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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Eminem And GaGa Are Now On The American Music Awards’ Lineup
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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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Navigating Your Way Through This Week’s New Releases, From Madonna To Miranda
Tomorrow’s release-date schedule is pretty glutted with albums that—gasp!—might get people to actually spend money on music, from Madonna’s latest greatest-hits collection to new albums by the spunky likes of Miranda Lambert and Paramore. In order to help you navigate through this week, might I suggest a friendly game of Buy/Download/Kill, in which each album receives one of the three fates outlined by the game’s title? My personal preferences after the jump. MORE »
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Jay-Z’s First-Week Sales: Not Quite Eminem-Level, But Not Bad By Any Stretch
Unsurprisingly, Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3 debuted atop today’s Billboard 200, thanks to sales of 476,000 copies in the time that elapsed between its release last Tuesday and Sunday night. But how did Jay’s first-week numbers fare in the more rarefied arena of No. 1 debuts? I crunched a few numbers to figure out just how all of the albums that topped the charts in their first week of sales fared, and came away slightly surprised! 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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MTV’s Booking People Will Not Let You Forget About Jennifer Lopez
In addition to letting slip that Jay-Z and Alicia Keys would grace this year’s Video Music Awards with a performance of their collaboration “Empire State of Mind,” MTV has announced more additions to its roster of presenters for Sunday night’s broadcast; among them are Canadian cutie Justin Bieber, Shakira, Pete Wentz, Gabe Saporta, Jack Black, and… Jennifer Lopez. Jennifer Lopez, really? I guess she still counts as a music-related celebrity—and who knows, maybe she’s prepping for a very belated deluxe reissue of the floptastic Brave! The night’s roster of performers and presenters after the jump. MORE »
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Drake Invites The Big Guys Over For A Pickup Game
Drake’s all-star collaboration “Forever,” which will appear on the soundtrack to the forthcoming LeBron James documentary More Than A Game, made its way online last night, and as you might expect of a track where the Degrassi alum enlists the help of Lil Wayne, Kanye West, and Eminem, it’s a fairly spectacular collision of boasts. Eminem’s verse is probably the tour de force of the lengthy (six minutes!) track, thanks to him seemingly still feeling the flame that was lit under his butt by Mariah Carey all those weeks ago. (I guess we’ll have to wait for that Foreigner cover to come out in order to properly deduce who “won” the beef between the two of them.) Stream after the jump. MORE »
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Live-Blogging One Hour Of MTV Hits: Here’s What You’re Missing When You Say You Miss Videos
Come with me as I chronicle an entire hour of MTV Hits, MTV’s digltal-cable channel that deigns to show pop videos during non-early-morning daylight hours. Why? Well, why not, really. Come join me in the upper reaches of the Optimum band after the jump. MORE »
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MTV Decides To Honor Eminem’s Jokes About 2002 With A Video Of The Year Nomination
Early word on nominees for the MTV Video Music Awards—taking place Sept. 13 around New York—has Beyoncé and Lady Gaga leading the pack with nine nods each, according to People. (Side note: is there any phrase more noxious than “confirms exclusively”? Are we supposed to be thankful that you have a relationship with a PR person? Ugh.) Also out are the nominees for the Video Of The Year category, and only one of the picks is really egregiously bad: Eminem’s “We Made You,” which is stuffed with jokes that are so moldy, they probably sailed over the youngest members of MTV’s target demo. The full roster of Best Video nominees after the jump. MORE »
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Eminem Continues To Lose Himself In His Beef With Mariah Carey
In an effort to keep everyone’s name in the gossip columns set the record straight about his prior involvements with Mariah Carey, Eminem has released “The Warning,” a few minutes of invective pointed directly at the floundering singer and her semi-courageous husband Nick Cannon, who have been acting cute about whether the Mimi-crazed guy played by Mariah in her video for “Obsessed” is actually supposed to represent one Marshall Mathers. It would seem as if Em isn’t really believing their denials! “The Warning” talks about the trajectory of Mariah and Em’s “relationship” (complete with self-mockery over his sexual prowess), drops in coos from a Mimi soundalike, and throws down a few threats over the release of photos and voicemails that would apparently prove that the two were an item for a while, contrary to Carey’s assertions. Embed after the jump. MORE »
