Billboard Music Awards 2023: Taylor Swift ‘surpasses’ Drake to lead the nominations
Taylor Swift continues to lead the Billboard Music Awards 2023 nominations table with 20 nominations. Next are Morgan Wallen and SZA with 17 nominations.
Billboard has just posted a list of artists appearing in the categories of the 2023 Billboard Music Awards (BBMAs). Singer Taylor Swift continues to stir up the world music industry as she continues to lead the chart with 20 outstanding nominations. Possessing a “huge” number of nominations, the “music queen of the decade” is predicted to have the ability to surpass Drake to become the artist with the most trophies in Billboard Music Awards history. At the present time, Drake is still the record holder with 34 awards.
Taylor Swift continues to lead the Billboard Music Awards 2023 nominations table with 20 nominations.
Not only that, fans also think that the Look What You Made Me Do singer could also break the record for receiving the most Billboard awards in one night. This record also currently belongs to rapper Drake with 13 awards in one night at the 2017 awards ceremony. At the present time, although Drake’s record has not been broken, the owner of the Eras Tour series is still a “strange phenomenon”. ” of the Billboard Awards. The 8x singer is the female artist with the most Billboard awards of all time with 29 wins.
Behind Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallen and SZA took second place with 17 nominations. Followed by The Weeknd brought home 16 nominations, Drake and Zach Bryan both had 14 nominations. Stirring up the music industry with the hit song Flowers, Miley Cyrus was also honored in 9 nomination categories. A number of other excellent artists also appear in the rankings such as: Beyoncé and Rema (7 nominations); Bad Bunny and Peso Pluma (6 nominations); Ariana Grande, David Guetta, Eslabon Armado, Karol G, NewJeans and Selena Gomez (5 nominations).
According to sources from the organizing committee, this year’s BBMAs awards ceremony will bring a completely new program, entertaining fans with music and exciting exclusive content, including the celebration winners, behind-the-scenes moments and performances from the world’s most famous artists. Notably, the 2023 season also marks the first collaboration between BBMAs and Spotify “Fans First”.
The 2023 Billboard Music Awards ceremony is produced by Dick Clark Productions, scheduled to take place on November 19. Artists performing at the Billboard Music Awards will be gradually revealed daily on the BBMAs’ social channels, starting November 6. Unlike every year, the BBMAs nomination table has 9 new categories, including 4 categories in the K-pop field (top global K-pop artist, top K-pop tour, top K-pop album). top global K-pop song and two categories for the Afrobeats sector (top Afrobeats artist and top Afrobeats song).
Many other awards shows have added categories recognizing African music in the past year. Wizkid is the first winner of the Favorite Afrobeats artist award at the American Music Awards in 2022. Rema & Selena Gomez’s “Calm Down” is the first winner of the Best Afrobeats award at MTV Video Music Awards last month. The nominations for the first Grammy Award for best African music performance will be announced on November 10. The BBMAs are also adding new categories for top songwriters and producers. The program also added a new award for the top rock duo/group. Last year there were 2 rock categories: Top rock artist (4 groups or duets competing with Machine Gun Kelly) and top rock tour.