CBS topped this final Sunday of the May 2014 sweeps, besting second-place ABC by 10 percent. But ABC got a boost care of “The 2014 Billboard Music Awards,” which scored a solid 6.7 rating/11 share from 8-11 p.m. (peaking in the 9 p.m. half-hour with a 7.3/11.) Comparably, this was right on par with the year-ago telecast, which averaged 9.48 million viewers and a 3.5 rating/10 share among adults 18-49. ABC, no doubt, leads the evening in all the key demographics.
NBC capped off the night with low-rated 7 p.m. special “Coldplay: Ghost Stories” (#4: 1.1/ 2,) “American Dream Builders” (#3: 1.6/ 3,) and encore two-hour special “The Women of SNL” (1.8/ 3 from 9-11 p.m.).
