
Elisheva:
Singapore was added in part because there were already Singaporean titles in the database but listed under China
Not really that many. The last time I checked MDL has 55 Singapore titles, and that mostly released after 2015, with 35 titles after 2020.
To be honest I personally find this Singapore addition as rushed and seemed like only to shut few noisy BL fans some time ago, as well as to add more of the future China produced BL disguised as "Made in Singapore".
This is basically kind of insulting to other Singaporean real produced titles. The approval was also slow as I only saw the Unbeatable 3 to be added just today, while the person who's adding it submitted that quite a while ago based on the comments on support forum. Hyped BL drama on the other hand got added almost immediately (even before "Unbeatable 3" above)...yeah maybe they already kept it as Made in China before this....we never know.

Elisheva:
If there's another reason not to, then some transparency would help.
That's why adding Singapore was kind of inviting more speculations than answers, because we all know which country lead the voting before this and Singapore was not even 2nd place.
I totally agree that MDL is very much needed to be more transparent especially on their future plans. Like recently addition of Anime has also caused confusion, but MDL leave us speculating. When I wrote something like "MDL doesn't have budget to add countries but they can add anime", in a speed of light Admin refuted...LoL But still no further comment after that. They just leave us speculating until we make wrong statement again then they will deny it.....again.
DISCLAIMER: I don't really bother about new countries to be added TBH cause I rarely watch anything outside of Japanese. Yet, I also want to see some justice. If it can't be done, some clarification would be very much appreciated.
EDIT-06Sept25:
Correction: After checking the suggestion thread, Singapore was indeed the 2nd highest voted country before it was added. Sorry for my mistake.