Usher had a big night at the 2024 BET Awards held at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday (June 30). In addition to the lifetime achievement award, Usher won best male R&B/pop artist for the fifth time.
Usher is second only to Chris Brown for the most wins for Best Male R&B/Pop Artist. Brown has won the award seven times. Usher first won the category 22 years ago, giving him the longest winning streak in any BET category.
Usher, 45, is the second-youngest recipient of BET's Lifetime Achievement Award. Only Whitney Houston, the inaugural recipient in 2001, was younger – 37 at the time.
Tyla and Victoria Monét each won two awards. Tyla won Best New Artist and Best International Actress. The South African singer is just the third winner for best new artist not born in the U.S. She follows Nicki Minaj, who was born in Trinidad, and Sam Smith, who was born in England. In January, Tyla's breakthrough hit, “Water,” reached No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100. In February, that track won the inaugural Grammy Award for Best African Music Performance.
Monét's “On My Mama” won Video of the Year and the BET Her Award, which honors motivational and empowering songs by female artists. She won both awards for “On My Mama,” which received Grammy nominations for Record of the Year and Best R&B Song. The video, directed by Child., also won in this category at the Soul Train Music Awards in November.
Mike's killer Michael won album of the year. The album won Best Rap album at the Grammys on February 4. Killer Mike was arrested after the Grammys premiere that night after an altercation with what he described as an overzealous security guard. Killer Mike referenced this arrest in his BET acceptance speech.
Michael peaked at No. 58 on the Billboard 200, lower than all but one of this year's BET nominees in that category, which included three No. 1 albums — Drake's For all dogs21 Savage's American Dream and Nicki Minaj Pink Friday 2.
SZA won Best Female R&B/Pop Artist for the second year in a row. She is the first artist to win back-to-back awards in this category since Beyoncé won six consecutive years from 2014-19.
Regina King won Best Actress for the third time, tied with Taraji P. Henson, with six wins, and Halle Berry, also with three wins. King starred Shirley, a biopic of Shirley Chisolm, who was the first black woman elected to the US Congress and who made a major push for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972. John Ridley wrote and directed the film, which had a brief theatrical run before it debuts on Netflix in March. The film's tagline: “Fearless. Wild. First.”
Angel Reese, power forward for the Chicago Sky basketball team, won female athlete of the year for the second year in a row. Jaylen Brunson, point guard of the New York Knicks, won the athlete of the year.
This story will be updated after all winners are announced.
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