The 2015 Billboard Music Awards was held on 17 May 2015 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas hosted by Ludacris and Chrissy Teigen. This was definitely Taylor Swift's night as she grabbed 8 out of 14 nominations including Top Artist, Top Female Artist, Top Hot 100 Artist, Top Billboard 200 Album and Billboard Chart Achievement Award. Moreover, she premiered her much anticipated video of her latest single Bad Blood featuring Kendrick Lamar and a host of super stars in the video.
Some of the great performances of the night included Nick Jonas with Jealous, Wiz Khalifa, Charlie Puth and Lindsey Stirling with See You Again, Hozier with Take Me To Church, Nicki Minaj and David Guetta with The Night is Still Young and Hey Mama and Little Big Town and Faith Hill with Girl Crush. Mariah Carey took the stage with a medley of Vision of Love and her newest single Infinity, marking the first time she has performed on the Billboard stage since 1998. Britney Spears and Iggy Azalea performed their new single Pretty Girls which was less than mediocre and Kanye West was booed when he got on stage for his medley of All Day and Black Skinhead. Some of the significant winners of the night were:
- Top New Artist - Sam Smith
- Top Male Artist - Sam Smith
- Top Duo/Group - One Direction
- Top Hot 100 Song: Meghan Trainor - All about that bass
- Top Streaming Artist - Iggy Azalea
- Top Country Song: Jason Aldean - Burnin' it down
- Top Dance/Electronic Artist - Calvin Harris
- Top Dance/Electronic Song: DJ Snake & Lil Jon - Turn down for what
- Top Latin Song: Enrique Iglesias ft. Descemer Bueno & Gente de Zona - Bailando
- Top R&B Song: Pharrell Williams - Happy
- Top Rap Song: Iggy Azalea ft. Charli XCX - Fancy
- Top Rock Song: Hozier - Take me to church
- Top Soundtrack - Frozen
The 60th Eurovision Song Contest was held in Vienna, Austria, following Conchita Wurst's victory in 2014. The finals were held on 23 May 2015 where Sweden's entry Mans Zelmerlow's Heroes (365 points) beat Russia's entry Polina Gagarina's A Million Voices (303 points). Russia became the first non-winning nation to score over 300 points in the contest.
Some musicians also passed away during the month of May including B.B. King aka King of the Blues suffering from ill health in recent months and Errol Brown, the lead singer of the popular 70s band Hot Chocolate who died of liver cancer.
Taylor Swift ft. Kendrick Lamar's Bad Blood which premiered at the Billboard Music Awards broke the Vevo 24-Hour viewing record garnering 20.1 million views, surpassing the record previously held by Nicki Minaj's Anaconda with 19.6 million views. The song for once is not about an ex-lover but about her ongoing cat fight with Katy Perry, whom she says dislikes her for an unknown reason. The video directed by Joseph Kahn features Swift's BFF Selena Gomez, Ellie Goulding, Ellen Pompeo and a host of super models including Cindy Crawford. The song with its backstory and star studded video will start bidding for its place at the top of the charts from June.
In the US, Wiz Khalifa ft. Charlie Puth's See You Again continued its reign for the entire month of May completing six weeks at the top. Britney Spears & Iggy Azalea's much hyped Pretty Girls failed to reach even the top 20. David Guetta's new single Hey Mama featuring Nicki Minaj and Afrojack is rapidly climbing the charts. The single which initially did not credit the vocals of Bebe Rexha finally changed the credits to feature Rexha after the performance at the Billboard Music Awards and the premiere of the video, which however only features Nicki Minaj (that too as a hologram). Jason Derulo's newest single Want To Want Me and T-Wayne's Nasty Freestyle entered the top 10 while Fetty Wap's Trap Queen peaked at No.2 and WALK THE MOON's Shut Up and Dance peaked at No.4 during the month.
In the UK, See You Again was at the top for only during the first week of May as OMI's Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix) displaced it during the second week and continued at the top for the remainder of the month beating out heavy competition by LunchMoney Lewis' Bills which peaked at No.2 and Carly Rae Jepsen's I Really Like You which peaked at No.3. Major Lazor & DJ Snake ft. MO's global hit Lean On, Clean Bandit's Stronger and Taylor Swift's Bad Blood all peaked at No.4 and Iggy Azalea ft. Jennfier Hudson's Trouble peaked at No.7.
Some of the other songs which became popular during the month of May are:
- Andy Grammar - Honey. I'm good
- Galantis - Runaway (U & I)
- Blonde ft. Alex Newell - All cried out
- Omarion ft. Chris Brown & Jhene Aiko - Post to be
- DJ Snake & AlunaGeorge - You know you like it
- Silento - Watch me
- Echosmith - Bright
Till the next beat…
At Ease!!!
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