LOS ANGELES, -- dick clark productions (dcp) announced that
Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj and Linkin Park will all perform on "The 40
th Anniversary American Music Awards
®." They join previously announced performer
Christina Aguilera 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 weeks. 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 40
th
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
5pm ET /
2pm PT and will be hosted by
Lance Bass,
Kimberly Cole,
Brad Goreski,
Sean Kingston and
Tristan Wilds, as well as the 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 40
th Anniversary American Music Awards" are 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. A TV
parental guideline will be assigned closer to the airdate.
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.
Taylor Swift's fourth studio album, Red,
was just released this week, to strong sales and rave reviews. Her 2010
album, Speak Now, was lauded on Rolling Stone's prestigious The 50
Greatest Albums of All Time (by women) list, and Time magazine has named
Taylor one of the 100 most influential people in the world. She is
Billboard's Woman of the Year, the reigning American Music Awards Artist
of the Year, and both the Country Music Association and the Academy of
Country Music's current Entertainer of the Year. She is also the most
awarded star in the history of the Teen Choice Awards, taking home
honors for both music and movies.
Taylor, who writes all of her own songs, has career record sales in
excess of 22 million albums and 50 million song downloads. Each of her
three studio albums has sold in excess of 5 million copies worldwide,
and her most recent album, Speak Now, is one of only 17 albums in the
entire history of music to sell more than 1 million copies in a single
week. She has had singles top both the country and pop radio charts
around the globe, is one of the top 5-selling digital music artists
Nicki Minaj released her Album,
Pink Friday
, in
November 2010, peaking at number one on the U.S.
Billboard
200 and being certified
Platinum by the
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) a month after its release. She became the first female solo artist to have seven
singles on the
Billboard Hot 100 at the same time. Her seventh single, "
Super Bass" has since been certified quadruple-platinum by the RIAA, and has sold more than four million copies, becoming one of the
best-selling singles in the United States. Minaj released her second album,
Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
, in
April 2012, which topped charts internationally, also spawning the top 10 singles "
Starships" and "
Pound the Alarm". Since, the album has become one of the best-selling albums of 2012, according to the
Nielsen SoundScan, selling 1,000,000 copies worldwide. In 2012, Minaj embarked on two worldwide tours, the
Pink Friday Tour and the
Pink Friday: Reloaded Tour.
Linkin Park is a multi-award-winning, multi-platinum alternative rock band comprised of lead vocalist,
Chester Bennington, drummer/percussionist,
Rob Bourdon, guitarist
Brad Delson, bassist Dave '
Phoenix' Farrell, DJ, programmer
Joe Hahn
and Mike Shinoda - lead vocals, keyboards, guitar. The band has sold
over 50 million albums worldwide, and is the biggest band on Facebook -
with over 43 million fans and counting.
In the span of time since
2000, when Linkin Park debuted on the Billboard 200 – no other artist
has had more top 10 singles on the Alternative chart and, with the
release of their latest album, LIVING THINGS (Machine Shop Recordings
/Warner Bros), which reached #1 in over 20 countries, no other band has
achieved more #1 albums this century.
In 2005, Linkin Park founded Music For Relief, a 501 © (3) non-profit organization that has raised over
5 million dollars for victims of natural disasters and environmental projects.
www.linkinpark.com
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.
