Billboard Music Awards 2014
A look at the country artist winners, performances and red carpet fashion
Luke Bryan
dominated the Billboard
Music Awards Nominations where he was up for Top Male Artist (all
genres) his album, CRASH MY PARTY got noms for Top Billboard 200 Album and Top
Country Album, and Luke was nominated for Top Billboard 200 Artist. Florida Georgia Line also had three
nonimations. The Billboard Music Awards took place in Las Vegas Sunday, May 18,
and aired on live on ABC. So how did they fare?
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| Billboard 2014 Winners Florida Georgia Line & Luke Bryan perform "This Is How Me Roll" |
The Top Country Artist award was
snagged by Luke Bryan (Image), who was up against Blake Shelton,
Darius Rucker, Taylor Swift and Florida Georgia Line.
Luke’s CRASH MY PARTY also won Top Country Album beating out Garth Brooks
("Blame It All On My Roots: Five Decades of Influences"), Florida
Georgia Line ("Here’s to the Good Times"), The Robertsons ("Duck
the Halls: A Robertson Family Christmas") and Blake Shelton ("Based
on a True Story")
Backstage, Luke was asked about the fact that he appeared
to be drinking while sitting in the audience. He copped to it. "I've learned that the right amount of drinks
chills you out for award shows so, there's a perfect little threshold. Yeah, we keep it a little 'under the chair!'"
"Cruise," the Florida Georgia Line song featuring Nelly, won the Top Country Song award (image), overhauling Blake Shelton with the Pistol Annies' "Boys 'Round Here," Darius Rucker's "Wagon Wheel," Luke Bryan's "That's My Kind Of Night" and Bryan's "Crash My Party." “This is absolutely incredible, thank you guys,” an excited Brian Kelley said from stage. “This song has taken us on the ride of our lives … Nelly, you killed it brother. Thank you for putting your magic on our song.” “We want to thank the Lord above for letting us be here tonight,” Tyler Hubbard added.
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Carrie Underwood was crowned the winner of the fan-voted Milestone Award, presented by Chevrolet. "I truly have the
best fans in the world," Underwood said emotionally, adding that she
wouldn't get to do even a zillionth of what she's been able to accomplish if
not for all those fans. The BBMAs' second annual Milestone Award, which
celebrated the innovation of this year's hitmakers was presented by Kelly
Rowland and a lucky fan who won the opportunity to co-present. Carrie Underwood
beat out two other finalists OneRepublic and Ellie Goulding on the strength of
her many fans' votes over the course of the last few weeks.
Underwood also presented (image) Best New Artist to Lorde.
Backstage (image), Carrie told reporters, "It's
always a wonderful surprise when my name is called, and I know my fans love to
vote and they're so supportive."
Alan Jackson
won Top
Christian Album for his ‘Precious Memories: Volume II,’ released in
March 2013 as a follow-up to his 2006 release, ‘Precious Memories.’ “[We] had
made a list of 30 to 40 songs to do for that first album,” Jackson says. “We had so many that we didn’t get
to, I thought we’d go in and do a few more just the same way — heartfelt and
simple.” ‘Precious Memories: Volume II’ went up against albums from Skillet,
Third Day and Chris Tomlin, as well as a compilation album, in the category.
