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  • Award Season Is Upon Us: The 2008 AMA Nominees

    No matter how they try, the American Music Awards will never be able to escape the shadow of being the Grammys’ bastard little brother. Which is why today’s announcement of the nominees was met with a resounding yawn. The show gets ignored for several other reasons too. The awards are voted on by a select poll of consumers, which means we get hit with travesties like Milli Vanilli’s sweep in 1990 and C&C Music Factory’s sweep two years later. There have also been long-standing rumors that AMA winners are tipped off before the show airs, meaning that the winners are a lot more sure to be in attendance.

    This year’s nominees are fairly predictable. Alicia Keys leads the pack with five, followed by The Eagles and Coldplay. Other multiple nominees are Mary J. Blige, Rihanna, Lil’ Wayne, Kanye West, Garth Brooks, Carrie Underwood, Usher, and several others. The only head-scratching category, oddly enough, is Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Group, where the nominees are G-Unit, Three six Mafia and Wu-Tang Clan. Jordin Sparks’s submission in the Adult Contemporary category is also a bit of a head scratcher. Something tells me the nominating committee struggled long and hard in order to come up with those names.

    The show will be hosted by the usually entertaining Jimmy Kimmel and will in all likelihood be live-blogged by yours truly. Expect the usual snark and wishes for a Michael Jackson sighting.

    The show airs on November 23rd, and in a new wrinkle, they’re allowing the public of the wide world of internets to vote on the winners. You can log on to vote here.

  • Chart Chat 9/7/08: Katy Perry, Jason Mraz, Ne-Yo & More!!

    Gettin’ tired of seeing the same names over and over? So am I. However, I still gotta give ya the charts every week, so here goes. As usual, these charts appear courtesy of the fine folks at Billboard Communications.

      Top 20 Albums

    1) “All Hope is Gone” Slipknot
    2) “L.A.X” The Game
    3) “Rock & Roll Jesus” Kid Rock
    4) “A Little Bit Longer” Jonas Brothers
    5) “Mamma Mia Soundtrack” Various Artists
    6) “Tha Carter III” Li’l Wayne
    7) “Now That’s What I Call Country!” Various Artists
    8) “Love on the Inside” Sugarland
    9) “Sol-Angel & the Hadley Street Dreams” Solange
    10) “Viva La Vida or Death & All His Friends” Coldplay
    11) “Breakout” Miley Cyrus
    12) “Good Girl Gone Bad” Rihanna
    13) “The Illusion of Progress” Staind
    14) “Raw Footage” Ice Cube
    15) “Palabras de Silencio” Luis Fonsi
    16) “Camp Rock Soundtrack” Various Artists
    17) “One World-Soundtrack” Cheetah Girls
    18) “Ultra Beatdown” Dragonforce
    19) “Spirit” Leona Lewis
    20) “One of the Boys” Katy Perry

      Top 20 Singles

    1) “Whatever You Like” T.I.
    2) “Disturbia” Rihanna
    3) “So What?” Pink
    4) “Forever” Chris Brown
    5) “Paper Planes” M.I.A.
    6) “Dangerous” Kardinal Offishall feat. Akon
    7) “Viva La Vida” Coldplay
    8) “Closer” Ne-Yo
    9) “I’m Yours” Jason Mraz
    10) “I Kissed a Girl” Katy Perry
    11) “When I Grow Up” The Pussycat Dolls
    12) “Put On” Young Jeezy feat. Kanye West
    13) “Can’t Believe It” T-Pain feat. Li’l Wayne
    14) “Take a Bow” Rihanna
    15) “Leavin’” Jesse McCartney
    16) “Got Money” Li’l Wayne feat. T-Pain
    17) “One Step at a Time” Jordin Sparks
    18) “Get Like Me” David Banner feat. Chris Brown
    19) “A Milli” Li’l Wayne
    20) “Hot N Cold” Katy Perry

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  • MHW News Update: Kanye Contradicts Himself (Again), Drama Atop the Billboard Charts, and Britney’s Mom Sells Her Kid Out

    Kanye West. Photo by Tyler Collins.
    Kanye West. Photo by Tyler Collins.

    Dear Kanye: Didn’t You Say???…

    Guess who’ll be closing this year’s MTV Video Music Awards? If you guessed Kanye West, you are absolutely correct. One year after West vowed never to perform on or for the video network again, he will happily eat his words and prance across the stage when the show airs on Sunday night. While I’m certainly not shocked by Kanye seemingly putting his foot in his mouth, and might watch the show specifically for his performance (and the rumors of Michael and Janet Jackson appearing together on the broadcast), you have to figure that one day ‘Ye will learn to keep his trap shut just a little bit, eh?? (MTV.com)

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