1999 Billboard Music Awards

The 1999 Billboard Music Awards ceremony, presented by Billboard, honored the best musics of 1999 and the chart toppers of the year from December 1998 to December 1999 and took place on December 8, 1999, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas.

1999 Billboard Music Awards
Date	December 8, 1999 (1999-12-08)
Location	MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
Hosted by	Alex Borstein & Will Sasso
Most awards	Britney Spears (5)
Most nominations	Britney Spears (8)
Television/radio coverage
Network	Fox
Viewership	80.1% (Nielsen ratings)

Winners and nominees

Awards

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a dagger ()[1]

Century Award	Artist Achievement Award
Emmylou Harris	Aerosmith
Male Artist of the Decade	Female Artist of the Decade
Garth Brooks	Mariah Carey
Artist of the Year	Top New Artist
Backstreet Boys Britney Spears TLC Shania Twain	Britney Spears Christina Aguilera Lou Bega Jennifer Lopez
Top Male Artist	Top Female Artist
Ricky Martin Jay-Z R. Kelly DMX	Britney Spears Whitney Houston Cher Shania Twain
Top Billboard 200 Artist	Top Billboard 200 Album
Backstreet Boys Britney Spears TLC Shania Twain	Backstreet Boys – Millennium Britney Spears – ...Baby One More Time Shania Twain – Come on Over 'N SYNC - NSYNC
Female Singles Artist of the Year	Top Female Albums Artist of the Year
"...Baby One More Time" - Britney Spears	Britney Spears – ...Baby One More Time
Top Duo/Group	Top Hot 100 Song
Backstreet Boys 98 Degrees Sugar Ray TLC	"Believe" - Cher "Heartbreak Hotel" - Whitney Houston (feat. Faith Evans and Kelly Price) "Angel of Mine" - Monica "No Scrubs" - TLC
Top Male Hot 100 Artist of the Year	Top Female Hot 100 Artist of the Year
Ricky Martin R. Kelly Jay-Z Tim McGraw	Britney Spears Cher Brandy Norwood Whitney Houston
Top R&B/Hip Hop Artist	Top R&B Album Artist of the Year
R. Kelly Jay-Z Faith Evans Lauryn Hill	Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood - DMX 400 Degreez - Juvenile The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill R. - R. Kelly
Top R&B Album of the Year	Top R&B Single of the Year
400 Degreez - Juvenile Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood - DMX The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill R. - R. Kelly	"Fortunate" - Maxwell "Heartbreak Hotel" - Whitney Houston (feat. Faith Evans and Kelly Price) "No Scrubs" - TLC "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" - Deborah Cox
Top Rap Artist	Top Rap Single
Jay-Z Busta Rhymes JT Money Solé	"Who Dat" - JT Money featuring Solé "What's It Gonna Be?!" - Busta Rhymes (feat. Janet Jackson) "Somebody Like Me - Silkk the Shocker "Ghetto Cowboy" - Mo Thugs (feat. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
Top Country Artist of the Year	Top Country Album of the Year
Dixie Chicks Tim McGraw Martina McBride George Strait	Wide Open Spaces - Dixie Chicks
Top Country Group/Duo of the Year	Adult Contemporary Track Of The Year
Dixie Chicks	"Angel" - Sarah McLachlan
Top Rock Artist of the Year	Top Rock Single of the Year
Creed Metallica Lenny Kravitz Collective Soul	"One" - Creed "Heavy" - Collective Soul "Scar Tissue" - Red Hot Chili Peppers "What It's Like" - Everlast
Top Modern Rock Artist	Top Modern Rock Track
The Offspring	"My Own Worst Enemy" - Lit
Top Catalog Artist of the Year	Top Catalog Album of the Year
Metallica	Metallica - Metallica

Artist with multiple nominations and awards

Artist that received multiple nomination

Nominations	Artist
8	Britney Spears
6	TLC
5	R. Kelly
	Cher
4	Whitney Houston
	Shania Twain
	Jay-Z
	Backstreet Boys

Artist that received multiple awards

Nominations	Artist

References

1. "Ahead of Tonight's Show, 9 Epic Throwback Photos from the 1999 Billboard Music Awards". PEOPLE.com. Retrieved 2020-05-18.