Chart-topping R&B artist Sisqo and actress Carmen Electra will host the 2001 World Music Awards in Monte Carlo. The 13th annual ceremony will take place May 2 at the French Riviera hotspot Le Sporting d' Ete (the Sporting Club). The spectacle will air May 28 in the U.S. on ABC at 9 p.m. ET, and will be syndicated to television outlets in 160 countries.
Shaggy, Nelly, Enya, Nelly Furtado, Christina Aguilera, the Backstreet Boys, and Ricky Martin are among those scheduled to perform. Rod Stewart, who will also perform, will receive a lifetime achievement award.
The awards are based on sales figures supplied by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, and will honor the world's best-selling artists in 2000. All proceeds from ticket sales to the show will benefit the Princess Grace Hospital and the Monaco Aide and Presence Foundation.
The Backstreet Boys emerged as the top act at last year's ceremony, as they walked away with four awards -- best-selling pop group, R&B group, dance group, and American group. Mariah Carey was awarded a special prize for best-selling pop female artist of the millennium. Michael Jackson took the comparable male prize.
For more information on the awards and on highlights of past shows, visit the event's official Web site.
The 2001 World Music Awards (2001) TV Special
Host: Sisqo, Carmen Electra
For three seasons of "The Voice" now fans have known that Blake Shelton is brilliantly hilarious and incredibly charming. But how would it translate to his very own holiday special? Many celebrities have tried in recent years, but few have succeeded as well as Shelton did with "Blake Shelton's Not-So-Family Christmas" on NBC.
The hour special was littered with musical guests like Reba McEntire and Kelly Clarkson, not to mention his mother and his wife Miranda Lambert. He also had comedy bits throughout the special, with most of them hitting the right note -- even if he admitted his Larry the Cable Guy sketch might have been a little dark.
In it, he and Larry were in the claymation style of classic Christmas specials like "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and "Frosty the Snowman." It was a hunting trip in the North Pole that went all wrong, with the pair ultimately killing or destroying virtually every beloved Christmas character.
He went dark again in a sketch where he traumatized children with twisted answers to their questions about "'Twas the Night Before Christmas." At other points he was getting beaten down by a cast of little people or trying to hawk a cheap knock-off of his swiveling chair from "The Voice."
Now that Shelton's got a laugh-filled Christmas special under his belt, fans can start counting the days until he's announced as an upcoming host on "Saturday Night Live." If he doesn't want to pull double duty, he could always invite his wife along to join in the fun as the musical guest.
Blake Shelton's Not So Family Christmas (2012) TV
Cast: Christina Aguilera, Kailee Bauer, Kelly Clarkson, Miranda Lambert, Reba McEntire, Dorothy Shackleford, Blake Shelton
