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Sunday night’s star-studded 2021
Billboard Music Awards featured a real, live audience and live performances, though social distancing rules and masks were still in place. A number of performances took place on an outdoor stage in front of a masked crowd of screaming, dancing fans.
For the more elaborate performances that took place inside L.A.’s Microsoft Theater, the audience was never shown, so it was unclear if they were pre-recorded — the show did feature a caption saying that portions of the show had been.
Awards were handed out in an elevated mini studio reminiscent of MTV’s