With over 300,000 votes cast, the time has finally arrived for the winners of the That Grape Juice End of Year Awards 2023 to be announced!

While some acts maintained a major lead, upon the penultimate cut-off point, the final list brought with it many last-minute surprises.

Check out the full list of winners below. Prepare yourselves for what awaits…and sound off!

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Nearly 10 years after landing her last Hot 100 chart-topper, Miley Cyrus – after experiencing a lukewarm era via the critically but not so commercially acclaimed ‘Plastic Hearts’ (2020) – stunned music lovers when she rebounded with her first single of 2023 and wound up owning the year’s longest-charting #1 hit by a female artist.

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Who run the world? Girls!

And in case you need a reminder, look no further than Forbes magazine’s 20th annual ‘World’s 100 Most Powerful Women’ list.

Published Tuesday (December 5), the ranking is billed as the definitive index of the “most inspirational female CEOs, entertainers, politicians, philanthropists and policy makers” who are making enduring impacts on and around the globe.

Featuring names like U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, CVS CEO Karen Lynch, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde, and others across business, philanthropy, and politics, this year’s entertainment category is lined with familiar faces that may surprise readers where they landed on the year-end tally.

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‘Last Time I Saw You’ hitmaker Nicki Minaj last saw her named printed at #3 behind Latto and Doja Cat on Billboard’s Year-End Top Rap Artists (Female) chart thanks to her 2022 hits ‘Super Freaky Girl,’ ‘Do We Have a Problem?,‘ and others.

This year, however, she’s hopped to the front of the line.

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As if 2023 hasn’t already sent Beyonce‘s crowded trophy case into overflow thanks to being the most-decorated singer in the history of the GRAMMYs, MTV VMAs, BET Awards, Soul Train Awards, and NAACP Image Awards respectively, now – courtesy of historic wins at the 2023 Billboard Music Awards (BBMAs) – the ‘Renaissance‘ diva is well on the way to claiming the same at that award show as well.

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The Soul Train Awards 2023 has announced its conductor – Keke Palmer!

Moments ago, organizers for this year’s installment of the celebration confirmed the media maven as the host of the ceremony.

What’s more, the lid has been lifted on who will be taking to stage on the night.

What are you waiting for? Join us after the jump…

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Hours after the unveiling of the 2024 GRAMMY nominations on Friday (November 10), the entertainment industry and its enthusiasts are still buzzing over music’s biggest night (and biggest honor).

Ahead of toasting the year’s best and brightest on February 4, 2024, the coveted tally of nods expectedly listed the likes of chart-toppers Taylor Swift, SZA, and Olivia Rodrigo as competitors for the ceremony’s top honors.

While jaws dropped to see some of the categories they were mentioned in and omitted from, fan groups of other major hitmakers like P!nk, Chloe Bailey, Latto, Travis Scott, Sam Smith, and Kylie Minogue are steam-pressed their favorites were placed in unexpected categories or totally shut out all togther.

Look inside to see who made That Grape Juice‘s list of ‘2024 GRAMMY Snubs and Surprises.’

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Only 43 acts in the 71-year history of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) can boast having 20 or more Platinum plaques for singles.

A certification bestowed for sales equivalence of 1 million units in the United States, the number of awards has historically eluded female acts even more as only 24% of the aforementioned club are ladies – a score upped recently by Pop princess Britney Spears.

The diva, who is currently rocking headlines with jaw-dropping revelations aboard her long-awaited memoir ‘The Woman In Me‘ (released October 24), has also rocked the RIAA with a slew of new certifications.

So many she’s in fact joined an exclusive club of female hitmakers.

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Doja Cat sees her name painted in top positions on the Billboard Hot 100 and the Billboard 200 thanks to the first-week commercial response to her fourth studio album, ‘Scarlet,’ and its breakout hit single ‘Paint the Town Red.’

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If the updated Hot 100 is anything to judge by, the top 10 premiere of Travis Scott‘s ‘K-Pop‘ last week was indeed the calm before the storm.

Look inside to see how cuts from his latest album, ‘Utopia,’ dominated the refreshed edition of the tally.

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Following their 2001 remake of the LaBelle classic ‘Lady Marmalade,’ GRAMMY-winning singers P!nk and Christina Aguilera went from topping charts to being #1 on each other’s sh*tlists – a feud most thought was put to rest in 2017 but was seemingly reignited in 2023 as the former promoted her latest album, February’s ‘Trustfall.‘

Despite “taking responsibility” for her seemingly unintentional role in reheating the beef, Xtina fans (affecionately called #Fighters) weren’t buying that P!nk wasn’t being intentionally shady when she referred to the ‘Fighter‘ singer as ‘not very nice’ and naming ‘Marmalade’ as one of the least favorite music videos shot over her career.

Aguilera remained mum during the height of the reignited drama, but seemingly broke her silence recently when she took to the ‘Call Her Daddy’ podcast.

Look inside to see what she said.

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The very week Donald Trump‘s alleged involvement in a hush-money scheme was set to make him the first U.S. president to be arrested and face criminal charges, the 76-year-old managed to also make history in an unexpected way: topping a Billboard chart.

Details inside.

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