Billboard Music Awards 2014 Winners
& Nominees
Country-related interest
categories:
Top Male Artist:
Luke Bryan, Drake, Eminem,
Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake WINNER
Top Duo/Group:
Florida Georgia Line,
Imagine Dragons WINNER,
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, One Direction, OneRepublic
Top Billboard 200 Artist:
Beyoncé,
Luke Bryan, Eminem, One Direction, Justin
Timberlake WINNER
Top Social Artist:
Justin
Bieber WINNER,
Miley Cyrus, One Direction, Rihanna, Taylor Swift
Top Country Artist:
Luke
Bryan WINNER,
Florida Georgia Line, Darius Rucker, Blake Shelton, Taylor Swift
Milestone Award Presented by Chevrolet:
Imagine
Dragons, John Legend, Luke Bryan, Ellie
Goulding, OneRepublic, Carrie Underwood WINNER
Top Billboard 200 Album:
Beyoncé (Beyoncé), Luke Bryan (Crash My Party), Drake (Nothing Was the
Same)
Eminem (The Marshall Mathers
LP 2), Justin Timberlake (The 20/20 Experience) WINNER
Top Country Album:
Garth Brooks ("Blame It
All On My Roots: Five Decades of Influences")
Luke Bryan ("Crash My
Party") WINNER,
Florida Georgia Line
("Here’s to the Good Times")
The Robertsons ("Duck
the Halls: A Robertson Family Christmas")
Blake Shelton ("Based
on a True Story")
Top Country Song:
Luke
Bryan, “Crash My Party”; Luke Bryan, “That’s My Kind Of Night”
Florida Georgia Line
Featuring Nelly, “Cruise” WINNER
Darius Rucker, “Wagon Wheel”
Blake Shelton Featuring
Pistol Annies & Friends, “Boys ‘Round Here”
Top Christian Album:
Alan Jackson (Precious Memories: Volume II) WINNER, Skillet (Rise)
Third Day (Miracle), Chris
Tomlin (Burning Lights), Various Artists (WOW Hits 2014)
Miranda Lambert, Carrie
Underwood, Shania Twain (image - image), Brad Paisley and Lucy Hale (image) served as presenters.
Justin Timberlake was the big winner at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards, with 7 trophies
on the night including Top Artist and Top Male Artist. Other winners included
Imagine Dragons with five, and Pharrell, Robin Thicke and T.I. each scoring
four apiece.
Billboard Music Awards 2014:
Full Winners List
Billboard Music 2014 Performances:
Press Blurb: Something bad
never sounded this good before: Miranda
Lambert and Carrie Underwood took the stage at the 2014 Billboard Music
Awards, where they debuted their new duet >> "Somethin' Bad" for the crowd at the
MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
The two singers traded off lines for the rocking tune,
sounding as much like an Aerosmith song as the next country hit.
The song written in a
retreat in France by Chris DeStefano
(Song Credits include: Luke Bryan "That's My Kind of Night"; Chris
Young "Aw Naw"; Rascal Flatts "Rewind"; Carrie Underwood
"Good Girl"; Jana Kramer "Why Ya Wanna" and Brett Eldredge
"Don't Ya"), Brett James
(Song Credits include: Kenny Chesney "When the Sun Goes Down"; Carrie
Underwood "Jesus, Take the Wheel"/ "Cowboy Casanova";
Scotty McCreery's debut single "I Love You This Big") and pop music
hit maker Priscilla Renea (Song
Credits: Pitbull "Timber (feat. Ke$ha)"; Madonna "Gang
Bang"; Cheryl Cole "Promise This" and Rihanna "California
King Bed") is from Lambert's upcoming album PLATINUM due out on June 3.
Brad Paisley >> introduced the country duo, who donned
similar teased 'dos and studded leather jackets to perform the TV debut of
their song. The crowd clapped along, and Blake Shelton looked adoringly at his
wife up on the stage. Lambert recently told Billboard that she's a huge Carrie
Underwood fan" but that "Somethin' Bad" is a meshing of our
styles." She also noted that "there aren't many female collaborations
in our format so I'm really excited to be debuting it on the Billboard
Awards."
The song is about what happens when good girls go (kind of)
bad. Missing church, drinking too much, that kind of thing.
"I got a real good
feeling something bad is 'bout to happen" is the lyrical hook. And from
the looks on their husbands' faces, it's the kind of song the definitely lets
the world know that Lambert and Underwood are not the kind of women you can
push around.
Even though two powerhouse
females singing together seems like a no-brainer, it doesn't happen often in
country music. In 1993, Reba McEntire and Linda Davis (Hillary Scott's mother)
had a hit duet with "Does He Love You," but this Lambert and
Underwood song is the first major duet of its kind in more than two decades.
