Perpetually aggravating singer Katy Perry is once again hosting MTV’s European Music Awards, which take place tomorrow night and which this year are being held in Berlin to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the wall separating the city’s western and eastern sides—i.e. the Cold War’s most potent symbol of the Iron Curtain—falling. Here’s hoping that she’ll reprise the most memorable part of her hosting stint from last year’s awards, and ride a dildo that’s shaped like a hammer and sickle in order to celebrate. One thing’s for sure: Celebrities who attend the awards are getting a bunch of expensive crap for free, further honoring capitalism’s complete insanity of right now democracy’s triumph! MORE »
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Katy Perry To Host Celebration Of Berlin Wall’s Destruction
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Eminem And GaGa Are Now On The American Music Awards’ Lineup
Eminem and Lady GaGa have been added to the roster of performers for the American Music Awards, which air on Nov. 22. It’s probably too much to hope that they perform together—and do an updated version of “Stan” that incorporates “Paparazzi.” But come on… that would be awesome, right? [MTV] MORE »
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The People’s Choice Awards: They’re Really Serious About Letting The People Choose
Perhaps concerned that upstarts like the American Music Awards and the Kids Choice Awards were infringing on their power-to-the-people award-show turf, the Peoples’ Choice Awards—the O.G. viewer-poll-determined pseudo-event—has decided to throw its nomination process open to the masses, thus allowing their producers to say that they really represent the people. (Or the people who are motivated enough to click through a very long Web ballot in order to honor their favorites, anyway.) They’re even having the unwashed keyboard jockeys out there vote on the trophy design! Who-ho-hoa! The music nominees they’ve “suggested” for fans to choose from are presented to you after the jump. They’re pretty standard (if a bit too kind to the Lonely Island), and I have to say that the possibility of MGMT, Susan Boyle, and Adam Lambert butting heads in the Favorite Breakout Artist category would be kind of awesome. MORE »
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“Q” Unable To Relax, Prematurely Hands Out Award
The British rockists’ bible Q is having its own awards show this Monday, and to whet peoples’ appetite (or, you know, just remind people that they have a whole weekend to get really excited about the prospect of Kings Of Leon being honored by the British guitar-based-music-fan public), the first award was bestowed today: The Classic Song Award, which has been nabbed by Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s early-’80s smash “Relax.” Well, yeah, that’s sort of an undeniable match there. Damn you, Q, for being all snarkproof for once! Those of you who would like to compare the offerings of now to Frankie’s jam can peruse the nominee list in full after the jump. MORE »
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Are The American Music Awards Really “Punishing” Kanye West? (Probably Not, No)
Here is what happens when you let your “content” be ruled by the twin towers of cheap snark and search-engine optimization: You get idiotic blog posts like this one at infotainment clearinghouse E! that claims that Kanye West was shut out of the nominee field at this year’s American Music Awards because of people still being peeved about the whole Video Music Awards debacle in which he ran on stage while Taylor Swift was accepting her award for Best Female Video. Because hey, it’s fun to pile on celebrities and tut-tut your outrage in their general direction, right? Luckily (at least in this case), the American Music Awards are supposedly not determined by such emotional concerns—instead, as the press release accompanying yesterday’s nominee announcement noted, “Nominees were selected from data supplied by The Nielsen Company’s Broadcast Data Systems, which monitors radio airplay performance, and Soundscan, which tracks retail music sales.” So let’s go to the numbers! MORE »
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Michael Jackson Should Really Just Be Nominated For Every American Music Award At This Point
In the latest sign that “pop music” is breathing its last gasp in 2009, the late Michael Jackson just scooped up five nominations for this year’s American Music Awards—including two “Favorite Album” nods for Number Ones, a greatest-hits compilation that was put out in 2003. (The nominees were in part derived from SoundScan data, and Number Ones is currently leading the album-sales pack for 2009; still, what does this say about music right now, etc.) Taylor Swift has the highest number of nominations, with six overall. The full list of nominees after the jump. MORE »
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MTV Gets Ready To Honor “Single Ladies” One More Time
Beyoncé, 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. MORE »
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2009 Video Music Awards Winners
The complete list of winners at Sunday night’s Video Music Awards, held at Radio City Music Hall in New York: MORE »
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2009 Country Music Association Awards Nominees
Nominees for the 2009 Country Music Association Awards, which will be given out on Nov. 11 in Nashville: MORE »
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The CMA Awards Still Love Kenny Chesney
Beach-loving troubadour Kenny Chesney, American Idol winner Carrie Underwood, and pop darling Taylor Swift have already nabbed multiple nominations for this year’s CMA Awards, despite the Country Music Association only announcing five categories as they trickle out the nominees over two time slots on two networks. (Five categories were announced by nominees Darius Rucker and Lee Ann Womack on Good Morning America; the remainder of the categories will be announced on CMT in the 10 a.m. ET hour. Hey, something has to make news on International Beatles Day, right?) The biggest prize of the night—Entertainer Of The Year—will be a contest between Swift, Keith Urban, Brad Paisley, George Strait, and Chesney, who’s nabbed the trophy four times already. Also, Jack White is probably verystoked, since the Raconteurs’ collaboration with Ricky Skaggs and Austin Monroe, “Old Enough,” got a Music Event Of The Year nod. The full list of nominees so far after the jump. MORE »
