Billboard Music Awards 2013: My Thoughts on the Nominees
Now as there must be about a hundred categories I'm not going to deeply analyse each one - as much as I'd love to - but I will just skim over them.
First of all, I was delighted to hear my favourite artist of ALL time, Taylor Swift, has been nominated for a staggering eleven awards. Eleven! This makes me soo happy! She's nominated for Top Artist, along with some other huge faces on the music scene including One Direction, Maroon 5, Rihanna and Justin Bieber. Bieber is also nomiated for Top Male Artist which features big names: Flo Rida, Drake and Bruno Mars. There is also another face who joins these men in this category and as someone who likes country music, I'm stoked to announce that Jason Aldean is also nominated!
I love the list of nominees in the Top Duo/Groups category with the likes of Mumford and Sons and fun., but I'll be backing Coldplay to win. I'm also hoping to see Maroon 5 and Wiz Khalifa's 'Payphone' pick up the award for Top Hot 100 Song as that was a cracking tune! I'd like to see Ellie Goulding's 'Lights' winning Top Streaming Song because 'Lights' the album is one of my all time favourites and I just cannot get enough of it.
I'm very happy to see Hunter Hayes on the list for Top Country Artist with 'Wanted' and for such a young age it's wonderful to see him next to artists like Aldean, Swift, Carrie Underwood and Luke Bryan. Also on the country scene there's an appearance from Florida Georgia Line, a duo I haven't heard too much from, but I'd love to hear more of because I've really liked the material I've listened to so far!
Drake, Flo Rida, Pitbull and Nicki Minaj are all up against the South Korean, King of K-Pop, star that is Psy, who smashed into the charts again not too long ago with the catchy tune 'Gentleman'. And as if that wasn't enough, there's categories for Christian music, Dance and Latin so there'll always be someone to support there if mainstream isn't your thing!
As far as my crticisms go I do feel that 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' is more of a pop song, yet it's nominated for Top Country Song. As I'm quite picky I would have preferred to see a REAL country song from Taylor there in its place, such as 'Begin Again' and I feel like the entire list is lacking a bit of Ed Sheeran, but this is just my opinion!
But nevertheless, the awards will have someone's name on them eventually! The Billboard Awards will air on May 19th on ABC at 8/7pm Central Time for you Americans.
For us Brits and the rest of the world, I'm unsure if it will be aired on national television (boo!) but hopefully there will be a live stream so we can still see all the performances and the awards!
But even so you can still get involved by voting for your favourite artist out of the three finalists in the Milestone award right here! We all know who I'm voting for... ;)
Who are you hoping to see win this year? Will you be watching?
*DISCLAIMER* I do not own the images used in this post. To avoid any copyright issues that may arise, I have included the following sources: Justin Bieber, justinbieberpages.com; Jason Aldean, people.com; Taylor Swift, taylorswift.com; Psy, thesun.co.uk
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