Khalid and Normani Team Up for Pepsi Generations Performance of Their Hit Single LOVE LIES At the 2018 Billboard Music Awards
By: Macon Prickett May. 18, 2018
dick clark productions and NBC announced today that chart toppers Khalid and Normani will be teaming up for the Pepsi® Generations summer performance of their Billboard Hot 100 hit, "Love Lies."
Khalid and Normani will join previously announced performances from BTS, Camila Cabello, Kelly Clarkson, Ariana Grande, John Legend, Dua Lipa, Jennifer Lopez, Shawn Mendes and Christina Aguilera, featuring Demi Lovato, on a night filled with music's biggest names. It was also announced that global superstar Janet Jackson will receive this year's BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS ICON Award. Jackson will also take the stage for a highly anticipated performance of her greatest hits, marking her first performance on television in nine years. In addition to Pepsi's Summer Generations Performance at the Billboard Music Awards, Pepsi's summer campaign will feature the new limited-edition icon cans as a reminder to fans that Pepsi is on the pulse of what's hot in music.At just 20-years-old, Khalid has been on a hot streak since the release of his debut single "Location" in 2016. His breakout hit reached No. 2 on the Hot R&B Songs chart, and he's since followed it with eight other hits, including the No. 1 "Young Dumb & Broke," which spent 11 weeks atop the tally. He also scored a multi-format smash as a featured artist on Logic's "1-800-273-8255," alongside Alessia Cara, which hit No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. His debut album American Teen spent 12 weeks at No. 1 on the Top R&B Albums chart and hit No. 4 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart.
In 2018, Normani notched her first solo hit with "Love Lies," her collaboration with Khalid from the Love Simon soundtrack. The track reached the top 40 of the Pop Songs airplay chart and the top 10 of the Pop Digital Song Sales list. Of course, before "Love Lies," Normani scaled Billboard's charts as a member of the group Fifth Harmony, which earned four top 10-charting albums on the Billboard 200 and nine hits on the Pop Songs chart (including the No. 1 "Work From Home," featuring Ty Dolla $ign).
Five-time Grammy® nominated artist Khalid released "Location" before his high school graduation and it garnered over 1.52 million plays in less than two months, which led to his major label deal with Right Hand Music Group/RCA Records. Khalid's debut album, American Teen, has received mass critical acclaim with praise from The New York Times, TIME Magazine, Billboard, NYLON, and many more. Billboard stated, "...effortlessly excellent...the kid is still so young, but this body of work is BEYOND his years". Khalid has also performed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Good Morning America, The Late Late Show With James Corden, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, The Today Show, and at this year's SXSW where he won MTV's Woodie To Watch Award. Additionally, Khalid embarked on his first-ever headlining tour in both the U.S. and select European cities where he sold-out every single date before the album was even released. In addition to his own headlining tours, Khalid has toured with the likes of Lorde and Travis Scott. He has also been featured on a number of collaborative songs including mega hits "1-800-273-8255" with Logic and Alessia Cara, and "Silence" with Marshmello. Khalid has over one billion streams worldwide across all partners, and he is one of two solo teenagers to reach the top 10 on the Billboard 200 in the last 12 months. This summer, Khalid was the face of Forever 21's Summer Digital Campaign, #F21xMusic, Men's Line, and was named MTV Push: Artist to Watch for the month of July. He was nominated for a 2017 BET Award for Best New Artist, a Teen Choice Award for Choice R&B/Hip-Hop Song for "Location", and a 2017 American Music Award for Favorite Song-Soul/R&B for "Location" where he also performed a show stopping mash-up of "Young Dumb & Broke" and "Thunder" with Imagine Dragons. Khalid also won Best New Artist at the MTV Video Music Awards, landed on the cover of Billboard's 2018 Grammy® Preview issue, and was Grammy® nominated for Best New Artist, Song of the Year ("1-800-273-8255" - Logic Featuring Alessia Cara & Khalid), Best R&B Song ("Location"), Best Urban Contemporary Album (American Teen), and Best Music Video ("1-800-273-8255" - Logic Featuring Alessia Cara & Khalid). Recently, Khalid has also been nominated for five 2018 BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS for Top New Artist, Top R&B Artist, Top R&B Male Artist, Top R&B Album for American Teen, and Top R&B Song for "Young Dumb & Broke." Khalid's "Location" is officially certified 4x Platinum by the RIAA, and his latest single "Young Dumb & Broke" is also certified Platinum.
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