As Billboard prepares to unveil its annual Energy 100 checklist in lower than a month — rating the music executives making the largest affect throughout an ever-changing trade — we thought we must always put some energy within the followers’ palms too. Trying again on the previous yr in music, who’s your 2022 Energy Artist?
Billboard has launched the brand-new Energy Artist 2022 – Fan Selection bracket, wherein music listeners choose the music star who made the largest affect final yr. Within the bracket beneath, we’re now all the way down to the High Two artists who dominated Billboard‘s 2022 year-end charts, making big strikes in streaming, touring, radio, album gross sales and past.
Within the seifinal spherical, we misplaced Dua Lipa and Doja Cat and narrowed issues all the way down to our ultimate, legends-only match-up: Nicki Minaj vs. Beyoncé.
Last-round voting is open now within the bracket beneath and can shut Wednesday, Jan. 18, at 2 p.m. ET. The winner of this inaugural bracket shall be revealed in Billboard’s 2023 Energy Subject alongside the chief Energy Listing. Will your favourite artist go all the way in which?
Alongside the Energy Artist 2022 bracket, Billboard can be including a peer-voted award to its annual Energy 100 rating of the music trade’s most influential executives. This new Energy Gamers’ Selection Award will honor the chief whose friends consider she or he had essentially the most affect throughout the music enterprise over the previous yr. Voting opened final week to all Billboard Professional members. For extra data, go right here. Each the 2022 Energy Artist and the Energy Participant’s Selection Award shall be unveiled within the Billboard Energy Subject.
So who shall be topped the primary fan-voted Energy Artist? Solely you’ll be able to resolve. Vote within the bracket beneath. (Reminder: Voting closes on Wednesday.)
