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Perry is up for 9 VMAs Katy Perry's "Firework" had enough sparks to help her claim a leading nine MTV Video Music Award nominations, including video of the year. Perry — who hosted the network's Wednesday night special announcing the nominations — was also nominated for best female video for "Firework," and best pop video for "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.). " Adele tied Kanye West with seven nominations. The bestselling Brit will compete with Perry for top video with "Rolling in the Deep.

MTV's Video Music Awards is packing up from Los Angeles and headed to the East Coast. The always irreverant video fete is returning to New York City for the first time since 2009 for the ceremony that turns 30 this year (yes, you are as old as you think you are), the network announced Monday.   Brooklyn's Barclays Center will host the spectacle, which airs live Aug. 25. PHOTOS: Iconic rock guitars and their owners “From a vibrant musical scene for up and coming artists to epic concerts by today's biggest stars and the triumphant return of pro sports to the borough after nearly 60 years, Brooklyn has re-emerged as a cultural capitol where music, sports and entertainment history is made every day,” Stephen Friedman, president of MTV, said in a statement.  MTV teased the new location with a batch of cute photos of the show's Moonman statue traveling from L.A. to New York.

Who IS the biggest star at MTV's Video Music Awards? Before and after Sunday's show, it's the resurgent Hollywood night-life scene. After stops in New York, Miami and a critically maligned program last year inside the Palms casino in Las Vegas, the VMAs are back in Los Angeles for the first time since 1998, and some nightclubs are poised to capitalize. MTV Networks has effectively dropped a second mini-Grammy weekend in the middle of Hollywood, potentially filling up a number of nightclubs with star-studded parties in the same way the Grammy Awards liven up the scene downtown and beyond.

Winning a Video Music Award may not carry the same cachet as a Grammy, but for 28 years MTV's signature event has proved to be a reliable source of buzz-worthy pop culture moments - a meat dress here, a lesbian kiss there. People don't tune in for the ridiculously uncontested awards celebrating music videos they can't even watch on the network. Viewers want drama and the show usually serves up a heaping portion of tension, whether on stage or in the audience. This is the place where Britney Spears has equally sparkled and crumbled, Courtney Love upstaged Madonna and Kanye West stole Taylor Swift's thunder.

It was the comeback that turned into a train wreck. Millions of viewers tuned in to MTV's Video Music Awards last year to see Britney Spears' highly anticipated return to the stage after a period of painful turmoil and near career collapse, only to see the singer flounder during her ceremony kickoff performance. The awards show itself received similarly disparaging reviews, with critics deriding everything from its Las Vegas locale to its Web-centric aesthetic. This time around, as the network stages the 25th ceremony set to unfold Sunday at the Paramount Pictures lot in Los Angeles, executives are hoping the show itself will be able to stage that big comeback.

It was "The Jay Leno Show's" big prime-time debut, but Kanye West unquestionably stole some of the spotlight from the host to announce he'll be taking time off to reflect on his actions after his controversial outburst over the weekend at the MTV Video Music Awards. One day after the famously outspoken artist interrupted an acceptance speech from 19-year-old country star Taylor Swift at the award show, suggesting that her prize for best female video should have gone to Beyoncé, a contrite West appeared on Leno's new NBC show to deliver an apology.

OK, we can admit it, we've picked up a strange obsession with the whirlwind romance of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian. Maybe it's the matching outfits, the songs, the constant paparazzi shots of their jetsetting, or maybe it's just the anticipation of an over-the-top wedding (televised in a two-part series on E!, of course), divorce and resulting breakup album full of epic beats and pining lyrics courtesy of Ye -- too soon? The cute pair got even cuter -- and matchy-matchy, of course -- in a promo for the upcoming Video Music Awards.

VMAs set MTV marks Bigger than "Jersey Shore" — that's how big Sunday's record-breaking Video Music Awards on MTV were. The 2011 VMAs — featuring performances by Beyoncé, Bruno Mars and Lil Wayne, not to mention a strange cross-dressing act kept up all night from Lady Gaga — delivered 12.4 million viewers, making them MTV's most-watched telecast ever, according to the Nielsen Co. The audience was up 9% compared with last year's VMAs....

Winning a Video Music Award may not carry the same cachet as a Grammy, but for 28 years MTV's signature event has proved to be a reliable source of buzz-worthy pop culture moments - a meat dress here, a lesbian kiss there. People don't tune in for the ridiculously uncontested awards celebrating music videos they can't even watch on the network. Viewers want drama and the show usually serves up a heaping portion of tension, whether on stage or in the audience. This is the place where Britney Spears has equally sparkled and crumbled, Courtney Love upstaged Madonna and Kanye West stole Taylor Swift's thunder.

RUSSELL BRAND is a bad, bad boy. Thank the punk rock saints for that! As the English comic and sole male inheritor of Amy Winehouse's hairstyle laid waste to good taste as the host of this year's MTV Video Music Awards, somewhere in heaven's dark alley Joey Ramone and Sid Vicious shared a laugh. Since the program aired Sunday, Brand has been pilloried by some pundits and applauded by others for his banter, which was far more politically minded -- and friskily filthy -- than that of any awards show host in recent memory.

