Justin Bieber was booed by some audience members at last night's Billboard Music Awards (May 19).
The 19-year-old singer beat Taylor Swift and Bruno Mars to be handed the first 'Milestone Award' in Las Vegas.
The fan-voted prize recognises particular artists who achieved chart milestones over the past 12 months, with Bieber becoming the first artist under 19 with five number one albums on the Billboard 200.
Bieber took in the mixture of applause and booing on stage for several moments, before saying: "I'm 19 years old. I think I'm doing a pretty good job."
He continued: "From my heart I really just want to say it should be about the music, about the craft.
"This is not a gimmick. I'm an artist and I should be taken seriously."
Taylor Swift dominated this year's awards ceremony, taking home eight prizes in total.
Justin Bieber cut a somewhat terrifying figure as he stepped out in London yesterday (February 25) wearing a gas mask.
The 'Beauty and a Beat' singer made an unsettling fashion choice to go shopping near Piccadilly Circus during some downtime from the UK leg of his 'Believe' world tour. The 18-year-old also posted a black-and-white photo of himself wearing the gas mask on Instagram, which came with the caption "Mi eht tseb", an anagram of 'I'm the best'.
However, Bieber made no attempt to explain why he donned the unorthodox headwear.
The star kicked off his tour at the Manchester Arena on Thursday (February 21) and played in Liverpool's Echo Arena on Sunday (February 24).His next UK concert is at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham tomorrow (February 27). He will return to London for a four-date stint at the O2 Arena on March 4.
It has been rumoured that Bieber is set to slip on another piece of headgear - an astronaut's helmet - after being offered a space trip by NASA.
The next time Justin Bieber flashes his million-dollar smile, you may notice a little extra shine. The teen idol and his pal Sean Kingston got fitted for grills by jeweler to the stars Ben Baller. The process took only minutes while Baller made a mold of Bieber’s six teeth so he could cast them in gold.
“I don’t even make grills anymore unless its for someone really special. and obviously, this is someone special. so I’m gonna swag it the f**k out!” wrote Baller, who’s done work for Michael Jackson, Tom Cruise, and Drake. But don’t worry Beliebers, it’s not permanent. The fashion accessory can be removed within seconds, so you won’t be seeing it on the cover of his upcoming Christmas album
TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) – Pop stars Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga were the big winners at Canada's MuchMusic Video Awards in Toronto Sunday.
Bieber, who was on hand as girlfriend Selena Gomez co-hosted the event, was voted favorite artist by his countrymen for the video "Somebody to Love."
Additionally "Somebody to Love" and his clip for "Find Your Love" shared the prize for best international Canadian video.
Lady Gaga was voted most popular international artist by fans, and also took home the best international video for "Judas." She performed twice at the show.
The video of the year went to Ontario pop/R&B singer Shawn Desman for "Electric/Night Like This," while Los Angeles-based hip-hop quartet Far East Movement grabbed the international group video trophy for "Like a G6."
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Eminem and teen idol Justin Bieber dominated the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday, winning six awards each with the 38-year-old rapper taking the top honor for artist of the year.
With Eminem absent, Bieber helped lead the way on stage beside some of pop's biggest current stars at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, marking the music magazine's efforts to revive what was once an annual event following a four-year hiatus.
Sporting his now short, spiky hair and a sparkling gold tuxedo jacket, Bieber beat singer Bruno Mars and rapper Nicki Minaj for best new artist and marveled to the audience, "I'm 17 ... every day is crazy to me because I see so many people and I get to make so many people smile."
The Canadian pop star, who has gained a huge following of "Beliebers" through YouTube and social media websites, also won awards for top pop album, streaming artist and song, as well as social and digital media artist. He thanked "everybody who helped me get out of my home town and live my dream."
Detroit native Eminem, who released the critical and commercial success "Recovery" last year, including the hit single "Love The Way You Lie" featuring singer Rihanna, won awards for top male artist, billboard 200 album, rap artist, rap song and rap album.
Rihanna, 23, kicked off the show with a performance of "S&M" from her 2010 fifth studio album "Loud," and was joined on stage by Britney Spears before going on to win three awards including top female and top radio artist of the year.
She thanked her biggest fan devotees, who call themselves the Rihanna navy, and hailed her native Barbados. The last Billboard artist of the year was Rihanna's former boyfriend Chris Brown, who pleaded guilty to assaulting her in 2009 and did not attend the awards.
