Janet Jackson is ready to obtain the Icon Award on the 2025 American Music Awards, the place she may also carry out for the primary time on TV since 2018.
Jackson, who has received 11 American Music Awards over the course of her 50 years within the music trade, can also be a Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame inductee, five-time Grammy winner and two-time Emmy winner who has bought greater than 180 million albums worldwide. The chart-topper is considered one of solely 4 artists to have a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 within the Eighties, ’90s, ’00s and ’10s, alongside Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand and U2.
Jackson’s “Somebody to Name My Lover” single off of her 2001 album All for You just lately skilled a TikTok resurgence, with the music returning to the Billboard charts, reaching No. 3 on the R&B digital songs chart and attaining a 1,400 p.c achieve in year-to-date U.S. on-demand streams in accordance with Luminate.
Her breakthrough third album Management, which just lately celebrated its thirty ninth anniversary, was the primary by a girl to yield 5 high 10 singles on the Billboard Scorching 100 and follow-up Rhythm Nation 1814 is thus far the one album to spawn seven top-five charting songs on the Billboard Scorching 100.
Jackson’s efficiency will happen through the subsequent leg of her Vegas residency Janet Jackson: Las Vegas, which launched in December 2024, with six reveals going down on the Resorts World Theatre at Resorts World Las Vegas from Could 21-31.
Jackson beforehand acquired the Billboard Music Awards Icon Award in 2018, the place she carried out a medley of “Nasty,” “If” and “Throb” and delivered a speech in assist of the #MeToo and #TimesUp actions.
On the BBMAs, Jackson mentioned, partly, “I consider that for all of our challenges, we reside at an excellent second for historical past. It’s a second when in the end, girls have made it clear that we are going to not be managed, manipulated or abused. I stand with these girls and with these males equally outraged by discrimination who assist us in coronary heart and thoughts. That is additionally a second when our public discourse is loud and harsh. My prayer is that weary of such noise, we flip again to the supply of all calmness — that supply is God. All the things we lack, God has in abundance: compassion, sensitivity, endurance and a boundless love.”
The 2025 American Music Awards, hosted by Jennifer Lopez are set to air reside on CBS and Paramount+ from the Fontainebleau Las Vegas on Memorial Day, Monday Could 26 at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT.
Fan voting for the AMAs is open till Thursday at 11:59:50 p.m. PT besides within the classes of collaboration of the yr and social music of the yr, each of which might be open for internet voting by the primary half-hour of the AMAs. Kendrick Lamar leads this yr’s nominations with 10 nods.
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