Billboard Music Awards, BMA Nominees, Winners, Pictures

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The Billboard Music Awards honors the best selling albums, singles and most popular performers on the current pop music charts.

Held each year since 1990, the awards were stalled in 2007 to launch a new Billboard Music Awards show in 2008.

Instead of an awards show, Billboard will honor significant chart busters from 2007 in their year-end issue — on newsstands and published online beginning December 14, 2007.

Stay tuned for more details on the 2008 Billboard Music Awards as they become available.

Billboard Music Awards Recap

The 2006 BMAs were televised live from the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas on FOX on Monday, December 4 at 8PM ET / 7PM Central.

Top nominees & winners included Nickelback, Mary J Blige, Rascal Flatts and T.I., each with five BMA nods this year. Other top performers with multiple nominations include Beyonce, Jamie Foxx, Nelly Furtado, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kenny Chesney and the phenomally successful soundtrack from "High School Musical".

Live performances were by Janet Jackson, Mary J. Blige, Ludacris, Gwen Stefani, The Fray, The Killers and Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas. Also honored for life-time achievement was the 2006 Billboard Century Award winner, singer Tony Bennett.

Elsewhere on the Web, check out more about the BMA's including picture galleries & video clips, related feature stories, interviews, performer bio's, and a bit of history & trivia behind the scenes at the Billboard Music Awards ...

Billboard - The official site of the award hosts including headline music news, tour dates of favorite artists, album reviews, pop music history, video clips, and related features including the Billboard Hot 100.

Billboard Music Awards - Wikipedia entry with a history of the BMA's, list of winners of the Billboard Century Award dating back to 1992, and related links.

2006 Billboard Music Awards Nominees & * Winners

Artist of the Year

* Chris Brown
Nickelback
Rascal Flatts

Male Artist of the Year

* Chris Brown
Ne-Yo
Sean Paul

Female Artist of the Year

*Rihanna
Beyoncé
Mary J. Blige

Duo/Group of the Year

* Nickelback
The Pussycat Dolls
Rascal Flatts

New Artist of the Year

* Chris Brown
The Fray
Ne-Yo

Album of the Year

* Carrie Underwood, Some Hearts
Nickelback, All the Right Reasons
Soundtrack, High School Musical

Pop Single of the Year

* Nelly Furtado, Promiscuous
Shakira, Hips Don't Lie
Sean Paul, Temperature

Soundtrack Album of the Year

* High School Musical
Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Walk the Line

R&B/Hip Hop Artist of the Year

* Mary J. Blige
Jamie Foxx
T.I.

Female R&B/Hip Hop Artist of the Year

* Mary J. Blige
Beyonce
Mariah Carey

R&B/Hip Hop Album of the Year

* Mary J. Blige, The Breakthrough
T.I., King
Jamie Foxx, Unpredictable

Rap Artist of the Year

* T.I.
Sean Paul
Yung Joc

Rap Album of the Year

* T.I., King
Lil Wayne, Tha Carter II
Eminem, Curtain Call: The Hits

Country Artist of the Year

* Carrie Underwood
Kenny Chesney
Rascal Flatts

Male Country Artist of the Year

* Kenny Chesney
Toby Keith
Tim McGraw

Female Country Artist of the Year

* Carrie Underwood
Faith Hill
Gretchen Wilson

Country Album of the Year

* Carrie Underwood, Some Hearts
Rascal Flatts, Me and My Gang
Kenny Chesney, The Road and the Radio

Rock Single of the Year

* Three Days Grace, Animal I Have Become
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dani California
Godsmack, Speak

Rock Album of the Year

* Nickelback, All the Right Reasons
James Blunt, Back to Bedlam
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stadium Arcadium