The Billboard Music Awards are again Sunday night time, this 12 months airing within the November window often reserved for the American Music Awards.
However whereas the 2022 version of the BBMAs aired on NBC, the 2023 Billboard Music Awards received’t be televised. As a substitute, performances and awards celebrations will happen from numerous areas all over the world, together with artists’ tour stops in addition to different customized venues.
Music followers can catch the entire motion on the BBMAs and Billboard social channels in addition to through BBMAs.watch. The present begins at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. Earlier than the performances start, the BBMAs will current unique interviews and behind the scenes content material beginning at 8 a.m. PT and reveal choose winners from 2-5 p.m. PT.
The 2023 BBMAs will function performances from Morgan Wallen, David Guetta and Bebe Rexha, Karol G, Tate McRae, Stray Children, NewJeans, Peso Pluma and Mariah Carey, who will ship the primary awards present efficiency of her vacation hit, “All I Need for Christmas Is You,” an “Aspen-inspired,” “surprise-filled,” the BBMAs teased, spectacle that’s artistic directed by Debbie Allen.
Carey, who’s at present on her Merry Christmas One and All tour, will even be honored with the Billboard Chart Achievement Award for her chart-topping vacation track.
Wallen, who’s up for 16 awards after touchdown 17 entries as a finalist this 12 months, probably the most for a male performer, in a tie with SZA for the second most nods of any artist this 12 months, will carry out “98 Braves” with an viewers that includes members of the 1998 Atlanta MLB workforce on the Braves’ present dwelling of Truist Park in Atlanta.
Rexha and Guetta, who’re up for 3 Billboard Music Awards for his or her work along with Guetta up for a further two BBMA prizes, will carry out “I’m Good (Blue)” and “One in a Million.”
Peso Pluma, who’s a first-time finalist for 5 awards, will ship a boxing-inspired “Rubicon” efficiency, full with an look by fan Mike Tyson.
McRae and Stray Children will make their BBMA debuts, with McRae performing her track “grasping” and Stray Children delivering two tracks: “S-Class” and “LALALALA.”
And NewJeans, additionally first-time finalists for 5 awards and making their U.S. awards present debut on the BBMAs, will carry out “Tremendous Shy” and “OMG.”
Along with the performers, Ludacris, T.I. and Jermaine Dupri are set to look throughout the awards present.
Taylor Swift leads the 2023 BBMA finalists, with nods in 20 classes. Drake, who holds the report for many BBMA wins with 34, is a finalist in 14 classes, whereas The Weeknd and Zach Bryan are every up for 13 awards, scoring 16 and 14 entries as finalists, respectively. Luke Combs is a 10-time finalist.
Swift, Wallen, SZA, Drake and Combs are all up for prime artist.
Swift is probably the most adorned feminine BBMAs artist of all time with 29 wins and will surpass Drake because the winningest BBMA artist of all time if she wins 5 awards this 12 months. And if she wins prime artist, she would tie Drake for probably the most prime artist wins with three.
The next artists are first-time finalists in a number of classes and will win their first Billboard Music Award: Bailey Zimmerman, Coi Leray, Fifty Fifty, Fuerza Regida, Grupo Frontera, Jelly Roll, Ice Spice, Metro Boomin, NewJeans, Pluma and Oliver Anthony.
Finalists are decided by year-end efficiency metrics on the Billboard charts.
See the total checklist of this 12 months’s BBMA finalists right here.
The Billboard Music Awards added 9 new awards this 12 months, together with prime Sizzling 100 songwriter, prime Sizzling 100 producer, prime rock duo/group, prime world Ok-pop artist, prime Ok-pop tour, prime Ok-pop album, prime world Ok-pop track, prime Afrobeats artist and prime Afrobeats track.
The Billboard Music Awards are produced by Dick Clark Productions. DCP is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a three way partnership between Penske Media Company and Eldridge that additionally owns The Hollywood Reporter.
