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Here are the biggest winners, the best performances and all the highlights from the 2023 Billboard Music Awards Presented by Marriott Bonvoy. Tetris Kelly:From Karol G’s theatrical performance in water, to Peso Pluma bringing us into the ring with a very special guest, the reimagined Billboard Music Awards took over the world Sunday night with […]
T.I. opens up about creating some of his greatest hits, leaving his DNA on tracks, working with Rihanna and Justin Timberlake and more for Hip-Hop Through the Charts at the 2023 Billboard Music Awards Presented by Marriott Bonvoy.
T.I.:This journey has taught me so much about how to respect your art and remain true to the essence of who you are, you know what I mean?
Dawton Thomas:My man, Tip, back in the building!
T.I.:What’s happening, king?
Dawton Thomas:Good to see you, family.
T.I.:Always a pleasure!
Dawton Thomas:So before we start into the tracks and everything and the accolades, how does it feel to have over 20 years of dope hip-hop success?
T.I.:Man, it feels like a lot of work. You know, what I’m saying? A lot of hard work that paid off. You know what I mean? I’m the proudest of the music that we made then, you know? It inspired so much to happen that has evolved to still be relevant now.
Dawton Thomas:That’s real, man. Three No. 1 albums, nine top 10s, four Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hits. We’re gonna get into some of these joints now.
T.I.:OK!
Dawton Thomas:“Bring Em Out” peaked at No. 9.
T.I.:Wow. I met Swizz in the room and remember it was me, him, Craig Kallman, and at first I heard it had Jay [Jay-Z] on there, and when I first heard it the first thing I said, “Hey, do Jay-Z know you’re playing this for me, man? Did he say … did he approve this, bro? I don’t just want to put his voice on my record and not have him OK it.”Watch the full video above!
David Guetta shares the story behind making his hit song “I’m Good (Blue)” with Bebe Rexha at the 2023 Billboard Music Awards Presented by Marriott Bonvoy. David GuettaThe story of “I’m Good” is actually crazy because we’re just jamming in the studio four years ago and we didn’t want to put it out really. I […]
Ludacris breaks down his biggest hits in Hip-Hop Through the Charts at the 2023 Billboard Music Awards Presented by Mariott Bonvoy.
Ludacris:Hip-hop is everything to me. It’s how we talk, it’s how we dress, it’s how we walk. Like, everything that I do is to give back to the culture that gave me.
Datwon Thomas:My man Luda, thank you for rocking with us on Billboard Music Awards.
Ludacris:Always a pleasure, man. It’s always great. Let’s talk the hits, man.
Datwon Thomas:Got a lot of them.
Ludacris:Man, appreciate you, bro.
Datwon Thomas:We are going to run the stats real quick.
Ludacris:OK.
Datwon Thomas:You have five Billboard Hot 100 No. 1s, four No. 1 albums, 56 charted singles.
Ludacris:That’s dope.
Datwon Thomas:That’s crazy, bro.
Ludacris:It is crazy.
Datwon Thomas:That’s crazy.
Ludacris:I never knew that’s love. Wow.
Datwon Thomas:I’m gonna start with “Money Maker” featuring Pharrell. You were on there for 25 weeks.
Ludacris:I remember winning a Grammy for that single, man, and it was like a long time coming. It definitely put the stock up for them shows a little more. You could say that.
Datwon Thomas:“Stand Up.” 2003. Twenty-eight weeks on.
Ludacris:Yeah, man. My best memory of that is Irv Gotti. We were all at Def Jam. I just remember Irv coming up to us like, “That’s how you put out a first single right there.” For soon as he heard it, I was just like, yeah, man, we knew we had one man. It was like, tempo, you know, subject matter, just it was it was everything all balled in one.
Datwon Thomas:And the video?
Ludacris:Yeah, video with the big shoes. Yes. You know what I mean? So we made something that lasted.
Watch the interview above!
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See all of the behind-the-scenes photos from the 2023 Billboard Music Awards in the gallery below.
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Mariah Carey’s production designer and producer Rohit Kapoor and director, creative director and choreographer Debbie Allen share a behind-the-scenes look at the star’s performance of “All I Want For Christmas Is You” at the 2023 Billboard Music Awards Presented by Marriott Bonvoy. Rohit Kapoor: I’m Rohit Kapoor, and I’m production designer and producer on the […]
Karol G’s makeup artist, Patrick Ta, explains how they collaborated to create the makeup look for her Billboard Music Awards performance at the 2023 Billboard Music Awards Presented by Marriott Bonvoy. Patrick Ta: I’m Patrick Ta and I’m Karol’s makeup artist. I started working with Karol G almost three years ago and it has been […]
Jermaine Dupri breaks down his biggest hip-hop hits throughout the years with Billboard and more for Hip-Hop Through the Charts at the 2023 Billboard Music Awards Presented by Marriott Bonvoy.Jermaine Dupri:Once I break through 20 on any song, you’ve got problems out of me. Especially if you’ve ever tried to combat what I’m doing.
Datwon Thomas:First and foremost, man, congrats on all the love you’ve been getting lately, man, These flowers are coming in. They come in by the boatloads, man.
Jermaine Dupri:Thank you.
Datwon Thomas:How’s it been just being able to get all this love?
Jermaine Dupri:This was a real true era of life that I would have hated to miss it.
Datwon Thomas:Exactly. But it’s so funny you helped start it.
Jermaine Dupri:Yeah.
Datwon Thomas:You know, the endpoint is there. You’ve had your hand in over eighty Hot 100 hits. Twenty-eight top 10 hits on the Hot 100. It’s either you producing or writing. Your first album Life In 1472 man.
Jermaine Dupri:Yeah.
