Billboard Music Award

Billboard Music Awards
2016 Billboard Music Awards
Awarded for	Outstanding chart performance
Country	United States
Presented by	Billboard
First awarded	1989
Official website	www.billboardmusicawards.com

The Billboard Music Award is an honor given by Billboard, a publication and music popularity chart covering the music business. The Billboard Music Awards show had been held annually since 1989 in December until it went dormant in 2006. The awards returned in 2011 and is held annually in May. The 2016 Billboard Music Awards aired live on May 22 at 8e/5p on ABC.^[1]

Ceremonies

#	Year	TV	Top Artist winner[2]	Multiple wins	Top Billboard 200 Album winner	Top Hot 100 Song winner	Host(s)	Venue	Ref.
1	1989	FOX	George Michael	George Michael (4 awards)	Bad Michael Jackson	"Miss You Much" Janet Jackson	Paul Shaffer	Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, California
2	1990		M.C. Hammer	Janet Jackson (8 awards)	Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814	"Hold On" Wilson Phillips	Paul Shaffer & Morris Day with Jerome Benton		[3]
3	1991		Mariah Carey	Mariah Carey (5 awards)	I'm Your Baby Tonight Whitney Houston	"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" Bryan Adams	Paul Shaffer		[4]
4	1992		Garth Brooks	Garth Brooks (6 awards)	Ropin' The Wind Garth Brooks	"End of The Road" Boyz II Men	Phil Collins	Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles	[5]
5	1993		Whitney Houston	Whitney Houston (11 awards)	The Bodyguard Soundtrack Whitney Houston	"I Will Always Love You" Whitney Houston			[6]
6	1994		Ace of Base	Mariah Carey (4 awards)	The Sign Ace of Base	"The Sign" Ace Of Base	Dennis Miller & Heather Locklear		[7]
7	1995		TLC	TLC (3 awards)	Cracked Rear View Hootie & The Blowfish	"Gangsta's Paradise" Coolio	Jon Stewart	Coliseum, New York City	[8]
8	1996		Alanis Morissette	Alanis Morissette (2 awards)	Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette	"Macarena" Los Del Rio	Chris Rock	Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas	[9]
9	1997		LeAnn Rimes	LeAnn Rimes (4 awards)	Spice Spice Girls	"Candle In The Wind 1997" Elton John	David Spade	MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada	[10]
10	1998		Usher	Next (7 awards)	Titanic: Music from the Motion Picture Celine Dion	"My Heart Will Go On" Celine Dion	Kathy Griffin & Andy Dick		[11]
11	1999		Backstreet Boys	Backstreet Boys (6 awards)	Millennium Backstreet Boys	"Livin' La Vida Loca" Ricky Martin	Kathy Griffin & Adam Carolla		[12]
12	2000		Destiny's Child	Sisqo (5 awards)	No Strings Attached 'N Sync	"Breathe" Faith Hill	Kathy Griffin & *NSYNC		[13]
13	2001			R. Kelly (6 awards)	1 Beatles	"Hanging by a Moment" Lifehouse	Bernie Mac		[14]
14	2002		Nelly	Ashanti (5 awards)	The Eminem Show Eminem	"How You Remind Me" Nickelback	Cedric the Entertainer		[15]
15	2003		50 Cent	50 Cent (6 awards)	Get Rich or Die Tryin' 50 Cent	"In Da Club" 50 Cent	Ryan Seacrest with Nick Lachey & Jessica Simpson		[16]
16	2004		Usher	Usher (11 awards)	Confessions Usher	"Yeah!" Usher feat. Lil Jon & Ludacris	Ryan Seacrest		[17]
17	2005		50 Cent	Green Day (6 awards)	The Massacre 50 Cent	"We Belong Together" Mariah Carey	LL Cool J		[18]
18	2006		Chris Brown	Mary J. Blige (9 awards)	Some Hearts Carrie Underwood	"Be Without You" Mary J. Blige	No Host		[19]
2007–2010 not held
19	2011	ABC	Eminem	Eminem (6 awards)	Recovery Eminem	"Dynamite" Taio Cruz	Ken Jeong	MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada	[20]
20	2012		Adele	Adele (12 awards)	21 Adele	"Party Rock Anthem" LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennett & GoonRock	Julie Bowen & Ty Burrell		[21]
21	2013		Taylor Swift	Taylor Swift (8 awards)	Red Taylor Swift	"Somebody That I Used to Know" Gotye feat. Kimbra	Tracy Morgan		[22]
22	2014		Justin Timberlake	Justin Timberlake (7 awards)	The 20/20 Experience Justin Timberlake	"Blurred Lines" Robin Thicke feat. T.I. & Pharrell	Ludacris		[23]
23	2015		Taylor Swift	Taylor Swift (8 awards)	1989 Taylor Swift	"All About That Bass" Meghan Trainor	Ludacris & Chrissy Teigen		[24]
24	2016		Adele	The Weeknd (8 awards)	25 Adele	"See You Again" Wiz Khalifa feat. Charlie Puth	Ludacris & Ciara	T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada	[25]

