Black Eyed Peas vocalist Fergie will receive the Woman of the Year award at Billboard's 'Women in Music' event in New York on December 2.
She gets the award two days after the band`s new album hits stores.
The award, pays tribute to a trailblazing female music artist, and Fergie gets it this year.
'I am humbled and excited to accept the Billboard Woman of the Year Award,' Fergie said.
On November 30, the Black Eyed Peas released their sixth album The Beginning, a follow-up to their 2009 chart-topper The E.N.D. which has sold 2.8 million copies in the United States.
The first single, The Time (The Dirty Bit) will be released November 9.