Another poll season is upon us. besides being just a chance to see how well our favorites did, this is a time of celebration of achievement for young talent and a highlight that, in one respect or another, all are winners.
134 different performers received at least one of the 1323 points awarded.
45 received at least one first place vote.
Perhaps it might be interesting to see how the Top 20 (22 due to ties at #18) fared with each of their voters on average.
Here are the 10 most giant leaps for mediaboykind in 2005 - a special congrats to Cayden Boyd for his 155 point surge, the biggest in poll history!
CURIOSITY: 4 of these 10 (Boyd, Collins, Jenkins, Henrie) had regular or prominent roles on new shows in 2005.
CURIOSITY: 4 of these 10 (Spanjers, Efron, Benson, Pinkston) were on series that were cancelled in 2005.
CURIOSITY: New artists tend to indicate who will win the poll the following year. Logan Lerman was 2003's BNA and went on to win in 2004, and Freddie Highmore was 2004's top poll debut.
CURIOSITY: Evidently this trend has to be broken this year - William Mosley's debut is also his last year of eligibility.
Number of quintuplets that looked like each other in Quintuplets: 0.