Music News
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Miley Cyrus Raps! Backstage At 'A Miley-Sized Surprise,' By Tim Kash Miley sings, dances and even raps in between breaks for show.
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MTV News Staff Picks Of 2008: Rihanna, Girl Talk, 'Slumdog Millionaire,' Lil Wayne, 'Iron Man' And More We list our favorite movies, pop stars, horror flicks, albums, underground punk acts and more in the Newsroom.
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Taylor Swift Makes It Three In A Row Atop Billboard Albums Chart Kanye West, T.I., Katy Perry and other big names see holiday sales boosts.
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William Balfour Indicted By Grand Jury For Hudson Family Murders Defense attorney says Jennifer Hudson's estranged brother-in-law has been charged because he 'was the convenient person to go to.'
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Kanye West, Young Jeezy And More Go-To Guest Artists Of 2008 (Who Aren't Lil Wayne Or T-Pain) Ludacris, Ne-Yo and Jay-Z also improved songs with their notable cameos.
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DMX Pleads Guilty To Multiple Charges In Arizona The rapper pleads guilty to various charges dating back to April of this year.
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Jay-Z Raps On DJ Khaled's 'Go Hard' Remix -- Check Out A Clip Here! Rap was a holiday present for Khaled: 'I got the verse on Christmas Eve!'
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E-40 Comments On Denver Club Shooting 'E-40 and [his] camp are unable to control the poor and tragic choices that other adults choose to make,' rapper's manager says.
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T.I.'s 'Swagger Like Us' Collabo And More Top Underground Songs Of 2008 Big Boi, Shawty Lo and Joe Budden also make the list.
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'American Idol': The Best Of 2008, By Jim Cantiello On the eve of the new season, we take a look back at our favorite 'American Idol' videos of 2008.
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Zooey Deschanel Engaged To Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard Many gossip sites incorrectly reported that the singer/actress was engaged to AFI bassist Hunter Burgan.
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T.I., Ludacris, Young Jeezy Warm Up Chilly New York At 'Holiday Bash '08' Locals Jim Jones and Ludacris also perform at Hot 97-sponsored show.
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Five Wounded In Shootout Outside E-40 Show In Denver One victim in critical condition as police search for suspects.
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Ashlee Simpson, Pete Wentz, Clay Aiken, Jamie Lynn Spears And Other Surprising New Parents Of 2008 Hollywood baby booms are nothing new, but we didn't expect some of these celebs to become moms and dads.
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Paramore's Hayley Williams On Next LP: 'I've Got A Lot That I Want To Get Out' 'We're trying to figure out how far we can go with it but still keep it Paramore,' bassist Jeremy Davis says.
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My Chemical Romance Get To Work On Non-Concept Album, Sort Of 'We've made concepts for three albums now, so I think this one ... I want to go into it not thinking about a definite story,' frontman Gerard Way says.
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Taylor Swift Stays On Top Of Billboard Albums Chart; Fall Out Boy Squeak Into Top 10 Underwhelming debut for FOB's Folie a Deux and Soulja Boy Tell'em's latest.
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DJ AM Sues Over Plane Crash DJ joins Travis Barker in filing suit against multiple defendants.
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'The Hills' Season Five: Who Will Be Back In Lauren's World When The Show Continues? 'I know that we're not done,' LC says at the season finale.
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Soulja Boy Tell'em Opens Up About Life On New Record, iSouljaBoyTellem 'That's the deepest I ever got on a song, period,' he says of album track, 'I Pray.'
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DJ Drama's New Single -- Featuring T.I., Akon and Snoop -- Hits The 'Net "Day Dreamin' " is the lead track from forthcoming Gangsta Grillz 2: The Album (The Mixtape President).
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Jennifer Hudson To Perform At Grammy Concert In February The singer is slated to perform for the first time since the tragic murders of her mother, brother and nephew in October.
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Lauren Conrad And Heidi Montag Make Up On 'The Hills' Finale 'It's been a long time and I think we've both grown a lot,' Heidi says of healing the rift.
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Murderer Of T.I.'s Friend Philant Johnson Gets 66 Years To Life For Shootout Judge calls Hosea Thomas 'the poster boy for gun violence in Cincinnati.'
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'Hills' Co-Star Brody Jenner Says He And Lauren Conrad Are Friends With Benefits 'We had a friendmance,' the star of the upcoming spin-off 'Bromance' says of relationship with his ex.
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Spencer Pratt Denies Heidi Montag Quickie Wedding On 'Hills' Finale, But He Still Wants Kids ASAP On the finale red carpet, Stephanie, Holly, Audrina, LC and others are shocked to hear of the couple's plans to start a family.
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Rookies And Breakouts Of 2008 -- From Taylor Swift To Robert Pattinson -- Proved Pop Culture Belongs To Teens Again These young stars ruled 2008 and don't plan on slowing down in the year to come.
