Billboard Honors Lady Gaga and Ke$ha With Year's Top Awards

By Sarah Crow Posted Dec 10th 2010 11:15AM

Gaga ooh la la is right! Lady Gaga is taking home Billboard's top honor for 2010.

The meat-wearing songstress has been honored with Billboard's Artist of the Year award for 2010, a prize nabbed by paparazzi darling Taylor Swift in 2009. This is not the first time Gaga has received recognition from Billboard -- just last year, the 'Alejandro' singer took home the coveted Top New Artist Award.

Despite being ousted from the top spot by Gaga, the 'Speak Now' singer hasn't been left out of the 2010 lineup completely. Swift comes in at number two this year, and is the only solo artist to spend two successive years in the top two spots since Garth Brooks in the early 1990s.

Of course, with Gaga vacating the Top New Artist throne, there's room for a new entrant. Cue 'Cannibal' Ke$ha, whose Jack Daniels-doused oral hygiene and songwriting styles have won the hearts of a nation.

Boosting her into the honor is her 2010 hit 'Tik Tok,' which spent nine weeks atop the Hot 100 list. Impressively, 'Tik Tok' was Ke$ha's first single to make it on to Billboard's charts.

The recipients of Billboard's highest group honor are country crooners Lady Antebellum, whose hit 'Need You Now' spent a whopping 42 weeks of the eligibility period on the Billboard top 40.

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By Carl

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Billboard has reached a new low; honoring two PHONIES under the guise of "talent". Their other major downturn was "recognizing" rap and hip-hop as music, which in fact are are both "spoken-word cultures".

By Zero

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Yeah, next they'll be giving awards to those heavy metal oriental bands, ha ha.

By themeeker

Billboard got it wrong. Keesha (or whatever the slag's name is) is a no talent hack. Just look at her truly awful SNL performance if you need proof.

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These new artists just carry the burden of the train wreck.

By LaDiva

Geez Kesha is aging horribly, if she is really 23? Lol hollyweird is notorious for shaving a few yrs off...

By Stinkfistula

Look to the lesser categories to find the talent.
#1 Blues Album 2010 is Memphis Blues by Cyndi Lauper

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