Billboard Music Awards | |
---|---|
Current: 2023 Billboard Music Awards | |
Awarded for | Outstanding chart performance |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Billboard |
First awarded | December 10, 1990 |
Website | billboardmusicawards |
Television/radio coverage | |
Network | Fox (1990–2006) ABC (2011–2017) NBC (2018–2022) |
| |||
|
The Billboard Music Awards are honors given out annually by Billboard , a publication covering the music business and a music popularity chart. The Billboard Music Awards show has been held annually since 1990, with the exception of the years 2007 through 2010. The event was previously staged in December, [1] but has been held in May since returning in 2011. [2] On October 19, 2023, it was announced that the award ceremony will be reformatted as a digital-only show and move from broadcast television to its website and Billboard's social media pages, starting with the 2023 edition on November 19. [3]
Unlike other awards, such as the Grammy Award, which determine nominations as a result of the highest votes received by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the Billboard Music Awards finalists are based on album and digital songs sales, streaming, radio airplay, touring, and social engagement. These measurements are tracked year-round by Billboard and its data partners, including MRC Data and Next Big Sound. The 2018 awards were based on the reporting period of April 8, 2017 through March 31, 2018. [4] Awards are given for the top album, artist and single in a number of different music genres.
From 1990 to 2006, the show had the same categories and category names every year. In 2011, for the first time, all of the awards were renamed to "Top [award title]". The "of the year" portion of each category title no longer exists, and many of the awards have been further renamed. Other awards, including both "crossover" awards (No. 1 Classical Crossover Artist and No. 1 Classical Crossover Album) were discontinued. As of 2024, there are three fan-voted categories.
The general categories are Top Artist, Top Billboard 200 Album, Top Hot 100 Song and Top New Artist. These categories highlighted in each award and other categories are divided by genre.
Artist Achievement Award
Artist of the Decade AwardMillennium Award
Century Award
Icon Award
| Spotlight Award
Change Maker Award
Other special awards
|
The record for most Billboard Music Awards won by an artist is held by Taylor Swift and Drake who have won 39 awards each. [60] The record for most Billboard Music Awards won by a group is held by BTS who have won 12 awards. [61]
Rank | Artist | Number of awards |
---|---|---|
1 | Drake | 39 |
Taylor Swift | ||
2 | Justin Bieber | 26 |
3 | The Weeknd | 22 |
4 | Mariah Carey | 20 |
5 | Garth Brooks | 19 |
6 | Adele | 18 |
Usher | ||
Kanye West | ||
7 | Eminem | 17 |
8 | Whitney Houston | 16 |
9 | Morgan Wallen | 14 |
Beyoncé | ||
10 | 50 Cent | 13 |
11 | BTS | 12 |
Carrie Underwood | ||
George Michael | ||
Rihanna | ||
R.Kelly | ||
T.I. | ||
12 | Destiny's Child | 11 |
Janet Jackson | ||
Mary J. Blige | ||
13 | Imagine Dragons | 10 |
Lady Gaga | ||
Post Malone |
Most Wins in a single ceremony
Rank | Artist | Most wins |
---|---|---|
1 | Drake | 13 |
2 | Adele | 12 |
Drake | ||
3 | Whitney Houston | 11 |
Since its inception (created by Rick Garson, Paul Flattery & Jim Yukich), the BMAs had been telecast on the Fox network; however due to contractual expirations and other unforeseen circumstances, the awards were cancelled for 2007. Plans for a new version of the awards in 2008 (in association with AEG Live) fell through, and the BMAs were not held until 2011.
On February 17, 2011, Billboard announced that it would bring the BMAs back to television, moving from its original home on Fox to its new network, ABC, on May 22, 2011. [62] A new award statuette was created by New York firm Society Awards. Dick Clark Productions, which is co-owned with Billboard, began producing the ceremony in 2014. [63] On November 28, 2017, it was announced that the Billboard Music Awards would be moving from ABC to NBC beginning in 2018 under a multi-year contract. [64]
The 2020 ceremony, originally scheduled for April 29, was postponed indefinitely on March 17 due to coronavirus-related public assembly concerns. [65] On August 14, 2020, it was announced that the 2020 ceremony had been rescheduled to October 14.
