Justin Bieber, Kelly Clarkson, Carly Rae Jepsen, PSY, The Wanted
And Swizz Beatz Featuring Chris Brown And Ludacris To Perform On
"The 40th Anniversary American Music Awards®"
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- dick clark
productions (dcp) has announced that Justin
Bieber, Kelly Clarkson,
Carly Rae Jepsen, PSY, The Wanted
and Swizz Beatz featuring Chris
Brown and Ludacris will all perform on "The 40th
Anniversary American Music Awards®." They join previously announced
performers Carrie Underwood,
Christina Aguilera, Ke$ha, Linkin
Park, Nicki Minaj, No Doubt, P!nk, Pitbull, Taylor Swift and Usher on this year's show,
which will be broadcast live from the NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE on
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18
(8:00-11:00 p.m., ET/PT) on ABC.
Additional acts and presenters will be announced in the coming
days. Tickets are now on sale (please visit www.ticketmaster.com or
call 1-877-234-8425).
For the sixth year, winners will be determined by online voting.
Fans can vote at the Coca-Cola AMA voting website, amavote.com, as
well as AMA.abc.com. Artists will be honored in the categories of
Pop/Rock, Country, Rap/Hip-Hop, Soul/R&B, Alternative, Adult
Contemporary, Latin, Contemporary Inspirational and -- for the
first year ever -- Electronic Dance Music. Fans can go to the
official homepage of "The 40th Anniversary American
Music Awards," ama.abc.com, to find nominations, performer and
presenter announcements, artist information and more.
For the fourth consecutive year, the live online pre-show
"Coca-Cola Red Carpet LIVE! @ The 2012 AMAs" will stream live for
fans worldwide starting at 5:00 p.m.,
ET / 2:00 p.m., PT and will be
hosted by Lance Bass, Kimberly Cole, Brad
Goreski, Sean Kingston,
Eden Sher and Tristan Wilds, as well as Nokia correspondent
Andy Grammer. Viewers will be able
to watch the live show on ABC.com, AMAs365.com, Cokemusic.com,
Livestream, Ustream, YouTube, and through AP Live Entertainment.
Livestream and Ustream-powered video players will be made available
to media partners, as well as for the websites and Facebook Pages
of participating talent.
"The 40th Anniversary American Music Awards" is
produced by dick clark productions, inc. Allen Shapiro and Orly Adelson will executive
produce the show. Larry Klein will
produce. The program will be broadcast in 720 Progressive (720P),
ABC's selected HDTV format with 5.1 channel surround sound. This
program carries a TV-14,D,L,S parental guideline.
Fans can go to ama.abc.com, AMAs365.com, follow the AMAs on
Twitter @theamas, and like the AMAs on Facebook at
facebook.com/amas to find performer and presenter announcements,
artist information, Memes, Gifs and more. Fans can now watch "AMAs
On Demand," a weekly web series hosted by Lance Bass, Kimberly
Cole and Megan Turney. The
web series is published weekly to YouTube
(youtube.com/awardsshownetwork), ABC.com and other streaming
partners and covers all things "AMA," including breaking news,
artist spotlights, retrospectives on fashion, acceptance speeches,
red carpet and backstage interviews.
Justin Bieber - one of the most
googled people on the planet - has amassed over 3 billion views on
YouTube, over 47 million Facebook fans and more than 29 million
Twitter followers. Bieber's current album BELIEVE (Island
Def Jam) exploded to #1 in 30 countries including top markets such
as the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and
Brazil. The platinum album's first two singles
"Boyfriend" and the #1 radio smash "As Long As You Love Me" feat.
Big Sean are both multiplatinum. Bieber's current Believe World
Tour sold out in 45 minutes and is the #1 grossing tour in the
world according to Billboard magazine. "Beauty And A Beat,"
which features Nicki Minaj, recently smashed the VEVO record
for the most watched music video in 24 hours delivering 10.6
million views. The video is currently at more than 70 million views
since its VEVO premiere on Friday, October
12. He is currently signed to Schoolboy Records.
Since bursting onto the music scene 10 years ago, Kelly Clarkson has released 5 studio albums
(Thankful, Breakaway, My
December, All I Ever Wanted, Stronger), sold over
20 million albums worldwide, 10 million albums in the US and has
had 10 singles in the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles
Chart. She is the recipient of 4 American Music Awards, 3 MTV
Video Music Awards, 2 Academy of Country Music Awards, 1 Country
Music Association Award and 12 Billboard Music Awards.
Clarkson's most recent effort Stronger debuted at #2 on both
the Billboard Top 200 and Digital Albums Chart. The album is
certified Platinum by the R.I.A.A. and produced the smash singles,
"Mr. Know It All" and "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" which
marks Kelly's 9th and 10th Top 10 hit.
"Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" was #1 on Billboard's Hot 100
Chart for two consecutives weeks (3 weeks total) marking her
3rd #1 on the Hot 100 chart after 2002's "A Moment Like
This" and 2009's "My Life Would Suck Without You." Kelly was
recently a mentor on ABC's Duets as well as a guest mentor
for Team Blake on NBC's The Voice. Kelly was recently
nominated for a 2012 CMA Award for Female Vocalist of the
Year. Kelly is set to release Greatest Hits – Chapter
1 on November 19, which will
feature 3 new tracks as well as a compilation of some of her
greatest hits to date.
