Taylor Swift didn’t attend the 2024 Billboard Music Awards in particular person, however she nonetheless took the time to share a particular message with the viewers.
The pop star, 34, prerecorded a video for the Thursday, December 12, awards present, the place she made historical past after taking dwelling 10 wins. The brand new wins deliver her whole Billboard awards to 49, making her BMA’s high winner of all time.
“I simply need to say hello and thanks to the Billboard Awards and thanks to the followers as a result of Billboard is counting your stuff, they’re counting what you hearken to, the albums that you just’re obsessed with,” she mentioned in her acceptance speech. “And so I rely these as fan awards since you guys are those who care about our albums and are available see us in live performance.”
She continued: “And every little thing that’s occurred with the Eras Tour and the Tortured Poets Division, I simply need to say thanks. It means the world to me that you just guys have embraced the issues I’ve made and the truth that you care a lot.”
Swift, who turns 35 on Friday, December 13, mentioned she noticed the award as the right reward.
“That is like, the nicest early birthday current you can have given me. So thanks very a lot. I find it irresistible. It’s precisely what I wished.”
billboard.com The 2024 Billboard Music Awards are about to hit your TV screens. One of many greatest nights in music, the annual BBMAs honor the 12 months’s greatest artists, albums, songs, producers and songwriters, newcomers and music legends throughout a number of genres, primarily based on information that tracks artist’s efficiency on the Billboard Charts. In 2023, Taylor Swift […]
Swift was up for 17 Billboard Music awards this 12 months, making her the most-nominated lady and second most-nominated artist behind Zach Bryan, who acquired 21 nods.
Swift’s nominations included High Artist, High Feminine Artist, High Billboard 200 Artist, High Scorching 100 Artist, High Scorching 100 Songwriter, High Scorching 100 Producer, High Streaming Songs Artist, High Radio Songs Artist, High Track Gross sales Artist, High Billboard World 200 Artist, High Billboard World (Excl. U.S.) Artist, High Billboard 200 Album for 1989 (Taylor’s Model) and The Tortured Poets Division, High Radio Track, High Billboard World 200 Track and High Billboard World (Excl. U.S.) Track for “Merciless Summer season” and High Collaboration for “Fortnight” that includes Publish Malone.
Forward of the awards present, Swift was tied with Drake for essentially the most Billboard Music Awards wins by any artist, with 39 every. The rapper, 38, was nominated in eight classes this 12 months and confronted off towards Swift in three: High Artist, High Billboard 200 Artist and High Billboard 200 Album.
Taylor Swift performs on the 2019 Billboard Music Awards Ethan Miller/Getty Photographs
Swift’s digital look on the Billboard Music Awards comes days after she concluded her record-breaking Eras Tour in Vancouver on Sunday, December 8. The enterprise kicked off in Glendale, Arizona, in March 2023, in the end spanning 5 continents and grossing greater than $2 billion with a complete of 149 concert events in entrance of a mixed 10.1 million followers.
Throughout her Friday, December 6, present in Vancouver, Swift mirrored on her journey over the previous two years.
“I’ve by no means performed extra reveals on tour or toured longer than I’ve with the Eras Tour,” she instructed the viewers. “There are such a lot of causes for that, like, no one’s backstage saying, ‘You gotta do extra reveals.’ I made a decision to make this tour the longest I’ve ever accomplished as a result of you have got made this really feel like a lot greater than a live performance tour in so some ways.”
John Shearer/TAS24/Getty Photographs Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour has made headlines not just for its record-breaking world success but additionally for its plethora of viral moments. Swift kicked off her most formidable live performance tour but with back-to-back reveals in Glendale, Arizona, in March 2023. Her second evening of performances gave followers one of many first […]
She continued, “I’ve been occurring tour since I used to be 15 years outdated, and this has felt completely different in each single approach. It’s felt like this escape to a planet the place nothing however pleasure and keenness and togetherness and camaraderie exists each evening popping out to those crowds.”
Swift added that every Eras live performance allowed her to “relive [her] favourite reminiscences” from previous excursions whereas concurrently discovering a approach to “make new” ones.
Earlier this week, Swift shared a sequence of pictures through Instagram from her last reveals. “It was uncommon. I used to be there. I bear in mind it. ♥️,” she captioned her Wednesday, December 11, put up, quoting lyrics from her hit track “All Too Effectively.”
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