{"id":14318,"date":"2016-05-11T18:57:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T17:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/?p=14318"},"modified":"2016-05-11T20:56:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T19:56:16","slug":"14318","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/2016\/14318\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna to honor Prince at the Billboard Music Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Madonna<\/strong> will pay tribute to her friend and fellow artist, <strong>Prince<\/strong>, at the <strong>2016 Billboard Music Awards<\/strong>., Billboard\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/bbma\/7364656\/madonna-honor-prince-2016-billboard-music-awards\">announced today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Queen of Pop will pay homage to another member of music royalty, Prince, at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers today announced Madonna&#8217;s participation in what promises to be one of the highlights of this year\u2019s BBMAs. The legendary pop singer will pay tribute to her good friend and fellow artist, who unexpectedly passed away April 21 at the age of 57. Details on her tribute to the late music great remain a closely-guarded secret.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The awards ceremony\u00a0will broadcast live\u00a0from T-Mobile Arena in <strong>Las Vega<\/strong>s on Sunday, <strong>May 22<\/strong> at 8:00 p.m. ET \/ 5:00 p.m. PT on ABC.\u00a0Ludacris and Ciara will be hosting, while Justin Bieber, Celine Dion, DNCE, Fifth Harmony, The Go-Go\u2019s, Demi Lovato, Shawn Mendes, Pink, Britney Spears,\u00a0Troye Sivan,\u00a0Nick Jonas and Tove Lo are among other announced performers.<\/p>\n<p>The show will showcase this year\u2019s hottest and biggest music stars. Billboard Music Awards finalists are based on key fan interactions with music, including album and digital songs sales, radio airplay, streaming, touring and social engagement. These measurements are tracked year-round by Billboard and its data partners, including Nielsen Music and Next Big Sound. The awards are based on the reporting period of March 23, 2015 through March 17, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Madonna<\/strong> will pay tribute to her friend and fellow artist, <strong>Prince<\/strong>, at the <strong>2016 Billboard Music Awards<\/strong>., it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboardmusicawards.com\/2016\/05\/madonna-to-honor-perform-tribute-to-music-legend-prince\/\">announced today<\/a>.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/2016\/14318\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[15],"tags":[183,464],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/13183388_1706801682870981_2126288070_n.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5eFGP-14318","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14318"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14334,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14318\/revisions\/14334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}