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While award shows in 2020 remain as weird a prospect as, well, everything else in this grab-bag crapsack of a year, Billboard did manage to get its annual Billboard Music Awards up and running tonight, a scant 6 months after it was originally scheduled back in April. (Which means they were acknowledging music released back in 2019, but hey, just go with it.) And while the ceremony—whose nominees, unlike the Grammys, are based on metrics like sales and streaming numbers, rather than a voting jury—handed out plenty of awards tonight, to everybody from Billie Eilish to BTS, it ultimately declared what we must all have suspected, deep in our weary bones: It’s Post Malone’s world now. We just live in it.