Last month, Nick Jonas was announced as this year’s BBMAs host. New performers will be revealed every day until the BBMAs air on May 23 from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. and Migos, Duran Duran, The Weeknd, twenty one pilots, and this year’s Icon Award recipient, P!nk. AJR will make their BBMAs debut with “Bang!” and “Way Less Sad,” while Glass Animals will deliver their hit track “Heat Waves.”īoth groups are in good company! Also taking the BBMAs stage this year are previously announced acts BTS, DJ Khaled with H.E.R. ET Sunday (May 23).The 2021 Billboard Music Awards lineup just keeps getting better!ĪJR and Glass Animals will join this year’s star-studded list of performers, Access Hollywood confirms exclusively. The Billboard Music Awards air on NBC at 8 p.m. We're starting off with something old, then launching 'Invisible' - which will be the first time we've played it live together on anything - and then we're finishing with a song that some of our fans may know,' he teases as his bandmates chuckle. She's got something very unique about the way she sings I learned quite a lot about intonation from listening to her.'Īs for Duran Duran's BBMAs performance this Sunday, keyboardist Nick Rhodes says to expect a little bit of the AI-aided footage from the band's 'Invisible' video ('it's such beautiful imagery'), and also a few surprises from the band's back catalog. It was nice to let her take the lead with that one,' says Le Bon. I wanted to get some of that female energy into the song, into the lyric, and it turned out to be a lyric I would have never written by myself.

Thank you, Graham!'Īnother new collaborator entering the Duran Duran fold was Lykke Li, whom lead singer Simon Le Bon refers to as 'absolutely magical.' 'She's like a Scandinavian wood nymph. He was so great to work with, so humble and so talented. He played on a lot of the record and took it in a different direction.

'I don't think any of us knew how creative he is as a player. 'As I recall, we were working with Erol Alkan and he said, 'I would like to invite Graham down to the studio for a couple of days,'' says drummer Roger Taylor, his Grace Jones and Gary Numan LPs peeking out from behind him on the Zoom call. They invigorate the project in a crazy way it keeps us vital.'įor Future Past, one of those key collaborators was Blur's Graham Coxon. So for us, the people that we bring in on individual projects - such as our producers, our engineers, our musicians - are so important to us.

'We've been making music and art for 40 years. 'We know each other - personally and creatively - very well,' bassist John Taylor tells Billboard. Hopping on a Zoom call with Billboard ahead of this weekend's BBMAs, the quartet teased the new album and what to expect on Sunday. The British new wave hitmakers are currently putting finishing touches on a new album, Future Past, which they recently previewed with lead single 'Invisible' and its artificial intelligence-assisted video. Expect a view to a thrill when Duran Duran hits the 2021 Billboard Music Awards on Sunday (May 23) for their first-ever performance on the awards show.

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