The 2024 Billboard Music Awards (2024 BBMAs) was held in a non-face-to-face format on the morning of the 13th (Korean time). Like last year’s awards ceremony, this awards ceremony was not broadcast live but was pre-recorded and released.
the star of the awards ceremony that day was, of course, Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift won a total of 10 categories on this day, including ‘Top Artist’, ‘Top Female Artist’, ‘Top Billboard 200 Artist’, ‘Top Hot 100 Artist’, ‘Top Hot 100 Songwriter’, ‘Top Streaming Song Artist’, and ‘Top Radio Song Artist’. did it
In particular, Taylor Swift became the singer with the most awards at the Billboard Music Awards of all time, winning a total of 49 trophies at the Billboard Music Awards alone.
The performance of K-pop singers was also notable. First, at the awards ceremony that day, Stray Kids and Seventeen appeared on stage as performers and attracted attention.
Stray Kids performed ‘Chik Chik Boom’ and ‘Jam’, while Seventeen captured the hearts of fans around the world by performing ‘Love, Money, Fame’ with their own charm.
Awards in the four K-pop categories that were newly established last year also continued. Here, BTS’ Jungkook won two awards, winning ‘Top K-Pop Album’ and ‘Top Global K-Pop Song’. However, Jungkook was further disappointed when he lost out in the ’Top Song Sales Artist’ category, for which he was also nominated. The trophy in that category went to country music singer and rapper Shaboozey.
Stray Kids was named in the ‘Top Global K-Pop Artist’ category. In response, Stray Kids expressed their feelings in a video, saying, “We are truly grateful to Billboard for giving us this honorable award this year.” He then expressed his extraordinary love for his fans, saying, “I think I was able to win precious awards and stand on such a big stage this year because of Stay (fandom name),” and “It’s all thanks to Stay.”
However, the honor of winning the ‘Top Duo Group’ category, for which Stray Kids was nominated, went to the Mexican band Fuerza Regida.
Seventeen was honored with the award in the ‘Top K-Pop Tour’ category. SEVENTEEN also said in their acceptance speech via video, “We always tried to show good music and performance,” and “Once again, we would like to thank Carat and everyone who loved the SEVENTEEN tour.”
He then expressed his ambition,“We will continue to be seventeen who delivers good energy and happiness through music.”
Meanwhile,the Billboard Music Awards are considered one of the three major American pop music awards ceremonies,along with the American Music Awards and the Grammy Awards.At this year’s awards ceremony,Stray Kids and Seventeen were selected as performers.