17 Epic Moments From the 2001 Billboard Music Awards You may Wish to Relive

Tonight we’re gonna celebration prefer it’s the 2001 Billboard Music Awards.

In only a few brief hours, music’s brightest stars will come collectively beneath one roof to seek out out who climbed their option to the highest of the last word Billboard chart. Nominees for the distinguished Prime Artist award embody Drake, Juice WRLD, Taylor Swift, Pop Smoke and The Weeknd, however earlier than we get too forward of ourselves… let’s make a journey again in time to the BBMAs precisely 20 years in the past.

Anticipate to see most of the similar artists nonetheless dominating the airwaves right this moment, simply with blonder highlights, thinner eyebrows and pants with waistlines effectively under the stomach button. (We’re taking a look at you Gwen Stefani.) 

Again in 2001, the evening belonged to lady teams and boy bands, with Future’s Baby securing Artist of the 12 months and NSYNC tearin’ up the stage—and our hearts—with a robust efficiency of “Gone.”