
The 2013 Billboard Music Awards kicked off in at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Sunday. This year’s annual music event was hosted by 30 Rock star, Tracy Morgan, and featured some amazing performances, the first of which was by Bruno Mars, who set the tone for the night by performing his song “Treasure.” From then on there was a steady stream of performances by Justin Bieber, Pitbull feat. Christina Aguilera, Chris Brown, The Band Perry,Taylor Swift, and Chris Brown. But the night wasn’t all about performances, as Billboard handed out a slew of awards. The night’s biggest winner was Taylor Swift, who took home awards for Top Artists, Top Billboard 200 Album for Red, and Top Female Artist. Swift ended up walking away with eight awards. Other big winners wereRihanna, who swept the R&B categories, winning four awards in all, and Gotye, who’s worldwide smash, “Somebody That I Used To Know,” also won four wards. Kid Rock lived up to his reputation as a “Rebel Soul,” when he walked on-stage to hand out the award for Best Rap Song and took a dig at most of the artist performing that night when he said, “Let’s hear it for people lip-synching to pre-recorded music,” a reference to an awards show in which most of the night’s performers obviously weren’t singing. Music legend, Madonna, made an appearance to accept the awards for, Top Touring Artist. Prince also showed up to accept theBillboard Icon Award, as well as to close out the evening by performing “Let’s Go Crazy” and “Fix Ur Life Up.”
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