Mary J. Blige‘s historic career is continuing to get more legendary.
Case in point, she is set to receive a major accolade at this year’s Billboard Music Awards.
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Today exclusively revealed the news that the ‘Be Without You’ singer is set to receive the Icon Award. The award “recognizes outstanding artists who have achieved excellence on the Billboard Charts and have made an indelible mark on music itself,” according to the show.
Blige shared that she was touched to be honored with the award, saying in a statement:
“My career has been such an incredible and unexpected journey that has included many turns into avenues I never could have imagined like acting, producing, launching businesses and now even my own music festival.”
“Through it all, I always one way or another gravitated back to my first love, music. To be recognized in this way at this moment, with the Icon Award at the Billboard Music Awards, is an incredible honor and one that I am truly humbled by.”
Since being introduced in 2011, the Icon Award has been given to the likes of Neil Diamond, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Jennifer Lopez, Celine Dion, Cher, Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, and Garth Brooks.
The Billboard Music Awards mark Blige’s second major show this year. She previously performed at the Super Bowl alongside Dr. Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, and Kendrick Lamar.
Well deserved queen! #9kmila could never ever ever ever!!!
Lmaooooooo, yaaaaas 🤳🏽💋
Mary is a Queen well deserved
camicky cabelly got ZERO nominations this year and her latest album FLOPPED selling only 9,000 copies 😂 that’s less than my community college. her fans got all that mouf but can’t even support the racist rat when she needs it most. i’m glad she flopped. all she’s got is that fake plaque to hold on to. she’s DONE ⚰️ her fans cursed her, and we love to see it. the silence is sooo loud 🤣 FLOP BTCH
bro achive somthing in live all you words are shpwing that you are in loser in real life
Mary is really establishing her legendary status. The other girls simply aren’t able. She deserves this and so much more! QUEEN!
hope mariah carey dont come on stage and slap the sht out mary j. blige.
lmao you might just be our resident loon now that Clownkson was forced into retirement by 9kmilla
Congrats queen can’t name any other female artist who first 8 albums went multiplatinum 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Okurrrrrrr lol ❤️👑🎶🔥👠😎🤳🏽✅💯💋
put Super Bowl Dr. Dre up
and what he has to say about will smith smacking chris rock. cause he was punched in his face at the vibe awards
It’s going down. I’m so happy for her well deserved !! She has an amazing voice!! The Breakthrough is my favorite album form her.
Ugh ***from
spell check not needed. this TGJ . not harvard.com
So she can retire now? 🥴🥴🥴🥴
STFU trañny and use one account.
Retire for what? Worry about your flop fave struggling to sell albums so early in her career. Queen MJB never sold 9k in her first week.
Keep hating she could has her own 3 day sold out festival in Atlanta making 400,000 per episode on power and has her own production studio for movies and tv she could 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Flavor Mary! 🤳🏽💋 You’ve been an ICON to me since You Remind Me, which happens to be one of the best songs EVER! 💯 You’re the real deal….a beautiful, super talented GEM of an artist! And your pen game is crazy, one of the best songwriters! Keep being you, the Queen 👑 ❤️
Her voice is meh… tasteless music 💅🏾 Diva is always rightttttt. I know that’s righttttt👠💋
You truly have LOST your mind 🤣 Wasn’t it YOU that was saying you loved Flopmila’s new album? Lmaoooooooooooo, you have horrible taste in music 🤣 Mary has one of the BEST voices! People like to say some artists have the voices of angels, but Mary is a TRUE angel 💯 Mary can sing joy AND pain, happiness AND sadness….and sometimes at the same time! Her ad-libs and riffs are second to NONE and come from the LORD….it doesn’t have to be technically perfect, it’s coming from the SOUL 🤳🏽 I can listen to Mary’s voice all day, Camicky can dream about it lol 💋
That’s dope!