Voting Opens Today for Billboard Chart Achievement Award

Billboard and dick clark productions announced that fans will be able to vote for this year's Billboard Chart Achievement Award at the "2016 Billboard Music Awards" starting today. Finalists include Adele, Drake, Little Big Town, Rihanna and The Weeknd. Fans can vote for their favorite artist who has accomplished an outstanding and rare achievement on the Billboard music charts over the past year. The "2016 Billboard Music Awards" will broadcast LIVE from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday, May 22 at 8:00 p.m. EDT / 5:00 p.m. PDT on ABC. For the first time in BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS history, viewers on the West Coast will watch the show live along with fellow fans on the East Coast. This year's show, which will be hosted by hip-hop artist Ludacris and international music sensation Ciara, will showcase big performances, unexpected collaborations and much discussed pop-culture moments.

The editorial award will be given to an artist who has accomplished an outstanding and rare achievement on the Billboard music charts over the past year. The finalists are:

Adele's album "25" scored the largest U.S. sales week ever for an album in Nielsen Music history: 3.38 million sold in its first week.

Drake scored his landmark 100th Billboard Hot 100 hit, a sum only four acts heave reached.

Rihanna has now spent 60 total weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with her 14 No. 1s, passing the Beatles for the second most weeks at No. 1 all time.

Little Big Town's "Girl Crush" set the record for most weeks at No. 1 (13) by a group (of at least three members) on Hot Country Songs.

The Weeknd is now one of only 12 acts to replace himself at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 as "The Hills" succeeded "Can't Feel My Face."

The Billboard Chart Achievement Award is the only fan-voted category at the "2016 Billboard Music Awards." Fans can vote for their favorite finalist in two ways:

(1) Visiting the voting site: http://www.billboardmusicawards.com/vote

(2) Voting on Twitter (by including the following items in a tweet):
o The finalist's name or Twitter handle
o Any form of the word "vote" (e.g., vote, voting, voted, etc.)
o The show's hashtag: #BBMAs

Fans can vote up to 100 times a day, per platform. To view the voting FAQs, please visit http://www.billboardmusicawards.com/voting-faqs/

Billboard Music Awards finalists are based on key fan interactions with music, including album and digital songs sales, radio airplay, streaming, touring and social interactions on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Spotify and other popular online destinations for music. These measurements are tracked year-round by Billboard and its data partners, including Nielsen Music and Next Big Sound. The awards are based on the reporting period of tracking dates March 23, 2015 through March 17, 2016 and Billboard chart dates April 11, 2015 through April 2, 2016. Since 1940, the Billboard charts have been the go-to guide for ranking the popularity of songs and albums, and are the ultimate measure of a musician's success.

The "2016 Billboard Music Awards" sponsors and partners include Comcast, Las Vegas, Kia Motors, Music Choice and WestwoodOne.
Tickets are now on sale for the "2016 Billboard Music Awards." To purchase tickets online, fans should go to www.axs.com or www.t-mobilearena.com.

For additional information on the "2016 Billboard Music Awards" visit us at www.billboardmusicawards.com or the Billboard HUB at www.billboard.com/bbma.

For the latest BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS (BBMAs) news, exclusive content and more, be sure to follow the BBMAs on social and join the conversation by using the official hashtag for the show, #BBMAs.

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