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WINNER! Adele (Top Billboard 200 album)
Kate Beckinsale arrives to give the award.
Adele’s new video is about to be beamed in and she accepts the award with a short video message which is chirpy and longer than all the other acceptance speeches combined
From the comments (vol.3)
Soon there will an awards show every week and they never get boring, at all.
With a name like that it’s hard to know if this is ironic or not …
DNCE play Cake By The Ocean
This is easily the worst section of the show so far. Maroon 5 impersonators DNCE are here to bore everyone with their balloon-laden performance. It was written by Joe Jonas and Nick Jonas is singing along gamely in the front row #loyal.
Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton perform
The real life couple sing Go Ahead and Break My Heart, and it’s hideously schmaltzy. I can’t believe I’m missing Game of Thrones for this.
Nick Jonas and Demi Lovato perform
Nick Jonas and Demi Lovato have a massive tour starting at the end of June, according to Ludacris. Who also knows the details of their new singles. Jonas is performing first and is doing the whole thing through gritted teeth. Then Tove Lo shows up and sings at Jonas through some glass. It’s a bit steamy and actually quite interesting and they end the whole thing with a snog, or do they … the lights go down just at the right time.
Lovato is here to belt out Cool For The Summer. There’s not much of a performance. she walks around the stage interacting with her backing singers who look like they just want to get through the song.
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From the comments (vol.2)
Going to need some context Scott and foostus …
WINNER! – Justin Bieber (Top male artist)
Jessica Alba is here to tell us that Bieber has done it.
He’s not really a talker, he says. Before delivering the shortest acceptance speech of the evening and walking off. He’s probably still tired to be fair.
Pink performs Just Like Fire and channels Wild Wild West
Pink is here, looking like Annie Lennox as she flies across the stadium. This is completely ridiculous. That was like a WWE entrance.
Now she’s being carried around by a small army of helpers, I’ll call them helpers, but they don’t look like they want to be there. This is the song from Alice Through The Looking Glass. Bieber isn’t into this at all, he looks like Pink just stole his hoverboard.
She flies around AGAIN, this time on a clock. It’s like a steampunk fantasy. Brilliantly bonkers.
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DJ Khaled introduces Justin Bieber
Remember when I asked who was going to stir things up? Well, DJ Khaled just did the most overblown introduction for a performance ever. In his immutable style he left the floor open for Bieber who was performing new track company in almost pitch darkness. He emerges out of the darkness as the chorus kicks in, I believe people will call that his Tropical House track.
Then he segues into Sorry. People are losing their minds in the fan section, and even the celebrities are singing along and genuinely look like they are loving this. The stage has gone a bit Wizard of Oz with emeralds everywhere as Bieber does the bogle.
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WINNER! Thomas Rhett – Die a Happy Man (Top country artist)
Miss America and some guy off Shark Tank (Mark Cuban) are here to give another award. There’s some stilted banter about Mark Cuban running for President. That was painful.
Thomas Rhett thanks god and his lovely wife … and that’s it.
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From the comments
Well, Meghan Trainor is here so there are some outliers.
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JUSTIN BIEBER PERFORMS SORRY IN 12 MINUTES
That’s what is flashed up on the screen just as Meghan Trainor starts to perform. Sorry Meghan but there’s one person everyone is here to see and it aint you.
Collab time!
Our first collaboration of the night sees girl group Fifth Harmony and R&B crooner Ty Dolla $ign link up. Fifth Harmony rise up from a load of dry ice.
Ty shows up and proceeds to get a very short private dance from each member of Fifth Harmony, some are more enthusiastic than others and then, well, he just strolls off. Easiest $50,000 he’s ever made!
NB – I have no idea how much he’s getting paid for this.
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30 minute marker
So … we’re 30 minutes in and things have been pretty conservative so far. Britney did an abridged version of her Vegas show which she performs around the corner from where the awards are being held. The Weeknd cried some crocodile tears and Wiz Khalifa was really really polite. Who’s going to stir it up?
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WINNER! – Wiz Khalifa ft Charlie Pugh (Top Hot 100 Song)
Ashton Kutcher lets the crowd know that Wiz Khalifa has done it. He’s won the Top Hot 100 Song! He shouts out all the other artists who were nominated and his mum.
Shawn Mendes performs Stitches
Jojo Fletcher from the Bachelorette is here to introduce teenthrob sensation Shawn Mendes. He’s doing a sullen number while sat at a stool with an acoustic guitar.
There’s a TV in the background and now he moves to a bedroom scene where he sits at a grand piano – there’s a really nice rug in that room too. He’s performing Stitches and the kids are loving it. This man shifts units as they say in the trade.
WINNER! – The Weeknd (Top Hot 100 Artist)
The Weeknd, who is the only nominee in the building, rather predictably wins and then talks about how much Prince means to him while almost crying. He holds it together somehow – it’s only the first award!
Ludacris and Ciara
Hosts Ludacris and Ciara declare that Britney Spears was “great” and Luda reminds everyone this is the third time he’s hosted the show before they go into a tortured gag about threesomes. This might be a long night.
After paying homage to her legs, Ludacris plugs Ciara’s various projects and says he’s known her for ten years. Ciara mentions Luda’s charity work without doing the obvious gag linked to his hit Area Codes.
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Slave For You sees Britney and her backing dancers form a weird congo on the ground before she directs them to a stripper pole.
The director cuts to Nick Jonas who looks pretty non-plussed. He’s got nothing to be smug about, I still remember his turn at the pre-Grammy show …
Things slow down with the forgettable Touch Of My Hand, before she launches into Toxic. And … that’s it. Not a bad start at all.
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She starts with Work Bitch, which is the song she starts her Vegas show (I know this because I’ve seen the thing). Then she segues into Womanizer after ripping off a layer of clothing – she’s definitely not singing live btw.
Her backing singers have some light sabers and there’s a screen that looks a bit like something from Tron. It’s not exactly mind blowing but if you want a competent run through of an artist’s biggest numbers, while she mimes and plays really bad air guitar, this is the one for you!
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We’re off … Britney is here
We’ve just had a breathless introduction to the evening with an extensive list of artists who all seem to be making comebacks. First up, Britney. Although, she never really went away.
Welcome to the Billboard Music Awards liveblog
Hello everyone,
I’m sat in a room in New York following all the action from the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas. It should be an interesting evening with Kesha’s first performance in years (and since her legal disputes with Dr Luke) and Madonna (and friends) are performing a tribute to Prince.
We’re moments away now so prepare thyself.
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