Here we have the "2013 Billboard Music Awards", a television music awards ceremony that took place around 5 years ago as the title already gives away. If you take a look at the writers and directors of this over 2-hour awards ceremony, you will find names that have worked on many other award shows and as for this one here, the good news it is not as bad as some more recent award shows, especially for music, while the bad news is that it is still fairly weak. Music performances are way too much in the center of it all instead of awards being given out and that is always a problem for an awards show, even if these days, it is probably an even bigger problem. Most of the winners here did not impress me at all I must say, even if occasionally there was a song I liked like Taylor Swift's for example or Aguilera (surprisingly) and it says a lot for sure if it takes an act who has been in the industry for decades like a-ha to give audiences the best moment of the show and there wasn't one single song coming close to Take On Me that night, which really does not say anything positive about our generation of musicians. I doubt anybody will care at all about the likes of Ed Sheeran, Justin Bieber, One Direction, Nicki Minaj and company 30 years from now. The host here was Tracy Morgan still before his serious car crash of course, but he was pretty bad in my opinion and his early joke/comment about him reading out the names of the Black guys first was very early in the show already that the event hit rock-bottom. Even Madonna and her tribute were sadly far from the success they could have been and that I wanted them to be. So this show dragged a lot and the solid moments were far too rare for me to recommend this show to others as sitting through these over 2 hours that dragged a lot and that were full of forgettable music and awards winners is nothing I would ever want to do again. It may not have been failure territory altogether, but I think you should skip the watch here. Not recommended.