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Billboard Latin Music Award ceremonies, 2010–2019

The Billboard Latin Music Award ceremonies, 2010–2019, were ten annual editions of the Billboard Latin Music Awards, honoring artists based on commercial chart performance rather than industry voting.

Billboard Latin Music Award ceremonies, 2020–2023

The Billboard Latin Music Awards honor Latin artists by Billboard chart performance rather than voting; the 2020–2023 editions saw Bad Bunny and Peso Pluma dominate.

Billboard Latin Music Awards

Billboard Latin Music Awards (Premios Billboard de la Música Latina): annual chart-based Latin music awards begun in 1989 with Univision, renamed 1994, aired on Telemundo; Enrique Iglesias leads with 48 wins.

Billboard Latin Music Awards genre categories

The Billboard Latin Music Awards genre categories cover Latin pop, tropical, Latin rhythm, and regional Mexican, with finalists and winners determined solely by Billboard weekly chart performance.

Billboard Latin Music Awards winners and records

The Billboard Latin Music Awards honor Latin music artists based on Billboard chart performance rather than a voting jury; Enrique Iglesias, Shakira, and Aventura hold the most all-time wins.

Billboard Latin Music Awards: top and crossover awards

The top and crossover awards of the Billboard Latin Music Awards, first presented in 1994, include Artist of the Year and Crossover Artist of the Year, decided purely by chart data.

Billboard Latin Music Hall of Fame

Billboard Latin Music Hall of Fame: rarely awarded Billboard honor at the Billboard Latin Music Awards, created 1994; first inductees Cachao and Celia Cruz (1995), later Rocío Dúrcal (1999) and Rosalía (2026).

Billboard Latin Music Lifetime Achievement Award

The Billboard Latin Music Lifetime Achievement Award (Premio Billboard Trayectoria Artística), also called El Premio Billboard, is a special career honor presented at the annual Billboard Latin Music Awards.

Billboard Latin Pop Airplay

Billboard Latin Pop Airplay is a weekly Billboard chart ranking the most popular Latin pop songs in the United States by radio airplay, launched in 1994.

Billboard Music Award for Top Artist

Billboard Music Award for Top Artist: the overall artist prize at the BBMAs, decided by Billboard chart data (sales, streaming, airplay) over a 12-month period, not voting. Taylor Swift leads with four wins; awarded since 1990, absent 2007–2010.

Billboard Music Award for Top R&B Album

Billboard Music Award for Top R&B Album: annual BBMA honor, given since 1990, first won by Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814; determined by chart data, not voting; Chris Brown's 11:11 won in 2024.

Billboard Music Award for Top Rap Song

Billboard Music Award for Top Rap Song: annual BBMA honor for the year's best-charting rap song, won by chart metrics (sales, streaming, airplay), not voting; recent winners include DaBaby's "ROCKSTAR", 21 Savage, and Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us".

Billboard Music Award for Top Social Artist

Billboard Music Award for Top Social Artist: fan-voted BBMA category (2011) based on the Social 50 chart; Justin Bieber won 2011-2016, then BTS won 2017-2020, the first K-pop BBMA winner.

Billboard Music Awards

The Billboard Music Awards (BBMAs) is an annual American music awards show where winners are chosen by chart performance on sales, streaming, and airplay, first telecast in 1990.

Billboard Music Awards ceremonies 1990–1996

The Billboard Music Awards ceremonies 1990–1996 were the founding editions of the Billboard Music Awards, an annual Fox show whose winners came from Billboard's year-end charts.

Billboard Music Awards ceremonies 1997–2006

The Billboard Music Awards ceremonies of 1997–2006 were annual December Fox broadcasts whose winners mirrored Billboard's year-end charts of sales and airplay, ending before a 2011 revival.

Billboard Music Awards special honors

The Billboard Music Awards special honors include the Century Award (1992–2006), first given to George Harrison, the Artist Achievement Award, and the Icon Award, established in 2011.

Billboard Regional Mexican Airplay chart

The Billboard Regional Mexican Airplay chart is a weekly ranking of the most popular Regional Mexican songs on US radio, first published in 1994 and compiled from audience impressions.

Billboard Spirit of Hope Award

The Billboard Spirit of Hope Award (Premio Billboard Espíritu de la Esperanza) is a Billboard Latin Music Awards honor, created in 1996 in memory of Selena, given to Latin artists for philanthropy.

Billboard Tropical Airplay

Billboard Tropical Airplay is a weekly US chart ranking the most popular tropical songs by Latin radio airplay audience impressions, launched in 1994; Marc Anthony holds the record 39 number ones.

Billboard Year-End

Billboard Year-End: annual cumulative rankings of Billboard weekly-chart performance for songs, albums, artists, and labels, launched in the 1940s; tracked over an offset chart year (roughly late October to mid-October), compiled from Luminate data.

Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2002

Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2002: annual ranking of the year's 100 biggest US Hot 100 songs from SoundScan sales and BDS airplay. Nickelback's "How You Remind Me" was No. 1; only nine songs topped the weekly chart.

Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2023

Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2023: the year-end US singles chart topped by Morgan Wallen's "Last Night" (16 weeks at weekly No. 1), with Miley Cyrus's "Flowers" at No. 2, covering tracking window, top 10, artists, and genre trends.

Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2024

The Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2024 lists the 100 best-performing US songs of Billboard's 2024 tracking year, topped by Teddy Swims' "Lose Control".

Billboard Year-End Hot Rap Songs of 2016

Billboard Year-End Hot Rap Songs of 2016: annual ranking of the year's top US rap songs from the weekly Hot Rap Songs chart. 2016 No. 1s included "Don't Mind," "Panda," and "Black Beatles"; Drake set a record 17 chart-toppers.

Billboard's Greatest Pop Stars

Billboard's Greatest Pop Stars is Billboard magazine's annual editorial staff ranking of the year's most impactful music artists, begun with yearly picks back to 1981, expanded to a top 10 in 2021, plus a 2024 list of the 25 greatest pop stars of the 21st century topped by Beyoncé.

Billie Eilish

Billie Eilish (Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell), born 2001 in Los Angeles, is an American singer-songwriter whose debut album produced "Bad Guy" and swept the 2020 Grammys.

Billie Eilish discography

Billie Eilish discography: three studio albums (When We All Fall Asleep 2019, Happier Than Ever 2021, Hit Me Hard and Soft 2024), EPs dont smile at me and Guitar Songs, singles from Ocean Eyes onward, plus Oscar-winning soundtrack songs No Time to Die and What Was I Made For?.

Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday (Eleanora Fagan, 1915–1959), American jazz singer nicknamed Lady Day, known for behind-the-beat phrasing, the anti-lynching song Strange Fruit, and recordings with Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, Count Basie, and Artie Shaw.

Billie Jean

Billie Jean: 1982 Michael Jackson song from Thriller, written 1981, produced by Quincy Jones; seven weeks at Billboard number one from March 1983, diamond-certified in the US, moonwalk debut at Motown 25, first Black-artist MTV heavy-rotation video.