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Apart from cleaning house at the 2008 MuchMusic Video Awards which was held at the Chum/City Building on Sunday in Toronto, Canada, Rihanna also performed her latest single ‘Take a Bow’. The Barbadian babe changed into a black ruffled top and black leather lace-up boots before her performance which marked the first time the 20-year […]

The 50th Annual Grammy Awards winners.
 
Album of the Year: “River: The Joni Letters,” Herbie Hancock.
Record of the Year: “Rehab,” Amy Winehouse.
Song of the Year: “Rehab,” Amy Winehouse
New Artist: Amy Winehouse.
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Mark Ronson.
Pop Vocal Album: “Back to Black,” Amy Winehouse.
Female Pop Vocal Performance: “Rehab,” Amy Winehouse.
Male Pop Vocal Performance: “What Goes […]

Early Thursday morning, Black Eyed Peas front woman Fergie was on hand to announce the nominations for the 50th Annual Grammy Awards. Despite being a big favorite to score a lot of nods, the ‘Fergalicious’ singer only got one nomination for herself in the category of Best Female Pop Vocal.Despite the disappointing number, Fergie still […]

The Jonas Brothers took to the stage at the 2007 American Music Awards where Joe took a spill right at the top of their performance. Joe put up a blog about it recently and talked about what went on through the whole thing.
He said that after he fell, he saw the smiling faces of the […]

Rap star 50 Cent said that if he didn’t beat Kanye West in terms of record sales when their new releases came head to head, he would retire. Well, Kanye beat him and there’s still no retirement announcement from 50.
It seems that 50 found a way around his retirement saying to Gatecrasher that his album […]

You know you love Ricky Martin, that Latin heartthrob who blew onto the scene and sung to us about “Livin’ La Vida Loca” and won himself countless female fans in the process. Thanks to this great performer, you can rest assured that you are going to be in for an awesome showcase when Ricky Martin […]

Australian country music star Keith Urban is on the cover of the upcoming issue of People magazine. In the interview that accompanies the cover, Keith admits that he “wouldn’t be here without [wife Nicole Kidman]. He apparently credits his music and Nicole for getting him through the roughest year of his life.
Keith also just […]

International superstars Tokio Hotel have received another honor, while not in statue form; the band has been confirmed to perform at MTV’s Europe Music Awards – an honor in itself. The band is also up for two awards, Best Band and Inter Act against American household names Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, […]

Australia’s version of the Grammy’s, the ARIA Awards, was held on Sunday night (their time of course). The big winner of the night was the band Silverchair. Front man Daniel Johns and company took home five trophies, including single of the year, album of the year, highest-selling single of the year, best band and best […]

Rihanna was spotted leaving Café Med in Los Angeles on Sunday. The hot Barbados-born singer is rumored to performed her latest single, which features Ne-yo, ‘Hate That I Love You’ at the 2007 American Music Awards.
Other rumored performers include Chris Brown, Mariah Carey, Daughtry, Celine Dion, Duran Duran, Fergie, Will.I.Am, Nicole Scherzinger, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia […]

BET’s Hip Hop Awards went down in Atlanta over the weekend and Kanye West won ‘Best Hip Hop Video’. Now, for the guy who’s been whining about not getting any awards from MTV, why would he even think of trying to give his BET award away?!
Kanye suddenly gets a piece of humble pie because […]

The nominees for the 2007 American Music Awards have been announced at The Beverly Hills Hotel on Tuesday. On hand for the announcement were Ashanti and pop rock group, Jonas Brothers.
Jimmy Kimmel will be hosting the 35th anniversary of the popular awards show. It will be his fourth time doing so. But coming at us […]

Love him or hate him he is still rocking the world. MTV just announced its MTV Europe Music Awards nominations and Justin Timberlake is on top. The funny thing is he ruled last years awards and chances are he is going to rule this years’ as well. I think this guy is a great performer […]

Several days have passed since the 2007 MTV VMAs but Kanye West is still bitter. And he’s not letting anyone leave without them knowing about it. Not even Justin Timberlake fans.
Kanye made a surprise appearance at the Emmy’s right before heading over to Justin’s show at the Staples Center in LA. He was even wearing […]

Britney Spears VMA 2007 “Gimme More”
I couldn’t stop laughing, She was like out the space!

Justin Timberlake fans in Sacramento and San Jose will have to wait a bit longer to get “Lovestoned.”Justin’s “FutureSex/LoveShow” concerts scheduled for last night and tomorrow in the California cities have been postponed, due to vocal strain suffered by the “SexyBack” singer.
A rep for Timberlake issued a statement to Access Hollywood assuring fans that the […]

Dance punk group the Klaxons beat out British pop powerhouse Arctic Monkeys and troubled diva Amy Winehouse to win Britain’s Mercury Prize on Tuesday for their debut album, “Myths of the Near Future.”
The Klaxons were awarded the prestigious $40,000 Nationwide Mercury Prize by a panel of judges who called their sound an “ecstatic musical adventure.”
Band […]

MTV may have lost Lily Allen’s performance due to her visa issues but that wouldn’t stop the fun from spreading. MTV has announced a whole new slew of additional performer’s for this year’s Video Music Awards which would air on September 9.
Added to the existing line up of Timbaland, Kanye West, Fall Out Boy, Chris […]

Rap superstar T.I. isn’t one to take things sitting down. He doesn’t take crap, most especially when he’s on stage. Sounds just like Akon, eh?
According to TMZ, a fan launched a cup at the rapper during his performance at an ESPY awards pre-party at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on Tuesday night. T.I. got pissed so […]

Despite reports that no one could get in touch with her and that she’s been missing, Foxy Brown was just right under our noses.
Foxy was photographed performing at the Urban Music Awards in Manhattan a day before reports came out that she was missing. Doi.
She was also supposed to be the co-host for the event […]

Griffin is nominated for album of the year for “Children Running Through,” song of the year for “Heavenly Day” and artist of the year. Nominations were announced Tuesday. Ex-Nashvillian Lucinda Williams, Texan Patty Griffin and North Carolina-based rustic pop trio the Avett Brothers lead the nominees for the sixth annual Americana Honors and Awards. Williams, […]

Amy Winehouse is having a second wedding to please her mom.
The singer, who secretly married Blake Fielder-Civil in Miami last week, has revealed she is planning another ceremony in London for all her family.
Speaking at Ivor Novello Awards (05.24.07), Amy said: “My dad was alright about it really - it was more my mom that […]

Kanye West says he’s not taking any chances when it comes to the title of his next headlining adventure.
“My new tour is called the Glow in the Dark Tour — and I wanted to say it on MTV so no one would be able to take it, and it’s documented I said it”, West said. […]

Rapper Eve was charged with drunk driving on Friday in connection with an incident where she crashed into the center divider. The accident happened on April 26th, and the only casualty was her gold Maserati. No wonder she was arrested, that’s murder! She was arrested on scene and later released on bail to the tune […]