It’s that time of year!
The Billboard Music Awards are back for its 2019 instalment and today the much anticipated nominees were revealed.
This year’s BBMAs host Kelly Clarkson as well as Dan + Shay were on-hand for the partial announcement this morning on the TODAY Show.
In the time since, the full list of finalists for the May 1st ceremony (which airs live on new network NBC from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas) has surfaced.
See who’s up for what after the jump…
Top Female Artists
Ariana Grande
Cardi B
Ella Mai
Halsey
Taylor Swift
Top Male Artists
Drake
Ed Sheeran
Post Malone
Travis Scott
XXXTentaction
Top Hot 100 Artists
Cardi B
Drake
Ariana Grande
Post Malone
Travis Scott
Top Hot 100 Songs
“I Like It,” Cardi B, Bad Bunny & J Balvin
“Lucid Dreams,” Juice Wrld
“Girls Like You,” Maroon 5 featurng Cardi B
“Better Now,” Post Malone
“Sicko Mode,” Travis Scott
Top Duo/Group
BTS
Imagine Dragons
Maroon 5
Panic! At the Disco
Dan + Shay
Top New Artist
Bazzi
Dua Lipa
Juice Wrld
Lil Baby
Ella Mai
Top Collaboration
“I Like It,” Cardi B, Bad Bunny & J Balvin
“Love Lies,” Khalid & Normani
“Girls Like You,” Maroon 5 featuring Cardi B
“Happier,” Marshmello & Bastille
“Psycho,” Post Malone featuring Ty Dolla $ign
Top Selling Song
“I Like It,” Cardi B, Bad Bunny & J Balvin
“In My Feelings,” Drake
“Without Me,” Halsey
“Shallow,” Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
“Girls Like You,” Maroon 5 featuring Cardi B
Top Social Artist
BTS
EXO
GOT7
Ariana Grande
Louis Tomlinson
Billboard Chart Achievement Award
Dan + Shay
Drake
Ariana Grande
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Dua Lipa
Top Billboard 200 Artist
Drake
Ariana Grande
Post Malone
Travis Scott
XXXTentacion
Top Streaming Songs Artist
Cardi B
Drake
Ariana Grande
Post Malone
XXXTentacion
Top Song Sales Artist
Drake
Ariana Grande
Imagine Dragons
Lady Gaga
Post Malone
Top Radio Songs Artist
Cardi B
Drake
Ariana Grande
Maroon 5
Post Malone
Top Song Sales Artist
Drake
Ariana Grande
Imagine Dragons
Lady Gaga
Post Malone
Top R&B Male Artist
Khalid
The Weeknd
XXXTentacion
Top R&B Artist
H.E.R.
Khalid
Ella Mai
The Weeknd
XXXTentacion
Top Touring Artist
Beyonce & JAY-Z
Bruno Mars
Ed Sheeran
Taylor Swift
Justin Timberlake
Top R&B Tour
Beyonce & JAY-Z
Donald Glover
Bruno Mars
Billboard Chart Achievement Award
Dan + Shay
Drake
Ariana Grande
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Dua Lipa
Top Billboard 200 Artist
Drake
Ariana Grande
Post Malone
Travis Scott
XXXTentacion
Top Streaming Songs Artist
Cardi B
Drake
Ariana Grande
Post Malone
XXXTentacion
Top Song Sales Artist
Drake
Ariana Grande
Imagine Dragons
Lady Gaga
Post Malone
Top Radio Songs Artist
Cardi B
Drake
Ariana Grande
Maroon 5
Post Malone
Top Song Sales Artist
Drake
Ariana Grande
Imagine Dragons
Lady Gaga
Post Malone
Top R&B Male Artist
Khalid
The Weeknd
XXXTentacion
Top R&B Artist
H.E.R.
Khalid
Ella Mai
The Weeknd
XXXTentacion
Top Touring Artist
Beyonce & JAY-Z
Bruno Mars
Ed Sheeran
Taylor Swift
Justin Timberlake
Top R&B Tour
Beyonce & JAY-Z
Donald Glover
Bruno Mars
These categories ? First off every category has the exact same nominees.
And since when is XXXTentacion an “R&B Artist”??
And how is Ariana nominated in all the “Top Artist..” awards but none of her songs are nominated in the songs categories?
