Lil Baby wins top award of global Artist of the Year; Megan
Thee Stallion, Taylor Swift, and Roddy Ricch also honored
Apple® today announced the winners of the second annual Apple
Music® Awards, recognizing the best and boldest musicians of 2020
and their enormous impact on global culture. The Apple Music Awards
honor achievements in music across five distinct categories, and
winners are chosen through a process that reflects both Apple
Music’s editorial perspective and what customers around the world
are loving most. The winners for global Artist of the Year,
Songwriter of the Year, and Breakthrough Artist of the Year were
hand-selected by Apple Music’s global editorial team of world-class
experts and tastemakers, and the awards for Top Song of the Year
and Top Album of the Year are based on streaming data that is
reflective of what Apple Music subscribers have been listening to
this year.
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The second annual Apple Music Awards
recognizes the best and boldest musicians of 2020. (Photo: Business
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The Apple Music Awards celebration kicks off Monday, December
14, 2020, with a week of special performances, fan events,
interviews, and more, streaming worldwide on Apple Music, Apple
Music TV, and the Apple TV® app. Fans who are not already
subscribed to Apple Music can sign up for a three-month free trial
at apple.com/apple-music.
“The Apple Music Awards is our opportunity to recognize and
honor the incredible artists who we feel have deeply impacted and
inspired the world and our customers, and helped us feel connected
through music this year,” said Oliver Schusser, Apple’s vice
president of Apple Music and Beats®. “We have an exciting week of
music planned in December and are very much looking forward to
celebrating together with these artists and their fans.”
And the winners are…
Artist of the Year: Lil Baby
In 2020, Lil Baby fully arrived as one of hip-hop’s biggest
names, with billions of global streams and multiple tracks from “My
Turn” topping the Apple Music charts. With his deeply moving and
timely release, “The Bigger Picture,” he cemented his place as the
indisputable, authentic voice of youth culture. His performance of
the track at Apple Music’s Rap Life Live event was in itself a
standout moment of 2020. Lil Baby has been an intriguing voice
since his debut mixtape in 2017 — but 2020 is the year he became an
undeniable global star.
Lil Baby said: “This year has changed me a lot. Now that I’m an
artist, I feel like my voice can get heard through my music and I
needed to say something. And my fans listened. So thank you to my
fans and thank you to Apple Music for giving me a special way to
connect to my fans.”
Breakthrough Artist of the Year: Megan Thee Stallion
With two No. 1 singles and a highly anticipated debut album on
the way, it is safe to say Houston rapper Megan Thee Stallion is
owning 2020. Her collaboration with Cardi B on “WAP” and with
Beyoncé on the “Savage” remix have collectively been played on
Apple Music more than 300 million times globally. The Apple Music
Up Next alum is experiencing the kind of breakthrough year that
defines the distinction, and she is just getting started.
Megan Thee Stallion said: “I am so excited to be the
Breakthrough Artist of the Year. This is a really big
accomplishment for me. Apple Music has been rocking with me for so
long, even before making me an Up Next artist, and I am just very
appreciative and very grateful. I will forever love ya’ll as much
as ya’ll love me.”
Songwriter of the Year: Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift is without a doubt one of music’s preeminent and
most decorated songwriters, and “folklore” is no exception. Written
and recorded in isolation during the first few months of the
COVID-19 pandemic, “folklore” instantly topped the Apple Music
albums chart and set the record for the most streamed pop album on
release day. With its wistful third-person stories about love
triangles, ghosts, and trauma, “folklore” is a lyrical
masterpiece.
Taylor Swift said: “Winning Songwriter of the Year in any
capacity in any year would be so exciting, but I think it’s really
special this particular year because songwriting was the one thing
that kept me connected to my fans. It means a lot to me because the
way that fans respond to the songs I write, and the emotional
exchange, is what has really kept me going this year. So I really
want to say thank you to the fans for that, and to everyone at
Apple Music, thank you for everything that you do.”
Top Song of the Year: “The Box” by Roddy Ricch
Roddy Ricch’s breakout, “The Box,” was the year’s biggest and
most popular single, accumulating more than 460 million Apple Music
streams worldwide to date, launching countless memes, and topping
the charts for more weeks than any other song in 2020.
Top Album of the Year: “Please Excuse Me for Being
Antisocial” by Roddy Ricch
Following the success of “The Box,” the Compton rapper’s debut
album, “Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial,” has run up more
than 1.5 billion Apple Music streams worldwide since its
release.
Roddy Ricch said: “My first phone was the iPhone®. It’s crazy
making music could get me to the point where a platform like Apple
could honor me or put me on a pedestal. I just appreciate Apple
Music to the farthest extent. Winning this award motivates me to
work even harder. This is confirmation that I am on the right track
and doing what I gotta do to be the greatest in my own right.”
About the Apple Music Awards
Apple has designed a series of physical awards that represent
the extraordinary craftsmanship integral to creating music. Each
award features Apple’s custom silicon wafer suspended between a
polished sheet of glass and a machined and anodized aluminum body.
The result of this multi-month process, before it is sliced into
hundreds of individual chips, is stunning and distinctive. In a
symbolic gesture, the same chips that power the devices that put
the world’s music at our fingertips sit at the very heart of the
Apple Music Awards.
About Apple Music
Apple loves music. With iPod® and iTunes®, Apple revolutionized
the music experience by putting a thousand songs in your pocket.
Today, Apple Music takes this to the ultimate with over 70 million
songs, thousands of playlists, and daily selections from the
world’s best music experts, including all of the artists and hosts
broadcasting daily across its Apple Music 1, Apple Music Hits, and
Apple Music Country global live streams. Since 2015, Apple Music
has welcomed tens of millions of subscribers in 167 countries.
Streaming seamlessly to iPhone, iPad®, iPod®, Apple Watch®, Apple
TV, Mac®, HomePod®, and CarPlay®, Apple Music is the most complete
music experience on the planet. Apple Music is also available on
popular smart TVs, smart speakers, Android and Windows devices, and
more — as well as online at music.apple.com.
Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction
of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the world in
innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV.
Apple’s five software platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and
tvOS — provide seamless experiences across all Apple devices and
empower people with breakthrough services including the App Store,
Apple Music, Apple Pay, and iCloud. Apple’s more than 100,000
employees are dedicated to making the best products on earth, and
to leaving the world better than we found it.
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