Taylor Swift Has Lots Of Billboard Music Awards Nominations
On Thursday (October 26), Dick Clark Productions and Billboard announced the finalists for this year’s Billboard Music Awards. Year-end performance metrics on the Billboard charts determine the winners. The 2023 awards show will roll out across BBMAs and Billboard social channels and BBMAs.watch on Sunday, November 19. Performers will be revealed daily on BBMA social channels starting Monday, November 6.
Taylor Swift is a finalist in 20 categories, the most of any artist this year, giving her the opportunity to surpass Drake for the most wins of all time. The “Anti-Hero” singer is a finalist in the following categories: Top Artist, Top Female Artist, Top Billboard 200 Artist, Top Hot 100 Artist, Top Hot 100 Songwriter, Top Hot 100 Producer, Top Streaming Songs Artist, Top Radio Songs Artist, Top Song Sales Artist, Top Billboard Global 200 Artist, Top Billboard Global (Excl. U.S.) Artist, Top Country Artist, Top Country Female Artist, Top Billboard 200 Album (Midnights), Top Country Album (Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)), Top Hot 100 Song (“Anti-Hero”), Top Streaming Song (“Anti-Hero”), Top Radio Song (“Anti-Hero”), Top Selling Song (“Anti-Hero”), and Top Billboard Global 200 Song (“Anti-Hero”).
How Swift Can Surpass Drake
If the 33-year-old singer-songwriter should win Top Artist, she will tie Drake for the most Top Artist wins with a total of 3. She has topped the Billboard 200 with her 11th and 12th No. 1 albums, Midnights and Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), with the latter surpassing Barbra Streisand for the most No. 1 albums among women in the history of the chart. The record-breaker placed four concurrent albums in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 in July — the first time in nearly 60 years that a living artist had as many as four titles in the top 10 at the same time. Swift also charted 11 albums on the Billboard 200 at the same time — becoming the first woman and first living soloist to have 11 albums on the chart simultaneously. Additionally, Swift upped her count to 42 career top 10s — the most among women in the chart’s history (through the 2023 BBMAs eligibility period).
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During the tracking year, Swift also became the only living act with six titles in the top 20 at the same time, the only act to have placed nine simultaneous albums in the top 40, and the only living act with 10 of the top 100. Her Midnights smash hit, “Anti-Hero,” spent eight weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it her longest-ruling chart-topper, surpassing the seven-week No. 1 run of “Blank Space.”
