Forté di Quattro has defended the top spot in the August Netizen Awards Best Group voting for singers, setting a record of 10 consecutive monthly wins.

In the voting race held over the past month, Forté di Quattro retained first place with a total of 11,157 votes, a 40.0% share. Although this was a slight adjustment from the 45.7% recorded in July, the group maintained solid support in the 40% range, proving itself the strongest act in the group category.

■ Crossover Groups Sweep the Top 5

The upper ranks saw fierce ranking battles amid the continued dominance of crossover groups.

Liberante firmly secured second place with 7,628 votes (27.3%), following July. Fortena rose one step from fourth place in July to third with 2,197 votes (7.9%), La Poem placed fourth with 2,055 votes (7.4%), and Forestella settled in fifth with 1,977 votes (7.1%). As a result, crossover teams occupied all of the top five positions.

■ K-pop Idols and Bands Battle in the Middle Ranks

The middle of the rankings saw a close contest between popular K-pop idol and band groups.

SF9 took sixth place with 702 votes (2.5%), and NewJeans ranked seventh with 604 votes (2.2%). BTS came in eighth with 479 votes (1.7%), Jannabi rose to ninth with 437 votes (1.6%), and TWICE secured 136 votes (0.5%), jumping one spot from 11th place in July to complete the top 10 lineup.

■ Ultra-Tight Vote Battle for 11th–15th Place

The lower-middle rankings from 11th to 15th place also featured closely contested vote margins.

PLAVE sat in 11th with 124 votes (0.4%), and BLACKPINK recorded 12th with 68 votes (0.2%). ILLIT settled in 13th with 64 votes (0.2%), AKMU took 14th with 58 votes (0.2%), and BABYMONSTER landed in 15th with 47 votes (0.2%).

■ Fan Support to the Very End in the Lower Ranks

In the lower rankings, fan votes supporting each group were tallied until the very end.

LE SSERAFIM rose to 16th with 41 votes (0.1%), followed by Reencounter and ITZY, which each earned 40 votes to tie for 17th place with an equal 0.1% share. Newly entered UNIS climbed to 19th with 28 votes (0.1%), and Longshot received a final tally of 14 votes (0.1%), finishing 20th to close out the August Best Group voting.