Bebe Rexha will accept the Global Hitmaker Award at Billboard Canada Women in Music 2026 in Toronto on Tuesday, 24 November 2026, according to Billboard Canada’s announcement summarised in trade coverage on 1 November.
The ceremony will take place at Rebel in Toronto, where Billboard Canada will honour Rexha’s work as an artist and songwriter. Other announced honourees include Cardi B and Chxrry, according to the same announcement.
A career across genres
Billboard Canada describes the honour as recognition of Rexha’s work across several genres and her career as both artist and songwriter. Her catalogue crosses pop, electronic music, country, R&B, hip-hop and dance, a range reflected in the Global Hitmaker title.
Her songwriting profile includes The Monster, while her solo and collaborative repertoire includes Hey Mama, Me Myself & I and I’m Good (Blue), according to trade summaries of her career. That breadth — writing hits for others as well as performing her own — is central to the award’s rationale: a hitmaker, in Billboard’s sense, is someone who creates hits in more than one role.
The Toronto ceremony
Billboard Canada Women in Music is an awards celebration rather than a standalone concert, with honours presented during the programme, according to the announcement summary. The Rebel venue, a well-known Toronto live space, gives the ceremony a club-scale intimacy that suits a celebration of songwriters and performers.
For Rexha, the Toronto honour follows a period of independent work, including her album Dirty Blonde, described in trade coverage as a visual project made during her independent partnership with EMPIRE. The award therefore arrives at a moment when she is operating outside a major-label structure, yet still being recognised for global impact.
A November of honours
Rexha’s award is one of several music honours clustered in November 2026, from the HEAT Latin Music Awards on 5 November to the Artist & Manager Awards in London on 18 November (see post 27). For fans, the Toronto date is a chance to see a songwriter-performer celebrated for the full span of her work — not a single hit, but a career of them.
