I'm not a big Bey fan. Yes she can sing and perform well, but she's not all that. She didn't show up because it wasn't all about her. As some one stated earlier, she wasn't nominated for anything, she wasn;t asked to perform. So she thought that she was too good to just sit back and appreciate other artist's. I pick MaryJ,Ashanti,and CiCi over Bey any day. Even when Beyonce performs on the awards she doesn't perform the whole entire show. That's ignorant to even suggest the show had poor ratings because of her. Ne-Yo had the best performance, and with Chris only the part when Ci, came out was hot during his performance,I liked Nelly's, but usher should have stayed home and changed diapers.A Keys, usually performs way better than she did to me. RiRi looked as if she had just came out of a cemetery, and was scared to move,and Keisha I can listen to her music on the radio all day, but live she never seems to get it right.