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Eminem and Justin Bieber Win Big at 'The 2011 Billboard Music Awards' (VIDEO)
by Jason Hughes, posted May 23rd 2011 2:28AM
All the stars of popular music came out for 'The 2011 Billboard Music Awards' (Sun., 8PM ET on ABC), where they saw Justin Bieber and Eminem dominate the night with six awards apiece.Other big winners included Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Mumford & Sons, Taio Cruz, Taylor Swift and Usher with three awards apiece.
The night was filled with memorable performances as well, including Cee Lo Green floating through the sky at a piano and Britney Spears and Rihanna in a sexy duet that climaxed in a lingerie pillow fight.
Beyoncé received the Billboard Millennium Award, while Neil Diamond was given the Icon Award. Diamond joked that he'd "Google it right after the show and find out exactly how an icon is supposed to handle himself."
Billboard magazine developing a reality show
by Joel Keller, posted May 19th 2008 1:21PM
When I read the news that Billboard magazine (which is probably best known for giving Casey Kasem source material) was going to go into the reality show business, I scratched my head to figure out what exactly they'd do. After all, countdown shows are as old as TV itself, so doing something based on the trade magazine's famous charts would have had to be pretty damn creative. I was envisioning someone standing on a street corner acting out the top twenty songs through mime. And, as we all know, nothing good can come from the use of mime.Fortunately, we've dodged that bullet for now; according to The Hollywood Reporter (via Reuters), the reality show will be a competition series, dubbed Billboard Next. Artists from various genres will submit videos via a website, which will be voted on by the site's audience. Those with the most popular votes will compete for the grand prize, which right now is unspecified. I'd imagine it'll be some sort of recording contract, but for all we know, it might just be a professional redo of the artist's MySpace page. I guess it all depends on the budget.
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