Kanye West, Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift must share her spotlight once again with Kanye West. Billboard Magazine has named Swift the top female artist of 2009 and West the top male artist.
Swift also was chosen's Billboard's top artist of the year — Kanye was sixth on that list.
Beyonce, Eminem win VMAs as Kanye rains on Taylor Swift's parade
Back in September, Swift's VMA acceptance speech was interrupted by West, who took the stage and declared that Beyoncé — who placed second on Billboard's top female artists list — should've won for "Single Ladies." Since then...
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Michael Jackson, Taylor Swift
Country singer Taylor Swift and the late Michael Jackson lead the nominees for the 2009 American Music Awards, which were announced Tuesday.
Swift garnered six nominations, including...
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Rapper T.I.
DJ AM and T.I. were winners at the BET Hip-Hop Awards.
The late celebrity spinner won the DJ of the Year prize while the imprisoned rapper took home two trophies Saturday night -- the best collaboration award with Rihanna for the song "Live Your Life" and the album of the year award for "Paper Trail."
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Rihanna by Skip Bolen/ WireImage.com
More acts are lining up to rock the MTV Video Music Awards.Rihanna, Paramore, Pink and T.I. have been added to the roster of VMA performers, The Associated Press reports.They join the already-announced Kid Rock, Lil' Wayne and the Jonas Brothers.Rihanna, whose "Take a Bow" is up for Best Female Video, will perform her No. 1 summer hit "Disturbia," while Best Rock Video nominee Paramore will belt out "Misery Business." Pink, a past VMA winner, will entertain the crowd with "So What," the first single off her upcoming album Funhouse.No word on what T.I., who's up for Best Male Video, will perform, but his presence will be significant for another reason. It will be his first award show appearance since his arrest at last year's BET Hip-Hop Awards for trying to purchase machine guns and silencers. The rapper will serve a year in jail after completing 1,000 hours of community service.The 2008 Video Music Awards, hosted by British comedian Russell Brand, will air Sept. 7 on MTV. — Jo...
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Pete Wentz courtesy MTV
Remember when you wanted your music television Youre not alone The nets introduction of MTV2 somehow didnt stem the tide of rumored malaise and longing for truly youthful rawness and MTV apparently got the message Their answer FNMTVHosted by newlywed and soon-to-be dad Pete Wentz the visually spastic weekly show unveils artists brand-new videos and encourages multi-platform audience participation With super-saturated colors and graphics a studio audience and live musical performances the show is part concert part critics discussion part Facebook-in-a-show-experiment and most surprisingly part education forum Seriously For FNs third episode to air June 27 I joined the fan corps to check out a taping that included Rihanna TI Maroon 5 and newbies No Age along with Making the Band alums Boys to Men whoops Day 26Perhaps the most unique aspect of the show is the way that each artist introduces their video premieres For TI an usually
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Beyonce by Michael Caulfield/WireImage.com
Dreamgirls cast mates Beyoncé and Jennifer Hudson were the big winners at Tuesday night's BET Awards, grabbing a pair of statues each. Beyoncé was named best female R&B artist and won video of the year (for "Irreplaceable"), while J-Hud topped the new-artist and female-actress categories. Among the other winners were Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland), who took home male-actor honors, Ne-Yo, who was named best male R&Ber, Gnarls Barkley, who was best group, and T.I., who repeated as best hip-hopper.
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Buttonz? Yodeling? Paul Wall? If I am at all current on the music kids are listening to these days — and my niece Phoenix will be the first to say I am not — it's only because my weekend routine finds me watching VH1 videos while doing cardio (and reading the latest periodicals, because I'm such the multi-tasker) at the local health club. Herewith are my thoughts on some of today's heavily-played "tracks," in no particular order other than how they pop into my mind:"About Us," Brooke Hogan (with the aforementioned Paul Wall)So, this is Hulk's daughter, eh? I read something somewhere about how she whipped herself into shape for this, partly via mad amounts of jump-roping, hence (I can only assume) the activity's inclusion in the vid. Mr. Wall's orthodontic issues aside, it's a catchy tune, though I must opine that Brooke and her posse get served in the video's dance-off at the end. I mean, did you see that one chick's crazy leg moves? It's like she has no femur."My Love," J...
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(And no, he wasn't discovered atop this news blog.) Rather, Aurora, Colorado, science teacher Gionni Thompson is the winner of DIY Network's Stud Finder contest, and as such will host his own home-improvement series in 2007.... With eight nods, ATL's T.I. (I'm woefully lost already) leads the nominees for the inaugural BET Hip-Hop Awards, to air Nov. 15 and be hosted by Katt Williams. Busta Rhymes netted six nods, followed by Chamillionaire with five.... Over the Hedge topped the DVD sales chart last week, while The Break-Up was the No. 1 rental.... This year's Nobel Peace Prize Concert, to be held Dec. 11 in Oslo, Norway, will be hosted by Sharon Stone and Anjelica Huston, and will feature performances by Lionel Richie, Simply Red and others.
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