Chris Brown: Road to the BET Awards 2013

A look back at Breezy's big year.

Road to the BET Awards 2013 - After spending the past couple of years shifting focus back to his music, Chris Brown is on top again. Breezy electrified audiences at the BET Awards last year with a pair of performances that showed off his voice, his moves and his fit body. What will he do to top himself this year? We'll have to wait until June 30 to find out. In the mean time, let's take a look back at the singer's remarkable year. (Photo: C Flanigan/FilmMagic)

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Road to the BET Awards 2013 - After spending the past couple of years shifting focus back to his music, Chris Brown is on top again. Breezy electrified audiences at the BET Awards last year with a pair of performances that showed off his voice, his moves and his fit body. What will he do to top himself this year? We'll have to wait until June 30 to find out. In the mean time, let's take a look back at the singer's remarkable year. (Photo: C Flanigan/FilmMagic)

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Back on Top - July 11, 2012 - Propelled by the singles "Turn Up the Music" and "Till I Die," Breezy scored a second #1 debut with his album Fortune, the follow-up to 2011's F.A.M.E. The album showed a grown-up Breezy embracing his fame, success and all the perks that come along with it.(Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images)

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Back on Top - July 11, 2012 - Propelled by the singles "Turn Up the Music" and "Till I Die," Breezy scored a second #1 debut with his album Fortune, the follow-up to 2011's F.A.M.E. The album showed a grown-up Breezy embracing his fame, success and all the perks that come along with it.(Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images)

Hug It Out - September 7, 2012 - Brown took home a Moonman at the MTV Video Music Awards for Best Male Video, but it was an off-camera moment with this then-former flame Rihanna that grabbed the headlines. The "Birthday Cake" collaborators shared a quick hug after she accepted her own award.(Photo: Michael Buckner/Getty Images For BET)

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Hug It Out - September 7, 2012 - Brown took home a Moonman at the MTV Video Music Awards for Best Male Video, but it was an off-camera moment with this then-former flame Rihanna that grabbed the headlines. The "Birthday Cake" collaborators shared a quick hug after she accepted her own award.(Photo: Michael Buckner/Getty Images For BET)

August 16, 2012 - Se Habla Espanol - After a chart-busting collabo with Pitbull last year, Chris Brown pulled a true crossover move by teaming up with Puerto Rican super-duo Wisin y Yandel for "Algo Me Gusta De Ti" ("Something About You"), also featuring T-Pain. The track earned Breezy recognition in the Spanish language market, even getting a nod for Top Latin Song at the Billboard Music Awards.  (Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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 Se Habla Espanol - August 16, 2012  - After a chart-busting collabo with Pitbull last year, Chris Brown pulled a true crossover move by teaming up with Puerto Rican super-duo Wisin y Yandel for "Algo Me Gusta De Ti" ("Something About You"), also featuring T-Pain. The track earned Breezy recognition in the Spanish language market, even getting a nod for Top Latin Song at the Billboard Music Awards. (Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

September 27, 2012 - Open Wounds - The R&B prince laid his soul bare in the emotionally-charged video for his single "Don't Judge Me." Breezy co-directed the clip, which shows him driving alone through the desert and coming face-to-face with his relationship past. (Photo: Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)

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 Open Wounds - September 27, 2012  - The R&B prince laid his soul bare in the emotionally-charged video for his single "Don't Judge Me." Breezy co-directed the clip, which shows him driving alone through the desert and coming face-to-face with his relationship past.(Photo: Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)

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Chris Brown  - Because of his incredible foot work in the video for the single "Turn Up the Music," Chris Brown gets a nod for Best Dance Performance.   (Photo: FameFlynet)

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International Love - November 14, 2012  - Breezy hit the road to promote Fortune with Carpe Diem, an overseas tour that kicked off in Denmark and ended in South Africa. Sold-out shows all over the world proved that Team Breezy speaks many languages. (Photo: FameFlynet, Inc)

Look Ma, No Hands - Breezy performs his smash single "Look At Me Now" at the 2011 BET Awards and the crowd goes wild.  (Photo: Joe Scarnici/WireImage)

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Listen Up - November 15, 2012  - By late 2012, speculation about Brown's relationship with Rihanna hit fever pitch. There couldn't have been a more perfect time for the rumored lovers to drop a collabo entitled "Nobody's Business," telling gossip-mongers and busybodies to stay out of their situation. (Photo: Joe Scarnici/WireImage)

December 6, 2012 - Good Fortune - Christmas came early for Breezy in the form of a Grammy nomination for Fortune. The R&B star's fifth studio album got a nod in the Best Urban Contemporary Album category, alongside Frank Ocean and Miguel.  (Photo: Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

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 Good Fortune - December 6, 2012  - Christmas came early for Breezy in the form of a Grammy nomination for Fortune. The R&B star's fifth studio album got a nod in the Best Urban Contemporary Album category, alongside Frank Ocean and Miguel.   (Photo: Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

January 29, 2013 - Super Fly - Brown switched gears from music to fashion after wrapping up his Carpe Diem tour, launching his Black Pyramid clothing line in January. The line's array of hats, hoodies and t-shirts is perfect for those times that Breezy wants to throw something over that six-pack. (Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

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Super Fly - January 29, 2013  - Brown switched gears from music to fashion after wrapping up his Carpe Diem tour, launching his Black Pyramid clothing line in January. The line's array of hats, hoodies and t-shirts is perfect for those times that Breezy wants to throw something over that six-pack.  (Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

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Simpler Times - February 16, 2013  - A documentary-style video for a new single from Breezy's upcoming album shows shows that, for the R&B star, there's no place like "Home." The clip mashes up footage from his jet-setting 2012 Carpe Diem world tour with lyrics that yearn for simpler times before fame and money complicated his life.  (Photo: MJ Kim/Getty Images)

Chris Brown - "Look at Me Now" may have been a hit single, but it's not an open invitation from Breezy to the paparazzi. The singer has gotten into plenty of scuffles with the shutterbugs, but was forced by anti-homophobic groups to apologize to his nemeses in 2011 after telling them, "y'all n*ggas is gay."  (Photo: Vince Bucci/Getty Images)

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X Factor - April 16, 2013  - Anticipation for Brown's sixth studio album, X, is building with the release of "Fine China." The 24-year-old young gun describes the disc as his most cathartic to date, with the lead single offering a chance for him to show how his character has evolved over the past few years. The romantic track and accompanying video is all about "being chivalrous, catering to a woman, brining in the element of love," says Breezy.  (Photo: Vince Bucci/Getty Images)