DRAKE broke the record for most Billboard Music Awards (BBMA) wins, taking home 12 awards including Top Artist. This brings his total number of Billboard wins to 27.

Aside from Top Artist, he took home the awards for: Top Male Artist, Top Billboard 200 Artist, Top Hot 100 Artist, Top Streaming Songs Artist, Top Song Sales Artist, Top Radio Songs Artist, Top Rap Artist, Top Rap Male Artist, Top Billboard 200 Album and Top Rap Album for Scorpion, and Top Streaming Song (Video) for “In My Feelings.”

Cardi B followed Drake for most wins of the night, including Top Rap Female Artist, Top Hot 100 Song, Top Selling Song, Top Radio Song, Top Collaboration and Top Rap Song. Her “Girls Like You” collaborators, Maroon 5, took home four awards including Top Hot 100 Song, Top Selling Song, Top Radio Song, and Top Collaboration.

Other multi-category winners include: Ella Mai (Top R&B Artist, Top R&B Female Artist, Top R&B Song), Ozuna (Top Latin Artist, Top Latin Album, Top Latin Song), Luke Combs (Top Country Artist, Top Country Male Artist, Top Country Album), Bad Bunny (Top Rap Song, Top Latin Song), Panic! At the Disco (Top Rock Album, Top Rock Song), Beyoncé (Top R&B Tour, Top Rap Tour), Jay-Z (Top R&B Tour, Top Rap Tour), BTS (Top Duo/Group, Top Social Artist), and The Chainsmokers (Top Dance/Electronic Artist, Top Dance/Electronic Album).

Lauren Daigle was the only artist to sweep every category she was nominated for, which included Top Christian Artist, Top Christian Album and Top Christian Song.

The two fan-voted award winners were BTS for Top Social Artist and Ariana Grande for Billboard Chart Achievement Award.

Aside from the awards, the show is known for its performances, and this year’s highlights included the world premiere of Taylor Swift’s “ME!” with Brendon Urie, Madonna’s augmented reality performance with Maluma for “Medellín,” and BTS’ “Boy With Luv” featuring Halsey

2019 BBMA Icon Award recipient Mariah Carey and BBMA Throwback Performer Paula Abdul both performed medley of their greatest hits — this was Abdul’s first performance at an awards show in 29 years.

Host Kelly Clarkson took the stage to sing her latest song “Broken and Beautiful” from the new family movie Ugly Dolls.

Additional performances throughout the night included K-Pop sensation BTS with Halsey, Ariana Grande, Ciara, and The Jonas Brothers, and soulful songs from Khalid Dan + Shay with Tori Kelly and Lauren Daigle.

Both Halsey and Panic! At the Disco took the stage twice in the night, performing solo and in collaborations with BTS and Taylor Swift, respectively.

Billboard Music Awards nominees and winners are based on key fan interactions with music, including album and digital song sales, streaming, radio airplay, touring and social engagement, tracked by Billboard and its data partners, including Nielsen Music and Next Big Sound. The awards are based on the chart period of March 23, 2018 through March 7, 2019. Since 1940, the Billboard charts have been the go-to guide for ranking the popularity of artists, songs and albums.

The 2019 Billboard Music Awards aired live on Blue Ant Entertainment on Thursday morning. There will be a rerun tonight at 10:35 p.m., tomorrow, May 4, at 8:50 p.m., and on May 5 at 1:30 p.m.

Blue Ant is available on SKYcable channels 53 (SD) and 196 (HD), SKYdirect channel 35, Destiny Cable channel 53, and Cablelink channel 37.

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