Billboard Music Awards Stomp Good Wife, Amazing Race Finales

Award show averaged 10.5 million total viewers

The week got off to a good start for ABC. The network's Sunday broadcast of the Billboard Music Awards won out handily over season finales of The Good Wife and The Amazing Race on CBS, both of which were flat in 18-49.

The Billboard show hit a 13-year audience high—a rarity in an age of increased fragmentation.

(Billboard, like Adweek, is owned by affiliates of Guggenheim Partners.)

Fox's Family Guy and Cosmos also took hits that evening—the night finished with an average of a 3 rating for ABC and a CBS in second with a 1.4.

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