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Shaboozey celebrated his year of success with high energy performances at the 2024 Billboard Music Awards (BBMAs), presented by Marriott Bonvoy, and we have your behind the scenes pass to the spectacle.
“I’ve never done anything like this, but I’m excited for it,” the chart-topper told Billboard ahead of his performances at W Hollywood, part of Marriott Bonvoy’s portfolio. “I’m usually a rugged environment sort of guy but this elevated look is just taking me out of my comfort zone and I’m just excited to see how it all comes together.”
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For the show’s opening number of “Tipsy (A Bar Song),” viewers caught a glimpse of the exterior rooftop at W Hollywood, which featured a massive billboard with the breakout star inside of the venue and eventually brought them into the hotel. From there, the star walked down a grand staircase as a spectacle of back-up dancers and even some crowd participation filled the number. Later on, he followed up the performance with an intimate offering of his single, “Highway,” which is featured on his album, Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going.
As explained by Carly Van Sickle, Sr. Director of Global Brand Marketing for W Hotels, W Hollywood was the perfect destination for Shaboozey’s performances. “It really sits at the intersection of where the energy of Hollywood and the music scene meet and collide,” she said. Meanwhile, Ben Mor, the director of the star’s performance, explained why he enjoyed collaborating with the star on his performances, saying, “Working with an artist like Shaboozey is great because he knows how he wants to be presented and has a really strong sense of style.”
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During the ceremony, he nabbed three honors for his breakout hit, “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” including Top Country Song, Top Selling Song and Top Song Sales Artist.
Unique among music award shows, the Billboard Music Awards winners were selected by year-end performance metrics on the Billboard charts, the music industry’s ultimate authority and data-driven measure of success. Eligibility dates for this year’s awards were aligned with Billboard’s Year-End Charts tracking period, which measured music consumption from the charts dated October 28, 2023 through October 19, 2024.
The “2024 Billboard Music Awards” is presented by Marriott Bonvoy, Marriott International’s award-winning travel program and portfolio of more than 30 hotel brands and 10,000 destinations. Marriott Bonvoy members had exclusive access to attend six different BBMAs performances through Marriott Bonvoy Moments.
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After opening the 2024 Billboard Music Awards (BBMAs), presented by Marriott Bonvoy with “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” Shaboozey showed off a different side with a rendition of his follow-up single, “Highway.”
The three-minute performance saw the singer join his band in front of a fireplace and a projection of imagery to churn out the intimate track at W Hollywood, part of Marriott Bonvoy’s portfolio. “I might die on the highway/ With all my regrets (Yeah)/ I’ve been driving for miles and miles and miles, I can’t see where it ends (Yeah),” he crooned on the track’s chorus. “Highway” is featured on his album, Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going, which dropped in May.
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Not only did Shaboozey hit the stage during the BBMAs, but he also walked away with three awards, courtesy of the success of “A Bar Song.” Among the honors he won on Thursday, December 12, included Top Country Song, Top Selling Song and Top Song Sales Artist.
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Unique among music award shows, the Billboard Music Awards winners were selected by year-end performance metrics on the Billboard charts, the music industry’s ultimate authority and data-driven measure of success. Eligibility dates for this year’s awards were aligned with Billboard’s Year-End Charts tracking period, which measured music consumption from the charts dated October 28, 2023 through October 19, 2024.
The “2024 Billboard Music Awards” is presented by Marriott Bonvoy, Marriott International’s award-winning travel program and portfolio of more than 30 hotel brands and 10,000 destinations. Marriott Bonvoy members had exclusive access to attend six different BBMAs performances through Marriott Bonvoy Moments.
Follow the BBMAs on Facebook, X, Instagram, TikTok, Threads and YouTube to join the conversation with #BBMAs and get the latest news and updates at BillboardMusicAwards.com and billboard.com.
This article is presented by Marriott Bonvoy.
Shaboozey took home not one, but three honors at the 2024 Billboard Music Awards (BBMAs), presented by Marriott Bonvoy, and the victory couldn’t have been more fitting after he opened the show.
