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Post Malone, Billie Eilish & More Artists Who Made History at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards
Here are 14 artists not named Post who made history at the show. Billie Eilish: The teen phenom’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? won top Billboard 200 album, nearly nine months after it won the Grammy for album of the year. It’s the fourth album in the past 10 years to receive both of these awards, following Adele’s 21 and 25 and Taylor Swift’s 1989. Eilish also won top female artist, beating last year’s winner, Ariana Grande, and three-time category champ Swift. Eilish also took top new artist. She’s the first female artist to win in this category since Lorde in 2014. Luke Combs: The 30-year old country star won top country artist for the second year in a row, becoming the first artist to win back-to-back awards in this category since the show’s relaunch in 2011. Swif...
The 12 Can’t Miss Moments From the 2020 Billboard Music Awards
While discussing all the ways we’ve reacted to the music of the past year in her opening monologue, The BBMAs’ third-timer host included this line — along with a little voice crack and self-effacing chuckle. It showed that even if she may have been reading the all-too-relatable line off a teleprompter, she still felt it a little more deeply than she was likely comfortable with. Billie Eilish in the camo pajamas If you wondered if Eilish would be making a body-image statement following a day or two of far too much discussion of her post-pandemic figure, you got your answer from the baggy camouflage-style PJs (“Duck Hunt chic,” as offered by our Stephen Daw in the Billboard Slack) she wore as she accepted her multiple BBMA awards. She had weightier concerns on her mind anyway: “P...
Ahead of Billboard Icon Award, Garth Brooks Reflects on His Career, Why He’d Never Run for President & The Return of Chris Gaines
Brooks will break out of his pandemic bubble to receive the coveted Icon Award in Los Angeles at the Billboard Music Awards, which air Wednesday, Oct. 14, on NBC. He joins such past recipients as Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey and Jennifer Lopez. Ever since he broke through in 1989 with first single “Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)” — he was 27 at the time — the Oklahoma native established a new kind of superstar: Someone who broke sales and attendance records at seemingly every turn, yet stayed down to earth and approachable. And, above all, grateful. “My hardest day of work in this business never felt like work,” he says. Brooks, 58, has sold 159 million albums, making him the No. 1-selling solo artist in U.S. history, according to the Recording Industry Association of Am...
Post Malone Leads 2020 Billboard Music Awards Nominations With 16: Full List
Post Malone leads the 2020 Billboard Music Awards nominations, which dick clark productions and NBC announced on Tuesday (Sept. 22). The “Wow.” rapper is nominated 16 times in 15 categories, followed by first-time nominees Lil Nas X with 13 and Billie Eilish with 12. Khalid ties Eilish with 12 nominations. Among other nominees is Kanye West, whose Jesus Is King album grabbed him nine nominations in Christian categories including top Christian artist, top gospel artist, top Christian album, top gospel album and top Christian song. West also competes against himself for top gospel song, in which “Closed on Sunday,” “Follow God,” “On God” and “Selah” are all nominated. There are three fan voted categories this year ...
Taylor Swift, Post Malone & More Artists Who Could Make History at the 2020 BBMAs
Juice WRLD, Avicii and Whitney Houston were all nominated posthumously. Post Malone and Lil Nas X are this year’s leading nominees for the Billboard Music Awards, with 16 and 13 nods, respectively. They are followed by Billie Eilish and Khalid, with 12 nods each; and Lizzo, with 11. See the full list of nominees here. The awards, which were originally scheduled for April 29, will finally be handed out on Oct. 14. Kelly Clarkson will host the show for the third straight year. This year’s BBMAs are based on the chart period of March 23, 2019 through March 14, 2020. A statement from the Billboard Music Awards explains: “The original eligibility period will remain intact to recognize and honor the chart-topping artists and musical successes achieved and to maintain consistent tracking per...
Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion Make Australian Chart History With ‘WAP’
Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP” grabs a piece of chart history as it snags a fifth week at No. 1 in Australia, while Marilyn Manson bags his second leader on the national albums chart with We Are Chaos. The controversial “WAP” is just the third female-led hip-hop song to rule Australia’s singles chart. And with its streak now extending past a month, it stands tall as the longest-running leader in that category, eclipsing Salt-N-Pepa’s “Let’s Talk About Sex.” In its seventh week on the survey, Joel Corry & MNEK’s “Head & Heart” rises 4-3, a new peak. The club track recently logged six weeks at No. 1 in the U.K. Staying in Australia, hip-hop collective Internet Money vault 47-13 with “Lemonade,” featuring guest appearances with Gunna, Don Toliver and Canadian rappe...
