Last year’s winner, P!nk, was the youngest recipient to date at 41. The first three recipients were male, but since then, Brooks is the only male honoree.Īt 51, Blige is right in the age range of past Icon Award recipients. She is the seventh woman to receive the Icon Award. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 (“Family Affair,” which topped the chart for six weeks in 2001). 1 albums on the Billboard 200 ( Share My World, Love & Life, The Breakthrough and Growing Pains) and one No. (They would be nominated in the category of outstanding variety special (live).)īlige has amassed four No. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem and Kendrick Lamar. Blige is likely to receive her first Emmy nomination this year for her participation in the all-star Super Bowl Halftime Show in February alongside Dr.
In 2017, she became the first person in Oscar history to be nominated for acting and songwriting in the same year, for her work in Mudbound. To be recognized in this way at this moment, with the Icon Award at the Billboard Music Awards, is an incredible honor and one that I am truly humbled by.”īlige won the 1995 Billboard Music Award for R&B album of the year and scooped up nine awards at the 2006 show.īlige has won nine Grammys. “Through it all, I always one way or another gravitated back to my first love, music. “My career has been such an incredible and unexpected journey that has included many turns into avenues I never could have imagined like acting, producing, launching businesses and now even my own music festival,” Blige said in a statement.
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