Katy Perry won awards for top hot 100 artist and top digital songs, while British singer-songwriter Taio Cruz won the top hot 100 song of the year for his hit, "Dynamite."
"Need You Now," by Lady Antebellum won country song of the year. The title track from their second album introduced the group from Nashville, Tennessee to audiences worldwide and is now the most-downloaded country song ever, according to Billboard.
Taylor Swift, 21, who has swept music award shows in the past several years, won country artist of the year. She sold 1,047,000 first-week copies of her third album "Speak Now" in the United States last November, making it the fastest-selling new album in five years.
Accepting the top duo or group award for the Black Eyed Peas, Will.i.Am singled out "technology because without technology we wouldn't be here as an industry."
Beyonce was honored with the Millennium Award for her musical influence and hailed as a role model for women.
Neil Diamond, 70, won the icon award before performing his 1969 hit, "Sweet Caroline." Other performers included Keith Urban, Nicki Minaj and singer Cee Lo Green.
U2 won the top touring award for its current "U2 360 degrees" tour, which features revolutionary staging and has become the highest-grossing tour of all time.
"You can make classic albums in your bedroom and you can play the greatest show of your life on a one-string guitar, but we just don't do that," U2 frontman Bono told the audience.
The awards, with eligibility from Feb 28, 2010 to March 1, 2011, were based on multiple factors including chart performance, album and single digital sales, touring and streaming and popularity on social media sites.
Eminem and teen idol Justin Bieber dominated the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday, winning six awards each with the 38-year-old rapper taking the top honor for artist of the year.
With Eminem absent, Bieber helped lead the way on stage beside some of pop's biggest current stars at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, marking the music magazine's efforts to revive what was once an annual event following a four-year hiatus.
Sporting his now short, spiky hair and a sparkling gold tuxedo jacket, Bieber beat singer Bruno Mars and rapper Nicki Minaj for best new artist and marveled to the audience, "I'm 17 ... every day is crazy to me because I see so many people and I get to make so many people smile."
The Canadian pop star, who has gained a huge following of "Beliebers" through YouTube and social media websites, also won awards for top pop album, streaming artist and song, as well as social and digital media artist. He thanked "everybody who helped me get out of my home town and live my dream."
Detroit native Eminem, who released the critical and commercial success "Recovery" last year, including the hit single "Love The Way You Lie" featuring singer Rihanna, won awards for top male artist, billboard 200 album, rap artist, rap song and rap album.
Rihanna, 23, kicked off the show with a performance of "S&M" from her 2010 fifth studio album "Loud," and was joined on stage by Britney Spears before going on to win three awards including top female and top radio artist of the year.
She thanked her biggest fan devotees, who call themselves the Rihanna navy, and hailed her native Barbados. The last Billboard artist of the year was Rihanna's former boyfriend Chris Brown, who pleaded guilty to assaulting her in 2009 and did not attend the awards.
Katy Perry won awards for top hot 100 artist and top digital songs, while British singer-songwriter Taio Cruz won the top hot 100 song of the year for his hit, "Dynamite."
"Need You Now," by Lady Antebellum won country song of the year. The title track from their second album introduced the group from Nashville, Tennessee to audiences worldwide and is now the most-downloaded country song ever, according to Billboard.
Taylor Swift, 21, who has swept music award shows in the past several years, won country artist of the year. She sold 1,047,000 first-week copies of her third album "Speak Now" in the United States last November, making it the fastest-selling new album in five years.
Accepting the top duo or group award for the Black Eyed Peas, Will.i.Am singled out "technology because without technology we wouldn't be here as an industry."
Beyonce was honored with the Millennium Award for her musical influence and hailed as a role model for women.
Neil Diamond, 70, won the icon award before performing his 1969 hit, "Sweet Caroline." Other performers included Keith Urban, Nicki Minaj and singer Cee Lo Green.
U2 won the top touring award for its current "U2 360 degrees" tour, which features revolutionary staging and has become the highest-grossing tour of all time.
"You can make classic albums in your bedroom and you can play the greatest show of your life on a one-string guitar, but we just don't do that," U2 frontman Bono told the audience.
The awards, with eligibility from Feb 28, 2010 to March 1, 2011, were based on multiple factors including c
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Pop star Justin Bieber on Tuesday scored his first Webby Award, which celebrates the best of the Internet.
