino Music Awards vote and the noon close on the Wish vote are the organisers' own stated cutoffs.
- The 2025 VP Choice Awards window is the only one of the four whose most recent confirmed edition ran in 2025 rather than 2026; treat its spring slot as the pattern, not a promise.
Each window opens and closes on a published clock.
The clocks are precise, and the precision is the useful part. Billboard Philippines opened its polls on September 4 and kept them up through October 4 at 11:59 PM. Wish 107.5 accepted votes until January 2, 2026, at 12 noon, with the ceremony following on January 11. LionhearTV's RAWR window ran from October 8 to November 4. A deadline stated to the hour, as two of these are, means a vote cast after the cutoff has no route into the tally.
Closing times also tell you how the finale is staged. Wish 107.5 shut voting nine days before its January 11 ceremony, which leaves the organiser room to verify and tally before the event. Billboard Philippines closed its People's Choice polls at the start of October for the Filipino Music Awards cycle. The pattern across the four is the same: a hard cutoff, then a gap, then the organiser's own announcement of results through its established channels.
Because each organiser publishes its own window, the honest habit is simple. Check the current edition's announcement for the opening date, note the stated cutoff to the hour where one is given, and treat the organiser's platform as the only place a vote registers. Third-party posts about a contest's deadline go stale fast; the organiser's own page for the running edition is the clock that counts.
- A vote cast outside the published window has no route into the tally, whatever a different post claims. Two of the four organisers state their cutoff to the exact hour, which leaves no margin for interpretation.
- The gap between a window's close and the ceremony varies by organiser. Wish 107.5 left nine days between its cutoff and its January 11 event.
Where the vote happens: site, app or browser.
Each organiser picked a different route in, and the routes name the platforms you actually touch:
the Billboard Philippines website, where the People's Choice polls for the Filipino Music Awards live; the Wish 107.5 voting site and its app, published through the usual app stores; the VPCA App or a plain web browser for the VP Choice Awards, built on the Choicely platform; and a dedicated awards page on LionhearTV's own site for the RAWR vote.
Reach differs as much as the software does. RED Entertainment and Village Pipol framed their Choicely-powered setup for voters worldwide, and Wish 107.5 offered an app alongside its voting site so the public could choose either route. The RAWR Awards and the People's Choice polls both sit on the organiser's own website, which makes a browser the only tool required there. No contest named on this page asks its voters to buy a subscription; the mechanics described in the organisers' announcements are free routes through their own properties.
Eligibility rules sit with the organiser, not with the platform. Choicely, app stores and a website carry the ballot, but the organiser decides who counts, how often and on what terms, and publishes those terms with the running edition. Read them before voting, because they are the document a disqualification, if one ever happens, is measured against.
- The Wish 107.5 announcement names its app as available on the App Store, Google Play and Huawei AppGallery, alongside the awards site, so a voter can pick either route before the January cutoff.
- The VP Choice Awards announcement describes its Choicely partnership as a way for Pipol worldwide to cast votes, which is the clearest statement of reach among the four.
The honest limits of a public vote.
A public vote is one input among whatever the organiser's rules say it is. None of the four announcements behind this page states a jury share or a weighting, so the share a public vote carries is a question only the organiser's own rules answer for each edition. Where an organiser publishes a weighting, that document governs; where it publishes nothing, no outsider figure is honest, and this page will not invent one.
The fake-contest risk is real, and the check is concrete. Each legitimate event on this page is run by a named media outlet with an established site, app or page of its own, and each announces its window on those properties. Before voting on any contest, confirm the organiser behind it the same way: a named publisher, a running edition, a stated cutoff. An unnamed promoter with no published rules is not a contest to spend time on.
Disqualification is an organiser's decision under the rules the organiser itself posted, and a platform's logs are what the organiser reads when it reviews a vote. We do not promise any outcome, we do not predict tallies, and we do not describe any way to add votes a reader has not earned. The counter, the log and the published rule are the three things that settle a disputed vote, and all three belong to the organiser.
- This page deliberately leaves the weighting question open where the organisers left it open. Stating a jury and public split for any of the four contests would be invention, and invention is the one thing a reference page cannot afford.
- If a result matters to you, the organiser's announcement after the close is the only authoritative statement of it. Everything printed before that announcement is a reader's guess.
Official position
What this page gives you is narrow and checkable: the four recurring public votes we could confirm from the organisers' own announcements, the exact dates each window opened or closed, the platform each organiser chose for balloting, and the names behind each event. When a rule matters, we point you to the organiser's own posted rules rather than paraphrasing them, because those rules change from one edition to the next and only the current edition governs.
Ruled out here
Oy Zamanı does not sell or arrange votes for any contest named on this page, does not predict winners, does not enter competitions on a reader's behalf and does not reproduce any organiser's full rulebook. We never claim that a vote is guaranteed to count or that a result is certain before the organiser announces it. Where an organiser has not published a detail, we say so plainly instead of filling the gap. The page covers media and entertainment votes only.
People often ask
Four recurring public-vote contests stand out: the Filipino Music Awards' People's Choice vote run by Billboard Philippines, the RAWR Awards run by LionhearTV, the Wish Music Awards run by Wish 107.5, and the VP Choice Awards run by RED Entertainment with Village Pipol. Each returns on an annual cycle, each is announced on the organiser's own properties, and each opens balloting to the public online. Together they put at least one open public-vote window in nearly every part of the year.
The confirmed openings are: September 4 for the 2026 Filipino Music Awards People's Choice vote, October 8 for the RAWR Awards 2026 vote, and March 14 for the 6th VP Choice Awards in its 2025 edition. Wish 107.5's 11th Music Awards window was already running into January, closing on January 2, 2026, at 12 noon. Opening dates shift between editions, so the organiser's announcement for the current year is the date to rely on.
Media companies organise them. Billboard Philippines, a music-trade publisher, runs the Filipino Music Awards' People's Choice polls. LionhearTV, an entertainment news outlet, runs the RAWR Awards. Wish 107.5, a radio station, owns the Wish Music Awards brand. Village Pipol, a lifestyle publication, and its RED Entertainment unit produce the VP Choice Awards. Each organiser sets its own calendar, platform and rules, and each announces results through its own channels.
Voting and entering are different doors. The organisers' announcements describe voting routes that are broadly open: a website poll for the Filipino Music Awards, a site-and-app setup for Wish 107.5, an app or browser for the VP Choice Awards, and a dedicated page for the RAWR vote, which Village Pipol framed for participants worldwide. Who may enter as a nominee or contestant is decided solely by each organiser's published rules for the running edition, so read those before counting on entry.
The organiser announces results after its window closes, through its own established channels. Wish 107.5 closed its vote at noon on January 2, 2026, and held its ceremony on January 11, giving itself nine days between cutoff and event. Billboard Philippines closed the People's Choice polls on October 4 ahead of its awards cycle. No organiser on this page outsources the announcement, and no third-party tally substitutes for the organiser's own statement.
Whether a public vote settles the whole result is written in each organiser's published rules, and none of the four announcements behind this page states a weighting. A public vote is a confirmed, dated, open window in every one of these events, but whether it carries the entire outcome or a share of it exists only in the organiser's own rules for the running edition. If that split matters to you, the rules document on the organiser's property is the only place the answer exists.