Billboard Music Awards 12/6/05

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NEW YORK (Billboard) - 50 Cent, Mariah Carey and Green Day are the top finalists for the Billboard Music Awards, which will be handed out December 6 from Las Vegas' MGM Grand Garden Arena, and broadcast live on Fox.

Rap legend LL Cool J will host the event, which will boast newly confirmed performances from Gwen Stefani and Daddy Yankee with Pharrell.

50 Cent is a finalist in eight categories, followed by Carey with seven and Green Day with six. All three will vie for artist of the year and album of the year for "The Massacre," "The Emancipation of Mimi" and "American Idiot," respectively. The other album of the year finalist is Eminem's "Encore," while Kelly Clarkson is the fourth artist of the year finalist.

Green Day is also a finalist for group of the year, along with the Black Eyed Peas, Destiny's Child and the Killers. In the new artist of the year category, the finalists are Stefani, Fantasia, the Game and Rob Thomas.

Other multiple-award finalists are Fantasia, the Game and Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz (four), Stefani, Clarkson, Eminem, the Killers and Destiny's Child (three) and Snoop Dogg featuring Pharrell, Mario, Ciara, Foo Fighters and Nine Inch Nails (two).

Tom Petty will receive the Century Award and Kanye West will be bestowed with the 2005 Artist Achievement Award at the ceremony. Green Day, Toby Keith, R. Kelly and Carrie Underwood will also perform.
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The winners are based on what happened on the charts. If you keep up with them, the awards will be predicable (hint, 50 and Mariah will clean house).