Rihanna takes the lead as a finalist in 18 award categories in the upcoming Billboard awards, including Top Hot 100 Artist, Top Female Artist, Top R&B Artist and Top Dance/Electronic Artist.
Love the Way You Lie, Rihanna’s chart-topping collaboration with Eminem, also places her as a contender in six song categories.
Eminem is also a finalist in 16 award categories, including Top Billboard 200 Artist, Top Artist, Top Male Artist and Top Rap Artist.
Lady Gaga follows as a finalist in 12 categories, with three releases all competing for Top Dance/Electronic Album: The Fame, The Fame Monster and The Remix.
Bruno Mars and Justin Bieber will each vie for 11 categories and face off for Top New Artist and Top Male Artist. Other Top New Artist contenders are Ke, Nicki Minaj and Taio Cruz, whose song Dynamite is up for five awards including Top Hot 100 Song.
The winners will be announced at the Billboard Music Awards show airing on ABC from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday, May 22 at 8 p.m.
Rihanna, Black Eyed Peas, Jennifer Lopez are already confirmed to perform. (Taken from Billboard)
