Drake beats Adele s Billboard Music Awards record (Lead)
Las Vegas May 22 (IANS) Rapper-singer Drake took home 13 honours surpassing Grammy winner Adele s mark as the artiste with the most Billboard Music Awards wins in one night.
It s crazy that we re all here on earth for a limited amount of time and we gotta show love while we re here he said on stage reports billboard.com.
He even praised actress Vanessa Hudgens. Vanessa Hudgens you look incredible tonight.
Hudgens acknowledged that shortly afterward by asking if she was on the invite list for Drake s afterparty.
Drake won Top Hot 100 Artist Top Billboard 200 Artist and Top Rap Artist and took home awards for song sales song streams and several rap and R&B categories.
The evening s final honour Top Artist also went to him that helped him to overtake Adele s previous record of 12 in 2012.
Life is like toilet paper he said while accepting his final award. Either you re on a roll or taking sh** from a******s.
Singer Beyoncé Knowles earned Top Female Artist Zayn Malik was awarded Top New Artist and Blake Shelton (Country) Beyoncé (R&B) Twenty One Pilots (Rock) Juan Gabriel (Latin) The Chainsmokers (Dance/Electronic) and Lauren Daigle (Christian) and Kirk Franklin (Gospel) won top artist honours in their respective genres.
Twenty One Pilots and Beyoncé were also big winners on the night with five awards while The Chainsmokers earned four reports billboard.com.
Singer Cher was presented with the Icon Award and she went back in time with her iconic songs Believe and If I could turn back time.
Rapper Nicki Minaj opened the show with a star-studded medley.
Singers Camila Cabello and Miley Cyrus delivered the live debuts of their new singles -- Cabello s first solo song since leaving Fifth Harmony group an emotional-yet-brief I have questions and a heated-up Crying in the club and Cyrus s comeback release Malibu.
It was Hudgens first year as a host. She was joined by veteran host Ludacris.
Hudgens showed off her rapping skills with cappella versions of singer Celine Dion s Power of love and Minaj s verse from Monster.
Dion performed her iconic song My heart will go on 20 years after its initial prominence as the main song from the blockbuster Titanic.
Diddy also took the stage to pay tribute to The Notorious B.I.G. on what would have been the rapper s 45th birthday and debuted the trailer for his upcoming Bad Boy Records documentary Can t Stop Won t Stop.
Singer Bruno Mars got passionate with his latest single Versace on the floor as the show went towards its conclusion.
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