Billboard Male Artist of the Year

Entertainment: Music Awards: Billboard

The Billboard Awards were first presented in 1990. During that time a number of awards are no longer presented, new awards began and other awards morphed into different categories. We attempted to figure out which awards morphed or combined and thus those categories are certainly not officially.

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10

1990

Phil Collins

Vocalist

43.14% (44 of 102 votes)

12

1994

Snoop Dogg

Vocalist

33.57% (139 of 414 votes)

6

1999

Ricky Martin (Vocalist)

Vocalist

60.27% (44 of 73 votes)

13

2000

Sisqo

Vocalist

32.03% (41 of 128 votes)

1

2001

Shaggy

Musician

100% (1 of 1 votes)

9

2002

Nelly

Vocalist

43.41% (56 of 129 votes)

5

2006

Chris Brown

Vocalist

60.90% (81 of 133 votes)

7

2011

Eminem

Vocalist

59.88% (409 of 683 votes)

17

2012

Lil' Wayne

Vocalist

27.27% (12 of 44 votes)

2

2013

Justin Bieber

Vocalist

71.78% (2455 of 3420 votes)

11

2014

Justin Timberlake

Vocalist

42.06% (225 of 535 votes)

8

2015

Sam Smith

Vocalist

59.60% (59 of 99 votes)

3

2016

Justin Bieber

Vocalist

71.78% (2455 of 3420 votes)

14

2017

Drake (Musician)

Musician

32.00% (16 of 50 votes)

19

2018

Ed Sheeran

Musician

16.67% (4 of 24 votes)

15

2019

Drake (Musician)

Musician

32.00% (16 of 50 votes)

4

2020

Post Malone

Vocalist

66.67% (6 of 9 votes)

18

2021

The Weeknd

Vocalist

20.0% (5 of 25 votes)

16

2022

Drake (Musician)

Musician

32.00% (16 of 50 votes)