2012 BILLBOARD LATIN MUSIC AWARDS
PRESENTED BY STATE FARM® ON TELEMUNDO
Fact Sheet
About the Awards:
The Billboard Latin Music Awards, presented by State Farm®, is an annual event honoring the year’s top performers in Latin music. Latin music’s most prestigious awards show, hosted by Aylin Mujica and Daniel Sarcos, will take place on Thursday, April 26, 2012 and will be produced and broadcast live by Telemundo from the BankUnited Center in Miami, Florida.
The Billboard Latin Music Awards honor the most popular albums, songs, and performers in Latin music, as determined by the actual sales and radio airplay data that informs Billboard's weekly charts during a one-year period from the issue dated February 6, 2011 through this year's January 29, 2012 issue. Finalists, and the eventual winners, reflect performance of new recordings on Billboard's sales charts, including Top Latin Albums, and radio charts, including Hot Latin Songs, with album categories confined to titles that did not chart before Billboard's Nov. 7, 2010 issue, but excluding finalists from the prior-year's Billboard Latin Music Awards. Based on sales data compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and radio information monitored by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, Billboard’s charts are the world's most authoritative music charts.
Air Dates: Thursday, April 26 – LIVE on Telemundo
7PM (6pm/c) Pre-show: “La Alfombra de los Premios Billboard”
8PM (7pm/c) Awards Show: “Premios Billboard de la Musica Latina Presentados por State Farm”
Saturday, April 28 – LIVE on Telemundo
7PM (6pm/c) Special: “Billboard Extra: Estilo y Moda”
Hosts of Pre-Show (“La Alfombra de los Premios Billboard”):
Monica Noguera and Rashel Diaz, with Jorge Bernal, Jessie Camacho, Alessandra Villegas and Guest Fashionista Viktor Luna
Hosts of Awards Show (“Premios Billboard de la Música Latina Presentados por State Farm”):
Aylín Mujica and Daniel Sarcos
Performers:
3BallMty
Akon
America Sierra
Cristian Castro
Don Omar
El Bebeto
Gerardo Ortiz
Gilberto Santa Rosa
Intocable
Jenni Rivera
Juanes
Larry Hernandez
Loalwa Braz
Mana
Marc Anthony
Michel Telo
Natti Natasha
Olga Tañon
Paulina Rubio
Pitbull
Prince Royce
Samo
Sensato
Billboard Lifetime
Achievement Award: Intocable
Billboard
Hall of Fame Award: Marc Anthony
Award Presenters:
TV Actors and Personalities
Adriana Fonseca
Ana Layevska
Ana Maria Polo
Edgar Lopez
Eugenio Siller
Guadalupe Venegas
Karim Mendiburu
Litzy
Maria Celeste Arraras
Maritza Rodriguez
Mirella Grisales
Sonya Smith
Vanessa Villela
Wilmer Valderrama
Ximena Duque
Yarel Ramos
Musical Artists and Groups:
AB Quintanilla
Diana Reyes
Graciela Beltran
Marisol (Horoscopos de Durango)
Roberto Tapia
Sie7e
Other Finalists Attending:
A&X
Alexis & Fido
Aventura (Mikey,Henry y Lenny)
Calibre 50
Camila
Charlie Zaa
Chino & Nacho
El Cata
Fernando Camacho Tirado
Horacio Palencia Cisneros
La Adictiva Banda San José de Mesillas
La Arrolladora Banda El Limon
La Original Banda el Limon de Salvador Lizarraga
Lucenzo
N’Klabe
Nayer
Sergio George
Violento
Production Credits:
Executive Producer: Tony Mojena
Vice President of Production
and General Producer: Christian Riehl
Vice President of Specials: Pilar Lamadrid
Vice President of Technical
Production: Abe De Jesus
Director: Reinaldo Carrasquillo
About Billboard:
Billboard is the world’s most influential music media brand reaching key executives and tastemakers in and around the music business through Billboard Magazine, Billboard.biz <http://www.billboard.biz/> , Billboard Conferences, Billboard Bulletin, and other targeted newsletters, and millions of music fans through Billboard.com <http://www.billboard.com/> and Billboard Events. The Billboard brand is built on its exclusive charts and unrivaled reporting on the latest news, issues and trends across all genres of music. Billboard receives hundreds of millions of brand impressions daily through many strategic relationships with major companies across various industries. These relationships leverage Billboard’s brand recognition, proprietary chart data and information resources to develop products, live events and print, television, radio, digital and mobile platforms. In addition to North America, Billboard operates businesses in Brazil, Greece, Japan, Korea and Russia. Billboard is owned by Prometheus Global Media, a diversified company with leading assets in the media and entertainment arenas, including: Music (Billboard and its related conferences and events, including The Billboard Latin Music Awards), Entertainment (The Hollywood Reporter, Backstage, ShowEast, Cineasia, and CineEurope); and Advertising & Marketing (Adweek, Adweek Conferences and The CLIO Awards).
About Telemundo:
TelemundoMedia, a division of NBCUniversal, is a world-class media company, leading the industry in the production and distribution of high-quality Spanish-language content across its multiplatform portfolio to U.S. Hispanics and audiences around the world. Telemundo’s multiple platforms include the Telemundo Network, a Spanish-language television network featuring original productions, theatrical motion pictures, news and first-class sports events, reachingU.S. Hispanic viewers in 210 markets through its 14 owned stations and its broadcastandcable affiliates; mun2, the preeminent voice for bicultural Hispanics in the U.S.reaching TV households nationwide on digital and analog cable, and satellite; Telemundo Digital Media, which distributes Telemundo’s original content across digital and emerging platforms including mobile devices, www.telemundo.com and www.mun2.tv; an owned and operated full power station in Puerto Rico that reaches 99% of all TV households in that DMA;and Telemundo Internacional, the international distribution arm which has positioned Telemundo as the second largest provider of Spanish-language content worldwide by syndicating content to more than 100 countries in over 35 languages.
Press Contacts:
Claudia Santa Cruz Paola Marin
Tel. 626-538-4330 Tel. 305-592-4473
Press Materials:
A complete list of winners and downloadable pictures from the show will be available Thursday night (4/26) at http://www.nbcumv.com. You must register on the website in advance in order to download pictures.