Billboard Music Awards 2015 in a (BIG) Nutshell

Billboard Music Awards or BBMA is more than a two-decade old ceremony amongst other prestigious awarding events given by the publication and popularity chart, Billboard. The honorary event was first awarded in 1989 of December and became a much-awaited and thoroughly-prepared phenomenon. However, it halted at the year 2007 and resumed only after four years. Since then in 2011, BBMA is held annually in May.

This 2015, Billboards Music Awards was held last 17th of May in MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas to give recognition yet again to artists, emerging or longstanding, who made an impression to public through outstanding performances introduced from debuting singles to nth time full length studio albums and everything in between and more.

Hosted by Ludacris and Chrissy Teigen, this year’s BBMA also features more explosive and diverse performances from the industry’s fresh meats to veterans of music who’s making reappearance in the scene. To mention some are Tori Kelly’s “Nobody Love,” which did not fail to win over the crowd. 

Performances from rock stars also pounded the stage with Fall Out Boy’s “Uma Thurman” and Hoziers winning rock single “Take Me To Church.” Mariah Carey put on a show with her “Vision of Love” and “Infinity,” as well as Britney Spears together with Iggy Azalea as they performed “Pretty Girls.” Summing it up, the performances from Van Halen’s “Panama” to Kanye Wests closing performance “All Day” are all spectacles of what music industry has to offer and become.

Apart from the disarming performances are the notable happenings in the three-hour event.

Of course it all starts in the red carpet where artists like Taylor Swift flaunt their dress – or their skin, you choose – to clamoring fans and flashing lights. Candid engagements of artists around are also one of the must-sees of adoring fans in events such as this like Hozier and Ed Sheeran pal-ing before the event. It was also one of the first that the “one less” One Direction appears after Zayn Malik’s departure. And who will forget? It is also the premiere night of Taylor Swift’s star-studded music video “Bad Blood.” (Swifties, you can watch it in YouTube now!) On the last note, Chris Brown had acute moment with his daughter, Royalty, as he brought the little angel to be his date.

And unto the main event! Taylor Swift bagged eight awards after racking up 14 nominations. Her winning title includes Top artist, Top Female Artist, Top billboard 200 Artist, and Top Hot 100 Artist. Top New Artist and Top Male Artist are some of Sam Smith’s award who unfortunately was not able to attend the ceremony due to throat problems. Other artists who won the BBMA 2015 are One Direction, Meghan Trainor, John Legend, and Iggy Azalea.

To check out the full list of winners, check out this billboard website:
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/bbma/6568580/billboard-music-awards-2015-winners-list

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