Top 50 most popular male celebrities - February & August 2016 (Video Research)

This is a twice-annually survey done by Video Research in February and August where 1,130 people (equal proportion of males and females) between the ages of 10 and 69 were polled to find out who among a list of 500 male and 500 female celebrities are popular with them. The list of top 50 is then published on Video Research's website. Numbers in brackets indicate the popularity percentage for each celebrity.

For those who wish to see the full list of Top 50 in previous periods, please visit this website.

February 2016's Top 50
1) Abe Hiroshi (57.7%)
2) Akashiya Sanma (54.0%)
3) Tadokoro George (47.3%)
4) Tamori (47.1%)
5) Matsuko Deluxe (46.7%)
6) Fukuyama Masaharu (46.4%)
7) Ooizumi Yo (46.0%)
8) Nishikori Kei (45.3%)
9) Abe Sadao (45.1%)
10) Yuzu (44.8%)
11) Summers (44.6%)
12) DAIGO (43.5%)
13) Matsuoka Shuzo (43.4%)
14) Ichiro / Hakata Hanamaru Daikichi (43.0%)
16) Hanyuu Yuzuru (42.3%)
17) Aiba Masaki (42.1%)
18) Watanabe Ken (41.9%)
19) Kuwata Keisuke (40.5%)
20) Taka And Toshi / Mr. Children (40.4%)
22) Kobukuro (39.5%)
23) Ishizuka Hidehiko / Sekine Tsutomu (39.3%)
25) Shimura Ken / Uchimura Teruyoshi (39.1%)
27) Sakai Masato / Okada Junichi (38.4%)
29) Beat Takeshi (38.2%)
30) Sakurai Sho (38.1%)
31) Matsumoto Hitoshi (37.9%)
32) Harada Taizo (37.7%)
33) Ninomiya Kazunari / Ohno Satoshi / Takada Junji (37.2%)
36) Nakai Masahiro / Okamura Takashi (37.0%)
38) Inohara Yoshihiko / Nishijima Hidetoshi (36.6%)
40) Nagase Tomoya (36.3%)
41) Shofukutei Tsurube (36.1%)
42) Yanagisawa Shingo (35.8%)
43) Karasawa Toshiaki / Takenouchi Yutaka (35.0%)
45) Katori Shingo / Miyagawa Daisuke / Yamaguchi Tatsuya (34.9%)
48) Mukai Osamu / Oguri Shun / Yamada Takayuki (34.3%)

August 2016's Top 50
1) Abe Hiroshi (56.1%)
2) Ichiro (55.0%)
3) Akashiya Sanma / Matsuko Deluxe (51.0%)
5) Tadokoro George (49.0%)
6) Summers (47.1%)
7) Ooizumi Yo (46.7%)
8) Nishikori Kei (46.0%)
9) Abe Sadao (45.8%)
10) Takada Junji (45.1%)
11) Hakata Hanamaru Daikichi (45.0%)
12) Watanabe Ken (44.1%)
13) Uchimura Teruyoshi (43.7%)
14) Beat Takeshi (43.5%)
15) Taka And Toshi (43.4%)
16) Fukuyama Masaharu / Aiba Masaki (43.0%)
18) Tamori (42.7%)
19) Sandwich Man / Kagawa Teruyuki (42.1%)
21) Kuwata Keisuke (41.9%)
22) Shimura Ken / Endo Kenichi (41.8%)
24) Okada Junichi (40.7%)
25) Sakurai Sho / Mr.Children (40.0%)
27) Matsuoka Shuzo (39.8%)
28) Matsumoto Hitoshi (39.6%)
29) Shofukutei Tsurube / Nishijima Hidetoshi (39.3%)
31) Ohno Satoshi / Yuzu / Sakai Masato (39.1%)
34) Ninomiya Kazunari (38.9%)
35) Kiritani Kenta (38.8%)
36) Ishizuka Hidehiko (38.6%)
37) Sekine Tsutomu (38.2%)
38) Nagase Tomoya (37.7%)
39) DAIGO / Karasawa Toshiaki (37.2%)
41) Yanagisawa Shingo / Takenaka Naoto / Yamazaki Hironari (37.0%)
44) Kobukuro (36.8%)
45) Ariyoshi Hiroiki / Takenouchi Yutaka (36.6%)
47) Harada Taizo / Inohara Yoshihiko (36.3%)
49) Miyagawa Daisuke (35.9%)
50) Hanyuu Yuzuru / Oguri Shun / Tsutsumi Shinichi (35.6%)