Year | Day | Date | Network | 18–49 rating | Viewers (in millions) | Ref. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rating | Share | ||||||
1990 | Monday | December 10 | Fox | 14.50 | [66] | ||
1991 | December 9 | 11.60 | [67] | ||||
1992 | Wednesday | December 9 | 15.00 | [68] | |||
1993 | December 8 | 14.00 | [69] | ||||
1994 | December 7 | 11.10 | [70] | ||||
1995 | December 6 | 12.10 | [71] | ||||
1996 | December 4 | 11.60 | [72] | ||||
1997 | Monday | December 8 | 12.81 | [73] | |||
1998 | December 7 | 11.36 | [74] | ||||
1999 | Wednesday | December 8 | 12.12 | [75] | |||
2000 | Tuesday | December 5 | 5.4 | 14 | 11.43 | [76] [77] | |
2001 | December 4 | 5.6 | 15 | 11.70 | [78] | ||
2002 | Monday | December 9 | 4.3 | 11 | 9.36 | [79] [80] | |
2003 | Wednesday | December 10 | 4.6 | 12 | 9.81 | [78] | |
2004 | December 8 | 3.1 | 8 | 6.87 | [78] | ||
2005 | Tuesday | December 6 | 3.1 | 8 | 6.38 | [78] | |
2006 | Monday | December 4 | 2.7 | 7 | 6.09 | [78] | |
2007–2010 | — | Not held | — | — | — | — | — |
2011 | Sunday | May 22 | ABC | 3.0 | 8 | 7.88 | [81] |
2012 | May 20 | 2.7 | 7 | 7.40 | [82] | ||
2013 | May 19 | 3.5 | 10 | 9.48 | [83] | ||
2014 | May 18 | 3.5 | 10 | 10.50 | [84] | ||
2015 | May 17 | 3.8 | 12 | 11.18 | [85] | ||
2016 | May 22 | 3.2 | 10 | 9.76 | [86] [87] | ||
2017 | May 21 | 2.6 | 9 | 8.70 | [88] [87] | ||
2018 | May 20 | NBC | 2.4 | 9 | 7.87 | [89] [90] | |
2019 | Wednesday | May 1 | 2.1 | 10 | 8.01 | [91] | |
2020 | October 14 | 0.8 | 5 | 3.71 | [92] | ||
2021 | Sunday | May 23 | 0.7 | 4 | 2.77 | [93] | |
2022 | May 15 | 0.7 | 6 | 2.56 | [94] |
The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry. They are regarded by many as the most prestigious and significant awards in the music industry worldwide. They were originally called the Gramophone Awards, as the trophy depicts a gilded gramophone.
The American Music Awards (AMAs) is an annual American music awards show produced by Dick Clark Productions since 1974. From 1973 to 2005, both the winners and the nominations were selected by the members of the music industry, based on commercial performance, such as sales and airplay. Since 2006, winners have been determined by a poll of the public and fans, who can vote through the AMAs website. The event originally aired on American Broadcasting Company, after the network's contract to air the Grammy Awards expired. CBS will air the 2024 edition.
Blake Tollison Shelton is an American country music singer and television personality. In 2001, he made his debut with the single "Austin" from his first album, Blake Shelton. "Austin" spent five weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. The now Platinum-certified debut album also produced two more top 20 entries.
Carrie Marie Underwood is an American singer. She rose to prominence after winning the fourth season of American Idol in 2005. Underwood's single "Inside Your Heaven" made her the first country artist to debut atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the only solo country artist in the 2000s to have a number-one song on the Hot 100. Her debut album, Some Hearts (2005), was bolstered by the successful crossover singles "Jesus, Take the Wheel" and "Before He Cheats", becoming the best-selling solo female debut album in country music history. She won three Grammy Awards for the album, including Best New Artist. The next studio album, Carnival Ride (2007) had one of the biggest opening weeks of all time by a female artist and won two Grammy Awards. Her third studio album, Play On (2009), produced the single "Cowboy Casanova", which had one of the biggest single-week upward movements on the Hot 100.
