2017 Billboard Music AwardsBritney SpearsDrake and the ChainsmokersNominees for the 2017 Billboard Music AwardsPress Release
Drake and the Chainsmokers Tie the All-Time Record for the Most Nominations in a single year with 22 each for the “2017 BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS”!
Other Top Nominees include Twenty One Pilots with 17
and Rihanna with 14 Nominations
The “2017
Billboard Music Awards” will broadcast LIVE on Monday, 22 May, 8am (7am
JKT/BKK) exclusive on RTL CBS Entertainment
It is time once
again for the “2017 Billboard Music Awards,” and Dick Clark Productions
released the nominees for honoring the year’s most successful artists in 52
categories of music. The “2017 Billboard Music Awards” will broadcast LIVE from
T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Monday, May 22 at 8:00am
(7:00am JKT/BKK) on RTL CBS Entertainment. This year’s award ceremony will
showcase big performances, unexpected collaborations and much- discussed pop
culture moments.
“2017 Billboard
Music Awards” nominations include a cross section of artists with many seeing
more nods than ever. Drake and The Chainsmokers lead the pack with 22
nominations each, tying the all-time record for most nominations in a single
year. Drake’s nominations include, among others, Top Artist, Top Male Artist,
Top Hot 100 Artist and Top Billboard 200 Album. The Chainsmokers’ nominations
include double nods in six categories: Top Dance/Electronic Album, Top Hot 100
Song, Top Selling Song, Top Radio Song, Top Collaboration and Top
Dance/Electronic Song, with single nominations in 10 other categories. Twenty
One Pilots received the third most nominations, at 17, including Top Artist,
Top Billboard 200 Artist, and three nominations in the Top Rock Song category.
Rihanna received
the fourth most nominations, 14, including Top Artist, Top Female Artist, Top
Hot 100 Artist, Top Billboard 200 Album and a double nomination for Top R&B
Song. Returning winners from 2016, who also received nominations this year,
include Adele, Justin Bieber, Luke Bryan, Lauren Daigle, Drake, Kirk Franklin,
Enrique Iglesias, Nicky Jam, Wiz Khalifa, Major Lazer, Rihanna, Chris
Stapleton, The Weeknd, Twenty One Pilots and more.
2017 TOP NOMINEE CHART FACTS:
In the past year,
the chart-ruling Beyoncé notched her
sixth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with Lemonade
and earned eight top 40-charting songs from the set on the Billboard Hot
100 chart. Lemonade also made the
diva the first woman to debut at No. 1 with her first six full-length studio
albums. In support of Lemonade, the
entertainer mounted the Formation World Tour, which played to more than 2.2
million fans at 49 shows, and earned $256 million according to Billboard
Boxscore. Beyoncé is a six-time Billboard Music Award winner, and was also was
honored with the Billboard Millennium Award in2011.
15-time Billboard Music
Award winner Justin Bieber continued
an illustrious run of success since
releasing his No. 1 Billboard 200 album Purpose, which generated his first
three Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 singles: "What Do You Mean?,"
"Sorry" and "Love Yourself." He added two more top five Hot
100 hits in 2016, as his vocals helped Major Lazer's "Cold Water" and
DJ Snake's "Let Me Love You" reach Nos. 2 and 4, respectively. The
former also crowned Billboard's Pop Songs and Hot Dance/Electronic Songs
charts, all while Purpose continued its domination: it has spent more than 70
weeks on the chart, Bieber’s longest run on the list since his since 2010 LP, My
World 2.0.
EDM DJ duo The Chainsmokers surged
to the mainstream with a string of smash singles over the past year. The pair
notched their first top five Billboard Hot 100 hit in summer 2016, "Don't
Let Me Down," featuring rising star Daya.
After that, The Chainsmokers followed with their first No. 1, the 12-week
leader "Closer," featuring Halsey.
The nostalgic song logged the longest reign atop the Hot 100 of 2016 and went
on to historic heights, breaking the mark for the most weeks (27) tallied in
the top five for any song in the Hot 100's 59-yearhistory.
Breakout rapper Desiigner’s
viral hit “Panda” exploded in 2016, on its way to a record- setting 14
weeks at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart and 17 weeks atop Hot Rap Songs. It
also clocked two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song’s success
helped the Brooklyn native earn several year-end honors, including the top new
R&B/hip-hop artist of2016.
Everything Drake touched
turned to chart gold in the past year. The artist claimed his first No. 1 as a
lead act on the Billboard Hot 100 with “One Dance,” featuring WizKid and Kyla;
his Views album racked up 13 weeks at
No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (the longest run atop the list for a man since
1992); and his recent More Life project
bowed atop the list in April. The latter
set granted Drake his seventh consecutive No. 1 on the list, comprising every
one of his full-length albums. Additionally, More Life blasted in atop the chart with a record number of streams
for its songs in a single week: 384.8 million in the U.S.
Since soaring onto Billboard's country charts in 2012,
Florida Georgia Line has continued
to conquer with its mix of party anthems and reflective ballads. Dig Your Roots
arrived as the duo's third No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart and the set
spun off FGL's fifth No. 1 single on Hot Country Songs, the 18-week leader
"H.O.L.Y." (as well as follow-up hits featuring Tim McGraw and
Backstreet Boys). The act boasts two of three longest-reigning No. 1s in the
Hot Country Songs chart's six-decade history: before "H.O.L.Y.," its
debut hit "Cruise" ruled for a record 24weeks.
12-time Billboard Music Award winner Rihanna continued a record-setting run
with her No. 1 Billboard 200 album Anti.
As the set’s “Love on the Brain” reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100, she
became only the third act in Hot 100 history to earn 30 top 10 hits, following
The Beatles (34) and Madonna (38). Another Anti
top 10, “Needed Me,” gave the global superstar her longest-charting Hot 100
hit: its 45 weeks surpassed the 41 of “We Found Love,” featuring Calvin Harris
in 2011-2012.
Two-time Billboard Music
Award-winners Twenty One Pilots spent
the past year solidifying their domination of Billboard’s rock charts, claiming
three long-running No. 1s on the Hot Rock Songs chart. The alternative rock
duo’s “Stressed Out” ruled for 23 weeks, “Ride” followed with nine weeks on
top, and “Heathens” spent a record 30 weeks at No. 1. All three tracks reached
the top five on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 chart — making Twenty One
Pilots the first rock act to earn three top five hits in a year since 1988.
After The Weeknd broke
through to the pop mainstream in 2015 with his No. 1 Billboard 200 album Beauty Behind the Madness, the
eight-time Billboard Music Award winner returned with another chart-topper, Starboy, in 2016. The set ruled the list
for five weeks and spun off a No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 in its title track,
featuring Daft Punk. The album saw its second single, “I Feel It Coming,” again
featuring Daft Punk, reach the top five in early April. Further, The Weeknd
charted all 18 songs from Starboy on
the Billboard Hot 100 dated Dec. 17, 2016, making him one of only two artists
to have charted that many Hot 100 titles from a single album.
Billboard Music
Awards nominees are based on key fan interactions with music, including 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 Nielsen Music and Next Big Sound. The awards are based on
the reporting period of March 18, 2016 through March 16, 2017. Since 1940, the Billboard
charts have been the go-to guide for ranking the popularity of songs and
albums, and are the ultimate measure of success in music.
For
additional information on the “2017 Billboard Music Awards,” visit www.billboardmusicawards.com
or check out the Billboard hub at www.billboard.com/bbma.
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