The King of Pop is back: reigning the UK album charts with his posthumous Xscape album and stealing the show at this year's Billboard awards, which took place on Sunday.
Ahead of the ceremony in Las Vegas, there was much speculation to whether the hologram would feature at the event. It wasn't until two days before the awards that federal judge Kent Dawson ruled that Billboard could use the digital projection of the singer, after claims that the 3D image would violate patents held by Hologram USA Inc and Musion Das Hologram Ltd. Efforts from tech companies seeking to block the digital performance were rejected on Friday.
Introduced by Ludacris, a hologram of the late singer made its debut during the show, performing Slave to the Rhythm,moonwalking across the stage and mirroring many of the pop icon's signature moves.
"We tried to do as best we could what we thought Michael would have loved, and those of us who knew Michael really well, we had a good perspective on it," Epic Records CEO LA Reid said backstage, via Associated Press.
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