Billboard Music Awards 2014: Show Moments

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Come Again, Kendall?!

“You guys! I'm the worst reader,” Kendall Jenner confessed after embarrassingly flubbing her lines while presenting the band 5 Seconds of Summer, starting to instead refer to them as One Direction.

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Miley’s Beatles Tribute

On the road with her "Bangerz" tour in the U.K., the boundary-pushing Cyrus donned face paint and metallics to perform her favorite Beatles song, "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," alongside Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd from The Flaming Lips, remotely from Manchester.

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Solange Shocker

Shark Tank's Mark Cuban and Kevin O'Leary couldn’t help but take a jab at Solange Knowles just days after her Met Gala elevator fight with Jay Z. "We are here to announce our latest investment," Cuban said. "We just spent 3.2 billion dollars to buy a hot new company called 'Beat Downz by Solange,'" he continued, in a veiled reference to Beats by Dr. Dre headphones. O'Leary’s contribution? "That was a great, great elevator pitch!"

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Passing the Torch

Eight-time Billboard Music Award winner Carrie Underwood presented teen phenom Lorde with 2014’s Top New Artist trophy. Lorde—who beat out Bastille, Capital Cities, Ariana Grande and Passenger for the honor—also debuted her new single, “Tennis Court,” for the first time on U.S. television during the broadcast.

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Iggy n Ariana Get Down

Music's rising stars Iggy Azalea and Ariana Grande took the Billboards by storm, sharing the stage to perform their respective hits "Fancy" and "Problem."

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Good Girls Go Bad

Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood teamed up to debut their duet "Something Bad" in a pyrotechnic-laden performance that left the audience—including husbands, Blake Shelton and Mike Fisher—bopping along.

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MJ Moonwalks in 2014

An elaborate troupe of dancers backed a hologram image of the late King of Pop Michael Jackson for a one-of-a-kind performance of "Slave to the Rhythm," which culminated in the music icon delivering his trademark moonwalk.

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Robin Thicke Sings for Paula

After thanking wife Paula Patton "for putting up with me for all these years" when accepting the Top R&B Song trophy, "Blurred Lines" singer Thicke debuted "Get Her Back," a love song dedicated to his high school sweetheart, from whom he split in February 2014.

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Perry Across the Pond

Katy Perry performed on the Billboards via satellite from the United Kingdom's Newcastle Metro Radio Arena, wowing audiences by flying through the arena suspended by a bunch of balloons as she belted out a high-energy rendition of her latest single.