Christopher Dwayne Tomlin is an American contemporary Christian music singer, songwriter, and worship leader from Grand Saline, Texas, who has sold over 7 million records. He is a member of Passion Conferences and is signed to EMI's sixstepsrecords. Some of his most well-known songs are "How Great Is Our God", "Our God", "Whom Shall I Fear " and "Holy Forever".
Hillsong United is a contemporary worship collective originating from Hillsong Church. Since forming in 1998 out of the church's youth ministry, the group has released fifteen live albums and six studio albums.
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, known mononymously as Adele, is an English singer-songwriter. She is known for her mezzo-soprano vocals and sentimental songwriting. Adele has received numerous accolades including 16 Grammy Awards, 12 Brit Awards, an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award.
Ariana Grande-Butera is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Regarded as a pop icon and an influential figure in popular music, she is noted for her four-octave vocal range and her signature use of the whistle register. Grande's various awards include two Grammy Awards, one Brit Award, two Billboard Music Awards, three American Music Awards, nine MTV Video Music Awards, and 36 Guinness World Records. Rolling Stone named her one of the greatest vocalists of all time.
Peter Gene Hernandez, known professionally as Bruno Mars, is an American singer-songwriter. He is known for his stage performances, retro showmanship, and for performing in a wide range of musical styles, including pop, R&B, funk, soul, reggae, disco, and rock. Mars is accompanied by his band, the Hooligans, who play a variety of instruments, such as electric guitar, bass, piano, keyboards, drums, and horns, and also serve as backup singers and disco dancers. In 2021, he collaborated with Anderson .Paak, as the American musical superduo Silk Sonic.
Kidz Bop is an American children's music group that produces family-friendly covers of pop songs and related media. Kidz Bop releases compilation albums that feature children covering songs that chart high on the Billboard Hot 100 and/or receive heavy airplay from contemporary hit radio stations several months ahead of each album's release. Their cover versions sometimes contain lyrics with substitutes for the lyrics' original profanity.
Florida Georgia Line was an American country music duo founded in 2010 by vocalists and songwriters Tyler Hubbard of Georgia and Brian Kelley of Florida. Their 2012 debut single "Cruise" broke two major sales records: it was downloaded over seven million times, making it the first country song ever to receive the Diamond certification, and it became the best-selling digital country song, with 24 weeks at number one, until it was surpassed in July 2017 by Sam Hunt's "Body Like a Back Road". Their music style is described as "bro-country", which incorporates production elements from rock and hip hop music, and tends to cover subject matter such as partying, drinking, driving trucks and sexual attraction.
Tim Hicks is a Canadian country music singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario. Since releasing his debut single "Get By" in 2012, he has had eighteen top ten hits on the Canada Country chart. His albums include: Throw Down, 5:01, Shake These Walls, and New Tattoo.
Dove Olivia Cameron is an American singer and actress. She gained recognition for her dual role of the eponymous characters in the Disney Channel comedy series Liv and Maddie (2013–17), for which she won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming. She also starred in Disney Channel’s Descendants film franchise (2015–2021).
Lauren Ashley Daigle is an American contemporary Christian music singer and songwriter. After being signed to the label Centricity Music, she released her debut album, How Can It Be, in 2015. It reached No. 1 on the Billboard Top Christian Albums chart, has been certified Platinum by the RIAA and produced three No. 1 singles on the Billboard Christian Airplay chart.
Kelsea Nicole Ballerini is an American country pop singer and songwriter. A four-time Grammy Award nominee, she has gained success since the 2010s, being honored with the Gene Weed Milestone Award at the Academy of Country Music Awards and the Rising Star Award at the Billboard Women in Music.
Christopher Comstock, known professionally as Marshmello, is an American electronic music producer and DJ. His songs "Silence", "Wolves", "Friends", "Happier", and "Alone" have received multi-platinum certification in several countries including the US, and charted within the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. His musical style includes groove-oriented, synth and bass-heavy electronic dance music.
These fan-voted contests were launched ahead of the Billboard Music Awards, but are distinct from those official awards, which are determined by Billboard's chart data. Fan voting therefore did not impact the Billboard Music Awards' current record holders. Drake and Taylor Swift remain tied for the most career wins, with 39 Billboard Music Awards apiece to date.