139 An Unexpected Award

The criteria used to calculate music-show scores vary slightly from broadcaster to broadcaster.

However, one thing is the same: scores calculated from digital music rankings carry more weight than the others.

Digital music scores, live-vote scores, new-media scores, and so on.

Various scores are added together to produce the result, but the most important one is still the digital music score.

And when it came to digital music, I had the greatest advantage of all.

Since I currently occupied first, second, and third place all by myself, I overwhelmed RPS, which was in fourth, even though only title-track scores were counted.

Even so, I was bound to fall behind in several of the other categories.

In new-media scores calculated from short-form videos on TikTok and other platforms, as well as music-video views, I inevitably fell behind idol groups.

I also fell behind in categories where the size of one's fandom, such as fan voting, was important.

And album sales, too, were bound to put me at a huge disadvantage as someone who wasn't an idol...