AMAs 2026 performances: See BTS, Billy Idol and more onstage
The 52nd American Music Awards showcased a variety of performances from popular artists at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Notable acts included BTS, Billy Idol, and the Pussycat Dolls, who performed a medley of their hits. The event featured both live and prerecorded performances, highlighting the diverse talent in the music industry.
- ▪The Pussycat Dolls performed a medley of their classic hits for the first time in years.
- ▪Billy Idol delivered a powerful performance of 'Eyes Without a Face' and 'Dancing With Myself'.
- ▪BTS had a prerecorded performance of their song 'Hooligan' during the event.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 8 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ All of the 2026 AMAs Performances, Ranked — Billboard
New York Post files mainly under news. We currently carry 12,095 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Page Six |
| Canonical URL | https://pagesix.com/2026/05/26/photos/amas-2026-performances-see-bts-billy-idol-and-more-onstage/ |
| Publication time | Tue, 26 May 2026 09:19:15 -0400 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-26T13:22:49.439Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-26T13:34:01.623Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | HInm4qRwtSFd · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Photos AMAs 2026 performances: See BTS, Billy Idol and more onstage By Nicole Mazza Published May 26, 2026, 9:19 a.m. ET All of the hottest stars in music were in attendance Monday night at the 52nd American Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. When awards weren’t being handed out, full theatrical performances took the stage by artists including the Pussycat Dolls, BTS, and Sombr. Scroll through to see all the best snaps from the night’s performances. 1 of 25 The Pussycat Dolls performed a medley of “Buttons”, ”When I Grow Up”, ”Club Song”, and ”Don’t Cha”. REUTERS 2 of 25 The group wore coordinated red latex outfits. Getty Images 3 of 25 It was Kimberly Wyatt, Nicole Scherzinger and Ashley Roberts of The Pussycat Dolls’s first televised performance together in years.
…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Page Six.
Discussion
0 commentsMore from Page Six