Award process

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 United States year-end chart performance according to Nielsen data for sales, number of downloads and total airplay. Awards were given for the top album/artist/single in different genres.

Categories

From 1989 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. Since 2011, the nominees have had five nominees.

Current categories

The most important 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.

• Top Artist
• Top New Artist
• Top Male Artist
• Top Female Artist
• Top Duo/Group
• Top Touring Artist
• Top Billboard 200 Artist
• Top Billboard 200 Album
• Top Hot 100 Artist
• Top Hot 100 Song
• Top Radio Songs Artist
• Top Radio Song
• Top Social Artist
• Top Streaming Artist
• Top Streaming Song (Audio)
• Top Streaming Song (Video)
• Top Christian Artist
• Top Christian Song
• Top Christian Album
• Top Gospel Artist
• Top Gospel Song
• Top Gospel Album
• Top Country Artist
• Top Country Song
• Top Country Album
• Top Dance/Electronic Artist
• Top Dance/Electronic Song
• Top Dance/Electronic Album
• Top Latin Artist
• Top Latin Song
• Top Latin Album
• Top R&B Artist
• Top R&B Song
• Top R&B Album
• Top Rap Artist
• Top Rap Song
• Top Rap Album
• Top Rock Artist
• Top Rock Song
• Top Rock Album
• Top Soundtrack
• Chart Achievement

Retired categories (1989–2015)

• Top Alternative song
• Top Alternative Album
• Top Alternative Artist
• Top Classical Crossover Artist
• Top Classical Crossover Album
• Top Digital Media Artist
• Top Digital Songs Artist
• Top Digital Song
• Top EDM Artist
• Top EDM Song
• Top EDM Album
• Top Independent Album Artists
• Top Independent Album
• Top Modern Rock Artist
• Top Modern Rock Track
• Top New Male Artist
• Top New Female Artist
• Top New Group/Band
• Top Pop Song
• Top Pop Album
• Top Pop Artist
• Top R&B Song
• Top Rhythmic Top 40 Title
• Top Selling Single
• Top Soundtrack Single of the Year
• Top New Song
• Top Pop Punk Artist
• Milestone Award

Special awards

Century Award

• 1992: George Harrison
• 1993: Buddy Guy
• 1994: Billy Joel
• 1995: Joni Mitchell
• 1996: Carlos Santana
• 1997: Chet Atkins
• 1998: James Taylor
• 1999: Emmylou Harris
• 2000: Randy Newman
• 2001: John Mellencamp
• 2002: Annie Lennox
• 2003: Sting
• 2004: Stevie Wonder
• 2005: Tom Petty
• 2006: Tony Bennett

Source: ^[26]

Icon Award

The Billboard Icon Award was first made in 2011.

