dick clark productions and ABC announced today that Garth Brooks, pop superstar Selena Gomez and rock sensation Imagine Dragons will perform on the 2014 American Music Awards, the world's biggest fan-voted award show. Brooks will perform live from a stop on his Garth Brooks World Tour in Greensboro, North Carolina performing a song from his new album "Man Against Machine." Gomez's performance of her new single "Heart Wants What it Wants" will mark the first time that she performs the song live for television. Imagine Dragons will take to the stage with a performance of their brand new single "I Bet My Life," the first music to be released from the quartet's upcoming second album. They join a star-studded lineup of previously announced must-see performers including 5 Seconds of Summer, Iggy Azalea, Mary J. Blige, Charli XCX, Fergie, Lorde, One Direction, Sam Smith, Taylor Swift and the evening's host, Pitbull. The 2014 American Music Awards will broadcast live from the NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE on SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23 (8:00-11:00 p.m., ET/PT) on ABC. Additional performers and presenters will be announced soon.
Certified by the RIAA in 2000 as the #1-selling solo artist in U.S. history,
Garth Brooks is now certified at 134 million albums and has received every accolade the recording industry can bestow on an artist. In 2001, Garth retired and moved back to Oklahoma to raise his children. In 2008 the President-elect, himself, requested that Garth headline
President Obama's Inaugural
Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial. A crowd of over 300,000 did the "wave" to Garth's performance of "Shout" while the President sang along. That same year, the Governor of
California asked Garth to help the State. Garth performed 5 concerts in 2 days with the proceeds from 83,000 tickets sold donated to efforts to prevent fire catastrophes. Portions of the live concerts were shown as a TV special, "
Garth Brooks: Live in L.A," allowing viewers to donate as well. In December 2010, Garth finished an astonishing 9 sold out concerts in 6 days to raise money for the flood relief efforts in Tennessee.
ABC WORLD NEWS Tonight declared Garth The Person of the Week and the Mayor of
NASHVILLE announced that this was a record December for downtown
NASHVILLE merchants due to the over 145,000 who attended the concerts. In January 2012, he was named the best-selling artist of the last two decades by Billboard, Nielsen and SoundScan, with a whopping 68.5 million sales. Brooks also sold out his recent appearance at the 100th anniversary of the Calgary Stampede. The 15,000+ seat sell-out happened in less than a minute. Garth was recently inducted into the International Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York as well as the
NASHVILLE Songwriters Hall of Fame. In October he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Performing for his induction were his heroes George Strait,
James Taylor and
Bob Seger. On November 29th, 2013, Garth took the night with almost 9 million viewers watching his televised special "Live From Las Vegas." That very day Garth released his new boxed set, "Blame It All On My Roots," which debuted for the 13th time in Garth's career at #1 on the country charts. The boxed set also rose to the top of the Billboard 200 Chart making it the 9th time Garth has been able to achieve that feat. Garth's performance of "Friends in Low Places," was the last thing heard on The Tonight Show as
Jay Leno ended his 22 year reign as The Tonight Show host. On Wednesday,
September 3rd, 2014, Garth released a new single, "People Loving People." It is his first new single since 2008.
Gomez will perform "Heart Wants What it Wants", the lead single from her forthcoming greatest hits collection "For You." Her first solo album "Stars Dance" was released in 2013 and debuted at #1 on the Billboard album chart. The first single from the album "Come and Get It" was an international hit as well her first #1 single on the US Top 40 chart. She then followed up the success of the album with a sold out world tour. Gomez had released three previous albums with her band "The Scene." Over the course of her music career, Selena has sold over 15 million singles in the US and hit the top of the Billboard Dance Chart five times.
Selena Gomez made her mark in entertainment by conquering film, music and television at an early age. On the big screen, she began making the transition from young actress to adulthood with such films as the much talked about Harmony Korine film "Spring Breakers." The film premiered at the Venice Film
Festival to critical claim while Gomez's performance was singled out as a "breakout." She was most recently seen opposite
William H. Macy and
Billy Crudup in "Rudderless" which premiered at the 2014
Sundance Film Festival. Other film credits include: "The Getaway" opposite
Ethan Hawke, "
Monte Carlo," as well as lending her voice to the hit Sony animated film "Hotel Transylvania" along with
Adam Sandler and
Andy Samberg.
