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| The BMAs, live on ABC on May the 18th |
The Billboard Music Awards started in 1989 and were held in December every year until 2006. The 2007 ceremony was canceled for various reasons, and plans to bring it back in 2008 fell through. The BMAs came back in May 2011.
Unlike other awards, the Billboard Music Awards are based on chart success: number of downloads, total sales and total airplay. Past award winners include Madonna, Michael Jackson, the Spice Girls, Elton John, Mariah Carey and Prince.
This year's finalists were announced earlier today, and the ceremony, which will air live on May the 18th, will honour the year's most successful acts in 40 different categories.
Bizarrely, Lana Del Rey's "Born To Die" is up for "Top Rock Album" together with Lorde's "Pure Heroine" and others. I must have grown up with the wrong concept of rock music. But this nomination will definitely please wild child Lana.
Other strange inclusions? "Safe And Sound" by Capital Cities and Lorde's "Royals" are up for "Top Rock Song". Have you people heard these tracks? I'm sure there's some criteria behind Billboard's decisions, but I fail to understand it. Capital Cities and Lorde are also nominated for "Top Rock Artist".
"Top Christian Album" and "Top Christian Song" will definitely be the most talked-about awards of the night. Not.
You'd be forgiven for thinking that Eminem, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus and Beyoncé were nominated in all 40 categories, but, in reality, Imagine Dragons and Lorde lead with 12 categories each.
Competition is tough though; Eminem, Bruno Mars and Justin Timberlake will have to fight it out for "Top Male Artist", while "Top Female Artist" is filled with extremely successful ladies: Beyoncé, Miley Cyrus, Rihanna, Katy Perry and Lorde.
Lady Gaga is up for three awards: "Top Dance/Electronic Artist", "Top Dance/Electronic Album" (ARTPOP) and "Top Dance/Electronic Song" (Applause).
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