The Star Awards for Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes is an award presented annually at the Star Awards since its inception in 1994.
Terence Cao, Chew Chor Meng, Li Nanxing, Sean Say, and Desmond Sim were the five male recipients of the inaugural 10 Most Popular Artistes award. The winners were determined by a majority vote from the public via telephone and SMS text voting.
In 1994 and 1995, the Most Popular Actor award was also awarded to the male artiste who topped the votes. Li and Chen Hanwei were the recipients of this award in 1994 and 1995 respectively.
Since 1997, the number of recipients for each category was expanded to ten and the award was renamed as Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes.
In 2004, the All-Time Favourite Artiste was introduced. Artistes who had received ten prior Star Awards for Top 10 Most Popular Male / Female Artistes were automatically conferred the title, and were removed from the nomination pool permanently. A total of 15 male artistes have since achieved this and are no longer eligible to be nominated.
In 2023, the Most Popular Rising Stars award was introduced for artistes who have been in the entertainment industry for five years or less. A win in this category also count towards the overall Top 10 tally.
Initially, only full-time Mediacorp actors were eligible to be nominated. In 1997, a rule change allowed artistes from the variety sector to contest for the award.
In 2018, the rules were changed again to allow contracted, project-based and/or non-Mediacorp artistes to be nominated.
Since its inception, the award has been given to 59 male artistes. Jeremy Chan, Marcus Chin, Jeff Goh, Guo Liang, Richie Koh, Benjamin Tan, Desmond Tan, Romeo Tan, Xu Bin and Zong Zijie are the most recent winners in the Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes category.
Ayden Sng, Tyler Ten and Zhang Zetong are the most recent winners in the Most Popular Rising Stars category.