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Taylor Swift Vs. Joe Jonas, Kanye West Vs. Photogs And Other Great Feuds Of 2008 Other favorite battles: Selena and Demi against Miley and Mandy, Aubrey O'Day against Diddy and more.
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Diddy Talks About 'CSI: Miami' Role: 'Nobody's Sure If I'm A Good Guy Or A Bad Guy' Bad Boy honcho says he told CBS he wanted a role on the show, and '25 hours later' he got a call.
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Spencer Pratt Says He And Heidi Montag 'Need A Kid ASAP' 'The Hills' stars talked baby plans on Ryan Seacrest's radio show Monday morning.
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MTV News Editors' Choice: Best News Segments Of 2008 Britney? RPattz? Charlize? Find out what our favorite news segments of the year really are.
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Our Top Stories Of 2008: Britney Spears, Heath Ledger, Chris Brown And More Pieces on Lil Wayne, Mariah and Nick, the VMAs and more were also among the most-viewed videos of the year.
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50 Cent And G-Unit Are Mixtape Act Of The Year In 2008's Mixtape Monday Awards Other honors go to T.I., Nas, Kanye West, DJ Drama, Green Lantern, Whoo Kid and more.
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David Archuleta, John Mayer, Vampire Weekend And More Give Us Their Favorite Albums And Songs Of 2008 Members of Death Cab For Cutie and Cobra Starship also participate in round two of our artists' year-end wrap-up.
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Miley Cyrus Will Help 'FNMTV' Ring Out 2008 -- From A Fan's Bedroom! 'FNMTV Presents: A Miley-Sized Surprise' will air live on December 31.
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Best Albums Of 2008: An Answer To Your Call For More Britney Spears Our brave columnist responds to the haters ... and to a few friendly comments as well.
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Jermaine Dupri Denies That Janet Jackson Is Pregnant Producer also refutes that he and Janet have split up.
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U2 To Release New Album, No Line On The Horizon, In March After postponing release to record more tracks, group is set to drop 12th studio album.
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Lil Wayne's Response To Being MTV News' 2008 Man Of The Year: 'Happy Holidays!' 'I truly do this for you!' a grateful Weezy tells his fans.
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Lil Wayne's Fans And Detractors Debate His Man Of The Year Status Is he the 'greatest rapper alive' or overrated? You guys weighed in.
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British Rockers Noisettes Want To Bring Afro-Punk Movement To The U.K. Band talks about their upcoming album, Wild Young Hearts, and their favorite artists of 2008.
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Diddy, Katy Perry, Hayley Williams And Others Name Their Picks For Man And Woman Of 2008 Barack Obama, Britney Spears and Grace Jones are among the artists' faves of the year.
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Jamie Foxx Celebrates His Intuition After Kicking Off Week With Terrence Howard Dis At Vibe party, the singer/actor sang along with his new album instead of taking part in his usual wild antics.
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T.I., Jonas Brothers, Katy Perry Share Their Favorite Albums And Songs Of 2008 Paramore, Ne-Yo, Fall Out Boy and other artists also weigh in.
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MTV News' Man Of The Year: Lil Wayne No one was as successful, controversial, hilarious and, well, bizarre as Weezy was in 2008.
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MTV News' Woman Of The Year: Twilighters! Your undying support for Edward and Bella left the movie's stars (and us!) awestruck.
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Simon Cowell Wants Britney Spears On 'American Idol' Judge says he'd welcome Brit as a performer or mentor.
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Simon Cowell Has 'No Idea' If Four-Judge 'American Idol' Panel Will Work He says this year's contestants have more personality and calls new judge Kara DioGuardi 'well-qualified.'
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Akon Pleads Guilty To Tossing Fan Off Stage In 2007 Singer is fined $350 and sentenced to 65 hours of community service.
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Are Katy Perry And Travis McCoy Officially Engaged? Katy Weighs In ... New York Daily News reported on Tuesday that the couple made it official in Paris
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Aubrey O'Day Addresses Gay Rumors, Says She Has No Sexual Preference The ex-Danity Kane singer says she wants passion and honest love, regardless of gender.
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Madonna Calls Report Of $76 Million Divorce Settlement 'Misleading And Inaccurate' Singer and ex-husband Guy Ritchie release a statement recanting spokesperson Liz Rosenberg's previous report.
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Taylor Swift Retakes Top Billboard Spot As Britney Spears Slips To #2 New albums by Common and Brandy fail to break the top 10.
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Britney Spears, Tokio Hotel Fans Get Vocal About Our Men And Women Of The Year Lists 'RPattz shoulda been NUMERO UNO,' one commenter says of 'Twilight' star Robert Pattinson.
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T-Pain? Rihanna? Who Had The Hottest R&B; Single Of '08?: Mixtape Monday Bonus Ne-Yo, Usher, Beyoncé and Lloyd also make our year-end list.
