2013 Billboard Music Awards

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Hosted by Tracy Morgan Most nominations Taylor Swift (11) Date 19 May 2013 Host Tracy Morgan		Most awards Taylor Swift (8) Network ABC Other ceremonies 2012, 2014

Location MGM Grand Garden Arena, Nevada, United States

The 2013 Billboard Music Awards was a music award ceremony that was held on May 19, 2013 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was aired on ABC at 8:00/7:00 PM central. The show was hosted by Tracy Morgan.

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Presenters

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Shania Twain — Presented "Top Rap Artist"

Jennifer Nettles - Introduced The Band Perry

Carly Rae Jepsen — Introduced Icona Pop

PSY — Introduced Chris Brown

Alyssa Milano and Avril Lavigne — Presented "Top Digital Song"

Hayden Panettiere — Introduced Macklemore and Ryan Lewis

Kid Rock — Presented "Top Rap Song"

Selena Gomez — Introduced Taylor Swift

Florida Georgia Line — Introduced Kacey Musgraves

will.i.am — Presented "Top Touring Artist"

Ariana Grande — Introduced Justin Bieber

Emmy Rossum and Jason Derulo — Presented "Top Billboard 200 Album"

Ke$ha — Introduced Pitbull and Christina Aguilera

Miley Cyrus — Presented "Top Male Artist"

Jennifer Morrison — Introduced Miguel

Chloë Grace Moretz — Introduced Ed Sheeran

Gabriel Mann and Stana Katic — Introduced Jennifer Lopez and Pitbull

Kelly Rowland and Austin Mahone — Presented "EDM - Electronic Dance Music"

Wiz Khalifa and SkyBlu — Introduced will.i.am and Justin Bieber

Jenny McCarthy - Introduced David Guetta, Akon and Ne-Yo.

Cee Lo Green — Presented "Milestone Award"

Celine Dion — Presented "Artist of the Year"

Erykah Badu and Janelle Monáe - Presented "Icon Award"

Nominees

The nominees and winners are as follows:

Multiple nominations

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11: Maroon 5, Taylor Swift, fun.,

10: Rihanna

9: One Direction

8: Carly Rae Jepsen

7: Nicki Minaj, Flo Rida, Justin Bieber

6: Gotye,

5: PSY, Adele, Skrillex

4: Mumford & Sons, Kimbra, Bruno Mars

3: Madonna, Wiz Khalifa, Jason Aldean, Janelle Monáe, Drake, David Guetta, Coldplay, Chris Brown, Alicia Keys, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, TobyMac.

Multiple wins

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8: Taylor Swift

4: Gotye, Rihanna,

3: Madonna, Nicki Minaj, One Direction, Carly Rae Jepsen, Justin Bieber

2: Jenni Rivera, Baauer tobyMac

Live-GIFs

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Tumblr chose the 2013 Billboard Music Awards as the basis for their first live TV integration. Creative agency Deckhouse Digital was hired for the event, designing an innovative live-gif system which allowed them to produce animated GIFs during the broadcast, and post them directly to Billboard's tumblr page in real time. Users of the blogging site were able to view and share animated images of events unfolding on stage just minutes after watching them live on ABC.

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References

2013 Billboard Music Awards Wikipedia

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