Chris Willman Music WriterNo one had to wait for the Weeknd to clean up at Sunday’s Billboard Music Awards. With the evening telecast still more than six hours away, the show announced winners in 42 categories Sunday, with seven of those going to the Weeknd.The late Pop Smoke was the nearest runner-up in the pre-telecast awards, earning four.
Morgan Wallen, BTS, Bad Bunny and Megan Thee Stallion each got three.As is typical with modern music awards shows, the amount of time given over to performances on Sunday night’s NBC broadcast will far outweigh time allotted for acceptance speeches, leaving dozens of trophies destined to be awarded off the air.
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