Photos:: Billboard Music Awards 2016 | Red carpet and highlights

Justin Bieber, Kesha, center, and Rihanna were among those who performed at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards held in Las Vegas at the T-Mobile Arena.

(Left: Chris Pizzello / Invision / AP; center and right: Kevin Winter / Getty Images)

May 22, 2016 5:41 PM PT

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Madonna performs a tribute to Prince during the 2016 Billboard Music Awards at T-Mobile Arena.

(Kevin Winter / Getty Images)

Stevie Wonder and Madonna perform a tribute to Prince.

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Musician/TV personality Questlove speaks about Prince.

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Rihanna accepts the Billboard Chart Achievement Award.

(Kevin Winter / Getty Images)

Ariana Grande performs with dancers watching.

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Ariana Grande performs.

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Celine Dion performs “The Show Must Go On.”

(Chris Pizzello / Invision / Associated Press)

Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani perform “Go Ahead and Break My Heart” at the Billboard Music Awards.

(Chris Pizzello / Invision / Associated Press)

Recording artist Rihanna performs onstage.

(Kevin Winter / Getty Images)

Demi Lovato performs “Cool For The Summer” at the Billboard Music Awards.

(Chris Pizzello / Invision / Assocaited Press)

Justin Bieber accepts the award for top male artist.

(Chris Pizzello / Invision / Associated Press)

Recording artists Zendaya and Wiz Khalifa speak onstage.

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Ben Folds, left, and Kesha perform “It Ain’t Me Babe” at the Billboard Music Awards.

(Chris Pizzello / Invision / Associated Press)

Serayah

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Joe Jonas of DNCE performs during the 2016 Billboard Music Awards.

(Kevin Winter / Getty Images)

JinJoo Lee, left, Joe Jonas and Cole Whittle of DNCE perform “Cake by the Ocean” at the Billboard Music Awards.

(Chris Pizzello / Invision / Associated Press)

Actress Kate Beckinsale

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Kesha, left, Steven Tyler and Megan Trainor at the Billboard Music Awards.

(Photographs by David Becker / AFP / Getty Images)

Co-hosts Ciara and Ludacris speak onstage during the 2016 Billboard Music Awards.

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Meghan Trainor performs “No” at the Billboard Music Awards at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

(Chris Pizzello / Invision / Associated Press)

Ally Brooke, left, Dinah-Jane Hansen, Camila Cabello, Lauren Jauregui and Normani Hamilton of Fifth Harmony.

(Chris Pizzello / Invision / Associated Press)

Justin Bieber and producer Skrillex have been sued over the hook for their single “Sorry.” (Kevin Winter / Getty Images)

Recording artist Pink.

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Singer Pink, suspended in the air as she often is in her performances, performs onstage during the 2016 Billboard Music Awards at T-Mobile Arena.

(Kevin Winter / Getty Images)

Recording artist Britney Spears opens the 2016 Billboard Music Awards at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

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Britney Spears brings a cadre of dancers onstage at th Billboard Music Awards.

(Chris Pizzello / Invision / Associated Press)

Wiz Khalifa accepts the award for top 100 song for “See You Again” at the Billboard Music Awards at the T-Mobile Arena.

(Chris Pizzello / Invision / Associated Press)

Recording artist Shawn Mendes performs onstage.

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Priyaka Chopra, co-hosts Ludacris and Ciara, and Laverne Cox

(Photographs by David Becker / AFP / Getty Images)

Actresses Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn and Mila Kunis attend the 2016 Billboard Music Awards.

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Rihanna, Nick Jonas and Ariana Grande.

(Left and right: David Becker / AFP / Getty Images; center: Richard Shotwell / Invision / AP)

Singer Britney Spears attends the 2016 Billboard Music Awards at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

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Seal arrives at the Billboard Music Awards at the T-Mobile Arena.

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Recording artists Abby Travis, left, Gina Schock, Belinda Carlisle, Jane Wiedlin and Charlotte Caffey of music group the Go-Go’s.

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Singer-songwriter Rachel Platten, left pre-show co-host Laura Marano and TV personality Sibley Scoles.

(Photographs by David Becker / AFP / Getty Images)

Ally Brooke,left, Normani Hamilton, Dinah-Jane Hansen, Lauren Jauregui and Camila Cabello of Fifth Harmony arrive at the Billboard Music Awards.

(Richard Shotwell / Invision / Associated Press)

Halsey

(Richard Shotwell / Invision / Associated Press)

Pre-show co-host AJ Gibson.

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Recording artists Jack Lawless, left, JinJoo Lee, Joe Jonas and Cole Whittle of music group DNCE attend the 2016 Billboard Music Awards.

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Actress Liz Hernandez attends the 2016 Billboard Music Awards at T-Mobile Arena.

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