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Garth Brooks will be honored with the Icon Award at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards on April 29, dick clark productions and NBC announced Wednesday (Feb. 26). And that's not all: The country legend and 19-time BBMA winner will also deliver a performance during the ceremony.
© Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images for The Recording Academy Garth Brooks Over his decades-long career, Brooks became the first artist to have appeared on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart in the '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s and '20s. His debut album's first single, "Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)," entered the chart in 1989 at No. 94 (when the ranking ran 100 positions deep) and peaked at No. 8 that July, marking Brooks' first of 36 top 10s. Brooks has also earned nine No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200, the most of any country artist.
Brooks joins previous honorees Cher, Neil Diamond, Celine Dion, Jennifer Lopez, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Janet Jackson and Mariah Carey.
The 2020 Billboard Music Awards will air live from Las Vegas on Wednesday, April 29, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on NBC. This year's nominees have yet to be announced. On Tuesday, it was revealed that Kelly Clarkson will return as the show's host for the third year in a row. dick clark productions is owned by Valence Media, the parent company of Billboard.
Poster Comment:
We were working stage security at Garth Brooks in Iowa City back in the early 90s. I was standing on front corner of stage left. People were bringing up gifts for Garth and we would put them on corner of stage.
Garth came over to pick them up. When he leaned over, he whacked me in the hat with the head of his guitar.
That was about the time they took the picture that ended up on Page One, Section 2 of the Des Moines Register.
I open the hotel rook door the morning of the 2nd show to get some breakfast. The door across the hall was open. There was a girl in that room and when she saw me she started pointing and shouting, "IT'S YOU! IT'S YOU!"
She comes running out with the newspaper pointing at it and still shouting, IT'S YOU! CAN I HAVE YOUR AUTOGRAPH?"
So I sign the paper for her and then go downstairs and clean out the paper machine.
Her BF wanted to come down to the corner of stage to take a picture. I saw him standing by the gate and waved him down. I looked away and when I looked back the cop was hustling him up the stairs. He came down the stairs and almost knocked the cop flat.
The cop threw him out. Someone let him back in. I told him, "Listen. I said you could come down and take a picture. I didn't say you could be drunk." ROTFLMAO!