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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.

Billiards at Half-Past Nine

Billiards at Half-Past Nine (German: Billard um halb zehn) is a 1959 novel by the West German writer Heinrich Böll, following three generations of the Fähmel family.

Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas

Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas (William Thomas Jr., 1931-1980), American child actor who played Buckwheat in Our Gang/Little Rascals shorts 1934-1944, later a Technicolor film lab technician; distinct from other Buckwheat players and from the later musician William Thomas Jr.

Billie Bird

Billie Bird (Billie Bird Sellen, 1908–2002), American vaudeville comedienne and character actress; Sixteen Candles, Home Alone, Dear John; distinct from the Swiss musician Billie Bird.

Billie Blue

Billie Blue (Cœur de slush) is a 2023 Canadian French-language romantic comedy-drama directed by Mariloup Wolfe, adapted from Sarah-Maude Beauchesne's 2014 novel series, about 16-year-old Billie's water-park summer love triangle; distinct from the 1972 film The Ballad of Billie Blue.

Billie Burke

Billie Burke (Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke, born 1884 or 1885, died 1970), American stage and film actress, Broadway leading lady, wife of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., Oscar-nominated for Merrily We Live, best remembered as Glinda the Good Witch in The Wizard of Oz (1939).

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 – Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)

Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D) is a 2026 3D concert film co-directed by Eilish and James Cameron, shot at Manchester's Co-op Live, released May 8, 2026 by Paramount, and streaming on Paramount+ from August 6, 2026.

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 Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry

Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry, Apple TV+ documentary film directed by R.J. Cutler, released February 26, 2021; 2h20m vérité coming-of-age portrait of Eilish at 17 recording her debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? with Finneas, up to her 2020 Grammys sweep.

Billie Hayes

Billie Hayes (1924-2021), American actress born in DuQuoin, Illinois; Broadway's New Faces of 1956 and Li'l Abner's Mammy Yokum; famous as Witchiepoo on H.R. Pufnstuf, Lidsville, and prolific voice actor.

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.

Billie Jean Horton

Billie Jean Horton (born Billie Jean Jones Eshlimar, June 6, 1933) is a country singer and businesswoman, widow of Hank Williams (married October 1952) and of Johnny Horton (1953 to 1960), known for her long legal fights over the Williams estate.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Billie Joe Armstrong is the American lead singer, guitarist, and primary songwriter of Green Day, the punk-pop trio behind Dookie (1994, over 20 million copies) and the rock opera American Idiot (2004), later adapted for Broadway; Dookie entered the National Recording Registry in 2024.

Billie Lourd

Billie Lourd (Billie Catherine Lourd), American actress born 1992 in Los Angeles, daughter of Carrie Fisher and Bryan Lourd. Known as Chanel #3 in Scream Queens, Lieutenant Connix in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, and recurring American Horror Story roles from Cult through season 13.

Billie Marten

Billie Marten, real name Isabella Sophie Tweddle (born 1999), is an English indie folk singer-songwriter from Ripon, North Yorkshire, not the dance singer Billie Ray Martin; five albums 2016-2025, BBC Sound of 2016 nominee, signed to Fiction Records.