This is goofy. At this point, the only seemingly legit award shows right now are BET Awarfs and Soul Train Awards.
You’d think they know better, but the billboard awards puts anybody black in the r&b category, regardless of what type of music they actually make. They’ve always gotten it wrong. The BET awards and Soul Train awards surpassed these bigger award shows a looong time ago.
@Whoops
I remember when they put Rihanna in the R&B category. I forgot what era it was but I was flabbergasted bc clearly she’s a pop artist. A fu**ing joke.
Exactly, I remember. And it was when Rihanna was making straight pop music, not an r&b influence in sight. Only Girl in the world, We Found Love, etc. and based on that music, they didn’t put her in the pop category. It didn’t make any sense. Rihanna is a pop artist. She belonged right alongside the Katy’s and Gaga’s of the world. R&b is Toni Braxton, Ledisi, Alicia, etc. Nominating any and every black artist like Rihanna and Xxxtentacion, takes away the recognition from artists who ACTUALLY make that music and the Traditional R&b artists the category really applies to get overlooked in the process. That’s what Tamar was trying to say when she discussed this years ago. And it also typecasts black people who are influencing a different genre, I.e., Fka twigs.
Billboard continues to disrespect R&B music by merging Hip-Hop and R&B like it is the same. It is not the same. Furthermore, there should be a category for Traditional R&B.
congrats to the nominees
the SHADE toward Miss Monae is INCREDIBLE BISH. and how tf did Timberlake get anywherw on here with that crap album & the Janet backlash? WTF
Janet’s negra nipple doesn’t care about you and it was her bright idea to pull her negra nipple out in the first place. Justin continues and will continue to always win. LOSER!
Ariana will get Atleast 5 or 6! Damn, she in every category except for a few. Cardi will get a few I imagine.
These shows will do Anything to the throw Beyonce and JayZ up in something ???
Show goes by sales so keep hating
billbords done lost their damn minds WOW
top r and b tour as a category looks random asf… carters must’ve wrote that check to keep their names relevant
So we gonna act like The “On The Run 2 Tour” didn’t gross $253 million over the summer ???
Whew chiiiiiile Beyoncé and husband always got y’all PRESSED LOL!
i said what i said….obviously Taylor will take TOP TOUR as ALWAYS so they created a category for ur fav
Why did you post the Top Tour and R&B Tour twice? To make it seem like Jay and Bey are nominated for more? ???. This site is wack. They didn’t get one single nomination for their duet album, but you bums posted their pic first in the headlines. This site continues to go downhill.
It goes by sales and they album flopped ???
Top selling song, top selling song artist, top billboard 200 album, top billboard 200 artist, top radio songs artist? The hell is with these categories?? It looks like Billboard, being about chart achievement, ran out of legitimate categories to make a 2-3 hour long show so they just made stuff up. ? And it’s all literally filled with the SAME 5 artists. The billboard awards have never been interesting. But What’s the point of even watching this?
how is there a top r&b male category and then a Top R&b artist . but not a female one. and the same males are in both. thats dumb
Top Female Artist is the first mentioned
The same 5 names
Nick achieves 100+ Billboard Hot 100 entries and she’s not recognised!?
“Queen” along with every single she released last year FLOPPED. These awards are about sales.
This to show u that y’all don’t know s*** about the Billboard award show. Billboard awards only focus on billboard chart performance: sales and how long a song or album charted. So this is why every song nominated is about sales.
LOOOOOOL at the children running up and down these comments talking ‘bout the same artists being nominated ?? Reading comprehension is KEY. The word TOP is not only a sexual position for you bottoms – it’s indicates THE MOST SALES. BIllboard is a SALES driven chart that factored in airplay LATER in its history. I CANNOT today ??????
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these are TRAAAAAAAASH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_RG1O5BhBU
Mariah has the best r&b album period. And she has sold more pure copies than the other r&b artists. This sh## is made up & fake. Some of these artists don’t even go in certain categories. This show is trash. They be creating awards for certain artists.
To save this atrocity and blasphemy, I need Cardi and Bruno to perform Please Me. For the culture
A song the make from an R. P*** sample bish please…nothing and no one can save that wack ass show.
What trash. I will watch next year’s show.
Where’s Icky Garbage?