The ten-time BBMA winner can even carry out on the present.
Mary J. Blige will obtain the Icon Award on the 2022 Billboard Music Awards. The ten-time BBMA winner can even carry out on the present. The BBMAs will broadcast reside coast-to-coast from the MGM Grand Backyard Area in Las Vegas on Sunday, Could 15.
Blige is the eleventh artist to obtain the Icon Award, which acknowledges excellent artists who've achieved excellence on the Billboard charts and have made an indelible mark on music itself. Earlier recipients have been Neil Diamond, Stevie Surprise, Prince, Jennifer Lopez, Celine Dion, Cher, Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Garth Brooks and P!NK.
“My profession has been such an unbelievable and surprising journey that has included many turns into avenues I by no means might have imagined like appearing, producing, launching companies and now even my very own music competition,” Blige stated in a press release. “By all of it, I at all times a method or one other gravitated again to my old flame, music. To be acknowledged on this manner at this second, with the Icon Award on the Billboard Music Awards, is an unbelievable honor and one which I'm really humbled by.”
Blige gained the 1995 Billboard Music Award for R&B album of the 12 months and scooped up 9 awards on the 2006 present.
Blige has gained 9 Grammys. In 2017, she turned the primary particular person in Oscar historical past to be nominated for appearing and songwriting in the identical 12 months, for her work in Mudbound. Blige might obtain her first Emmy nomination this 12 months for her participation within the all-star Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present in February alongside Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem and Kendrick Lamar. (They'd be nominated within the class of excellent selection particular (reside).)
Blige has amassed 4 No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 (Share My World, Love & Life, The Breakthrough and Rising Pains) and one No. 1 single on the Billboard Scorching 100 (“Household Affair,” which topped the chart for six weeks in 2001). She is the seventh girl to obtain the Icon Award. The primary three recipients had been male, however since then, Brooks is the one male honoree.
At 51, Blige is correct within the age vary of previous Icon Award recipients. Final 12 months’s winner, P!nk, was
the youngest recipient to this point at 41. Diamond and Cher are the oldest recipients to this point. They had been every 70 after they obtained the respect.
All the earlier Icon Award recipients additionally carried out on the present, as Blige has agreed to do. Surprise carried out a medley with Alicia Keys. Dion was backed in efficiency by Lindsey Stirling.
Blige obtained a lifetime achievement award on the BET Awards in 2019 and obtained the icon of the 12 months award on the Billboard Ladies in Music occasion in 2017. However different prime profession honors, reminiscent of a lifetime achievement award from the Recording Academy, are nonetheless (possible) in her future.
The Weeknd is the highest contender for the 2022 Billboard Music Awards. He's a finalist in 17 classes, together with prime artist, prime male artist and prime Scorching 100 artist. His collaboration with Ariana Grande, “Save Your Tears (Remix),” is up for six awards.
Doja Cat is the main feminine finalist with 14 nods, together with prime artist, prime feminine artist and prime Scorching 100 artist.
Justin Bieber, Ye (previously Kanye West) and Olivia Rodrigo every have 13 nods.
5 new classes had been unveiled this 12 months, with 4 based mostly on Billboard’s first authoritative international charts and one measuring viral songs. This brings the overall variety of classes to 62. This 12 months’s awards are based mostly on the monitoring interval of March 26, 2021, by March 17, 2022. That corresponds to Billboard chart dates of April 10, 2021, by March 26, 2022.
Billboard Music Awards finalists and winners are based mostly on key fan interactions with music, together with album and digital tune gross sales, streaming, radio airplay, and social engagement, tracked by Billboard and its information companions, together with Luminate (previously MRC Information).
The BBMAs have celebrated music’s best achievements for greater than 30 years. Distinctive amongst music awards exhibits, finalists are decided by efficiency on the Billboard charts. The recipient of the Billboard Change Maker Award, which honors an artist or group that speaks reality to energy by their music, platform and/or group, shall be introduced at a later date.
The BBMAs will broadcast reside coast-to-coast from the MGM Grand Backyard Area in Las Vegas on Sunday, Could 15 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on NBC and can stream reside on Peacock. This 12 months’s host has not been introduced. Nick Jonas served as host final 12 months. Kelly Clarkson hosted the three years earlier than that.
The 2022 Billboard Music Awards are produced by MRC Dwell & Various, a division of MRC, which is a co-owner of Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter by a three way partnership with Penske Media titled PMRC. Robert Deaton is govt producer.
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