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American Music Award for Artist of the Year
American Music Award for Artist of the Year: top fan-voted prize of the AMAs, created by Dick Clark and first awarded 1974. BTS won in 2021 and 2026; Taylor Swift holds the most career AMAs.
American Music Award for Favorite Latin Artist
The American Music Award for Favorite Latin Artist was an annual fan-voted American Music Awards prize, first presented in 1998 to Julio Iglesias and later retitled Best.
American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Artist
The American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Artist was the collective name for the AMAs' pop/rock artist honors, split into male, female, and band/duo/group categories, first awarded in 1974.
American Music Award for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist
The American Music Award for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist is a fan-voted AMA category, first presented in 1989 and since 2025 split into separate male and female hip-hop artist awards.
American Music Award for New Artist of the Year
The American Music Award for New Artist of the Year is a fan-voted AMA honor for breakout acts; KATSEYE won in 2026 and Gracie Abrams in 2025, with nominees set by streaming, sales, airplay, and tour metrics.
American Music Award of Merit
American Music Award of Merit: special career honor of the American Music Awards, initiated 1974, given for exceptional contributions to the music industry; recipients run from Bing Crosby (1974) to Sting (2016), with gaps after 2004 and 2008.
American Music Awards
American Music Awards (AMAs): annual US music awards created by Dick Clark in 1973, first awarded 1974; winners decided entirely by fan voting, nominees from Billboard/Luminate engagement data; distinct from Grammys and Billboard Music Awards.
American Music Awards of 2010
The American Music Awards of 2010, held November 21 in Los Angeles, saw 16-year-old Justin Bieber win all four of his nominations, including Artist of the Year.
American Music Awards of 2013
The American Music Awards of 2013 were held on November 24, 2013, in Los Angeles, where Taylor Swift won Artist of the Year for a record third time.
American Music Awards of 2015
The American Music Awards of 2015 were the 43rd edition of the fan-voted AMAs, held at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on November 22, 2015, hosted by Jennifer Lopez.
American Music Awards of 2019
The American Music Awards of 2019 were held on November 24 in Los Angeles, hosted by Ciara, with Taylor Swift winning Artist of the Decade.
American Music Awards of 2025
The 2025 American Music Awards (2025 AMAs), 51st edition held May 26, 2025 at Fontainebleau Las Vegas on CBS, hosted by Jennifer Lopez; Billie Eilish won all seven nominations, Kendrick Lamar led with 10 nods.
American Music Awards of 2026
The American Music Awards of 2026, the 52nd fan-voted ceremony, took place May 25 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. BTS won Artist of the Year.
American Music Awards records and achievements
The American Music Awards records and achievements cover Taylor Swift's record 40 wins, Michael Jackson's and Whitney Houston's eight wins in one night, and Alabama's 23 group wins.
American Music Awards soul/R&B categories
The American Music Awards soul/R&B categories are AMA honors for soul and R&B music, including Favorite Soul/R&B Album, won by artists from Gladys Knight to The Weeknd.
American Music Awards special honors
Non-competitive American Music Awards honors given outside fan-voted categories: the Award of Merit (since 1974), Lifetime Achievement Award, International Artist Award of Excellence, and Veterans Voice Award, presented by Dick Clark Productions at the AMAs.
American Pie (Don McLean album)
American Pie is a 1971 studio album by Don McLean. The title track, an eight-minute song about the changing American landscape, reached number one on the Billboard 200.
American Pie (song)
"American Pie" is Don McLean's roughly 8:31 folk-rock song, released October 24, 1971 on United Artists; four weeks at US number 1 in 1972, "the day the music died" refers to Buddy Holly's 1959 crash, and it held the longest-number-one record for 49 years.
American Psycho (soundtrack)
American Psycho (soundtrack): 2000 Koch Records album of remixed 1980s-1990s pop and rock with Christian Bale monologues, plus John Cale's score, famous for the "Hip to Be Square" recall after Huey Lewis & the News denied soundtrack rights.
American Recordings (album)
American Recordings is Johnny Cash's April 26, 1994 solo acoustic album, produced by Rick Rubin for Rubin's American Recordings label. Recorded in Cash's Tennessee cabin and Rubin's LA home, it won the 1995 Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album and launched a six-album series.
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) is the oldest US performing rights organization, founded 1914 in New York; nonprofit, member-owned, 1.1M+ members, $1.945B 2025 revenue, operating under a 1941 consent decree.
American Teen (album)
American Teen is the debut studio album by American singer Khalid, released in 2017, featuring "Location" and peaking at number 4 on the Billboard 200.
American Woman
"American Woman" is a 1970 hard rock song by Canada's the Guess Who (Bachman, Cummings, Kale, Peterson), the first Canadian group to top the Billboard Hot 100; Lenny Kravitz's 1999 Austin Powers cover is its best-known remake.
Americana (The Offspring album)
Americana is the fifth studio album by American punk rock band the Offspring, released in 1998 and featuring the hit "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)".
Americana Music Association
The Americana Music Association is a Nashville-based trade organization for American roots music, founded in 1999, which publishes the Americana Airplay Chart and hosts AMERICANAFEST.
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, Ice Cube's May 16, 1990 debut solo album on Priority Records, produced entirely by Public Enemy's Bomb Squad with Sir Jinx after his split from N.W.A; number 19 Billboard 200, platinum.
Amhrán na bhFiann
Amhrán na bhFiann (The Soldier's Song), Ireland's national anthem: English lyrics by Peadar Kearney, music by Patrick Heeney, Irish translation by Liam Ó Rinn, adopted by the Irish Free State on 12 July 1926, chorus only.
Ami Faku
Ami Faku, born Amanda Faku in 1993 in Port Elizabeth, is a South African singer and songwriter from the Eastern Cape whose 2019 single 'Into Ingawe' went multi-platinum.
Ami Suzuki
Ami Suzuki (鈴木亜美) is a Japanese singer, DJ, and actress born in 1982 who debuted in 1998 with "love the island" and relaunched at Avex in 2004 into club music.
Amici di Maria De Filippi
Amici di Maria De Filippi is an Italian talent show on Canale 5, hosted by Maria De Filippi since 2001 and run as a year-long performing-arts school.