Well.. there're awards that recognize artistes for their
popularity and those that recognize their music. I agree with
Zilchster that Dreamz dun care much for any popularity award, but
they need to have a fair bit of mass appeal first before any awards
come their way.... unless they're sooo super-talented that their
music speaks for them.
I read this interesting quote in Life! today - "Certain bands get
far too much attention and get treated as god-like figures. It's
just music, pple shld lighten up." (Stereophonics' Kelly Jones on
Radiohead). In the fan-driven world of Chinese pop, young and
precocious music fans notice the artistes' looks or personalities
first before their music... hence the Chinese music industry today
is more about style than substance. While veterans like Andy Lau
and Sammi Cheng and rookies like F4 and Yanzi are not quite
regarded god-like by their fans, they come pretty close to being
treated like demi-gods and demi-goddesses 
With rare exceptions, the popularity awards go to the
good-lookers with average vocals while the best artiste awards go
to the average-lookers with good vocals. The exception in this case
is probably Faye Wong, who has garnered a long string of both types
of awards, despite her icy-cold personality, average looks and
forthright disdain to "shake hands with strangers" 
Kool...