Billboard Music Awards 2015

The biggest stars from all genres of music come together to celebrate the year's achievements and musical milestones in the musical showcase that is the Billboard Music Awards. This year's show began with the world premiere of Taylor Swift's music video for "Bad Blood." In the weeks leading up to the video's premiere she released various characters that were a part of the music video including Mariska Hargitay, Ellen Pompeo, Lily Aldridge, Lena Dunham, and Selena Gomez.

This year's show included performances by everyone from Van Halen to Britney Spears with Iggy Azalea.  Some of the night's performances included: Fall Out Boy and Wiz Khalifa performing "Uma Thurman," Meghan Trainor and John Legend singing "Like I'm Gonna Lose You," "See You Again" performed by Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth, Britney Spears and Iggy Azalea singing "Pretty Girls," the cast of Empire performing a medley of songs, Tori Kelly performing an incredible rendition of "Nobody Love," Simple Minds celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Breakfast Club with "Don't You (Forget About Me)," and Imagine Dragons paying tribute to the late Ben E. King with "Stand By Me."


The BBMAs are about celebrating music and include myriad musical performances with the occasional award presented.  One of the night's biggest winners was Taylor Swift who took home awards for Top Female Artist, Top Artist, Top Billboard 200 Album, and the fan-voted Billboard Chart Achievement Award among others. 

A full list of winners can be found here. 

Billboard Music Awards 2015 Nominees

The finalists for the 2015 Billboard Music Awards were announced this morning (April 7), with five major categories announced on Good Morning America.  Taylor Swift took home the most nominations with 14  entries in 13 categories, followed by Sam Smith who is nominated 13 times, Iggy Azalea with 12 and Meghan Trainor with 9.  

The nominees in some of the major categories are as follows:

Top Artist
Ariana Grande
One Direction
Katy Perry
Sam Smith
Taylor Swift

Top New Artist
5 Seconds of Summer
Iggy Azalea
Hozier
Sam Smith
Meghan Trainor

Top Male Artist
Drake
Pharell Williams
Ed Sheeran
Sam Smith
Justin Timberlake

Top Female Artist
Iggy Azalea
Ariana Grande
Katy Perry
Taylor Swift
Meghan Trainor

Top Duo/Group
5 Seconds of Summer
Florida Georgia Line
MAGIC!
Maroon 5
One Direction

You can find a full list of nominees here.

How does Billboard decide their nominees? "Billboard Music Awards finalists are based on album and digital song sales, radio airplay, streaming, touring and social-media interactions -- measurements that are tracked year-round by Billboard and its data partners... The awards are based on the reporting period of March 10, 2014 to March 8, 2015."

The 2015 Billboard Music Awards will air live from Las Vegas on Sunday, May 17 at 8:00 p.m. ET on ABC.

CMA Awards 2014

Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley returned to host the show for the seventh  year in a row.  After seven years they know what they're doing and over the years they've grown to be one of the main attractions of the show.  This year's show was no exception as the duo tackled the latest trends including Ebola, Renee Zellweger, and Taylor Swift going pop.  Carrie and Brad also revealed, or rather Brad "blew it"and revealed, that Carrie is having a boy!

The night's top winners were Miranda Lambert who took home Female Vocalist, Album of the Year for Platinum, Single of the Year for "Automatic" and Musical Event of the Year with Keith Urban for "We Were Us", Blake Shelton who took home Male Vocalist and Luke Bryan who took home Entertainer of the Year, his first win in the category.  Also during the show, Vince Gill was honored with the Irving Waugh Award of Excellence, a very deserving honor for a great musician and person. A full list of the night's winners can be found here.

The best and biggest performances of the night included Carrie Underwood debuting her latest single "Something in the Water" in a spectacular and inspiring performance (as the music video for the single premiered on twitter immediately following her performance), and The Band Perry honoring Glen Campbell with "Gentle On My Mind". Other performance highlights included Meghan Trainor and Miranda Lambert singing Trainor's hit "All About That Bass", Little Big Town performing "Day Drinking"and being joined by Ariana Grande to perform "Bang Bang", Kacey Musgraves and Loretta Lynn singing "You're Looking At Country", Keith Urban performing his latest single "Somewhere in My Car", and Eric Church and George Strait singing "Cowboys Like Us".

Red Carpet Fashion

Carrie Underwood, the night's co-host, looked stunning in a high-low hem Lorena Sarbu dress.

Danielle Bradbery looked gorgeous in a low-plunging black gown and a fishtail braid.











Lucy Hale owned the red carpet in a silky red gown with an open back by Romona Keveza.











Lennon and Maisy Stella looked darling on the red carpet both in black.











A full gallery of CMA Awards Red Carpet pictures can be found here.

Red Carpet pictures from Gerry Images.