Billboard Music Awards is a show that celebrates music and one of the most famous music awards shows in the US!
So let’s find out some trivia and facts about this show!
- The Billboard Music Award is an honor given out annually by Billboard
- Billboard is a publication and music popularity chart covering the music business
- The Billboard Music Awards show had been held annually since 1990
- And the event was formerly held in December
- Until it went dormant in 2006
- The awards returned in 2011
- And are now held annually in May
- As the last of the Big Three major music awards
- After the American Music Awards in the Fall, and the Grammy Awards in the Winter
- The 2019 Billboard Music Awards aired live on NBC on May 1
- 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
- These include Nielsen Music and Next Big Sound
- The 2018 awards are based on the reporting period of April 8, 2017 through March 31, 2018
- Awards are given for the top album, artist and single in a number of different music genres
- 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 were discontinued
- As of 2017, there are two 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
- 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
- Since its inception 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
- They were created by Rick Garson, Paul Flattery & Jim Yukich
- 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
- 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
- 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