Carrie said backstage, "It was so much
fun...I felt like we got to be strong women onstage and feed off each other,
and it was just a great performance in my head! I hope I go back and watch it
and think that still!" The “Blown Away” singer also said work on her new
album was looking "really good."
The single was released on iTunes and Amazon was placed at No.1 on both the US and UK Country Songs iTunes chart
Lambert & Underwood Battle
Bro-Country w/ ‘Somethin’ Bad’ - Did it live up to the hype?
Saving Country Music wrote: Make no mistake, “Something Bad” is not just another song. This
is Miranda and Carrie taking a baseball bat to bro-country’s pretty little
souped up 4-wheel drive.
Taste Of Country wrote - "It was in your face in the
very best way, and the type of performance that women all over will pump their
fists to again and again".
Roughstock wrote: With a percussive beat and melody to
the song this single is everything that fans were hoping it'd be. It's playful,
it's fun, it's Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood performing together.
There's no way the single isn't anything but a big ole hit for these two. The
story finds Miranda taking the place of a runaway bride who meets a new friend
for a little bit of fun after making pitstops to the home ATM (a mattress)...is
sure to be a fast-selling hit as well and there's clearly no way it's not sent
to Country radio as a single after "Automatic" is a hit for Miranda,
especially with no other Carrie Underwood songs on the horizon.
Troy
Blankenship: This is a classic example of record exec's putting together two
hot pieces of ass, disguising as country music and sitting back while they
stroke themselves because the dollar signs they see does more for them than a
double dose of viagra. Country Music??.......Country Music MY ASS!!!! - Facebook Grand Ole Opry Read more fan Facebook reaction.
>> Listen to Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood’s ‘Somethin’ Bad’ at http://vevo.ly/OfPFuC or on Spotify - Miranda Lambert – Somethin' Bad
Other country performances
from the Billboard show came from Florida
Georgia Line (image), who performed >> "This Is How We Roll" with Luke Bryan (while Underwood and her
husband Mike Fisher sang along from their seats) and Bryan, who sang his newest
hit "Play It Again."
2014 Billboard Music Awards Red Carpet
Fashion
Music's
biggest names hit Sunday night's (May 18) 2014 Billboard Music Awards in
standard red carpet fare - J. Lo and Carrie Underwood, included. Side-swept
hair swept the carpet. Stars spotted sporting the sophisticated asymmetrical style
pre-awards show include Lucy Hale, Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood. “It's
a take on a very traditional Old Hollywood look,” explained
hairstylist-to-the-stars and bestselling author José Eber of the sophisticated
style, which is traditionally reserved for film and television award shows.
“Just look at Beyoncé and Jennifer Lopez—everyone is going for glamour these
days. It doesn’t matter if you’re a movie star or a rock star, everyone wants
to have their Cinderella moment.”
Aubrey Peeples – The lovely 20-year old (aka Layla Grant in ABC drama series Nashville, a runner-up in a reality
singing competition and Juliette Barnes new rival) was spotted on the carpet.
The Jem & The Holograms‘ actress had come straight from the movie’s night
shoot with actor Roshon Fegan. Aubrey rocked "cool and grungy"
wearing a shiny Ted
Baker strapless high-low dress with ShoeCult open toe booties (image). She carried a black clutch (image) and donned an ombre do with long
straight bangs - Image
Peeples was accepted to Harvard University but deferred entry twice, the
second time to accept her role on Nashville.
Guys. Tonight. #NashvilleFinale
But we'll be back with more steaminess and sangin soon!
— Aubrey Peeples (@aubreypeeples) May 14, 2014
Carrie Underwood - The singer and highly hyped performer for the show
wore a striking art deco-inspired gown by designer Oriett Domenech with a silver bodice
that shows off deep cleavage.