Canadian singer/songwriter and breakout pop sensation
Carly Rae Jepsen has taken America
by storm after bursting onto the scene in the US with her hit
single "Call Me Maybe." Unforgettably catchy, the hit song which
she co-wrote quickly rose to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot
100 chart where it remained for nine consecutive weeks claiming the
longest Hot 100 No. 1 run of 2012. Certified quintuple-platinum in
Jepsen's native Canada the track
is also an international sensation, climbing to No. 1 on the iTunes
Singles charts in over 37 countries and selling more than 10
million singles worldwide, while the official video has racked up
more than 325 million views on YouTube. Follow up platinum
single "Good Time," a duet with Owl City, climbed to No. 3 on the
Pop Chart, No. 5 on the iTunes Singles chart, and No. 13 on
Billboard's Hot 100, while the video has over 54 million
YouTube views. Carly Rae Jepsen
released her debut album Kiss on September 18th via 604
Records/Schoolboy Records/Interscope Records and the video for her
new single "This Kiss" is featured in front of Paramount Pictures'
film "FUN SIZE," in theaters everywhere now. Billboard has
named Jepsen its "Rising Star" at the 2012 Billboard Women In Music
event on November 30 in New York City- the award acknowledges success
and great potential among artists in the early stages of their
career. Carly Rae Jepsen is
currently touring this fall with Justin
Bieber on the multi-platinum Pop/R&B sensation's 2012
headlining 'Believe' tour of North America.
South Korean singer and rapper PSY has quickly become an
international sensation with the 2012 breakout hit, "Gangnam
Style." The artist, born Park
Jae-Sang, began his music career in 2001 with the album
PSY from the PSYcho World! The album's in-your-face lyrics
connected well with Korean teens but also ignited some controversy,
resulting in fines and a restriction of sales to adults only. He
capitalized on the publicity by releasing two more albums, Sa
2 and 3 PSY, a year later, which earned songwriting
accolades at the 2004 SBS and Seoul Music Awards. PSY's third
album, Sa Jib (Sa House), followed in 2006, along with more
honors from the SBS Music Awards and M.net KM Music Festival. Aside
from his regular recording and performing duties, PSY became a
familiar face with appearances on Korean game shows like
X-Man and talk shows like Golden Fishery, bringing
his flashy style and offbeat charm to the masses. His fifth album,
PSY Five, arrived in 2010 as the artist signed to YG
Entertainment, one of Korea's largest talent agencies and record
labels, and took home trophies from the Melon, Seoul, and M.net Asian Music Awards
ceremonies. PSY kicked off 2011 with Best Album honors from the
20th High1 Seoul Music Festival, and by the following spring he
joined the cast of the Korean televised talent competition
Superstar K as judge. His fame reached international status
in the summer of 2012 with the release of the album PSY's Best
6th Part 1, propelled by the single "Gangnam Style," which he
immortalized in a video with campy choreography that simulated
riding a horse. Within a month of its release, the video racked up
over 28 million hits on YouTube and inspired parody clips from all
corners of the globe. PSY is currently signed to Schoolboy
Records.
Since 2009, THE WANTED – Tom Parker, Max George, Siva Kaneswaran, Jay
McGuiness, and Nathan Sykes – have become front-page
news with their ferociously infectious tunes, rock solid friendship
and laddish charms. Since the release of their debut #1
single two years ago, "All Time Low" (from their
self-titled debut album of 2010), they have become a sensation in
the UK, Ireland, South East Asia, and across Europe, piling up a string of five Top 3
singles in the UK. In the wake of their 2012 U.S. mini-tour, The
Wanted's single "Glad You Came" blasted into the Billboard Hot
100's Top 10, and jumped to #9-bullet on the Top 40 Airplay
chart. Success hasn't stopped there, as their follow-up single
"Chasing The Sun" went 3X Platinum, and was selected as the title
track for 20th Century Fox's Ice Age 4: Continental
Drift. The Wanted's newest single "I Found You" is
currently at more than 8 million views since its VEVO premiere on
Monday, October 15, and is available
on iTunes now! With over 3 Million combined twitter followers,
91 million YouTube view, 2 million Facebook likes, and being the
first boy band to hit #1 on the US Airplay Chart since The
Backstreet Boys, The Wanted have artfully transcended the 'boy
band' mold and brought a blast of much-needed fresh air to British
pop music.