Comedian and "The Hangover" star Zach Galifianakis was the person with most wins thanks to his hugely popular web series "Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis." Website Funny or Die, founded by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, walked away with eight wins.
The Webby Awards present two honors -- The Webby Award, chosen by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, and the People's Voice Award, chosen by the public.
Bieber received the People's Voice Award for the comedy video "Justin Bieber Takes Over Funny or Die."
Among the multiple winners were former "Friends" star Lisa Kudrow and her series "Web Therapy," the iPhone app Angry Birds and the New York Times website.
Talk show host Conan O'Brien, rapper Snoop Dogg, Jim Carrey, Twitter, Skype and Hulu were among other winners in a contest that encompassed everything from websites to interactive advertising and media, online film, video and mobile and apps.
Winners of the 15th Annual Webby Awards will pick up their honors at a ceremony in New York on June 3.
Organizers said nearly 10,000 entries from all over the U.S. and around the world were received for this year's awards.
Eminem continues to break records for Hip-Hop, as the world famous rapper has finally reached 1 billion views on YouTube.
Eminem has 28 official videos on YouTube.com, which have amassed the staggering amount of views.
The rapper becomes the third person to land 1 billion views, behind Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga, according to social media tracking service, FameCount.com.
According to stats, Eminem is also on pace to dethrone Lady Gaga as Facebook's top living star.
At press time, Eminem has 28,710,061 Facebook fans, just 31,622 shy of beating Lady Gaga, who currently has 28,741,68
Hip hop mogul and advertising exec Steve Stoute has slammed the Grammy awards with a full-page ad in Sunday's New York Times in which he states the ceremony is a "series of hypocrisies and contradictions."
The founder of the Translation advertising company, who is famous for being Nas' on-off manager since 1995, wrote in a column for The Huffington Post that he used the ad as "an open letter" to the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), which is behind the Grammys, and to Neil Portnow, the president of NARAS.
Stoute claimed that best-selling artists like Kanye West, Eminem and Justin Bieber were snubbed by a ceremony that had "no qualms" in using the same musicians as performers during the show to "to ensure viewership and to deliver the all-too-important ratings for its advertisers."
In his ad, Stoute said the Grammys' failure stems from "over-zealousness to produce a popular show that is at odds with its own system of voting" and "fundamental disrespect of cultural shifts as being viable and artistic."
He used the example of Eminem's 2001 hit "The Marshall Mathers LP" losing Album of the Year to Steely Dan.
"Not only is Eminem the best-selling artist of the last decade, but The Marshall Mathers LP was a critical and commercial success that sold over 10 million albums in the United States (19 million worldwide), while Steely Dan sold less than 10% of that amount and came and went as quietly as a church mouse," he wrote.
Stoute wrote that Eminem and Kanye West -- whose 2007 album "Graduation" lost Album of the Year to Herbie Hancock's "River: The Joni Letters" -- both define a generation.
"It is this same cultural impact that acknowledged the commercial and critical success of Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' in 1984," he wrote.
To prove that he wasn't partial to hip-hop artists, Stoute also took issue with Justin Bieber -- "an artist that defines what it means to be a modern artist" -- losing the Best New Artist award to Esperanza Spalding this year.
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – They'll laugh, they'll cry, they'll squeal, they'll smile, and after some 100 minutes of heart-racing, in-your-face 3-D footage, even the most casual of teen fans and the stodgiest of parents will exit the movie theater a complete Justin Bieber convert.
At least that was our experience viewing an early screening of Justin Bieber's movie "Never Say Never" (out February 11) at Paramount studios, just down the road from the "Glee" set, where two of Bieber's own hits -- "Baby" and "Somebody to Love" -- were in heavy rotation as the cast shot the show's upcoming Valentine's Day episode.
It was a fitting coincidence considering how much heart the film oozes at every turn - from Bieber's earliest performances behind the drum kit at a neighbor's house, to his time in Atlanta, where he wowed Usher and Island Def Jam head L.A. Reid, to middle school showcases, state fairs, and finally, the arena stage. If one theme is a constant: it's how musical this 16-year-old truly is.
Of course, it will be no surprise to the Justin Bieber loyalists of the world that "Never Say Never" tells a truly uplifting story of a small-town-kid who sees his big city dreams come true. Those kids have been there from the get-go, watching fuzzy Youtube clips, obsessing over every flip of the hair and bat of the eyelashes, tweeting incessantly and pushing for their guy when the pop world was rolling its eyes at the thought of a Jonas successor.
