Apple Announces Apple Music Awards

For the first time ever, Apple has announced another huge development in music. The Apple Music Awards, a new breed of celebration, will honor those who have impacted music on a global scale.

Across five different categories, the Apple Music Awards are dedicated to honoring the artists that have driven significant listeners to their own music on the Apple Music Platform.

This year’s categories include: Artist of the Year, Song of the Year, Breakout Artist of the Year, Album of the Year and Songwriter of the Year.

Artist of the Year:

Billie Eilish

Song of the Year:

Old Town Road – Lil Nas X

Album of the Year:

WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? – Billie Eilish

Songwriter of the Year:

Billie Eilish and FINNEAS

Breakout Artist of the Year:

Lizzo

In a press release, Apple shared the details of their physical awards:

Each award features Apple’s custom silicon wafer suspended between a polished sheet of glass and a machined and anodized aluminum body. The wafers start as a perfect 12-inch disc of silicon with nanometer level flatness. Copper layers are deposited and patterned by ultraviolet lithography to create connections between billions of transistors. The result of this multi-month process, before it is sliced into hundreds of individual chips, is stunning and distinctive. In a symbolic gesture, the same chips which power the devices that put the world’s music at your fingertips sit at the very heart of the Apple Music Awards.

Watch the Apple Music Awards on December 4th, streamed exclusively at 6:30 p.m. PST.. The awards will also feature a performance by Billie Eilish, who will perform to Apple’s own Steve Jobs Theater.