The 2021 Billboard Music Awards has found its ICON Award recipient and its none other than P!NK.
Joining the likes of previous recipients including Garth Brooks, Cher, Neil Diamond, Celine Dion, Jennifer Lopez, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Janet Jackson and Mariah Carey, the prestigious ICON Award recognizes outstanding artists who have achieved excellence on the Billboard Charts and have made an indelible mark on music itself.
“As a little girl, I always dreamed about being a singer and sharing my love of music with the world,” says P!NK. “Years later, to receive the Billboard Music Awards Icon Award is hard to fathom! I feel so honored to join the ranks of music idols like Cher, Garth Brooks, Janet Jackson and Stevie Wonder. It’s a true ‘pinch me’ moment and I feel humbled and blessed.”
The three-time BBMA winner truly deserves this award, as she has a longstanding history on the Billboard Charts, spanning 22 years.
P!NK has tallied 33 career entries on the Billboard Hot 100, including 15 top 10s and four No. 1s: “Lady Marmalade” with Christina Aguilera, Lil’ Kim and Mya, in 2001; “So What” in 2008; “Raise Your Glass” in 2010; and “Just Give Me a Reason” featuring Nate Ruess, in 2013. She’s also accumulated eight Top 10 albums on the Billboard 200 chart, with her last three albums debuting at No. 1 (Hurts 2B Human in 2019, Beautiful Trauma in 2017, and The Truth About Love in 2012); AND also reached the No. 1 spot on the Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts with her collaboration with Kenny Chesney “Setting the World On Fire.”
Her “Beautiful Trauma” World Tour (2018-2019) became the highest-grossing tour by a woman in the 2010s and the second highest-grossing tour by a woman in Boxscore history and received Billboard Magazine’s Legend of Live and Tour of the Year Awards in 2019. The award-winning artist also was named Billboard Magazine’s Woman of the Year in 2013.
In addition to receiving the ICON Award, P!NK will also take the stage for a spectacular performance, her first since 2016.
Hosted by Nick Jonas, the 2021 Billboard Music Awards air LIVE from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday, May 23rd @ 8PM ET/5PM PT on NBC.
