On the night Adele was the big winner, but Drake became victorious winning Top Rap Artist at the Billboard Music Awards 2016 in Las Vegas. Drake lost out in a number of categories before achieving this win for Top Rap Artist. It is certainly worth celebrating his wide list of nominations.

Drake’s extensive and impressive list were as follows:

Top Artist
Billboard Art Achievement Award (Fan Voted)
Top Male Artist
Top Hot 100 Artist
Top Billboard 200 Artist
Top Song Sales Artist
Top Streaming Songs Artist
Top Rap Artist – WINNER
Top Rap Album (two nominations – the second with Drake & Future)
Top Streaming Song (Audio)
Top Rap Song

Drake is on top of the Billboard 200 with increasing sales. Drake’s studio album Views has been at the top for three weeks now, the first album to do this since Adele’s 25. Despite having two nominations in Top Rap Album, Drake lost out to Meek Mills. The entire list of winners can be found here.

July sees Drake & Future beginning their huge joint tour of the USA and Canada which extends through the summer well into October. The popularity of which sees extended dates as detailed below.

The full list of dates can be found here.

Canadian born Grammy winner, Drake is celebrated on his website by The New York Times writer, Jon Caramanica which describes Drake’s unique style which makes him the top rapper:

“So it’s gone with Drake, hip-hop’s current center of gravity, his success a reminder of so many of the victories hip-hop has won in the last couple of decades: the right to be decadent, sure, but also the right to reimagine any style of music, the right to be emotionally complicated, the right to be unusual. He confounds expectations. He raps about soft things, sings about hard things. Thanks to his versatility, he is the glue that binds together all of urban radio.”

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