The vibrant hot yellow color train and intricate
overlay detailing (image) made this look an immediate standout
on the red carpet, and Lorraine Schwartz earrings (image) were the perfect compliment to the
look. She further styled the look with a Rodo clutch and Brian Atwood pumps (image). A heavy smokey eye, glossy peach
lips (image ) and her slightly darker locks
pulled into a modern version of a 1920s sweep “aging” hairstyle (image) completed the ultra glamorous carpet
entry - Fashion Pic
The
‘Blown Away’ singer debuted her new darker hair do when she performed
‘Somethin’ Bad’ with fellow star Miranda Lambert. “It’s just a little bit
darker,” Underwood told People.
“I don’t think I’d want to or could even pull off being a brunette, but
it’s just nice sometimes to change it up a bit.” She makes sure to take care of
her tresses, no matter what color they are, and dishes, “Sitting in the tub
with a hair mask on is boring. I just put conditioner on in the shower, do
everything else, and then rinse it out.
Later
accepting the Billboard Milestone award Carrie was seen grinning ear to ear in
the audience with hubby Mike Fisher. She was wearing a Jill Stuart dress, Giuseppe Zanotti shoes and held a René Caolvilla
clutch with jewelry from Amrapali & Adeler Jewels – Pressroom Pic
Miranda Lambert - Pretty In Pink, the country "Mama's Broken
Heart" singer wore a Georges Hobeika body-conscious Spring 2014
Signature dress in a hot-pink hue. The country beauty joined her Sony
stablemate Underwood in displaying ample cleavage her bright fluorescent
number. Her fitted dress, showing off her well toned bod, with a sheer panel
which was quite a sexy look for Rand a gorgeous look from the ankles where she
could of done with opting for some sexy sandals rather than the clunky black
heels. She wore her hair with Side-swept Cascading curls - Fashion Pic - Getty Images
Daily Mail The country hitmakers don't normal sport
such a rock and roll aesthetic
Carrie
Underwood and Miranda Lambert set the stage on fire belting out "Something
Bad"
while wearing edgy sexy outfits—Miranda wowed in a red leather skirt
with hardware on the hem over a pair of fishnet stockings and wore a distressed
rock tee under a studded leather motorcycle jacket. She accessorized with a
fingerless leather glove, a large cocktail ring, and armfuls of bracelets.
Carrie sizzled in a pair of leather shorts - Image
Fans will get another repeat look at the country stars at the 2014 CMT Awards where they will be againlighting up the
stage with ‘Somethin’ Bad.’
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Fans will get another repeat look at the country stars at the 2014 CMT Awards where they will be again
Lambert's
third look on the night was much more toned down. She spoke onstage in a chic black
jumpsuit, which featured spaghetti straps and a sweetheart neckline.
She incorporated color into the outfit with a pair of hot pink peep-toe
ankle-strap heels - Image
"That's
My Kind of Night": Caroline (Boyer) Bryan and multi-nominated country star
and hubby Luke Bryan attend the
awards. Bright colours, cutouts and sparkle were the main themes on the
Billboard music red carpet this year. Caroline had fun with a bold Naeem Khan minidress
bursting with orange color and wore blue open-toe sandals to show off her truly
enviable pins. The "Crash My Party" bro-country singer nominated for
Top Male artist scrubbed up good with a simple matchy matchy Dolce &
Gabbana light grey suit, black shirt and black boots Tom Ford
sunglasses & a Piaget timepiece. The pair looked like they were havin’ a
great fun time! - Fashion Pic
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TOP:
Aubrey Peeples (Ted Baker); Carrie Underwood (Oriett Domenech);
Miranda Lambert
(Georges Hobeika); Caroline
Bryan (Naeem Khan)
BOTTOM:
Lucy Hale (Alex Perry); Shania Twain (Roberto Cavalli);
Cher Lloyd (Mikael D);
Natasha Bedingfield (Valentino Resort)
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Lucy Hale - The 24-year old Pretty Little Liars actress turned "You Sound Good to Me" country singer was one of the presenters of the night, the starlet embraced the colour-blocking trend in a tea length Alex Perry dress from the Aussie designer. The contrasting bold navy, yellow and pink shades proved compatible here, with the lace fabrication providing a feminine flair. Focusing on the blue hue of her dress, she accessorized with Stuart Weitzman ankle-strap sandals and a Charlotte Olympia clutch, while a watermelon lippie picked up on the pink. Divine side-swept waves and a mix of jewels EF Collection, EFFY Jewelry & Graziela Gems and perfect makeup completed her youthful and fresh pretty outing - Image - Image
Critique:
This is colorblocking hell. The young and pretty Pretty Little Liars star’s
blocks of blue, yellow, and pink somehow make her look short and squat instead
of chic.
