2012 Billboard Awards

2012 Billboard Music Awards

This years Billboard Music Awards were held in Las Vegas, NV at the MGM Grand Garden Arena May 20, 2012. With music transitioning to being primarily digital the Billboard Charts continue to track music and artist. This year’s finalist, consist of a variety of artist that held the spots for the top hot 100 songs. Adele who took top of the 2012 Grammy Awards is listed on this list. In addition to Adele this Year the top artist list consisted of Lady Gaga, Lil Wayne, Katy Perry, and Rihanna.

This award show is very significant to artist as the Billboard Charts are used primarily to track data for sales. The finalist for the Billboard Music Awards are determined by performance from data tracked by Nielsen data for sales, number of downloads, and total air-play. There are many categories involved in this award show from Album of the year to best Digital track. Janet Jackson remains the record holder for winning the most Billboard Awards, with 33 awards total.

This year the Award’s promotion team took advantage of using Twitter to promote the show and also keep people up to date with every step leading up to the show. Justin Beiber has grabbed the attention of this year’s award show after having an amazing performance during the 2011 Award show.

The Billboard Music Award show went dormant the year of 2007 and returned in 2011. This makes the 2012 awards very exciting for today’s artist. The music industry continues to transition with the new technologies of the world. Today the record labels are beginning to find ways on how to run the music business effectively and adapt to all of the technical changes.  The 2012 Billboard Music awards will make history. All of the top finalist, have had an amazing year in music thus far, this is a show for all music lovers must see.

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Music_Award

http://www.billboard.com/bbma/ - Billboard

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YMCMB/Young Money Cash Money Billionaires

Young Money Entertainment is one of the largest music teams in Hip- Hip. The team has a very strong roster and has been able to recently sign many hip-hop veterans. The team head Lil Wayne has created a loyal fan base for him-self. The most recent artist that have been added to team are Busta Rhymes and Mystical. Busta Rhymes has made a name for himself as an artist and is known for his style of Rapping very fast. Mystical is also known for his style for rapping extremely fast. YMCMB has been taking over the radio with recording artist Drake and Tyga getting spins on every radio station in the US.

                                                                             

Nicki Minaj

Nicki Minaj is today’s female rapper that has no competition. She is an YMCMB artist that has been able to create a fan base like no other. Nicki’s fans are very loyal to her and love to dress like her. Nicki Minaj has been able to set trends that young women continue to follow and imitate. Nicki’s only criticism have been that she has stolen the style of Lil Kim. There have been public beef disputes between the two artist.

DRAKE

Drake is one of the music industry’s most successful talents today. He has the ability to act, which is where he made a name for himself in the entertainment industry before he started rapping. He also has multiple endorsement deals. Drake has a style that he uses in his music to appeal to women. He is always speaking to the women through his music. He also has a very strong fan base that stays very true and loyal to him. Drake is played on the radio all day and has multiple songs out at a time. He also does features with Lil Wayne that automatically have the people in love with the song because of the creativity that the two have when they come together on a song. 

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