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This year, the Weeknd leads as a finalist in 16 categories with the song “Blinding Lights” a finalist in five categories. Dbaby follows as a finalist in 11 categories. For the first time in 10 years, two artists Pop Smoke and Juice Wrld are finalists posthumously, with Pop Smoke as a finalist in 10 categories and Juice Wrld in seven categories.
Major awards for Drake and Pink
On Tuesday, Billboard announced Drake as the artist of the decade. The award is based on rankings from the Billboard Hot 100 song chart and the Top 200 albums tally from the 2010s, Billboard says. Previously, Drake has broken chart records with 45 songs hitting the Hot 100 Top 10s. Additionally, Drake holds the record for the most BBMA awards, having received 27 awards including 12 awards in 2019 alone.
Drake is “high on life” after it was announced that he’s being given
Billboard’s Artist of the Decade award later this month for his domination over the music industry.
The Shade Room captured photos from the rapper’s Instagram story Tuesday, including one from his celebration dinner with R&B legend
Ron Isley of The Isley Brothers.
Drake wrote, “Today was one of those days it doesn’t feel real. Waking up to artist of the decade then having dinner with my idol @ronaldisley and listening to the stories behind every song that shaped my love for emotional music and created my formula for a lot of my writing. High on life right now my g’z.”
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