MTV Gets Ready To Honor “Single Ladies” One More Time

beyonce-single-ladiesBeyoncé, Kings of Leon, and Shakira have each scooped up multiple nominations for MTV’s European Music Awards, which will be held in Berlin on Nov. 5 and feature performances by Green Day, X Factor-winning warbler Leona Lewis, and “popular on the Internet” mope-rock act Tokio Hotel. The winners in most of the categories—save Best Video Of The Year, which inexplicably includes Eminem’s stale-on-arrival “We Made You” as the lone male-fronted video in its ranks—will be determined by fan voting, which probably explains the Jonas Brothers vs. Tokio Hotel matchup in the “Best Group” category. (Gimme an S! Gimme an E! Gimme an O!) Full list of non-regional nominations after the jump.


Best Song
Beyoncé, “Halo”
Black Eyed Peas, “I Gotta Feeling”
David Guetta feat. Kelly Rowland, “When Love Takes Over”
Kings of Leon, “Use Somebody”
Lady GaGa, “Poker Face”


Best Group
Black Eyed Peas
Green Day
Jonas Brothers
Kings of Leon
Tokio Hotel


Best New Act
Daniel Merriweather
La Roux
Lady GaGa
Pixie Lott
Taylor Swift


Best Female
Beyoncé
Katy Perry
Lady GaGa
Leona Lewis
Shakira


Best Male
Eminem
Jay-Z
Kanye West
Mika
Robbie Williams


Best Urban
Ciara
Eminem
Jay-Z
Kanye West
T.I.


Best Rock
Foo Fighters
Green Day
Kings of Leon
Linkin Park
U2


Best Alternative
Muse
Paramore
Placebo
The Killers
The Prodigy


Best Push Artist
Daniel Merriweather
Hockey
La Roux
Little Boots
Metro Station
Pixie Lott
The Veronicas
White Lies


Best World Stage Live Performance
Coldplay
Kid Rock
Kings of Leon
Lady GaGa
Linkin Park


MTV Live Act
Beyoncé
Green Day
Kings of Leon
Lady Gaga
U2


Best Video
Beyonce, “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)”
Britney Spears, “Circus”
Eminem, “We Made You”
Katy Perry, “Waking Up In Vegas”
Shakira, “She Wolf”


MTV Europe Music Awards 2009 [MTV.co.uk]

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5 Responses to “MTV Gets Ready To Honor “Single Ladies” One More Time”

  1. by 2ironic4u at 2:33 pm

    How did Placebo sneak in there?

  2. by Maura at 3:27 pm

    @2ironic4u: Europe I guess.

  3. by LostTurntable at 5:33 pm

    Geez. If they like it so much they should put a ring on it.

    Sorry.

  4. by kicking222 at 10:51 pm

    Aside from Alternative (I like-but-don’t-love the Killers and Placebo) and Push (haven’t heard of some of them), I literally want every single nominee to lose. (Well, Mika, isn’t a bad artist, but I don’t particularly enjoy his music; still, better than those other options.) I want some B-list celebrity to open the envelope and say, “And the winner for Best Group is… nobody?!”

  5. by Babs at 5:23 pm

    Is Kanye invited?

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