Success rules at the Billboard Music Awards. Popularity isn’t a factor. This awards show is based solely on gross sales, total airplay and performance pay. You can’t be a nobody with a cool haircut to cut it at the Billboard Awards. You have to be somebody–somebody who’s sold a lot of CDs; somebody whose songs have been downloaded many, many, many times; somebody who just got back from a sold-out world tour. You have to be that kind of somebody. When you realize the criteria for being a Billboard […]