Datwon Thomas:Now, you’re stepping out, you’re like, “Yo, look, this is me. Here I am, I could rap. I can make beats and I make stars.”
Jermaine Dupri:Yeah. It’s crazy because when I did “Money Ain’t A Thang,” the company, Columbia, they didn’t have really any idea what Jay-Z meant to the culture.
Datwon Thomas:Right?
Jermaine Dupri:Right. They were actually asking me like, why did I want the song to be my first single when I had “Sweetheart” with Mariah? And they thought they could do more with “Sweetheart” than they could do with “Money Ain’t A Thang.” And it’s crazy. Because like, that’s just this era and this time of these 30 years was such a learning period for so many people.
Bebe Rexha’s choreographer Ruby shares a behind the scenes look at Bebe Rexha’s performance of “I’m Good (Blue)” and “One In A Million” with David Guetta at the 2023 Billboard Music Awards Presented by Marriott Bonvoy. RubyI am Ruby and I am choreographing Bebe Rexha’s BBMAs performance it has been nothing but amazing. We’ve had […]
Morgan Wallen amassed 11 Billboard Music Awards wins on Sunday (Nov. 19), which represented the greatest one-year tally by any artist since Drake received 12 awards in 2019. Taylor Swift won 10 BBMAs this year, bringing her career total to date to 39 – which puts her in a tie with Drake for the most of all time. (Drake won five awards this year to advance to that same total.)
Wallen won awards for both top Billboard 200 album (One Thing at a Time) and top Hot 100 song (“Last Night”). It’s the first time one artist has swept both of those key awards in the same year since Usher scored in 2004 with Confessions and his megahit “Yeah!” (featuring Lil Jon & Ludacris). (Note: The BBMAs were on hiatus from 2007-10.)
Wallen had previously won four BBMAs. His new career total of 15 awards puts him second only to Garth Brooks among country artists. Brooks has won 20 BBMAs.
Swift won top artist for the third time, which puts her in a tie with Drake for the most wins in that category. Swift also won top Billboard 200 artist for a record-extending sixth time, and top female artist for a record-extending fifth time.
Wallen thoroughly dominated the country categories, winning top country artist, top country album, top country song and top country tour.
Drake was equally dominant in the rap field, winning top rap artist for a record-extending fifth time, top rap tour for the second time, and top rap album (Her Loss) and top rap song (“Rich Flex”) for his successful collaboration with 21 Savage.
SZA and Zach Bryan were nearly as dominant in R&B and rock, respectively. SZA won top R&B female artist, top R&B album (SOS) and top R&B song (“Kill Bill”). But the award for top R&B touring artist went to Beyoncé.
Bryan won top rock artist, top rock album (American Heartbreak) and top rock song (“Something in the Orange”). But the award for top rock touring artist went to Coldplay.
Bryan and SZA each won four BBMAs this year. Bryan’s wins include the key category of top new artist. He was a first-time BBMAs winner. SZA had won two BBMAs previously.
21 Savage, Bad Bunny, Beyoncé and Miley Cyrus each won three awards. This brings Beyoncé’s total to 16, which puts her in a tie with Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey for the most BBMAs by a woman of color. Carey won a special Chart Achievement Award this year for the historic success of her single “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” which topped the Billboard Hot 100 every year from 2019 through 2022, and may return to the top spot this year as well.
Beyoncé and Bad Bunny nearly swept the top awards in their fields. Beyoncé won top dance/electronic artist and album (Renaissance), but the award for top dance/electronic song went to David Guetta and Bebe Rexha for “I’m Good (Blue).”
Bunny won top Latin artist for the fourth consecutive year and top Latin album for the third time in four years (Un Verano Sin Ti), but Eslabon Armado x Peso Pluma won top Latin song for “Ella Baila Sola.”
Fuerza Regida, KAROL G and The Weeknd each won two awards. Fuerza Regida won the all-genre top duo/group award over Eslabon Armado, Fifty Fifty, Grupo Frontera and Metallica. Impressively, three of these five groups come from the Latin music world.
The Weeknd’s two awards bring his career total to 22, which puts him in fourth place on the all-time BBMAs leaderboard, behind Drake and Swift with 39 each and Justin Bieber with 26. Garth Brooks is in fifth place all-time, with 20, followed by Adele, Usher and Kanye West, with 18 each.
Ye, as West is now known, won one award this year – top gospel artist. This is his fourth consecutive win in that category, which extends his record as the category leader. Kirk Franklin and Tasha Cobbs Leonard have each won twice in the category.
Lauren Daigle won top Christian artist for a record-extending fourth time.
Luke Combs was a finalist in 10 categories, but didn’t receive any BBMAs. He went up against the unstoppable Wallen in eight of those categories. Ariana Grande was a finalist in five categories and likewise didn’t win any. She lost to the red-hot Cyrus in three of those categories.
Metallica is the only rock group to be a finalist for the overall top duo/group award. So, one might logically expect them to win top rock/duo group. They lost to Arctic Monkeys. How can that be? These two awards measure success on different charts. The overall top duo/group award is based on performance on the Hot 100 and the Billboard 200. The top rock duo/group award is based on performance on Billboard’s Hot Rock Songs and Top Rock Albums charts.
Harry Styles’ “As It Was” was a finalist for top BB global (excl. U.S.) song. The song was released on April 1, 2022, seven months before the beginning of this year’s eligibility tracking period (Nov. 4, 2022 through Oct. 12, 2023). It’s remarkable that the song still had enough firepower to be a finalist when its first seven months of activity weren’t counted. You already knew the song was a monster hit. Here’s more proof.
The 2023 Billboard Music Awards Presented by Marriott Bonvoy took place Sunday night on BBMAs.watch and across BBMA and Billboard social channels.