MTV 2012 Video Music Awards: Pop Diary
What: MTV 2012 Video Music Awards
When: This Thursday 8/7c US time, 1am UK time (*very* early Friday, 07 September)
Performances: One Direction, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, P!nk, Calvin Harris
Nominees: The Wanted, One, Direction, Justin Bieber, Chris Brown, Maroon 5, Drake, Carly Rae Jepsen, fun.
Award: Moonman
More: Official website
This event has been listed on our teen events calendar.
Rebecca Ferguson – new single details!
The last we heard of Rebecca Ferguson was a VERY public rant on Twitter where the Liverpudlian singer accused her management of overworking and taking advantage of her. The angry tweets showed a different side to the softly spoken star but it’s back to work for the former X Factor runner-up as she announces new single details.
‘Backtrack’, which appears on the US edition of Rebecca’s debut album Heaven, is her newie and will be released on iTunes on 15 October. The single will precede a re-release of the UK edition of Heaven (are you keeping up at the back?), which will include two brand new tracks and Miss Ferguson’s covers of the Drake/Rihanna duet ‘Take Care’ and Aqualung’s ‘Strange And Beautiful’.
Take a listen to the Motown-flavoured ‘Backtrack’ below and let us know what you think!
Rita Ora album signing tonight in London!
Guest X Factor judge (and Jay-Z’s latest signing) Rita Ora has been tipped by many music industry types as the UK Rihanna, and following her THREE number one singles (‘Hot Right Now’ with DJ Fresh, ‘RIP’ feat. Tinie Tempah and ‘How We Do (Party)’), Rita’s debut album Ora was released yesterday!
We gave you all the goss on the album MONTHS ago (we’re good like that), and after her first three singles each sold over 100,000 copies in their first weeks, Ora looks set to hit the top of the album charts on Sunday.
What’s more, the lovely Rita is doing an album signing in London tonight! Ms Ora will be meeting fans and signing CDs at HMV Whiteleys in Bayswater from 6pm. Wristbands to access the event are available instore from 9am today (first come, first served), so get yourself down there and tell Rita that Maximum Pop! sent you.
Who wants to style Rihanna? Styled to Rock – Pop Diary
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Pop Stars On TV alert. Follow an eager bunch of upcoming stylists over 10 weeks in their journey to the ultimate accolade – dressing pop superstar Rihanna for her Wireless performance. Fronted by a panel of mentors personally hand-picked by Rihanna herself, Styled to Rock, will feature Lysa Cooper, who has styled some of Rihanna’s most striking and talked about outfits; British designer Henry Holland and Girls Aloud’s ginger hero Nicola Roberts. In other words, it’s set to make for some very good TV. Hit below to watch the show’s trailer.
What: Styled to Rock
When: Tuesday 14th August, 9PM
Where: Sky Living HD, TV channel
MTV VMA nominations announced – 1D, Bieber, The Wanted & Rihanna!
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The nominations for the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards have been announced, and it looks like it’s going to be Rihanna’s year! The Bajan superstar is nominated for five moonman gongs.
While Justin Bieber has been pitted against mentor Usher for the Best Male award, The Wanted and One Direction will be fighting it out in the Best New Artist category – if either boyband win, it’ll top off a great year for British pop in America.
The awards take place on September 6 in LA and One Direction have already confirmed that they will be performing on the night!
Here’s a summary of nominations for the top awards:
Video of the Year
Drake feat. Rihanna – ‘Take Care’
Gotye – ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’
Katy Perry – ‘Wide Awake’
M.I.A. – ‘Bad Girls’
Rihanna – ‘We Found Love’
Best Pop Video
fun. feat. Janelle Monáe – ‘We Are Young’
Justin Bieber – ‘Boyfriend’
Maroon 5 feat. Wiz Khalifa – ‘Payphone’
One Direction – ‘What Makes You Beautiful’
Rihanna – ‘We Found Love’
Best New Artist
Carly Rae Jepsen – ‘Call Me Maybe’
Frank Ocean – ‘Swim Good’
fun. feat. Janelle Monáe – ‘We Are Young’
One Direction – ‘What Makes You Beautiful’
The Wanted – ‘Glad You Came’
Best Female Video
Beyoncé – ‘Love On Top’
Katy Perry – ‘Part Of Me’
Nicki Minaj – ‘Starships’
Rihanna – ‘We Found Love’
Selena Gomez & The Scene – ‘Love You Like A Love Song’
Best Male Video
Chris Brown – Turn Up The Music
Drake feat. Rihanna – ‘Take Care’
Frank Ocean – ‘Swim Good’
Justin Bieber – ‘Boyfriend’
Usher – ‘Climax’
Best Choreography
Avicii – ‘Levels’
Beyoncé – ‘Countdown’
Chris Brown – ‘Turn Up The Music’
Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull – ‘Dance Again’
Rihanna – ‘Where Have You Been’
Bit late for the Catwoman auditions Rita :(Pop Postbog: Rita Ora’s debut album – all the goss!
