`M'-NAMED WOMEN SCORE IN BILLBOARD AWARDS.Byline: Entertainment News Wire It was a night for Mariah, Madonna, Morisette and the ``Macarena'' when the 1996 Billboard Music Awards were presented Wednesday night. The awards honor artists and songs that top the Billboard charts, sell the most records and receive the most radio airplay air·play n. The broadcasting of an audio or audiovisual recording on the air over radio or television. airplay Noun the broadcast performances of a record on radio . Mariah Carey was the only artist to take home two honors: Hot 100 Singles Artist of the Year, and a special award for ``One Sweet Day,'' her duet with Boyz II Men Boyz II Men is an American R&B/soul singing group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1988 as a quintet which originally included Marc Nelson, Boyz II Men found fame as a quartet, with members Nathan Morris, Michael McCary, Shawn Stockman, and Wanya Morris, on Motown , which spent a record 16 weeks at No. 1 on the charts. Madonna won a career-encompassing Special Artist Achievement Award, while Morisette took home Artist of the Year honors. Omnipresent om·ni·pres·ent adj. Present everywhere simultaneously. [Medieval Latin omnipres dance-smash ``Macarena,'' by Los Del Rio, was named Single of the Year. Other winners at the seventh annual event included Dishwalla's ``Counting Blue Cars'' (Rock Track of the Year). The R&B Single award went to Toni Braxton for ``You're Makin' Me High''/``Let Love Flow.'' Other awards went to The Tony Rich Project (New Artist), Brooks & Dunn (Country Single/Duo award for ``My Maria''), R. Kelly (R&B Artist), and LL Cool J (Rap Artist). Veteran musician and songwriter Carlos Santana won Billboard's top honor, the Century Award. The awards ceremony was hosted by comedian Chris Rock in a style more reminiscent of the hip slickness of MTV's awards shows than more traditional industry ceremonies like the Grammys. Madonna made her first public appearance since the birth of her daughter, Lourdes, in October. She won the Artist Achievement Award, based on popularity, record sales and career accomplishments (she's had more Top 10 records on the Billboard charts than any other female artist. Mariah Carey, accepting the first of her accolades, the Special Hot 100 Award, joked, ``They always say you get lucky in Las Vegas.'' The show ranged between moments of solemnity SOLEMNITY. The formality established by law to render a contract, agreement, or other act valid. 2. A marriage, for example, would not be valid if made in jest, and without solemnity. Vide Marriage, and Dig. 4, 1, 7; Id. 45, 1, 30. and silliness. ``I need your undivided attention,'' intoned in·tone v. in·toned, in·ton·ing, in·tones v.tr. 1. To recite in a singing tone. 2. To utter in a monotone. v.intr. 1. a serious Edward James Olmos Edward James Olmos (born February 24, 1947) is an Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated American actor and director. Some of his most memorable roles were Lt. Martin Castillo in Miami Vice, Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver and Admiral William Adama in the , as he presented the Century Award to Carlos Santana, in honor of his more than 25 years of musical trailblazing trail·blaz·ing adj. Suggestive of one that blazes a trail; setting out in a promising new direction; pioneering or innovative: trailblazing research; a trailblazing new technique. . |
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