Ontem rolou o 2013 Billboard Music Awards no MGM Grand Garden Arena em Las Vegas, Nevada. O show teve como apresentador Tracy Morgan. Os artistas que mais tiveram indicações foram: Maroon 5, fun. e Taylor Swift tiveram 11, Rihanna teve 10, One Direction teve 9, Carly Rae Jepsen teve 8, Nicki Minaj e Flo Rida tiveram 7, Goty e Justin Bieber tiveram 6 além de PSY e Adele com 5 cada um.
Os artistas que levaram mais de um prêmio para casa foram: Taylor Swift com 8 prêmios, Rihanna com 4, Carly Rae Jepsen, Gotye, Justin Bieber, Nicki Minaj, Madonna e One Direction com 3 prêmios cada.
Lista dos vencedores:
- Top Artist: Taylor Swift
- Top New Artist: One Direction
- Hot 100 Song of the Year: “Somebody That I Used to Know” por Gotye com participação de Kimbra
- Billboard 200 Album of the Year: “Red” por Taylor Swift
- Hot 100 Artist of the Year: Maroon 5
- Social Artist of the Year: Justin Bieber
- Male Artist of the Year: Justin Bieber
- Female Artist of the Year: Taylor Swift
- Top Radio Song: “Somebody That I Used to Know” por Gotye com participação de Kimbra
- Top Streaming Artist: Nicki Minaj
- Top Streaming Song (Audio): “Somebody That I Used to Know” por Gotye com participação de Kimbra
- Top Streaming Song (Vídeo): “Gangnam Style” por PSY
- Top Digital Songs Artist: Carly Rae Jepsen
- Top Digital Song: “Call Me Maybe” por Carly Rae Jepsen
- Duo/Group of the Year: One Direction
- Top Touring Artist: Madonna
- Pop Artist of the Year: One Direction
- Pop Song of the Year: “Call Me Maybe” por Carly Rae Jepsen
- Pop Album of the Year: “21″ por Adele
- R&B Artist of the Year: Rihanna
- R&B Song of the Year: “Diamonds” por Rihanna
- R&B Album of the Year: “Unapologetic” por Rihanna
- Rock Artist of the Year: fun.
- Rock Album of the Year: “Babel” por Mumford & Sons
- Country Artist of the Year: Taylor Swift
- Country Album of the Year: “Red” by Taylor Swift
- Rap Artist of the Year: Nicki Minaj
- Rap Song of the Year: “Thrift Shop” por Macklemore & Ryan Lewis com participação de Wanz
- Rap Album of the Year: “Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded” por Nicki Minaj
- Latin Artist of the Year: Jenni Rivera
- Latin Album of the Year: “La misma gran señora” por Jenni Rivera
- Latin Song of the Year: “Ai se eu te pego” por Michel Teló
- Dance Artist of the Year: Madonna
- Dance Song of the Year: “Harlem Shake” por Baauer
- Dance Album of the Year: “MDNA” por Madonna
- EDM Artist of the Year: David Guetta
- EDM Song of the Year: “Harlem Shake” por Baauer
- EDM Album of the Year: “Bangarang” por Skrillex
- Christian Artist of the Year: tobyMac
- Christian Album of the Year: “Eye on It” por tobyMac
- Billboard Milestone Award: Justin Bieber
- Icon Award: Prince
- The Voice of the Generation: Christina Aguilera
- Woman of the Year: Katy Perry
- Top Billboard 200 Artist: Taylor Swift
- Top Radio Songs Artist: Rihanna
Performances:
- Bruno Mars “Treasure”
- Selena Gomez “Come & Get It”
- The Band Perry “Better Big Two”
- Icona Pop “I Love It”
- Chris Brown “Fine China”
- Macklemore & Ryan Lewis “Thrift Shop”
- Taylor Swift “22″
- Kacey Musgraves “Merry Go Round”
- Justin Bieber “Take You”
- Pitbull, Christina Aguilera & Morten Harket (Líder do A-ha) “Feel This Moment” / “Take on Me”
- Miguel “Adorn”
- Ed Sheeran “Lego House”
- Jennifer Lopez “Live It Up” (com participação de Pitbull)
- will.i.am “#thatPOWER” (com participação de Justin Bieber)
- David Guetta “Play Hard” (com participação de Akon & Ne-Yo)
- Nicki Minaj “High School” (com participação de Lil Wayne)
- Prince “Let’s Go Crazy” / “Frankenstein (interlude)”
