The 2013 Billboard Music Awards on Sunday topped all other programming in viewership and scored a 12-year high for the awards show.

According to Nielsen ratings, the star-studded music awards show received 9.47 million viewers over the course of its three hours. It scored a 3.6 rating among viewers aged 18-49 and a 10 share. This is a 33 percent increase from last year's 2.7 rating.

The show featured buzzed performances from Jennifer Lopez with Pitbull, Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj with Lil Wayne, and Will.i.am with Justin Bieber. Miguel made headlines after a dramatic jump landed him on an audience member's head during his performance of Adorn.

The Billboard Music Awards squashed its competition, including season finales for The All Star Celebrity Apprentice, Family Guy, The Simpsons and The Cleveland Show.

The two-hour finale of The Celebrity Apprentice garnered 5.26 million viewers. Donald Trump's fifth Celebrity Apprentice season featured standouts from the first four editions but ratings were down 22 percent from last year's season finale.

Fox's Animation Domination lineup averaged 3.9 million viewers over the course of the night. The two-episode season finale of The Simpsons scored 4 million viewers in the 8 p.m. timeslot, eventually rising to 4.39 million viewers. Conversely, the two-episode season finale of Family Guy scored 5.25 million viewers at 9 p.m. and went down to 5.15 million viewers by 9:30 p.m.

From 9-11 p.m., CBS aired ACM Presents: Tim McGraw's Superstar Summer Night, a pre-taped country music special featuring Taylor Swift, Faith Hill, Keith Urban, Lady Antebellum, Jason Aldean and many other headline country acts. The special drew a solid 6.23 million viewers, despite going against the live Billboard Music Awards.

Before the awards show, ABC presented the season finale of America's Funniest Home Videos, which received 9.84 million viewers. CBS aired a special episode of 60 Minutes at 8 p.m., which scored 6.41 million viewers.

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