Offspring between the 1999 Billboard Awards winners

December 09, 1999: The 1999 Billboard Music Awards was held last Wednesday night (December 8th) in Los Anegels' MGM Grand Hotel. This event happens every end of year to celebrates the bests in the music scene by the Billboard magazine. The criterion used to define the winners is a combination between the number of record solds and times that the artist was aired on radios worldwide.

The Offspring was nominated as "Modern Rock Artist Of The Year" at the awards, but they weren't able to be there to receive the award due to their tour schedule, the band was playing a concert in Seattle, WA at Mercer Arena along with The Vandals and Teen Idols on Decembet 8th night.

The ceremony was aired on FOX channel and had some live acts.

The complete list of the 1999 Billboard Music Award winners:

1999 Billboard Century Award: Emmylou Harris
Artist Achievement Award: Aerosmith
Artist Of The Decade: Mariah Carey

Artist Of The Year: Backstreet Boys
Album Of The Year: Backstreet Boys' "Millennium" (Jive)

Male Artist Of The Year: Ricky Martin
Female Artist Of The Year: Britney Spears
New Artist Of The Year: Britney Spears

Albums Artist Of The Year: Backstreet Boys
Albums Artist Duo/Group Of The Year: Backstreet Boys
Female Albums Artist Of The Year: Britney Spears

Male Hot 100 Singles Artist Of The Year: Ricky Martin
Female Hot 100 Singles Artist Of The Year: Britney Spears

R&B/Hip-Hop Artist Of The Year: R. Kelly
R&B Albums Artist Of The Year: DMX
R&B Album Of The Year: Juvenile's "400 Degreez" (Cash Money/Universal)
R&B Single Of The Year: Maxwell's "Fortunate" (Rock Land/Interscope/Columbia)

Rap Artist Of The Year: Jay-Z
Rap Single Of The Year: JT Money/Solé's "Who Dat" (Tony Mercedes/Freeworld/Priority)

Country Artist Of The Year: Dixie Chicks
Country Albums Artist Of The Year: Dixie Chicks
Country Albums Artist Duo/Group Of The Year: Dixie Chicks

Modern Rock Artist Of The Year: The Offspring
Modern Rock Track Of The Year: Lit's "My Own Worst Enemy" (RCA)
Rock Artist Of The Year: Creed
Rock Track Of The Year: Creed's "One" (Wind-Up)
Adult Contemporary Track Of The Year: Sarah McLachlan's "Angel" (Arista)
Catalog Artist Of The Year: Metallica
Catalog Album Of The Year: Metallica's "Metallica" (Elektra/EEG)

* In addition, Red Hot Chili Peppers were presented with a special award for setting an all-time Billboard record for the most weeks at No. 1 on Modern Rock Tracks chart (with their song "Scar Tissue").