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From Miley Cyrus To Kristen Stewart: The Teen Queens Who Ruled 2008 Taylor, Vanessa, Demi and their peers dominated the charts, airwaves and box office this year.
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The Best Albums Of 2008, In Bigger Than The Sound Major-label blockbusters, quiet indie fare, hip-hop, electro and some LPs that are all of the above.
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Lil Wayne Responds To 'A Milli' Being Our Hip-Hop Single Of The Year: 'Man, That's Big!' 'We're gonna come harder and stronger in '09!,' Weezy promises.
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Why Is 'American Idol' Taking A Year Off From 'Idol Gives Back'? Executive producer Ken Warwick also explains the addition of fourth judge Kara DioGuardi.
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Phish To Headline Bonnaroo Festival? RollingStone.com cites 'reliable sources close to Phish' as saying the group will play two nights at the annual festival.
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Pete Wentz Dishes On His Sex Life With Ashlee Simpson On 'Howard Stern Show' Before the show, Simpson asked the Fall Out Boy bassist to not 'say anything crummy' about her.
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Usher Holds Contest For Teens To Direct His Next Video Singer hopes contest, sponsored by Body by Milk, will 'inspire young people and reinvent music videos.'
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The Jonas Brothers' 2008 Romance Report Card: Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Camilla Belle ... The love lives of Joe, Nick and Kevin have made a lot of headlines this year.
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Heidi May Have Had A 'Patron Push' In Decision To Wed Spencer, 'Hills' Co-Star Says Lo says she wasn't surprised that the couple got married, but didn't expect them to elope.
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Dr. Dre Raps On Leaked Remix Of Kardinal Offishall's 'Set It Off' DJ Skee premieres the new track on his radio show Monday night.
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Britney Spears: A Look At How The Pop Star Took Back 2008 Now that Brit's riding a wave of success, it's hard to believe how she began this year.
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Kanye West? Robert Pattinson? MTV News' Men Of The Year Countdown Continues! These are the men who have dominated the 2008 headlines — and the winner will be revealed Thursday.
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Britney Spears? Miley Cyrus? MTV News' Women Of The Year Countdown Continues! These are the ladies who have dominated the 2008 headlines — and the winner will be revealed Thursday.
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No Doubt Drummer Says New LP Won't Be Ready This Year 'We're going to continue to work on music while we're traveling,' Adrian Young promises.
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Axl Rose Addresses Guns N' Roses Turmoil In An Open Letter To Fans Reclusive singer has mixed it up with fans online several times in recent days.
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'American Idol' Producer Says Paula Abdul's Job Is Safe Ken Warwick also addresses Abdul's comments that she warned producers about a potentially dangerous 'Idol' hopeful.
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Fall Out Boy Quarrel With Cops, Lead Impromptu Sing-Along In New York City Group did manage to do a singalong -- without instruments -- before giving up on free concert.
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'American Idol' Producer Insists Season-Eight Adjustments Aren't 'Panic Changes' Ken Warwick talks about the new super-size Hollywood week and the return of wild cards.
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Scarlett Johansson Says She'll Record Another Album, Still Has Leonard Cohen On The Brain Actress released Tom Waits cover LP in the spring.
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'Notorious' Soundtrack Preview: Biggie's Widow And Son Join Forces, Jadakiss Updates B.I.G. On The Past Decade Biopic's soundtrack also features hits and demo records from the late rapper.
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Madonna To Pay Guy Ritchie More Than $76 Million In Divorce Settlement Singer's rep said the payment was between $76 and $92 million.
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Sharon Osbourne Investigated For Battery After Alleged 'Rock Of Love: Charm School' Fight Show contestant Megan Hauserman says the host attacked her for insulting Ozzy.
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Jennifer Hudson Reportedly Scraps Plan To Shoot Video This Week Source tells UsMagazine.com that the singer is not ready to go back to work after October's tragic murders.
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Kanye West Plays Surprise Set At KROQ Show In Los Angeles 'Ye popped up during a Common show in New York on Thursday, sang on 'SNL' Saturday and flew to L.A. concert on Sunday.
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Lil Wayne's 'A Milli' And More Top Hip-Hop Songs Of 2008; 50 Cent Pledges Loyalty To Eminem: Mixtape Monday Plus: T.I. doesn't plan to make another 'Swing Ya Rag' video.
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T.I.? Nick Jonas? Who Is MTV News' Man Of The Year? The Countdown Begins Today! These are the men who have dominated the 2008 headlines — with more to come in the next few days.
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Britney? Beyonce? Who Is MTV News' Woman Of The Year? The Countdown Begins Today! These are the ladies who have dominated the 2008 headlines — with more to come in the next few days.
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Afro-Punk Scene, Inspired By Santogold, TV On The Radio And More, Explodes Into A Multi-Genre Movement Even Bad Boy artist Janelle Monae is affiliated with the movement.
