Janet Jackson is about to obtain the Icon Award on the 2025 American Music Awards, the place she can even carry out for the primary time on TV since 2018.
Jackson, who has gained 11 American Music Awards over the course of her 50 years within the music trade, can be a Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame inductee, five-time Grammy winner and two-time Emmy winner who has offered greater than 180 million albums worldwide. The chart-topper is one in all solely 4 artists to have a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 within the Eighties, ’90s, ’00s and ’10s, alongside Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand and U2.
Jackson’s “Somebody to Name My Lover” single off of her 2001 album All for You not too long ago skilled a TikTok resurgence, with the music returning to the Billboard charts, reaching No. 3 on the R&B digital songs chart and attaining a 1,400 % achieve in year-to-date U.S. on-demand streams based on Luminate.
Her breakthrough third album Management, which not too long ago celebrated its thirty ninth anniversary, was the primary by a girl to yield 5 prime 10 singles on the Billboard Scorching 100 and follow-up Rhythm Nation 1814 is thus far the one album to spawn seven top-five charting songs on the Billboard Scorching 100.
Jackson’s efficiency will happen throughout the subsequent leg of her Vegas residency Janet Jackson: Las Vegas, which launched in December 2024, with six exhibits going down on the Resorts World Theatre at Resorts World Las Vegas from Might 21-31.
Jackson beforehand acquired the Billboard Music Awards Icon Award in 2018, the place she carried out a medley of “Nasty,” “If” and “Throb” and delivered a speech in help of the #MeToo and #TimesUp actions.
On the BBMAs, Jackson mentioned, partially, “I consider that for all of our challenges, we stay at a wonderful second for historical past. It’s a second when in the end, girls have made it clear that we are going to not be managed, manipulated or abused. I stand with these girls and with these males equally outraged by discrimination who help us in coronary heart and thoughts. That is additionally a second when our public discourse is loud and harsh. My prayer is that weary of such noise, we flip again to the supply of all calmness — that supply is God. Every little thing we lack, God has in abundance: compassion, sensitivity, endurance and a boundless love.”
The 2025 American Music Awards, hosted by Jennifer Lopez are set to air stay on CBS and Paramount+ from the Fontainebleau Las Vegas on Memorial Day, Monday Might 26 at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT.
Fan voting for the AMAs is open till Thursday at 11:59:50 p.m. PT besides within the classes of collaboration of the yr and social music of the yr, each of which might be open for internet voting via the primary half-hour of the AMAs. Kendrick Lamar leads this yr’s nominations with 10 nods.
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