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Janet Jackson honored with Icon Award at the American Music Awards

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The American Music Awards were held on Memorial Day. Some hardware was divvied out to notable modern musicians, but music-based award shows are about live performances and honoring legends. This year’s American Music Awards were no different. The Icon Award, the event’s lifetime achievement offering, went to none other than Janet Jackson.

Though Jackson hasn’t released a new album since 2015, she’s stayed quite busy touring and performing. In addition to accepting the Icon Award and giving her speech, Jackson performed a bit as well. Live in Las Vegas, she did “Somebody to Call My Lover” and “All for You.”

This was her first time performing on television in seven years, the year she received the Billboard Music Awards honor called the, um, Icon Award. Somebody needs to change it up there, but we’ll let the AMAs and BMAs battle it out.

Congrats to Janet Jackson, though she is thoroughly venerated by this point.

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Janet Jackson & Jennifer Lopez Aren’t Leaving Las Vegas Anytime Soon After 2025 AMAs

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Janet Jackson and Jennifer Lopez

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are talking about the legends, who are both setting up shop in Sin City.

It was fitting for Janet Jackson and Jennifer Lopez to hit the stage at Monday’s American Music Awards at Las Vegas’ Fontainebleau, since both have found a second home in Sin City.

Jackson has a current residency at Resorts World, which kicked off in December and has dates scheduled through September. Lopez is returning to Vegas for a new residency at the end of this year, this time at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, starting Dec. 30 with dates through next March.

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are talking all about the two legends at the 2025 AMAs — Jackson for a performance and to receive the ICON Award and Lopez to host and perform — and what it’s like to see them perform live for their own shows. Listen to the new episode below:

Also on the show, we’ve got chart news on how Morgan Wallen debuts at No. 1 on both the Billboard 200 albums chart and Billboard Hot 100 songs chart — and brings a certain featured pop artist to their first No. 1 on the Hot 100. Plus, if Wallen’s album had not come out, could Alex Warren have hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 for the first time with “Ordinary”?

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