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Mark Ronson accepts the top soundtrack award for Barbie: The Album at the 2023 Billboard Music Awards Presented by Marriott Bonvoy.

Mark Ronson: Thank you to the Billboard Music Awards for recognizing Barbie for top soundtrack. It was such an honor to work on this project. It was basically a dream job working with Greta Gerwig and some of the greatest artists and songwriters around, and maybe even more exciting was just seeing how the fans took the music to heart. Going to see the movie in the theaters and watching people singing along, I mean, it was such an incredible thing, the way that the music and the film just became this, this wonderful thing together. I have to thank, of course, Atlantic Records and Warner Brothers and Mattel, but this very beautiful gold microphone is just for me.

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Brandon Lake accepts the top Christian song award for his track “Gratitude” at the 2023 Billboard Music Awards Presented by Marriott Bonvoy.

Brandon Lake: Billboard, what’s up! It’s Brandon Lake, and I’m just so incredibly honored to receive this award. This past year of my life has been the best year of my life. And it’s just … it’s amazing to know that these songs are going out and impacting lives all across the globe. I’m honored to be able to get to do what I do. And it’s moments like these that are just … it’s a moment to celebrate all that God’s doing and knowing that He takes these simple things that we create with Him and breathes on them and just chooses to use them in a huge way to lift people’s spirits, to give them faith. I’m honored to receive this award. Billboard, thank you.

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Burna Boy accepts the top Afrobeats artist award at the 2023 Billboard Music Awards Presented by Marriott Bonvoy.

Burna Boy:
Thank you. Thank you, everyone. I appreciate you. Big up, Billboard Music Awards. Big up to everyone involved. This is dedicated to Africa and every artist coming out of Africa now, you get me. This is for you and yeah, man, the future’s bright. You guys are gonna see the vision. This is just the tip of the iceberg but you’re gonna see the whole vision soon. Salute, love.

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CeCe Winans accepts the Top Gospel Song Award for “Goodness of God” at the 2023 Billboard Music Awards Presented by Marriott Bonvoy.

CeCe Winans
Thank you so much for this honor. This is my first Billboard Music Award and I am so grateful. I want to say thank you to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I want to say thank you to my wonderful management, One Eight management. I want to say thank you to the writers of this song “Goodness Of God,” what a powerful song. I want to say thank you to all of those who have listened to this song, who have played this song who have allowed this song to really be a part of your heart and a part of your life. I am so grateful. Thank you. God bless you.

Coldplay accepts the top rock touring artist award at the 2023 Billboard Music Awards Presented by Marriott Bonvoy.

Coldplay:
Thank you very much, everybody at Billboard, for this award, which is amazing, and we send you our love from Indonesia. Thank you, bye.

Joey Moi accepts the top Hot 100 producer award at the 2023 Billboard Music Awards Presented by Marriott Bonvoy.

Joey Moi:
Hey, everybody. Thank you so much for the honor. For the recognition, it’s an honor to get to be a steward of an award that represents the output of an amazing group of people who all come together and make these records happen. I’d like to thank first and foremost, the artists. Next, the songwriters who all got together and pitch their best work to us. All the session musicians who sit in the studio with us and bring these songs to life.

After the music is made and turned in, you know, you’ve got a lot of a lot of marketing people and promotion people and publicity and artist management that all come together and make sure this music gets to you guys. And last but not least, I’d like to thank the fans for always listening and making this happen. Thank you guys.

Lauren Daigle accepts the top Christian artist award at the 2023 Billboard Music Awards Presented by Marriott Bonvoy.

Lauren Daigle:
Billboard, thank you so, so much. This is the award that I just … I treasure from the bottom of my heart. I love it so much because it’s not a popularity contest. The Billboards are because fans show up and show support for the thing that I love to do. I love to get to sing. So thank you, thank you, thank you, it means the world. It’s been a long time since I have released a record, and just to have the sheer delight of putting art into the world that you love, and that I made with the most incredible team. I cannot sing their praises enough. It’s been really, really beautiful to put music out that reaches the souls of man. That’s the thing that I want to do for the rest of my life. I just want to thank you for your support. Thank you to the Billboards. Thank you, Lord, for letting me do this again. And I’ll see you all very soon. Cheers.

Maverick City Music and Kirk Franklin accept the top gospel Album Award for their album Kingdom Book One at the 2023 Billboard Music Awards Presented by Marriott Bonvoy.

Naomi Raine:
Hey, Billboard Awards. We are here in Madison, Wis., and we are so grateful for this award. Honestly, we’re just floored every time that God chooses to do something like this, so we want to thank Jesus. We want to thank our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We want to thank every single person who has supported us, from the least to the greatest, and everyone who listens to the music, we pray that we continue to write songs that bless you all. Thank you so much for honoring us with this, and we just love you. Thank you.

Kirk Franklin:
Man, I want to tell you how grateful I am to be a recipient of this man, this incredible award from Billboard. Thank you so much. Man, I’m so grateful to have a chance to still do music after all these years and still reach people. I appreciate RCA for your soul team, Ron Hill, management, musicians, singers. I mean, I’m just grateful. I’m totally grateful. And I just pray, man, that I can keep telling people, man, that no matter how far they go, they can always come back home. God bless y’all. Thank you!

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Metro Boomin accepts the top collaboration award for his song “Creepin’” with The Weeknd and 21 Savage at the 2023 Billboard Music Awards Presented by Marriott Bonvoy.

Metro Boomin:
Yo, what’s good? It’s Young Metro 3 Times. I want to give a quick shoutout to Billboard for honoring me with my first-ever BBMA for top collaboration with “Creepin’.”

I like to give a big shoutout to God, thank you. My mother, love you always and forever. Thank you. My brothers and sisters Leah, Landon, Lauren and Logan — love you forever. Thank you for just coming home to the house.

Thank you to … I don’t like the word “fans” … thank you to the supporters because without you, I wouldn’t be holding this. Thank you for listening, streaming, buying, showing up to the shows, buying the merch, everything, all the support for this song as well as Heroes and Villains as a whole. I appreciate that.

I’d like to thank my collaborators. Shou-out to Abel, thank you bro, Savage (21 Savage), love you guys. Appreciate you. Thank you to Puff for doing a remix. Shoutout to Mario One that’s my brother, mentoring me for years and it only seems right that leads up to this point. Thank you for all your guidance and your blessing on the song and those all the background vocals you did, thank you. Shoutout to Travis, appreciate you bro. Love you. Thank you for your background vocals as well. And anytime I call with an idea, you know, you’re just there and you’re down. I appreciate that. Shoutout to my co-producers DaHeala, Peter Lee Johnson, Johan Lenox — love you guys. I appreciate you guys as well.

This a win for the team and yeah, I’m really grateful. I’m very grateful and yeah man “Creepin’,” top collaboration.

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