On Thursday, December 12, the country star performed his smash hit, “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” in front of a live audience at W Hollywood, part of Marriott Bonvoy’s portfolio. For the number, viewers caught a glimpse of the exterior rooftop, which featured a massive billboard depicting the breakout star inside the venue and eventually brought viewers into the hotel. From there, the star walked down a grand staircase as a spectacle of back-up dancers and swinging napkins from the audience took the performance to new heights. In addition to “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” the star also performed “Highway.”
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“I’ve never done anything like this, but I’m excited for it,” the chart-topper told Billboard ahead of the numbers at W Hollywood. “I’m usually a rugged environment sort of guy but this elevated look is just taking me out of my comfort zone and I’m just excited to see how it all comes together.”
Benjamin Askinas for Dick Clark Productions
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Unique among music award shows, the Billboard Music Awards winners were selected by year-end performance metrics on the Billboard charts, the music industry’s ultimate authority and data-driven measure of success. Eligibility dates for this year’s awards were aligned with Billboard’s Year-End Charts tracking period, which measured music consumption from the charts dated October 28, 2023 through October 19, 2024.
The “2024 Billboard Music Awards” is presented by Marriott Bonvoy, Marriott International’s award-winning travel program and portfolio of more than 30 hotel brands and 10,000 destinations. Marriott Bonvoy members had exclusive access to attend six different BBMAs performances through Marriott Bonvoy Moments.
Follow the BBMAs on Facebook, X, Instagram, TikTok, Threads and YouTube to join the conversation with #BBMAs and get the latest news and updates at BillboardMusicAwards.com and billboard.com.
The Red Clay Strays accept the Top Country Duo/Group award at the 2024 Billboard Music Awards. The Red Clay Strays:Hey, everybody, we’re The Red Clay Strays. Just wanted to say thank you for this awesome award, Top Country Group. This is from Billboard, and it’s a huge honor. It’s all statistic based. So thank you […]
Jack Antonoff accepts the Top Hot 100 Producer award at the 2024 Billboard Music Awards. Jack Antonoff:Billboard. Thank you so much for this award. I love these records. I think everyone who listened to them and who got them to this crazy point that means a lot to me. And I’m at work right now, […]
Cece Winans accepts Top Gospel Artist and Top Gospel Song at the 2024 Billboard Music Awards. Cece Winans:“That’s My King,” what a powerful song. Thank you to all the writers of this song. It is so powerful. It is so much fun. Thank you to Kylie for bringing me this song, and I just thank […]
Taylor Swift was the top winner at the 2024 Billboard Music Awards — taking home 10 new prizes — and many other artists also scored multiple wins over the course of the two-hour show, which was broadcast on Fox on Thursday (Dec. 12).
Zach Bryan won five awards during the night, including two wins in country and two in rock, reflecting his genre-bridging appeal. (His fifth award was for Top Streaming Song.)
Morgan Wallen won four awards, bringing his career total to 19, just one shy of Garth Brooks’ record as the country artist with the most wins. Wallen won Top Country Artist for the third time, which allows him to tie Brooks and Swift for the most wins in this category. This was Wallen’s third win in four years in this key category. He was bested in 2022 by (wait for it) Swift.
Shaboozey, Bad Bunny, Drake and the Christian music group Elevation Worship each won three awards. This brings Drake’s career total to 42 wins, second only to Swift. It brings Bad Bunny’s career total to 16 wins. Drake’s wins include a record-extending sixth win for Top Rap Artist. Bunny’s wins include a record-extending fifth win, all consecutive, for Top Latin Artist. Elevation Worship’s wins include a second win as Top Christian Artist. They previously won in 2021. This puts the group in a tie with Chris Tomlin for second-most wins in the category. Lauren Daigle leads with four wins.
Other artists who are high on the all-time BBMAs leaderboard and who moved up this year include Beyoncé, who landed her 17th award in a category that would have seemed quite unlikely a year ago – Top Country Female Artist. Post Malone landed his 11th BBMA win for Top Collaboration for “I Had Some Help,” which he recorded with Wallen.