Shania Twain - The 48-year-old Canadian country music legend
looked as if she hasn’t aged a day! Adding an air of class and sophistication
she looked drop-dead gorgeous. The mega-selling “Come On Over” superstar was
there to present the award for Top Rock Album to Imagine Dragons. Shania is of
course no stranger to Las Vegas as she currently is a headline performer at
Caesar’s Palace. The much-missed “Woman In Me” singer/songwriter country diva
wore a Roberto
Cavalli black knit illusion gown which hugged her adorable curves in
all the right places. The gown featured sheer spots and yoke with netting
around the arms, neckline and skirt (wouldn’t be a Cavalli look without some
allure - Simple, country cutie! - image - Image Will Shania will be inspired to hit the studio
after sitting through Billboard show. Her brunette flowing locks and smokey
makeup only added to the simple carpet look.
Cher Lloyd – One of the earliest arrivals was the 20-year old
Malvern, Worcestershire, England "Swagger Jagger" musician who has
gone on to taste plenty of success Stateside after her past UK X Factor
experince. Never one to shy away from a sartorial risk she looked completely at
home as she stepped onto the red carpet wearing a Mikael D purple, cap-sleeved
embellished cocktail dress featuring black bodycon detailing and no lack of
extreme beading. Featuring a high neckline, sheer inserts and head-to-toe
embellishment, she was certainly guaranteed that she was the centre of
attention. She completed the hyper embellished look with metallic especially
with those silver peep-toe Jimmy Choo platforms! Adding a pretty fuchsia lip
and two-tone hair coaxed into a high top knot. Was the overall effect
translated as a bit overwrought and costume-y? Image -Image
Cher
and Austin Mahone were there to present the award for Top Streaming Artist to Miley
Cyrus, who accepted the gong from her Bangerz tour live via satellite from
a studio in Manchester, England. The 21-year-old wore a top with a large tongue
emblazoned across it (image) as she said: 'Thank you to everyone
for making this s*** possible... oops sorry, I'm on ABC!'
The
other award that she won during the evening was Top Streaming Song (Video) for
“Wrecking Ball.” Miley also apparently gave a great performance of the Beatles
song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” during the show. Watch the video at dailymail.co.uk
Natasha Bedingfield: The 32-year old Haywards Heath, “Pocketful of
Sunshine"/ "Easy" British singer-songwriter opted for sheer
daring for the evening rocking “fresh and springy” look. She was dressed in a Valentino Resort
2014 sheer top with floral appliqués that showed off her black bra underneath.
She matched with baggy white low-waisted pants with some studded
Valentino 'Rockstud' Pumps. She sported a flawless complexion
and straight blond bangs to complete her look (Fashion Pic - Image - Getty Image)
Florida Georgia Line – Bro-Country/ pop duo Brian Kelley and Tyler
Hubbard added some pop to the the red carpet before their on the Billboard
Music Awards performance. Both look sexy cool and evoke the new country
spirit–Kelley in his brown fringe jacket and pendant necklace and Hubbard with
his all-black ensemble with lots of buttons on his jacket - Image
Billy Ray Cyrus – One of the worst: I guess this is what an aging
country singer who doesn’t care puts on for an awards show? The father of twerk
queen Miley Cyrus seems miles away from his Achy Breaky glory days donned in
ripped jeans and an old-looking scuffy leather jacket, boots, black t-shirt and
messy hair. Can, Miley help her dear old dad update his style cred? Image
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