 Billboard Honors Lady Gaga and Ke$ha With Year's Top Awards 
 
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 Despite being ousted from the top spot by Gaga, the 'Speak Now' singer hasn't been left out of the 2010 lineup completely. This is not the first time Gaga has received recognition from Billboard -- just last year, the 'Alejandro' singer took home the coveted Top New Artist Award.Despite being ousted from the top spot by Gaga, the 'Speak Now' singer hasn't been left out of the 2010 lineup completely. Cue 'Cannibal' Ke$ha, whose Jack Daniels-doused oral hygiene and songwriting styles have won the hearts of a nation.Boosting her into the honor is her 2010 hit 'Tik Tok,' which spent nine weeks atop the Hot 100 list. Lady Gaga is taking home Billboard 's top honor for 2010.The meat-wearing songstress has been honored with Billboard's Artist of the Year award for 2010, a prize nabbed by paparazzi darling Taylor Swift in 2009. Impressively, 'Tik Tok' was Ke$ha's first single to make it on to Billboard's charts.The recipients of Billboard's highest group honor are country crooners Lady Antebellum, whose hit 'Need You Now' spent a whopping 42 weeks of the eligibility period on the Billboard top 40.
– Lady Gaga was Billboard’s top new artist last year, and this year she’s moved on to snag the top artist-of-the-year honors. That’s the fastest any woman has moved from one category to the other since Whitney Houston managed the feat in 1985-86. (Chris Brown managed to snag both titles simultaneously, in 2006.) The ranking is determined based on chart performance. So who’s this year’s top new artist? Ke$ha. For more on the rankings and to see what happened to last year’s top artist, Taylor Swift, click here.