• 2011: Neil Diamond^[27]
• 2012: Stevie Wonder^[28]
• 2013: Prince^[29]
• 2014: Jennifer Lopez^[30]
• 2016: Celine Dion^[31]

Millennium Award

Recognizes music singers and contributions. To date, there have only been three recipients of this award:

• 2011: Beyoncé
• 2012: Whitney Houston^[32] (award accepted by her daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown)
• 2016: Britney Spears^[33]

Spotlight Award

In 1988, Michael Jackson was honored with Billboard's first Spotlight Award for being the first artist in history to have five consecutive number ones singles on Billboard Hot 100 from one album. In 2012, Katy Perry was honored with Billboard's second Spotlight award for being the second and first female artist in history to have five consecutive number ones singles on Billboard Hot 100 from one album.

Artist Achievement Award

• 1993: Rod Stewart^[34]
• 1995: Janet Jackson^[35]
• 1996: Madonna^[35]
• 1997: Garth Brooks ^[35]
• 1999: Aerosmith ^[35]
• 2001: Janet Jackson^[35]
• 2002: Cher^[35]
• 2004: Destiny's Child^[35]
• 2005: Kanye West^[35]

Other special awards

• 1992: Special Award commemorating the 10th Anniversary of Thriller: Michael Jackson^[36]
• 1996: Special Award for most weeks at No. 1 on The Billboard Hot 100 (16 weeks for "One Sweet Day"): Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men^[37]
• 1997: Special Award honoring "Candle In the Wind 1997" as the all-time best selling single: Elton John and Bernie Taupin^[38]
• 1998: Special Award for the most No. 1s ever by a female artist (13): Mariah Carey^[39]
• 2000: Special Award for biggest one-week sales ever of an album: No Strings Attached, NSYNC^[40]
• 2000: Special Award for biggest one-week sales of an album ever by a female artist, Oops!... I Did It Again, Britney Spears^[40]
• 2001: Special Award for biggest one-week sales for an album in 2001: Celebrity, NSYNC^[41]
• 2002: Special Award for 1982 album Thriller, which spent more weeks at No. 1 (37) than any other album in the history of the Billboard 200: Michael Jackson^[42]

Most wins

The record for most Billboard Music Awards won is held by Madonna with 39 wins. Janet Jackson is second with 33 wins total.

• Madonna (39)
• Janet Jackson (33)
• Taylor Swift (23)
• Garth Brooks (19)
• Adele (18)
• Usher (18)
• Carrie Underwood (17)
• Whitney Houston (16)
• Justin Bieber (15)
• Mariah Carey (14)
• R. Kelly (12)
• Rihanna (12)
• Lil Jon (11)

The awards show

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 canceled 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.^[43] A new award statuette was created by New York firm Society Awards. Dick Clark Productions produces the ceremony, giving it control of both of ABC's non-country music awards specials, including the November American Music Awards.

See also

• Billboard Touring Awards
• Billboard Japan Music Awards
• Billboard Latin Music Awards
• Billboard Women in Music

References

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27. "Neil Diamond". Billboard. 23 May 2011. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
28. "Stevie Wonder to Receive Icon Award at Billboard Music Awards". Billboard. 8 May 2012. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
29. "Prince". Billboard. 18 January 2013. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
30. "Jennifer Lopez". Billboard. 19 May 2014. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
32. Harp, Justin (May 16, 2012). "Whitney Houston to Receive The Billboard Millennium Award". Digital Spy. Retrieved May 20, 2014.
33. Melendez, Monique (May 2, 2016). "Britney Spears to Perform Hits Medley at Billboard Music Awards". Billboard. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
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38. "Winners Database: Special Billboard Award (Honoring "Candle In the Wind 1997" as the all-time best selling single)". Billboard Music Awards. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
39. "Winners Database: Special Award for the most No. 1s ever by a female artist". Billboard Music Awards. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
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41. "Winners Database: Biggest one-week sales for an album in 2001 ("Celebrity")". Billboard Music Awards. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
42. "Special Billboard Award: Michael Jackson - recognizing his 1982 Epic album "Thriller"". Billboard Music Awards. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
43. Billboard Music Awards To Air Live From Las Vegas On ABC May 22 Billboard (February 17, 2011)

External links

• Official website