Lady Gaga confirmed for VMAs

The night just keeps getting bigger. Little Monsters can rejoice because Lady Gaga will be performing at the upcoming 2011 MTV Video Music Awards. Gaga will appear live on Thursday (Aug. 18) on MTV and LOGO during "MTV First: Lady Gaga," to make a special #VMA announcement and tease her new VMA promo on the special, which will air at 7:49pm ET

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Gaga joins a star-studded VMA roster that already includes Adele, Lil Wayne, Bruno Mars, Chris Brown and Young the Giant. The 2011 VMAs will air from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles live on Sunday, August 28, at 9 p.m. ET. MTV will announce additional performers and presenters in the coming days.

Gaga unexpectedly unleashed the mind-blowing six-minute "Yoü and I" video on Tuesday via Twitter. The video makes its television debut Thursday at 7:49 p.m. ET/PT on MTV and Logo during the "MTV First" special, which will be followed by a live Q&A with Gaga on MTV.com.

Fans can submit questions for Lady Gaga beginning Wednesday (August 17) through MTV.com and Twitter (using @MTVNews, hashtag #MTVGAGA). Lady Gaga's new VMA promo will premiere in its entirety Thursday night on MTV during "Jersey Shore" at 10pm ET/PT.

"Yoü and I" is the fourth single to be released from Lady Gaga's third studio album, Born This Way. In addition to performing, Lady Gaga is nominated for four Moonmen at the VMAs, including Best Female Video ("Born This Way"), Best Art Direction ("Judas"), Best Choreography ("Judas") and Best Video With a Message ("Born This Way").

The initial slate of VMA presenters includes Jonah Hill, Rick Ross, Selena Gomez, Seth Rogen, Kim Kardashian and Odd Future.

The 28th annual MTV Video Music Awards will air live on Sunday, August 28, from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles at 9 p.m. ET/PT. See the list of nominees, revisit last year's highlights and vote for your favorites in the general categories by visiting VMA.MTV.com.

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Smirnoff Contest Verifies Madonna Will Tour in 2012

Smirnoff will help Madonna pick a dancer for her next tour in a new promotion that will try to get 10 million people in 50 countries to swap their nightlife stories via social media.



The promotion, called the Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange Project, asks fans from around the world to share their nightlife experiences on the brand’s Facebook Page. The campaign, created by ad agency JWT, will include an event on November 12 in which 50 parties will happen simultaneously.

Madonna will be attending one of the parties where dancers will compete in front of her. The winner of that dance-off may be chosen as a dancer for Madonna’s next tour. Smirnoff will take submissions for that contest from August 17 through October 10. To enter, dancers have to submit a 60-second video of themselves. Details are available at Smirnoff.com.

Madonna has close to 6 million fans on Facebook, but aside from that, she’s kept a relatively low profile in social media. She’s not on Twitter yet and hasn’t released an album since 2008′s Hard Candy. Madonna’s manager, Guy Oseary, however, tweeted in June that Madonna was planning to start work on a new album.
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New Kelly Clarkson Album Titled 'Stronger,' Due Oct. 25th; Single 'Mr. Know It All' Debuts Sept. 5th

Kelly Clarkson’s brand new album, "Stronger," will be released October 25th. Kelly will be hosting a special live webcast August 30th on kellyclarkson.com to debut her new single, “Mr. Know It All.” The song will be available for download everywhere on Sept. 5th, but if you pre-order your copy of "Stronger" now on Kelly’s Official Store the track will be automatically sent to you as soon as it’s available.

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Winehouse tribute happening, more on Britney's tribute.

"Britney will be at the show and we'll be paying tribute to her," VMA executive producer Amy Doyle told Billboard.com, confirming speculation that has grown since a Spears promo for the show began airing.

"She was having an incredible year and she is so beloved by the MTV audience that we started to think what could we do that would be a different experience (from years past)," said Doyle, the executive vice president of Music and Talent for MTV. "Obviously everything from her choreography to her fashion to her videos will be (covered). We said 'let's challenge ourselves to do something unique'."

In addition to the Spears tribute, VMA producers are "talking about acknowledging" Winehouse, who died July 23 in London. "We had a great history with Amy," Doyle said, mentioning a performance she did for the network's "45th at Night" show in 2007. "She was very near and dear to us."

This year's VMAs will be broadcast from the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles on Aug. 28. The network hopes to announce a host in the near future and Doyle suggested that the show would continue the recent trend of bringing in newer talent as hosts. Chelsea Handler handled last year's telecast, Russell Brand the year before.

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New Kids announce 2012 cruise

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NKOTB will set sail on the glorious CARNIVAL DESTINY! We depart June 7, 2012 from the Port of Miami, bringing us to the new and exciting port of KEY WEST, FL, returning to our favorite beach paradise HALF MOON CAY, and returning home on June 11, 2012. NKOTB CRUISE 2012 promises to be all that you’ve come to love about NKOTB CRUISE with lots of new and improved goodies! We promise to deliver 4 fun-filled days (and longer nights!) for our fans that will include:

///NEW PORT: KEY WEST FLORIDA///
///Improved Photo Ops///
///ADDED Evening Theater Event with NKOTB///
///New & Additional Individual & Group Events///
///New Themes///
///More Face Time///
///PACKAGES STARTING AT $699///
Presale for Block Nation and past cruisers begins THURSDAY AUGUST 18 @ NOON EST — you will receive an e-mail with instructions how to book shortly. If you're not a member of Block Nation,sign up now!

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Katy Perry matches Michael Jackson record

Katy Perry becomes the first woman, and second artist overall following Michael Jackson, in the 53-year history of the Billboard Hot 100 to send five songs from an album to No. 1, as "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" becomes the fifth chart leader from her Capitol Records set "Teenage Dream."

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Ke$ha To Play The Devil On Alice Cooper's "Welcome 2 My Nightmare" Album

Kesha always positioned herself as devilish and she takes that whole pop music’s bratty little sister thing to the next level with her appearance on shock rock god Alice Cooper‘s new album, ‘Welcome 2 My Nightmare.’ Kesha and Coop have joined each other on stage multiple times in the past few years and Cooper told Ultimate Classic Rock that he thinks Kesha will make a directional shift to the left and lean more towards rock, as opposed to polished pop, on future recordings.

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