LOS ANGELES (CelebrityAccess) – Today, the Billboard Music Awards (BBMAs), one of the most anticipated nights in music, announced that Linkin Park is joining the ever-growing roster of superstar performers on the 2024 Billboard Music Awards Presented by Marriott Bonvoy. Hosted by actress and comedian Michelle Buteau, the 2024 BBMAs airs live on Thursday, December 12 at 8:00 pm ET/PT on FOX and Amazon’s Fire TV Channels and on-demand on Paramount+, with performances also rolling out across Billboard.com and via BBMAs and Billboard social channels.
LINKIN PARK
- Up for five awards this year, including “Top Duo/Group,” “Top Rock Artist,” “Top Hard Rock Artist,” “Top Rock Duo/Group,” and “Top Hard Rock Song,” the double-diamond-certified alternative rock band will perform from their “From Zero World Tour” in São Paulo, Brazil for their first award show performance with new vocalist Emily Armstrong.
- Billboard Fast Facts
- Their latest album, From Zero, debuted at #1 in 14 countries and opened at No. 2 on the Billboard 200.
- With the single “The Emptiness Machine,” Linkin Park earned its highest debut on the Billboard Hot 100 since 2009.
- “The Emptiness Machine” debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard Global 200 chart
- The hits-collection Papercuts became Linkin Park’s 11th top 10 album on the Billboard 200 chart.
- A pair of Linkin Park singles, “Friendly Fire” and “The Emptiness Machine,” both topped the Rock & Alternative Airplay chart in 2024.
FUERZA REGIDA
- Musica Mexicana powerhouse Fuerza Regida will make their BBMAs debut with a sultry medley of two of their hit 2024 songs. The performers also vie for four awards, including “Top Duo/Group,” “Top Latin Artist,” “Top Latin Duo/Group,” and “Top Latin Album.”
- Billboard Fast Facts
- Fuerza Regida’s Pero No Te Enamores debuted in the Top 25 of the Billboard 200 albums chart.
- Pero No Te Enamores debuted at No. 2 on the Top Latin Albums chart, the seventh top 10 of Fuerza Regida’s career.
- In the last year, Pa Las Babys y Belikeada’s album reached No.1 for three weeks as the top Latin Album.
- In 2024, Fuerza won four Latin Billboard Awards, including “Top Latin Duo/ Group,” “Hot Latin Song Artist, Duo or Group,” “Top Latin Albums, Artist Duo/ Group,” and “Best Regional Mexican Album.”
- Fuerza Regida’s collaborations with Shakira (“El Jefe”), as well as their song with Marshmello (“Harley Quinn”) and “Bebe Dame” with Grupo Frontera, all reached No. 1 on the Latin Airplay chart.
JELLY ROLL
- Music superstar Jelly Roll will make his BBMAs debut from a stop on his sold-out Beautifully Broken Tour tour, with two special performances. This year, he is up for three BBMAs – “Top Song Sales Artist, “Top Rock Artist” and “Top Hard Rock Song.”
- Billboard Fast Facts
- BEAUTIFULLY BROKEN became Jelly Roll’s first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200.
- In the last year, he acquired his third, fourth and fifth No. 1 hits on the Country Airplay chart and reached No. 1 for five weeks on the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs with “Need a Favor.”
- In the last year, Jelly Roll earned his first two Top 20 hits on the Billboard Hot 100: “Need a Favor” (No. 13) and “Save Me,” with Lainey Wilson (No. 19)
- With “Need a Favor,” Jelly Roll entered the Pop Airplay chart for the first time, peaking at No. 14. His charting single “I Am Not Okay” is currently ranked at No. 15 on Pop Airplay.
MEGAN MORONEY x Carnival Cruise Line
- For her BBMAs performance debut, “Top Country Female Artist” finalist Megan Moroney will treat her biggest fans to an outdoor performance from the heart of Nashville, presented by Carnival Cruise Line.
- Billboard Fast Facts
- Megan Moroney’s album Am I Okay? debuted at No. 3 on the Top Country Albums chart.
- With Am I Okay?, Megan Moroney scored the first top 10 album of her career on the Billboard 200 chart.
- Megan Moroney’s “I’m Not Pretty” track spent 44 weeks on the Hot Country Songs chart, the most of any song in her career.
- Megan Moroney and Old Dominion joined forces for a Top 20 hit on the Country Airplay chart, “Can’t Break Up Now.”
SHABOOZEY
- From W Hollywood, part of the Marriott Bonvoy portfolio, country Music superstar and first-time finalist Shaboozey will captivate an exclusive audience of Marriott Bonvoy members with performances of “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” and, later in the show, “Highway.” He is up for six Billboard Music Awards, including “Top New Artist,” “Top Song Sales Artist,” “Top Hot 100 Song,“ “Top Streaming Song,“ “Top Selling Song“ and “Top Country Song.“
- Billboard Fast Facts:
- Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” was his first chart-topper on the Billboard 100 and has remained No. 1 for a record-tying 19 total weeks atop the chart. Over the chart’s 66-year history, the song is now outright the longest-leading No. 1 ever by an artist with no accompanying credited acts.
- Shaboozey earned his first three Billboard Hot 100 hits all in April 2024 with “SPAGHETTII” (with Beyoncé and Linda Martell), “SWEET HONEY BUCKIIN’” (with Beyoncé) and “A Bar Song (Tipsy).”
- “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” became only the third song to reach No. 1 on the Pop Airplay and Country Airplay charts, after Taylor Swift’s “Love Story” and Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help,” featuring Morgan Wallen.
- The single has accumulated over a billion streams across DSPs and made history, making Shaboozey the first Black male artist to simultaneously top Billboard’s Hot Country Songs and Hot 100.
- His album, Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going, debuted at No. 2 on the Top Country Albums chart in June.
STRAY KIDS
- Up for four awards, including “Top Duo/Group,” “Top Global K-Pop Artist,” and “Top K-Pop Album” (x2), the K-Pop chart-toppers will return to the BBMAs for an energy-filled medley performance of their two biggest 2024 hits.
- Billboard Fast Facts:
- Stray Kids have had 5 of their albums and EPs reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200
- They earned their first three Hot 100 hits in the last year with “LALALALA,” “Lose My Breath” (featuring Charlie Puth) and “Chk Chk Boom.”
- Stray Kids achieved their fourth and fifth No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200. ROCK-STAR debuted at the top in November 2023, and the EP ATE did so in August 2024.
- With Ate: Mini-Album, Stray Kids became the first group to debut at No. 1 with their first five charting albums.
- Stray Kids landed their first two top-10 hits on the Billboard Global 200 chart: “LALALALA” and “Chk Chk Boom,” which both reached No. 10 peaks.
- Stray Kids earned their fourth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart in August.
Previously announced:
Zach Bryan, Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallen, and Sabrina Carpenter are the leading finalists this year, which will also see Drake and Taylor Swift facing off for BBMA all-time winner. Benson Boone, Chappell Roan, Shaboozey, Teddy Swims, Tommy Richman, and Tyla vie for their first-time wins.
Previously announced performers include Coldplay, SEVENTEEN, Teddy Swims and Tyla.