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MP!er Luke H contacted the all-new MP! Pop Post Bag to ask for details of the debut album from Rita Ora. He said “Hi can you tell me some details on Rita Ora’s album O.R.A”. Well hello Luke – after some hotel door banging, pop star stalking, and other things you’re too young to hear about – our investigation is complete. Here’s what we know in bullet points. Handy.
- UPDATED: Rita’s debut album is called ORA and will be released in the UK on 28 August, 2012.
- UPDATED: The album’s cover is featured at the bottom of this article.
- Ms Ora’s album will include the number one smashes ‘R.I.P’ and ‘Hot Right Now’ as well as brand new single ‘How We Do (Party)’ which we think is pretty awesome in a ‘TGIF-meets-Cover Drive’ sort of way.
- She’s nabbed herself a load of pretty cool producers from Ester Dean (who’s the genius behind most of Rihanna’s recent smashes) to global beat-twiddler Will.i.am, to rapper Drake, slick production duo Stargate and even hip-hop megastar Kanye West, so we’re expecting plenty of R&B-infused pop gems from the Roc Nation darling.
- Judging by her pretty ace performances at the recent Radio 1 Hackney Weekend we can probably expect to see songs such as ‘Facelift’, ‘Shine Ya Light’ and ‘Roc the Life’ on the album, although potential tracks such as ‘Been Lying’, ‘Unfair’ and ‘Love At War’ might not make the cut. Potential sadface/’Turn Myself In’ alert.
- If we had to guess the overall feel of the debut, we’d go with two parts Rihanna, one dash Cover Drive/Shontelle, and another dash of the excellent R&B-dance tunes Cheryl recently produced on her latest album. Therefore: amazing.
- She’ll probably keep the gorgeous blonde hair. Less an insider tip, more a hopeful request – as she looks ace with it and only Rihanna, Katy and Gaga can pull off the ‘changing hair really often’ thing.
- Here’s the album’s cover:
That’s all the info we have at the moment, dear readers, but don’t fear – we’ll keep you updated with the latest news about O.R.A. more often than Rihanna whips out an offensive if slightly LOL-worthy tee shirt.
Send us questions, stories, pictures and rants using the MP! Pop Post Bag!
Deadmau5 At Wireless Festival 2012
Sound the Amazing Dance Act Alarm as house music maestro Deadmau5 has been revealed to be headlining the always pretty-blooming-awesome Wireless Festival this year! Tickets for the Hyde Park festival are going fairly quickly, so if you fancy yourself listening to some classy and classic electro-house courtesy of the big-red-mouse-head-toting DJ himself, head over to the appropriate ticket-grabbing website and snap yourself up a seat to see Deadmau5 playing alongside such global favourites as RiRi (Rihanna for those who aren’t versed in the fan lingo) and Drake.
Are you excited by Deadmau5 at Wireless? Or are more stoked for RiRi?
Rihanna goes Middle Eastern for ‘Where Have You Been’ music video
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Rihanna has premiered the music video to her new single ‘Where Have You Been’, in which she dresses in full Middle Eastern gear and – you guessed it – dances provocatively. We can’t help but feel like the choreography was a bit over-hyped… for all the attention it got in the previous behind-the-scenes clips, it’s not actually as fast and exciting as we expected. But aside from that, we remain impressed that a popstar can release so many singles in such a short space of time and still show no sign of letting the quality slip.
Carly Rae Jepsen, Calvin Harris, The Voice… It’s a pretty boring week in the charts
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Carly Rae Jepsen is Number 1 for the fourth time this week, making ‘Call Me Maybe’ the 7th best-seller of 2012 so far and edging out the midweek leader from Calvin Harris. The producer’s latest tune ‘Let’s Go’, featuring Ne-Yo, settles for Number 2 and is the highest new entry in a relatively dull week for big arrivals. A few tracks from The Voice’s Battle Rounds make quiet comebacks a little further down – Stereophonics’ ’Dakota’ (Number 29), Kings of Leon’s ‘Use Somebody (Number 35) and Rihanna’s ‘We Found Love’ (Number 39) to name three – but other than that it looks like the big chart action is being saved for next week, when Tulisa and Cover Drive attempt to dethrone Carly from the summit. Tulisa’s taken the early lead on iTunes… can she do it?
Rihanna on The Jonathan Ross Show: Pop Diary
Jonathan Ross has scored one of his biggest guests so far for his ITV1 show this Saturday – Rihanna will be in the studio for a chat AND a performance. Tune in at 9:20pm on March 3rd. We’ve added this date to our Pop Diary. Hit like below if you’ll be watching.
