Billboard Awards '12 Nominees List

The nominees for the Billboard Music Awards have been unleased with Adele leading the pack with 18 nominations including Top Female Artist whilst Rihanna & Katy Perry follow behind with 13 and Lady GaGa and Lil' Wayne with 10 each. Check out the official nominee list below:

Top Artist
Adele
Rihanna
Lady Gaga
Lil Wayne
Katy Perry

Top Hot 100 Song
Adele – “Rolling in the Deep”
LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennett and Goonrock – “Party Rock Anthem”
Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera – “Moves Like Jagger”
Katy Perry feat. Kanye West – “E.T.”
Pitbull feat. Ne-Yo, Afrojack, and Nayer – “Give Me Everything”

Top Billboard 200 Album
21 – Adele
Christmas – Michael Bublé
Take Care – Drake
Born This Way – Lady Gaga
Tha Carter IV – Lil Wayne

Top New Artist
Bad Meets Evil
Big Sean
Foster the People
Scotty McCreery
Wiz Khalifa

Top Male Artist
Justin Bieber
Chris Brown
Drake
Lil Wayne
Bruno Mars

Top Female Artist
Adele
Lady Gaga
Nicki Minaj
Katy Perry
Rihanna

Top Hot 100 Artist
Adele
LMFAO
Bruno Mars
Katy Perry
Rihanna

Top Billboard 200 Artist
Adele
Justin Bieber
Michael Bublé
Lady Gaga
Lil Wayne

Check out the full listing here cause I sure ain't writing all of the nominees up here!
Before you think WTF about some categories always remember from today onwards that according Billboard:

The Billboard Music Awards reflect Billboard’s chart rankings based on key fan interactions with music, including album sales and downloads, track downloads, radio airplay and touring as well as streaming and social interactions on Facebook, Twitter, Vevo, Youtube, Spotify and other popular online destinations for music.

It has been confirmed that the following would be performing at this year's awards next month:

• Nicki Minaj
• Rihanna
• Katy Perry
• Justin Bieber - Boyfriend
• Chris Brown
• One Direction
• Drake

More to be confirmed.
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