Billy Islish Triumphing with seven statuettes of US Music Awards

Billy Islish is the big winner of the American Music Awards this year. She won in all seven categories in which she was nominated, including the performer of the year, the Album of the Year – Hit Me Hard and Soft, and the Song of the Year – Birds of A Feather. The singer joined a video message and did not attend the ceremony because she is currently on tour in Europe.

Kendrick Lamar was nominated in eight categories, but won one prize – for a favorite hip -hop song for Not Like US, and SZA grabbed two statuettes for a favorite R&B song and a favorite R&B artist. Eminem also received two honors-for hip-hop artist and hip-hop album.

Among the winners of the evening was Becky G, who was selected as a Latin artist and Grace Abrams was the best new artist. Post Malone won for country performer and country songs, Doechi – for social song of the year for Anxiety, while Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars were awarded for the music video and collaboration of the year for the year Die with a smileS Bruno also grabbed the pop artist award, and Lady Gaga won the dance performer.

The host of the ceremony was Jennifer Lopez, who opened the evening with a performance that presents a mix of the hits of the year, including Billy Islish’s Birds of A Feather, Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter and Beyonce’s Texas Hold ‘Em.

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Janet Jackson received the 2025 icon award and made her first television participation in seven years, performing songs such as Someone to Call My Lover and All for You. « The dream of my family was not known. We were not raised like that. We have always had a special love for music, dance and singing, and glory came as a result of hard work and dedication, » Jackson said as he accepted his award, CNN quoted.

Benson Boone, Blake Shelton, Gloria Estefan, Gwen Stephanie, Lainy Wilson, Alex Warren and Rene Rap also took the stage at American Music Awards to present some of their biggest hits.

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