Billboard Music Awards

The **Billboard Music Awards** (formerly known as the #PI Awards) are honors given out annually by Billboard, an American corporation that oversees the music industry. Often shortened to the BBMAs, the Billboard Music Awards were hosted twice in 2014, and have been hosted annually since 2015, with the exception of 2016. The event is often held in the final week of the season. The Season 1 and Season 5 awards were not hosted during their respective season, but were retroactively hosted in 2018.

## History

The Billboard Music Awards were first hosted in early 2014, by Interscope Records executive Lady Gaga. At this time, the BBMAs were known as the #PI Awards. These awards would commemorate the artists and releases of #PopIndustry Season 2. Afterwards, the BBMAs would be hosted during the final week of every season, with the exception of Season 5. The Season 5 awards would be hosted retroactively in 2018, alongside a retrospective Season 1 awards, by RCA Records executive P!nk. Gaga would host the BBMAs from 2014 to 2017, before being replaced by current host Lana Del Rey in 2018. The BBMAs would officially be renamed from the #PI Awards to the Billboard Music Awards in September 2021. On December 3, 2021, singer and label representative Taylor Swift announced that she would be taking over hosting duties from former host Del Rey. Del Rey would return to host the Season 10 awards, while Swift would once again host the Season 11 awards.

## Award Process

### Current Methodology

From Season 9 onwards, the Billboard Music Awards is split into three stages; the label submission stage, the committee submission stage and the committee voting stage.

The label submission stage is the first completed stage. In this stage, the current record label executives will select one release per category for each artist to move forward into the committee submission stage. Only six categories go through this stage; Album of the Season, Single of the Season, Best Album Art, Best Collaboration, Best Remix and Best Tour.

The committee submission stage is the second stage to be completed. In this stage, committee members of all current industry artists will each select between five and eight of the eligible releases to be submitted. For categories that went through the label submission stage, only the label submissions are classed as eligible here. The most submitted releases will be nominated, with a minimum of five nominees per category. As of season 10, the categories Artist of the Season, Album of the Season and Single of the Season will require between eight and ten releases selected for submission, resulting in a minimum of eight nominees for these categories. The other categories remain unchanged.

The committee voting stage is the final stage of the awards process. In this stage, committee members of all current industry artists will each vote for one out of the official nominees. The nominee with the highest votes will win the award.

### Former Methodology

#### Season 2 (2014)

In season 2, the nominations would be decided by the artist's scores in the challenge of the related category. These nominations would then be voted on by the general public.

#### Season 3 (2014)

In Season 3, the awards were split into a submission and a voting stage. A committee of all artists in the industry would submit up to four releases for nomination. The most submitted would became the official nominations, which would then be voted on by the general public.

#### Season 4 (2015)

In Season 4, the awards would reuse the same two stages as the season prior. However this time, the label executives would submit releases for their own artists and independent artists would submit releases for themselves. These would make up the official nominations, which would then be voted on by the general public.

#### Seasons 1, 5, 6, 7 and 8 (2017-2019)

From Seasons 6 to Season 8, the awards process would move onto the same standard as season 9, except there was no label submission stage in this awards process. In addition, the voting stage of the awards process was not decided by a committee, but by the general public. The Season 1 and Season 5 awards, which were held retroactively in 2018, also followed these guidelines. Prior to Season 8, the committee would select between three and five eligible releases to be submitted, and a minimum of three releases would be nominated. This was changed to between five and eight submissions and five nominations in Season 8.

## Categories and Awards

### Special Awards

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## Records

### Most Wins

The record for most Billboard Music Awards wins is held by Troye Sivan with a total of 22. This record was previously held by Lady Gaga with 20. The record for most wins in a single season is shared by P!nk, Doja Cat & Troye Sivan - each with a total of six wins during the Season 8, Season 10 and Season 11 award ceremonies respectively.

### Most Nominations

The record for most Billboard Music Awards nominations is held by Troye Sivan with 90. Sivan also currently holds the record for most nominations in a single season with 24 nominations during Season 11. Sivan ousted previous record holder P!nk who had earned 15 nominations during Season 8.

## List of Award Shows

* Season 1
* Season 2
* Season 3
* Season 4
* Season 5
* Season 6
* Season 7
* Season 8
* Season 9
* Season 10
* Season 11