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Billboard revealed its honoree for the 2024 Lady of the 12 months Award at this 12 months’s Billboard Ladies in Music Awards offered by Marriott Bonvoy. Learn extra particulars about this 12 months’s honoree and take a look at who else shall be internet hosting, performing and honored inside.
In the present day (Feb. 8), Billboard introduced that five-time Latin Grammy winner and 2024 Grammy winner Karol G shall be honored with the 2024 Lady of the 12 months Award on the awards ceremony offered by Marriott Bonvoy. The annual occasion acknowledges music’s rising stars and A-list artists, creators and executives for his or her contributions to the business and neighborhood.
This 12 months’s Billboard Ladies in Music Awards shall be hosted by award-winning actor and producer Tracee Ellis Ross. The Lady of the 12 months honoree, Karol G, may also grace the stage for efficiency. Attendees can anticipate extra performances from Victoria Monét, TEMS, Charli XCX, Luísa Sonza, Maren Morris, NewJeans, and Younger Miko.
Billboard’s Lady of the 12 months Award has develop into one of many music business’s highest honors. Previous recipients embody SZA, Olivia Rodrigo, Cardi B, Billie Eilish, Ariana Grande, Selena Gomez, Madonna, Girl Gaga and Taylor Swift.
“Along with her immense expertise, Karol G has created a motion for ladies throughout the globe on account of her empowering lyrics and shameless confidence,” Billboard’s Editorial Director Hannah Karp stated in an announcement. “The discharge of her groundbreaking album Mañana Será Bonito has confirmed her a pressure to be reckoned with in each the English and Spanish charts. We’re so excited to honor her as Lady of the 12 months.”
Somewhat concerning the Lady of the 12 months:
Born in Medellín, Colombia, Karol G is a world pop icon and multi-platinum, award successful recording artist. With 111 billion mixed profession streams she turned the primary feminine artist to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with a Spanish-language album, MAÑANA SERÁ BONITO. The album was immediately met with acclaim and broke the all-time document for the most important feminine Latin album by first-day streams on Apple Music and had the most important debut ever for a Spanish Album by a Feminine Latin Artist on Spotify.
The edgier follow-up album, Mañana Será Bonito (Bichota Season), additional catapulted her to stardom debuting at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, making her the primary artist with two Spanish albums on the Billboard High 10 in the identical 12 months. Essentially the most watched artist of 2023 on YouTube with over 990 million views, Karol can be the primary Latina to headline a worldwide stadium tour and was the highest-grossing Latin touring artist of the 12 months.
Except for music, Karol G has confirmed herself a businesswoman and philanthropist. When her long-standing recording settlement with Common Music Latino ended, she launched her personal Bichota Data, invested in its workers and infrastructure — a lot of it primarily based in her native Colombia — and inked a distribution take care of Interscope. Moreover, The Con Cora Basis was established to proceed Karol’s social work and mission to assist girls in susceptible situations. The group fosters empowerment by offering complete assist to girls who lead households, at-risk youth, youngsters going through continual or disabling ailments, these coping with teenage being pregnant, girls disadvantaged of liberty and post-penalty, in addition to low-income girls.
Karol joins a lineup of powerhouse girls shaping the music panorama. Kylie Minogue will obtain the Icon Award; Maren Morris will obtain the Visionary Award; Ice Spice, dubbed “rap’s new princess,” will obtain the Hitmaker Award; Charli XCX will obtain the Powerhouse Award; Younger Miko will obtain the Impression Award offered by American Specific; Victoria Monét will obtain the Rising Star award offered by Honda; NewJeans will obtain the Group of the 12 months Award; TEMS will obtain the Breakthrough Award; Luísa Sonza will obtain one in every of Billboard’s new International Pressure Awards. Presenters shall be introduced at a later date.
Tickets to attend the Ladies in Music Awards offered by Marriott Bonvoy can be found to the general public. Followers can tune into the present on Thursday, March 7 at 5pm PT/8pm ET on the Billboard web site.
Congrats to Karol G!
