NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Sexy Bajan-born singer, Rihanna, walked away with three top honors at last night’s Billboard Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
The Def Jam recording artist walked away with the awards for female artist of the year, female Hot 100 artist of the year and Pop 100 artist of the year. For the top award of female artist of the year, she beat out Beyonce and Mary J. Blige.
An obviously stunned Rihanna, in commenting on the wins, while accepting the trophy for best female artist said, "I really can't feel my legs -- this is phenomenal. That was a really tough category."
Other top winners were Blige who swept up nine awards; Country music sensation Carrie Underwood and and Atlanta rapper T.I., who both scored five statuettes each and 17-year-old hitmaker Chris Brown, who won the new artist of the and the artist and male artist of the year awards. T.I beat out Sean Paul for rap artist of the year while Brown also beat out the Jamaican-born singer in the male artist of the year category.
Billboard Music Awards are determined by music fans. Finalists and winners are determined by actual performance on Billboard's charts, with sales data compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and radio play tracked by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems.
