Apple has announced the winners of the third annual Apple Music Awards, recognizing the best artists of 2021 and their enormous impact on global culture.
The Apple Music Awards honor achievements in music across five distinct categories — Artist of the Year, Songwriter of the Year, Breakthrough Artist of the Year, Top Song of the Year, and Top Album of the Year — and winners are chosen through a process that reflects both Apple Music’s editorial perspective and what customers around the world are listening to the most.
This year, the Apple Music Awards will introduce a new category of awards for Regional Artist of the Year, recognizing artists from five countries and regions: Africa, France, Germany, Japan, and Russia.
The Regional Artist of the Year awards recognize artists who made the greatest impact culturally and on the charts in their respective countries and regions.
And this year’s winners are:
– Global Artist of the Year: The Weeknd
– Breakthrough Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, and Song of the Year: Olivia Rodrigo
– Songwriter of the Year: H.E.R.
– Artist of the Year (Africa): Wizkid
– Artist of the Year (France): Aya Nakamura
– Artist of the Year (Germany): RIN
– Artist of the Year (Japan): OFFICIAL HIGE DANDISM
– Artist of the Year (Russia): Scriptonite
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