{"id":118857,"date":"2024-11-25T18:01:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T18:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/11\/25\/billboard-music-awards-return-taylor-swift-zach-bryan-are-top-nominees\/"},"modified":"2024-11-25T18:01:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T18:01:16","slug":"billboard-music-awards-return-taylor-swift-zach-bryan-are-top-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/11\/25\/billboard-music-awards-return-taylor-swift-zach-bryan-are-top-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Billboard&#8217; Music Awards return; Taylor Swift, Zach Bryan are top nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-11-25\/M_BBMA2024_112524.jpg\" alt><figcaption>dick clark productions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <em>Billboard<\/em> Music Awards are back, and <strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong> and<strong> Zach Bryan<\/strong> are the leading nominees.<\/p>\n<p>There are 72 categories at the BBMAs and Taylor has snagged 16 nominations; only Zach has more, with 18. Overall, Taylor is currently tied with <strong>Drake<\/strong>\u00a0with 39 BBMA wins, so she could surpass him this year and score the record for the most-awarded artist in the history of the show. Drake is up for eight awards this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morgan Wallen<\/strong>, who won the most\u00a0awards last year \u2014 11 \u2014 has 15 nominations. First-time nominee <strong>Sabrina Carpenter<\/strong> has nine, including Top Artist. Other first-time finalists include <strong>Teddy Swims<\/strong>,<strong> Benson Boone<\/strong>,<strong> Shaboozey <\/strong>and<strong> Chappell Roan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The BBMAs, hosted by actress and comedian <strong>Michelle Buteau<\/strong>, will air Dec. 12 at 8 p.m. ET\/PT on Fox and Fire TV channels, as well as on-demand on Paramount+. Performances will also be available at Billboard.com and the publication&#8217;s socials, as well as the BBMA social channels.<\/p>\n<p>The awards are based on performance metrics on <em>Billboard&#8217;<\/em>s multiple charts from last October to this October.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not gonna give you all 72 categories, but here are the nominees in some of the top ones:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top Artist<\/strong><br \/>Zach Bryan<br \/>Sabrina Carpenter<br \/>Drake<br \/>Taylor Swift<br \/>Morgan Wallen<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top New Artist<\/strong><br \/>Benson Boone<br \/>Tommy Richman<br \/>Chappell Roan<br \/>Shaboozey<br \/>Teddy Swims<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top Male Artist<\/strong><br \/>Zach Bryan<br \/>Luke Combs<br \/>Drake<br \/>Post Malone<br \/>Morgan Wallen<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top Female Artist<\/strong><br \/>Sabrina Carpenter<br \/>Billie Eilish<br \/>Chappell Roan<br \/>Taylor Swift<br \/>SZA<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top Duo\/Group<\/strong><br \/>blink-182<br \/>Coldplay<br \/>Fuerza Regida<br \/>Linkin Park<br \/>Stray Kids<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>dick clark productions The Billboard Music Awards are back, and Taylor Swift and Zach Bryan are the leading nominees. There are 72 categories at the BBMAs and Taylor has snagged 16 nominations; only Zach has more, with 18. Overall, Taylor is currently tied with Drake\u00a0with 39 BBMA wins, so she<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/11\/25\/billboard-music-awards-return-taylor-swift-zach-bryan-are-top-nominees\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}