With over 14 years of creating music for some of the biggest
musicians in music history, Swizz has contributed to the sale over
280 million records in just the US alone, working with the likes of
Jay-Z, DMX, Beyonce, Kanye West, and
Bono to name a few. In addition to several guest appearances
and production credits, Swizz dropped his own album One Man Band Man in 2007. Swizz's latest
single "Everyday Birthday" was released in November 2012. The single, which was produced by
Swizz and Jukebox, also features Chris
Brown and Ludacris and was accompanied by a video shot over
a 3 day period in Cannes. In an
ever-changing music industry, Swizz has deferred from the regular
album release schedule and instead chosen release a series of what
he has coined "Memorable Moments," singles featuring various other
artists released with an accompanying by music videos and other
visuals. Swizz has also lent his creative contributions to the
likes of global brands such as Reebok (Vice President - Sports
Style Marketing, Design, and Brand Music Development) and Lotus
Cars (Vice President of Design & Global Marketing). Swizz is
also the 1st producer-in residence at New York
University's Clive Davis'
Recorded School of Music and worked with Christian Louboutin on a ground-breaking
music-collaboration, a cabaret show called Feu, which
debuted in Paris this past March.
Swizz's latest music venture is his new partnership with
O&Media of Korea, in which his focus will be bridging the K-Pop
music scene with Western music culture. Swizz also recently
collaborated with The New York Knicks and created their 2013 theme
song. When not creating music, Swizz is an avid art collector
and painter whose goal is to inspire new artists around the world
to express themselves and is working on opening his own
international "new artist" art gallery. He is also a philanthropist
who is involved in many charities and recently served as the first
Global Ambassador for New York
City's public hospitals system.
After a whirlwind year — capped by his first No. 1 on the
Billboard 200 for F.A.M.E., Brown is already back on top
with its sequel, Fortune. Released July 3, Brown's fifth studio album debuted at No.
1 on The Billboard 200 and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. In addition
to earning his second stateside No. 1 debut, Brown's Fortune
netted the singer/songwriter his first-ever No. 1 on both the U.K.
and Netherlands Top Albums charts. And his global success doesn't
end there. Brown posted career-best Top Albums chart debuts in
Ireland and France (both No. 4), Japan (No. 5), Canada (No. 6), Switzerland (No. 10) and Germany (No. 13). Fortune also
dominated as the No. 1 album on iTunes' U.S. Albums chart, with
first-time chart-topping finishes in the U.K., Australia, Japan and New
Zealand. It was also iTunes' No. 1 R&B/Soul Album in 22
countries. Powering Brown's global dominance are Fortune's
two hit singles: the sultry "Strip" (No. 3 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop
Songs) and dance burner "Turn Up the Music" (No. 10 on the
Billboard Hot 100). Poised for similar chart ascent: the recently
released "Don't Judge Me." But those cuts only begin to scratch the
surface of Brown's Fortune telling. In the same manner he
deftly maneuvers his intricate dance moves, the 24-year-old
singer/songwriter/producer skillfully ups the edge factor on his
fifth studio album without sacrificing his R&B/hip-hop roots.
Continuing where F.A.M.E. leaves off, Brown plugs back into
the EDM circuit with two more pulsating tracks - "Trumpet Lights"
and "Bassline." Brown keeps core Team Breezy fans engaged with such
R&B tracks as the intense love ballad "2012" and the deeply
personal "Don't Judge Me." Helping to round out the 14-song
standard edition are the illuminating "Mirage", mid-tempo romancer
"Stuck on Stupid" and current chart-climber "Sweet Love." The
deluxe edition features five more tracks, including "Free Run" and
"Wait For You." Brown, who co-wrote and co-produced several tracks
on Fortune, once again assembled an A-list team of
producers. Among them: the Underdogs, Harmony, Free School,
Brian Kennedy, Benny &
Alle Benassi, Boi-1da, Polow da Don,
The Runners and Fuego.
Recording artist, actor, philanthropist, restaurateur…just a few
of the befitting titles for Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, who first
gained worldwide acclaim more than 10 years ago with his debut
album, Back for the First Time (2000). Ever since, his
unrivaled lyrical prowess, dynamic performances and timeless hits
including "Stand Up," "Get Back," "Number One Spot," "Money Maker"
and "My Chick Bad," have solidified
him as one of music's best entertainers and led to the sale of more
than 20 million albums domestically. With the 2013 release of
LUDAVERSAL, fans can look forward to more great music from
Ludacris. In addition to immense commercial success,
Ludacris' consistent output of stellar music has garnered the
admiration of his peers, as well as numerous awards and
honors.
About dick clark productions, inc. –
Founded in 1957, dick clark productions, inc. (dcp) is a leading
independent producer of television programming. dcp produces
perennial hits such as the "American Music Awards," "Golden Globe
Awards," "Academy of Country Music Awards," and "Dick Clark's New
Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan
Seacrest." dcp also produces popular weekly television
programming, including "So You Think You Can Dance," and owns and
maintains one of the world's most unique and extensive
entertainment libraries, which includes more than 30 years of
"American Bandstand" footage. For additional information about dcp,
please visit www.dickclarkproductions.com
About the American Music Awards –
In 1973 Dick Clark created the American Music Awards to pay
tribute to popular musicians from various genres of music and to
put audiences in touch with the latest phenomena in American music.
Since its founding, the AMAs have honored and showcased the talents
of some of the biggest names in the music industry. Archived
footage and photography are available upon request.
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