Benson Boone, CeCe Winans, Chandler Moore, Charli XCX, Fuerza Regida, Jung Kook, Kacey Musgraves, Linkin Park, SZA, Teddy Swims, Tommy Richman and Tyla each won two awards.
SZA won Top R&B Artist for the second year in a row. SZA is the first woman to win Top R&B Artist more than once. R. Kelly has the most wins in this category – four. Usher follows with three. 50 Cent and The Weeknd have also won twice.
The diverse nature of the music scene in 2024 was underscored in that a country singer, Wallen, won Top Male Artist for the second year in a row, while a regional Mexican band, Fuerza Regida, won Top Duo/Group for the second year in a row. (These are both all-genre categories.)
This is Wallen’s second win for Top Male Artist, which puts him in a tie with Justin Bieber for second-most wins in the category. Drake leads with three.
This is Fuerza Regida’s second win for Top Duo/Group, which puts them in a tie with Destiny’s Child and Imagine Dragons for second-most wins in this category. BTS and One Direction are tied for the lead, with three wins each.
The inroads that Black artists have made in country music are seen not only in Beyoncé’s win for Top Country Female Artist but also Shaboozey’s win for Top Country Song for “A Bar Song (Tipsy).” His crossover smash has topped Hot Country Songs for 25 weeks.
The blurring lines between country and rock were seen in that artists primarily known as country stars won in rock and hard rock categories. “I Remember Everything” by Zach Bryan featuring Kacey Musgraves won Top Rock Song. Falling in Reverse’s “All My Life” (featuring Jelly Roll, the 2023 CMA winner for new artist of the year) won Top Hard Rock Song.
Two artists managed to win both top album and top song in their respective genres. Jung Kook won Top K-pop Album for Golden and Top Global K-pop Song for “Standing Next to You.” Elevation Worship won Top Christian Album for Can You Imagine? and Top Christian Song for “Praise” featuring Brandon Lake and Chris Brown.
Fun fact: Two artists named Chris Brown were winners. The R&B star won Top R&B Album for 11:11. The Christian artist with the same name won Top Christian Song, as noted above.
Some artists’ wins mark real breakthroughs in their careers. Red Clay Strays won Top Country Duo/Group, beating Zac Brown Band and Treaty Oak Revival. Sleep Token’s Take Me Back to Eden won Top Hard Rock Album, beating Pearl Jam’s Dark Matter, among others. FloyyMenor & Cris MJ’s “Gata Only” won Top Latin Song, beating two hits by Bad Bunny and one by Karol G and Peso Pluma.
Jack Antonoff won Hot 100 Producer. This should give him some consolation for being unexpectedly passed over for a Grammy nod for producer of the year, non-classical.
Luis Miguel won Top Latin Touring Artist, impressively beating Bad Bunny (who won Top Latin Artist and Top Latin Male Artist) and Karol G (who won Top Latin Female Artist).
There are some surprises on the winners list. Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control,” which topped the Hot 100 for a single week in March, won Top Hot 100 Single, beating Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” which topped the chart for a record-tying 19 weeks. How is that possible? “Lose Control” was in its 10th week on the Hot 100 on Oct. 28, 2023, the first week of the tracking period. But it had yet to climb above No. 58, so it didn’t lose out on many points. By contrast, “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” entered the chart on April 27, 2024, at which point half of the tracking year was over. A sleeper hit that was on the chart for the entire tracking period beat an instant smash that was on the chart for only half of the tracking period.
Trolls: Band Together won Top Soundtrack, beating Hazbin Hotel: Season One and Twisters, among others. Trolls: Band Together debuted on the Soundtracks chart dated Nov. 4, 2023, a week after the chart year began, and was on the chart every week of the chart year. Hazbin Hotel debuted in February and Twisters in August. Trolls prevailed because of its sustained consistent chart performance over a long period, versus soundtracks with a shorter burst of big activity.
Sabrina Carpenter, who was a finalist for nine awards, didn’t happen to win any, nor did Billie Eilish, Future, Jack Harlow, Luke Combs, Metro Boomin or The Weeknd, each of whom were finalists for four awards.
