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2022 Billboard Music Awards: Latto Performs “Big Energy”: Watch
Latto hit the stage at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards on Sunday night for a triumphant performance of her hit single “Big Energy.” Watch the musical number below. The rising star strutted across the stage in a glittery silver and chrome ensemble as she rapped, “Bad chick, I could be your fantasy/ I could tell you got big, big energy/ It ain’t too many of ’em that could handle me/ But I might let you try it off the Hennessy” while flanked by a bevy of backup dancers. Latto also received her first BBMA nomination at this year’s ceremony, as a finalist in the Top Female Rap Artist category against Cardi B and winner Megan Thee Stallion. Advertisement Related Video Watch Latto’s Billboard Music Awards performance below. Last month, the Atlanta rapper ran through a solo version of her breakout...
The Road to the Billboard Music Awards: Olivia Rodrigo, Doja Cat, BTS & More Talk About Their Hits
The 2022 Billboard Music Awards are Sunday (May 15). As you get ready to tune in to the awards show, Billboard News‘ “Road to the Billboard Music Awards” video will get you even more excited for the night ahead. The clip, which can be watched above, highlights several of this year’s nominees and features interview clips with artists like Doja Cat and Olivia Rodrigo. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Doja Cat, who’s nominated in 14 categories at the 2022 BBMAs, looked back at what it was like first hitting No. 1 on the charts with her music. After celebrating the news over the phone, she said, “not even like an hour later, I hear a beep outside and it is 10 cars lined up on the road.” She added, “I come outside and everybody’s like, ‘Congratulatio...
Billboard Explains: How to Dominate at the Billboard Music Awards
We’re just days away from Sunday’s (May 15) Billboard Music Awards, where music’s biggest stars get to celebrate their success on the Billboard charts. Who are some of the biggest artists of all time at the awards show, and who might dominate this year? Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news BBMA finalists and winners are based on key fan interactions with music, including album and digital song sales, streaming, radio airplay and touring. Drake currently has more BBMAs than any artist in history with 29 wins, thanks to his string of top albums and hit singles. Taylor Swift follows as the biggest female BBMA winner of all time with 25 total wins, stretching all the way back to 2011 when she won her first top country album award for Speak Now. ...
Billboard Explains: How to Dominate the Billboard Music Awards
The Billboard Music Awards are were music’s biggest stars get to celebrate and be honored for their success on the Billboard charts. So who are the most winning BBMAs artists of all time? How did they get there? And which music superstars could reign supreme this year? This is Billboard Explains: How to Dominate the Billboard Music Awards. [flexi-common-toolbar] [flexi-form class=”flexi_form_style” title=”Submit to Flexi” name=”my_form” ajax=”true”][flexi-form-tag type=”post_title” class=”fl-input” title=”Title” value=”” required=”true”][flexi-form-tag type=”category” title=”Select category”][flexi-form-tag type=”tag” title=”Insert tag”...
Diddy Says He’s “Un-canceling the Canceled” with Morgan Wallen and Travis Scott BBMAs Performances
Sean “Diddy” Combs, as the host and executive producer of this Sunday’s Billboard Music Awards, has declared that “everybody in the room is getting a second chance at life” in response to the recent bookings of Morgan Wallen and Travis Scott as performers on the broadcast. It will mark Wallen’s first awards show appearance since he was caught on camera shouting the N-word in February 2021, while Scott will also give his first on-screen performance since the fatal crowd-rushing incident during his set at Astroworld Festival last November. In a new interview with Billboard, Combs addressed the booking, saying: The mood of the show is about love and forgiveness. As a musical family, none of us are saints; none of us are without things that happen to them in life. So one of the things I’m doin...
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Promotes Love, Forgiveness and ‘Uncanceling the Canceled’ at 2022 Billboard Music Awards
Love and forgiveness. Those are the two themes that Sean “Diddy” Combs is embracing for his first-time stint as host and executive producer of the 2022 Billboard Music Awards. As the countdown to the May 15 telecast begins, the impresario has already started raising the curtain a bit about what’s been happening behind the scenes. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news When it was announced earlier this week that Travis Scott would be joining a performer lineup that includes Morgan Wallen, Silk Sonic, Ed Sheeran and Megan Thee Stallion, Combs noted on Instagram, “I made a request; I made a demand. I said my brother Travis Scott has to perform … And NBC said yes.” This will be Scott’s first awards show performance since a crowd crush during his show at ...