Imagine Dragons will take to the stage with a performance of their brand new single "I Bet My Life," the first music to be released from the Las Vegas quartet's upcoming second album. They are returning to
THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS after winning "Favorite Artist - Alternative Rock" at 2013's event, where they also wowed the crowd with a performance of their hit, "Radioactive." Formed in 2009 by vocalist
Dan Reynolds, guitarist
Wayne Sermon, bassist
Ben McKee, and drummer
Daniel Platzman,
Imagine Dragons earned a grassroots following by independently releasing a series of EPs. After Alex Da Kid signed them to his KIDinaKORNER/Interscope label, the band made its major-label debut with the release of "Continued Silence," a 2012 EP featuring the 2x platinum breakthrough single "It's Time." The band's double-platinum album "Night Visions" arrived later that year and
Imagine Dragons found themselves on a skyward trajectory that saw the album debut at No. 2 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart, sell nearly four million copies worldwide, and became the No. 1 album on Spotify
Worldwide for 2013. "Night Visions'" second single, the 9x platinum "Radioactive," hit No. 1 on the Billboard Rock chart and earned the band a 2014 Grammy for "Best Rock Performance." It is the best-selling rock song in U.S. digital history. The third single, "Demons," hit No. 1 at Alternative and Top 40 radio, and has sold 3.9 million copies in the U.S. The band has sold more than 24 million tracks worldwide.
The 2014 American Music Award nominations were announced last month, revealing six nominations for
Iggy Azalea--the most of any artist. Other top contenders include
John Legend,
Katy Perry and
Pharrell Williams, who each earned five nominations, and Lorde who earned four.
As always at the American Music Awards, artists will be honored in the genres of Pop/Rock, Country, Rap/Hip-Hop, Soul/R&B, Alternative Rock, Adult Contemporary, Latin, Contemporary Inspirational, Electronic Dance Music, as well as categories for Top Soundtrack, New Artist of the Year Presented by Kohl's, Artist of the Year and Single of the Year. For a full list of nominees visit AMAvote.com.
American Music Awards nominees are based on key fan interactions as reflected in Billboard Magazine and on Billboard.com, including album and digital singles sales, radio airplay, streaming and social activity. These measurements are tracked by Billboard and its data partners, including Nielsen Entertainment and Next Big Sound.
The American Music Awards is voted on by the fans. Winners will be determined through online and Twitter voting. Voting began on October 13 for all categories except New Artist of the Year Presented by Kohl's. Fans can vote once per day at the Coca-Cola AMA voting site, AMAvote.com, as well as once per day via Twitter by including the nominee's name, category name and #AMAs within a tweet.
Voting for New Artist of the Year Presented by Kohl's opened on November 1 and will remain open throughout the first hour of the
ABC live broadcast on November 23, with the winner being announced in the final hour. Fans can vote via AMAVote.com and Twitter.
Preceding the
ABC broadcast for the 6th consecutive year will be the "Coca-Cola Red Carpet LIVE! @ The 2014 AMAs" pre-show. Live coverage will stream online for fans worldwide starting at 5:00 p.m. ET / 2:00 p.m. PT on November 23 at Yahoo Live, this year's official digital distributor of
THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS Experience. The live stream can also be watched at TheAMAs.com and ABC.com.
The 2014 American Music Awards partners include Cumulus, Music Choice, Time Warner Cable and Yahoo.
The 2014 American Music Awards® is produced by dick clark productions. Allen Shapiro and Mike Mahan are Executive Producers. Barry Adelman and Mark Bracco are Co-Executive Producers and
Larry Klein is producer.
For the latest American Music Awards news, exclusive content and more, be sure to follow the AMAs on social and join the conversation by using the official hashtag for the show, #AMAs.
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