Taylor Swift obtained an early birthday current on Dec. 12, successful 10 Billboard Music Awards — together with Top Artist and Top Female Artist — for her work in 2024.
With the brand new trophies, she surpassed Drake to change into the highest Billboard Music Awards winner in historical past. She has a profession whole of 49 awards. Drake, her closest competitor, has 42.
Fresh off her “Eras Tour” and taking a beat for herself — and to offer again, visiting a youngsters’s hospital with boyfriend Travis Kelce in Kansas City, Mo., this week — Swift didn’t attend the BBMAs, which have been prerecorded anyway. She did share a pretaped message thanking Swifties for elevating her music to the extent it’s reached.
Swift mentioned she counted the trophies “as fan-voted awards” as a result of they’re based mostly on the music charts.
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“It means the world to me that you just guys have embraced the issues I’ve made, you already know, and the truth that you’ve cared a lot about my music,” The Tortured Poets Department singer mentioned.
She additionally referred to as it “the nicest early birthday current you might have given me,” as she turns 35 on Dec. 13. “It’s precisely what I wished.”
The BBMAs are definitely not the Grammys, that are across the nook on Feb. 2, 2025. The present was hosted by comic and actress Michelle Buteau, however utterly pretaped. The performances came about in numerous places world wide, like Coldplay in Australia, and have been packaged collectively. There was no crimson carpet.
That mentioned, there have been nonetheless memorable performances. Linkin Park, again collectively after Chester Bennington’s dying and with controversial new singer Emily Park, gave an lively efficiency of “The Emptiness Machine” off their album From Zero. Their followers have been feeling it, singing alongside.
They additionally received the award for Top Rock Duo/Group and Top Hard Rock Artist.
Coldplay carried out their new hit “All My Love” from Down Under, the place they’re on their “Music of the Spheres World Tour.” Their followers additionally sang alongside and lights lit up the world as Chris Martin tapped the keys and sang the poignant lyrics. (The video for the track, starring Dick Van Dyke, dropped Dec. 13.)
The group additionally had a humorous acceptance speech for Top Rock Touring Artist with Martin quipping that they’re the “handsomest outdated man band on the planet.”
Jelly Roll appears to be in all places proper now — and we’re greater than OK with that. At the Billboards, he carried out his track “I Am Not Okay” from Beautifully Broken and its lyrics clearly spoke to followers.
Shaboozey was additionally a spotlight, singing his hit “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” on an elaborate ballroom occasion set. The track, and the enjoyable he delivered to the efficiency, made for a napkin-waving good time.
Other moments of observe: Beyoncé received her first-ever nation music award by nabbing Top Country Female Artist.
Zach Bryan earned 5 awards, together with Top Rock Artist, Top Country Touring Artist and Top Country Album.
Morgan Wallen was additionally a winner, amassing 4 trophies, together with Top Male Artist and Top Country Artist. It was a greater finish to his day than the beginning. Before the pre-recorded awards present aired on Fox, he was sentenced to seven days in a DUI schooling middle and two years of supervised probation for throwing a chair from the rooftop of a six-story bar in Nashville in April.