The MTV Video Music Awards red carpet kicked off Thursday with some help from a lingering summer temperature -- and heat from superstar acts contending for a moon man trophy. Heavily featured in network promos, boy band One Direction overwhelmed the crowd of screaming girls (that moment you realize the metal barricades are holding back ladies with homework due tomorrow). The boys responded the only way they knew how: diving into a sea of cardboard signs to sign autographs and pose for photos.

For the last 28 years, MTV's Video Music Awards have provided a wealth of zeitgeist pop culture moments and delicious train wrecks. Sure, they dole out cute trophies in the shape of astronauts, but people don't tune in for the ridiculously uncontentious races celebrating the music videos they likely watched on YouTube or Vevo. Viewers want drama and the show serves up a heaping helping of tension, whether onstage or in the audience.   The VMA stage is where Britney Spears has equally sparkled and crumbled, Courtney Love upstaged Madonna and Kanye West ruined Taylor Swift's moment (West and Swift returned, seperately, to address their feelings through song)

OK, we can admit it, we've picked up a strange obsession with the whirlwind romance of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian. Maybe it's the matching outfits, the songs, the constant paparazzi shots of their jetsetting, or maybe it's just the anticipation of an over-the-top wedding (televised in a two-part series on E!, of course), divorce and resulting breakup album full of epic beats and pining lyrics courtesy of Ye -- too soon? The cute pair got even cuter -- and matchy-matchy, of course -- in a promo for the upcoming Video Music Awards.

VMAs set MTV marks Bigger than "Jersey Shore" — that's how big Sunday's record-breaking Video Music Awards on MTV were. The 2011 VMAs — featuring performances by Beyoncé, Bruno Mars and Lil Wayne, not to mention a strange cross-dressing act kept up all night from Lady Gaga — delivered 12.4 million viewers, making them MTV's most-watched telecast ever, according to the Nielsen Co. The audience was up 9% compared with last year's VMAs....

Fans of the bestselling book series will get their first glimpse of "The Hunger Games" film on Sunday during MTV's Video Music Awards. MTV announced it will air a clip from the movie, which stars Oscar-nominated actress Jennifer Lawrence of "X-Men: First Class" and "Winter's Bone" fame and is scheduled for release March 23, 2012. MTV usually reserves this kind of sneak peek for its annual Movie Awards — that was where in June, for instance, stars were on hand and preview clips were shown for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2" and "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1. " "The Hunger Games" series follows the grim competition between children and young adults who are forced to fight to the death for the entertainment of television viewers and their cruel government masters in a post-apocalyptic nation called Panem.

Perry is up for 9 VMAs Katy Perry's "Firework" had enough sparks to help her claim a leading nine MTV Video Music Award nominations, including video of the year. Perry — who hosted the network's Wednesday night special announcing the nominations — was also nominated for best female video for "Firework," and best pop video for "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.). " Adele tied Kanye West with seven nominations. The bestselling Brit will compete with Perry for top video with "Rolling in the Deep.

MTV's Video Music Awards is packing up from Los Angeles and headed to the East Coast. The always irreverant video fete is returning to New York City for the first time since 2009 for the ceremony that turns 30 this year (yes, you are as old as you think you are), the network announced Monday.   Brooklyn's Barclays Center will host the spectacle, which airs live Aug. 25. PHOTOS: Iconic rock guitars and their owners “From a vibrant musical scene for up and coming artists to epic concerts by today's biggest stars and the triumphant return of pro sports to the borough after nearly 60 years, Brooklyn has re-emerged as a cultural capitol where music, sports and entertainment history is made every day,” Stephen Friedman, president of MTV, said in a statement.  MTV teased the new location with a batch of cute photos of the show's Moonman statue traveling from L.A. to New York.

Fans of the bestselling book series will get their first glimpse of "The Hunger Games" film on Sunday during MTV's Video Music Awards. MTV announced it will air a clip from the movie, which stars Oscar-nominated actress Jennifer Lawrence of "X-Men: First Class" and "Winter's Bone" fame and is scheduled for release March 23, 2012. MTV usually reserves this kind of sneak peek for its annual Movie Awards — that was where in June, for instance, stars were on hand and preview clips were shown for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2" and "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1. " "The Hunger Games" series follows the grim competition between children and young adults who are forced to fight to the death for the entertainment of television viewers and their cruel government masters in a post-apocalyptic nation called Panem.

It was "The Jay Leno Show's" big prime-time debut, but Kanye West unquestionably stole some of the spotlight from the host to announce he'll be taking time off to reflect on his actions after his controversial outburst over the weekend at the MTV Video Music Awards. One day after the famously outspoken artist interrupted an acceptance speech from 19-year-old country star Taylor Swift at the award show, suggesting that her prize for best female video should have gone to Beyoncé, a contrite West appeared on Leno's new NBC show to deliver an apology.

RUSSELL BRAND is a bad, bad boy. Thank the punk rock saints for that! As the English comic and sole male inheritor of Amy Winehouse's hairstyle laid waste to good taste as the host of this year's MTV Video Music Awards, somewhere in heaven's dark alley Joey Ramone and Sid Vicious shared a laugh. Since the program aired Sunday, Brand has been pilloried by some pundits and applauded by others for his banter, which was far more politically minded -- and friskily filthy -- than that of any awards show host in recent memory.