In fact, the tight-knit Bieber camp welcomes the challenge and relishes in being the underdog -- manager Scooter Braun says so himself in the movie. But they have a greater purpose: spreading love, be it through a sea of hand-shaped hearts, irresistible pop ditties like "Smile," "Eenie Meenie," and "Baby," or the swoon-worthy "One Less Lonely Girl," which, like N Sync before Bieber (remember "God Must Have Spent A Little More Time On You"), hits female tweens at the core, and even finds one lucky lady brought up onto the stage.
The beauty of 3-D is that anyone can feel like they're the girl plucked from the crowd and invited to watch the show from the front row (team Bieber gifts several fans at every tour stop), but the effects go way beyond just having a good seat, you get to see everything -- from behind-the-scenes to above the stage, the dressing room where Bieber, you know, dresses, to the tour bus to his hometown, in Stratford, Ontario, where life as its most famous resident couldn't get more surreal. But bring your earplugs, parents, and expect the shriek volume to hit the red zone with every point of Bieber's finger -- and there are many.
The timing for "Never Say Never" couldn't be better. On February 6, Bieber will appear in a Best Buy ad that airs during the Super Bowl. Two days after the movie's release, Bieber will be at the Grammy Awards, where he's nominated for Best New Artist and Best Pop Vocal album. On the 15th, "Glee" airs. Does that mean Bieber fever is about to hit its peak? To the contrary. It's more like this team is just getting started.
TORONTO - Hip-Hop star Drake will host the Juno Awards, Canada's music awards, next year in Toronto.
The breakout rapper, born in Toronto as Aubrey Graham, will return to his hometown to emcee Canada's music awards on Sunday, March 27, 2011.
Drake last year took the Hip-Hop world by storm with his debut album Thank Me Later after playing a physically disabled student in the Canadian teen TV series Degrassi: The Next Generation.
"I am beyond honored to be hosting this monumental Juno Awards in the greatest city on Earth," said Drake in a statement.
"I want to bring a youthful energy to the show and encourage people to be excited about what Canadian music has to offer," he added.
Drake last year performed a duet at the 2010 Junos with fellow Canadian music sensation Justin Bieber, before taking home trophies for best rap recording artist and best new artist.
Nominations for the 2011 Juno Awards, to air live on the CTV network, will be announced on February 1, 2011.
Drake on Wednesday also snagged four nominations for the upcoming Grammys, including best new artist and best rap album.
Mindless Behavior, the much buzzed about musical group comprised of four talented 13-year-old boys - Prodigy, Roc Royal, Ray Ray and Princeton - will join Multi-Platinum singing sensation Justin Bieber on his My World Tour this month.
Mindless Behavior will support Justin on eight dates, starting on December 9th in Manchester, NH at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre and concluding on December 23rd in Atlanta, GA at the Philips Arena. While Mindless Behavior opened for Justin Bieber at Pop-Con 2010, this marks their first time supporting the popstar on a multiple date tour.
Check out the video for the group's first single, "My Girl" -
MADRID (AFP) – Canadian teen idol Justin Bieber said Monday he plans to go to university, even after selling millions of albums by the age of just 16 after being discovered on YouTube.
"I always travel with a private tutor who I have five three-hour sessions a week with," he told a news conference in Madrid where he is promoting his third album "My Worlds: The Collection".
"I want to finish high school and also university and then evolve wherever my music takes me. I also want to stick my head in the movie world although I am going to focus on my music for now."
About 5,000 people flocked to a Bieber autograph session at a record store in downtown Madrid on Monday despite the rain and cold, the online edition of daily newspaper El Mundo reported.
The singer, who will perform for the first time in Spain in April 2011, won all four awards he was nominated for at the American Music Awards last week, including favourite artist, making him the youngest ever winner of the trophy.
The turning point for Bieber came in 2007 when his mother posted home-made videos of him performing cover songs from Usher, Justin Timberlake and Stevie Wonder on YouTube for friends and family to see.
The videos ended up attracting a wider audience and Usher ultimately signed Bieber to RBMG/Island Def Jam.
The teenager, whose hits include "One Less Lonely Girl" and "Love Me", currently has 15 million fans on Facebook and six million followers on Twitter.
"I will never close my accounts on Facebook and Twitter because it is a way to interact with my fans," he said.
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