Billboard Music Awards, with No Fucks to Give, Also Books Travis Scott
One week after announcing Morgan Wallen’s first major awards show appearance since being caught shouting the N-word on camera, the Billboard Music Awards has doubled down by booking Travis Scott. The 2022 BBMAs will mark Scott’s first awards show appearance since his Astroworld Festival in November, which left 10 people dead. The Houston rapper is still facing a multi-million dollar class action lawsuit brought forth by victims of the tragedy, for which he has denied responsibility on multiple occasions. On top of that, the FBI announced they had joined the Houston Police Department in their ongoing investigation of the event earlier this year. After launching his Project HEAL safety initiative project in March, however, Scott has slowly trickled back into the public ey...
The Weeknd & Doja Cat Lead 2022 Billboard Music Awards Finalists: Full List
The Weeknd is the top contender for the 2022 Billboard Music Awards, which NBC will broadcast live coast-to-coast on Sunday, May 15. The show will emanate from its usual home, the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, for the first time since 2019. The Weeknd is a finalist in 17 categories, including top artist, top male artist and top Hot 100 artist. His collaboration with Ariana Grande, “Save Your Tears (Remix),” is up for six awards. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Doja Cat is the leading female finalist with 14 nods, including top artist, top female artist and top Hot 100 artist. Her album Planet Her is up for two awards, while her Grammy-winning smash “Kiss Me More,” featuring SZA, is up for top Hot 100 song and top collaboration, as well a...
Here’s Who Won Top Artist Every Year at the Billboard Music Awards
The Billboard Music Awards have recognized the artists and records that have made the biggest splashes on the Billboard charts since its inception in 1990. Beginning in 1993 (with the exception of 1994 and a break 2007-10), Billboard would award the Artist of the Year or Top Artist award to the musical act who dominated the year commercially. Artists from Whitney Houston to Ed Sheeran have been recognized, with several artists — including Adele, Drake and Taylor Swift — having won the award on more than one occasion. Check out a gallery of all the artists who have won Top Artist at the Billboard Music Awards below, and find out who will take home the Top Artist award at the 2022 BBMAs on May 14. [flexi-common-toolbar] [flexi-form class=”flexi_form_style” title=”Submit to ...
Lady Gaga Dominates Dance/Electronic Music Categories at Billboard Awards
Pop icon Lady Gaga won big at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards over the weekend, dominating in the categories dedicated to electronic dance music. While some might not expect to see the star so closely associated with electronic music, her catalogue deeply breaches into the realm of EDM. Gaga’s latest album, Chromatica, enlisted many elite dance music producers including Skrillex, Tchami, Madeon, and Axwell, among others. Lady Gaga and “Chromatica” contributing producer Tchami. At the 2021 Billboard Music Awards, Lady Gaga took home the award for Top Dance/Electronic Album for Chromatica, edging out DJ Snake’s Carte Blanche, Gryffin’s Gravity, Kygo’s Golden Hour, and fellow pop legend Kylie Minogue’s latest record, Di...
Doja Cat and SZA Perform “Kiss Me More” at 2021 Billboard Music Awards: Watch
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-24T00:17:37+00:00“>May 23, 2021 | 8:17pm ET Open a new tube of chapstick and check out Doja Cat and SZA’s first performance of “Kiss Me More” at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards. “Kiss Me More” is the first single from Doja Cat’s upcoming album, Planet Her, and Sunday marked the first time she and SZA have sung it together live on stage. Surrounded by dancers with their heads in giant orange balls, the pair delivered a stylish performance. SZA sang from atop a rotating pedestal platform before kicking it down to Doja for a dance-remix breakdown. Check it out ahead. After jumping into bed with hyper-sexualized songs like the “34+35” remix, you might be wondering, why a song about l...
BTS Perform “Butter” For First Time at 2021 Billboard Music Awards: Watch
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-24T02:00:35+00:00“>May 23, 2021 | 10:00pm ET BTS just served up a heaping helping of “Butter” at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards. The K-pop idols’ performance marked their first live rendition of “Butter” since its release just two days prior. On stage from Seoul, the septet sang the song across several elaborate set pieces, including one made to look the Billboard Music Awards red carpet. Replay “Butter” below, and head here to see other performances from tonight’s Billboard Music Awards, including Doja Cat with SZA, The Weeknd, and Duran Duran. Related Video During the awards show, BTS also took home trophies for Top Duo/Group, Top Song Sales Artist, and Top Social Ar...
