Rihanna leads the way in nominations for the comeback of the Billboard Music Awards Sunday night on ABC.  She's been nominated for 18 awards while Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars and Justin Bieber have each been nominated 11 times and Lady Antebellum is up for 8 including Top Duo or Group and Top 200 album.  There are going go be some great performances on the show too!

Lady A will be performing a tribute to Beyonce, The Black Eyes will be on stage and so will Cee Le Green, Nicki Minaj and Taio Cruz.  As far as presenters go, it's a star studded line up including Randy Jackson from American Idol, Scott Weiland and more.

Train frontman Pat Monahan tweeted yesterday that he would be a part of a sweet opening number!

As far as a couple of the big awards go that have already been announced, Beyonce will be receiving the Billboard Millenium Award for her work as an innovative artist and Neil Diamond will be Billboard's ICON Award.

Catch the 2011 Billboard Music Awards Sunday night at 8 on KLTV7 hosted by Ken Jeong (of the Hangover movie series).

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