The tracking period for the 2024 Billboard Music Awards was Oct. 13, 2023, through Oct. 10, 2024, which corresponds to Billboard chart dates from Oct. 28, 2023, through Oct. 19, 2024.
The Billboard Music Awards are produced by Dick Clark Productions, which is owned by Penske Media Corporation. PMC is also the parent company of Billboard.
For the fifth consecutive year, Bad Bunny won Top Latin Artist at the Billboard Music Awards, which aired its 2024 edition Thursday night (Dec. 12).
The Puerto Rican superstar also got the Top Latin Male Artist and Top Latin Album honors, the latter for Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and led the Top Latin Albums chart for 10 weeks since its debut in October 2023.
Following with two awards is Fuerza Regida, which not only won in Top Latin Duo/Group, but also the general Top Duo/Group category, beating international stars such as Blink-182, Coldplay, Linkin Park and K-pop sensation Stray Kids. The San Bernardino, Calif., group placed three titles in the Top Latin Albums top 10 during the eligibility period (Oct. 28, 2023, to Oct. 19, 2024) for this year’s BBMAs, including Pa Las Baby’s Y Belikeada, which peaked at No. 1 and led for three weeks; Dolido Pero No Arrepentido (EP), which reached No. 5; and Pero No Te Enamores, which reached No. 2.
“First of all, we wanna thank all the fans, thank you guys very much, we really appreciate you guys,” said JOP, the band’s leader, accepting both awards during the ceremony. “You know, we’re making history together. We’re the best group right now in the world,” he added, also thanking their label Street Mob Records.
Karol G won Top Latin Female Artist for the third consecutive year. The Colombian superstar triumphed this year on the charts with the merengue hit “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido,” which led her to become the first artist since 2014 to dominate the Hot Latin Songs, Latin Airplay and Tropical Airplay charts simultaneously, achieving 22 weeks so far at No. 1 on the latter.
Meanwhile, Luis Miguel won the Top Latin Touring Artist award for his historic 2023-2024 world tour. The trek, which ends Dec. 17 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was declared the highest grossing Latin tour of all time in September, making more than $300 million in its first 146 concerts.
Newcomer FloyyMenor earned his first BBMA thanks to his mega-hit with Cris MJ, “Gata Only,” the first song by a Chilean artist in 25 years to reach No. 1 on the Hot Latin Songs chart, where it remained at the top for 14 weeks.
“I want to thank my family, my wife, my work team and my brother Cris MJ who couldn’t come, but I send him a big shout-out and a hug,” FloyyMenor said after receiving the trophy. “I feel proud to be Chilean and to represent my country. We’re going to continue carrying the Chilean flag high.” He added that fans can expect an album from him in 2025.
The 2024 Billboard Music Awards were produced by Dick Clark Productions, which is owned by Penske Media Corporation. PMC is also the parent company of Billboard.
Check out the 2024 Billboard Music Awards’ Latin winners (highlighted among the finalists) in the list below.
Top Duo/Group
Blink-182
Coldplay
Fuerza Regida – WINNER
Linkin Park
Stray Kids
Top Latin Artist
Bad Bunny – WINNER
Fuerza Regida
Junior H
Karol G
Peso Pluma
Top Latin Male Artist
Bad Bunny – WINNER
Junior H
Peso Pluma
Top Latin Female Artist
Karol G – WINNER
Shakira
Kali Uchis
Top Latin Duo/Group
Eslabon Armado
Fuerza Regida – WINNER
Grupo Frontera
Top Latin Touring Artist
Bad Bunny
Karol G
Luis Miguel – WINNER
Top Latin Album
Bad Bunny, Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana – WINNER
Fuerza Regida, Pa Las Baby’s Y Belikeada
Grupo Frontera, El Comienzo
Junior H, $ad Boyz 4 Life II
Karol G, Mañana Será Bonito (Bichota Season)
Top Latin Song
Bad Bunny, “Monaco”
Bad Bunny & Feid, “Perro Negro”
FloyyMenor & Cris MJ, “Gata Only” – WINNER
Karol G & Peso Pluma, “QLONA”
Xavi, “La Diabla”
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