Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus land Teen Choice Awards nominations
Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato and Justin Bieber are among the pop stars who have landed a handful of top nods in the second wave of nominations for the 2013 Teen Choice Awards.
Swift's hit song I Knew You Were Trouble and Cyrus' We Can't Stop will go head-to-head with Lovato (Heart Attack), Anna Kendrick (Cups) and Bieber's ex, Selena Gomez (Come + Get It), for the title of Choice Single: Female Artist, while the Baby hitmaker's Beauty And A Beat is up for the male equivalent, alongside Bruno Mars (Locked Out Of Heaven), Pitbull (Feel This Moment), Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z (Suit + Tie), and Robin Thicke, T.I. and Pharrell Williams (Blurred Lines).
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together by Swift is also nominated
in the categories of best break-up tune and country song.
Candie's Choice Style Icon will be a fight between Cyrus, Lovato,
Emma Watson, Lea Michele and Ariana Grande, while the Choice
Twitter Personality will be a competition between Bieber, Lady
Gaga, Rihanna, Katy Perry and President Barack Obama.
In the acting categories, Choice Movie Scene Stealer will be a
tight race between the likes of Channing Tatum (G.I. Joe:
Retaliation), Kellan Lutz (The Twilight Sada: Breaking Dawn - Part
2) and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (The Dark Knight Rises), while the TV
nominees include Cyrus for her stint in Two and a Half Men, as well
as Glee co-stars Chord Overstreet and Heather Morris.
Singers Blake Shelton and Adam Levine of The Voice scored
nominations for Choice TV Personality - Male, and Lovato (The X
Factor) and model Heidi Klum (America's Got Talent) picked up
mentions for the female equivalent.
The full list was released on Monday (01Jul13), over a month after
the first wave of nominations were announced in May (13).
The winners will be unveiled during a special ceremony in Los
Angeles on 11 August (13).