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"Adele has won 12 honors at the Billboard Awards 2012. The British singer took home the most prizes at the ceremony, which was held in Las Vegas and hosted by Modern Family stars Julie Bowen and Ty Burrell.   Among the awards she was handed were &amp;#039;Top Female Artist&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;Top Alternative Song&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Top Pop Album&amp;#039;. Her nearest rival was LMFAO, as the duo won six awards such as &amp;#039;Hot 100 Song of the Year&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Top Duo/Group&amp;#039;. Coldplay and Lil Wayne each took home four prizes, while Lady GaGa was honored with two. Wiz Khalifa was named &amp;#039;Top New Artist&amp;#039;, while other awards went to U2, Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Shakira, Beyonc\u00C3\u00A9, Lady Antebellum and Chris Brown. The night also saw performances from Usher, Bieber, LMFAO, The Wanted and Katy Perry, who debuted her next single &amp;#039;Wide Awake&amp;#039;. Meanwhile, tributes were paid to Whitney Houston, Donna Summer, Adam Yauch and Robin Gibb, who passed away yesterday. &amp;gt; Billboard Music Awards 2012: Live blog &amp;gt; Billboard Awards 2012: The major winners &amp;gt; Bobbi Kristina remembers mother Whitney Houston at Billboards - video &amp;gt; Robin Gibb, Donna Summer, Adam Yauch tributes at Billboard Awards 2012 &amp;gt; Pink attacks Chris Brown, Katy Perry for lip synching at Billboards? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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