Billboard Music Award for Top Artist

*Billboard* Music Awards for Top Artist
Billboard Music Awards for Top Artist
Country	United States
Presented by	Billboard
First award	1993
Currently held by	Taylor Swift (2024)
Most wins	Taylor Swift (4)
Most nominations	Taylor Swift (10)
Website	billboardmusicawards.com

This article lists the winners and nominees for the Billboard Music Award for Top Artist. The award was first given in 1993, entitled #1 World Artist. It was retired during the 1994 ceremony, but returned the following year under the title Artist of the Year. It was later renamed to its current title in 2011. Taylor Swift is the artist with the most win in this category, won the award four times. Swift is also the most nominated artist in this category with ten nominations.

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The first artist to receive this honor was Whitney Houston in 1993 due to her massive success of The Bodyguard. Houston also took home a then record breaking 11 awards in one night.

Year	Artist	Ref
1993
1993	Whitney Houston	^{[citation needed]}
1994	—
1995
	TLC	^{[citation needed]}
	Boyz II Men
	Hootie & the Blowfish
	Real McCoy
1996
1996	Alanis Morissette	^{[citation needed]}
1997		^{[citation needed]}
	LeAnn Rimes	^{[citation needed]}
	Toni Braxton
	Jewel
	Spice Girls
1998
	Usher	^{[citation needed]}
	LeAnn Rimes
	Savage Garden
	Shania Twain
1999
	Backstreet Boys	^{[citation needed]}
	Britney Spears
	TLC
	Shania Twain

Year	Artist	Ref
2000
2000	Destiny's Child	^{[citation needed]}
2001		^{[citation needed]}
	Destiny's Child
	Jennifer Lopez
	Nelly
	Shaggy
2002
	Nelly	^{[citation needed]}
	Ashanti
	Creed
	Eminem
2003
	50 Cent	^{[citation needed]}
	R. Kelly
	Sean Paul
	Justin Timberlake
2004
	Usher	^{[citation needed]}
	Alicia Keys
	Maroon 5
	Outkast
2005
	50 Cent	^{[citation needed]}
	Mariah Carey
	Kelly Clarkson
	Green Day
2006
	Chris Brown	^{[citation needed]}
	Rascal Flatts
	Nickelback
	Sean Paul
2007	Rihanna ??? ??? ???

Year	Artist	Ref
2010	—
2011
	Eminem	^{[citation needed]}
	Justin Bieber
	Lady Gaga
	Rihanna
	Taylor Swift
2012
	Adele	^[1]
	Lady Gaga
	Lil Wayne
	Katy Perry
	Rihanna
2013
	Taylor Swift	^[2]
	Justin Bieber
	Maroon 5
	One Direction
	Rihanna
2014
	Justin Timberlake	^[3]
	Miley Cyrus
	Imagine Dragons
	Bruno Mars
	Katy Perry
2015
	Taylor Swift	^[4]
	Ariana Grande
	Katy Perry
	One Direction
	Sam Smith
2016
	Adele	^[5]
	Justin Bieber
	Drake
	Taylor Swift
	The Weeknd
2017
	Drake	^[6]
	Adele
	Beyoncé
	Justin Bieber
	The Chainsmokers
	Ariana Grande
	Shawn Mendes
	Rihanna
	Twenty One Pilots
	The Weeknd
2018
	Ed Sheeran	^[7]
	Drake
	Kendrick Lamar
	Bruno Mars
	Taylor Swift
2019
	Drake	^[8]
	Cardi B
	Ariana Grande
	Post Malone
	Travis Scott

Year	Artist	Ref
2020
	Post Malone	^[9]
	Billie Eilish
	Jonas Brothers
	Khalid
	Taylor Swift
2021
	The Weeknd	^[10]
	Drake
	Juice WRLD
	Pop Smoke
	Taylor Swift
2022
	Drake	^[11]
	Doja Cat
	Olivia Rodrigo
	Taylor Swift
	The Weeknd
2023
	Taylor Swift	^[12]
	Drake
	Luke Combs
	SZA
	Morgan Wallen
2024
	Taylor Swift	^[13]
	Zach Bryan
	Sabrina Carpenter
	Drake
	Morgan Wallen

Billboard Music Award for Top Artist

Winners and nominees

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Multiple wins and nominations

Wins

Nominations

References

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