The Billboard Music Awards is one of the three major music awards events in the United States.
The Weeknd is the artist with the most nominations for the Billboard Music Awards of 2022, which will take place at the "MGM Grand Garden Arena" in Las Vegas, for the first time since 2019, on Sunday, May 15.
The Weeknd is nominated in 17 categories, including the Top Artist, Top Male Artist and Top Artist of the Hot 100 categories. His collaboration with Ariana Grande in the "Save Your Tears" remix is ​​nominated for six awards.
Doja Cat is the woman with the most nominations at the Billboard Music Awards 2022, 14 in total, and is claiming, among other things, the awards for Top Artist, Top Female Artist and Top Artist of the Hot 100.
The "Planet Her" album is nominated for two awards, while the Grammy-winning song "Kiss Me More", with the participation of SZA, is nominated for the Top Song of the Hot 100 and the Top Collaboration, as well as in the new category of Top Viral Song.
Justin Bieber, Kanye West and Olivia Rodrigo each have 13 nominations.
Justin Bieber is the third highest-grossing artist in Billboard Music Awards history, having won 21 awards in the past. Only Drake (29 awards) and Taylor Swift (25 awards) are ahead. All three artists are finalists in many categories this year, so that ranking may change.
Bieber has received two nominations in both the Top Collaboration category and the Top R&B Song category. Kanye West monopolizes four of the five nominations for both Top Christian Song and Top Gospel Song.
Drake has been nominated for 11 Billboard Music Awards 2022, including the Top Artist, Top Male Artist, Billboard 200 Top Artist and Hot 100 Top Artist Awards. He is nominated for the Billboard Top 200 Album the "Certified Lover Boy".
Dua Lipa and Ed Sheeran are following with nine nominations. The Kid LAROI has eight nominations, while Taylor Swift, BTS and Givēon have received seven nominations. BTS are nominated for the title of Top Band or Duet.
Taylor Swift is the most award-winning female artist of all time at the Billboard Music Awards with 25 awards and has garnered two nominations for Top Country Album this year with "Fearless (Taylor's Version)" and "Red (Taylor's Version)".