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By popular demand, ‘N Sync, P.O.D., Sugar Ray, Christina Aguilera, Blink-182 and Willa Ford lead the lineup for MTV TRL Christmas, a super-pop holiday songbook. Ford’s new “Santa Baby (Gimme Gimme Gimme)” will be the first single/video from the album, scheduled for an October 30th release. LFO, Bif Naked, Angela Via and Saturday Night Live’s Jimmy Fallon also recorded new tracks – or at least new versions of classic Christmas tunes – for the collection. Meanwhile, TRL standbys like TLC, Smash Mouth, ‘N Sync, Blink-182 and Aguilera, contributed previously released, though often hard-to-find, tracks. The Complete Track Listing For MTV… Read more »

XM Satellite Radio will broadcast “The Concert for New York City,” featuring dozens of the biggest names in entertainment, live at 7 pm Saturday on both its VH1 and “Special X” channels. “XM is proud to carry VH1 among its 100 channels of amazing radio, and proud to broadcast Saturday’s benefit concert for New York City,” said XM President and CEO Hugh Panero. XM will broadcast the five-hour concert live from 7 pm Eastern to midnight on both its VH1 (# 26) and Special X (# 30) channels. XM’s VH1 channel is dedicated to VH1’s programming while Special X is… Read more »

MTV has signed up thrushes Britney Spears and Jennifer Lopez to perform at the 18th annual Video Music Awards, scheduled for Sept. 6 in Gotham. Rapper Ja Rule and rock band Staind have also been brought on board, the cable channel revealed Wednesday, bringing this year’s VMA performers tally to eight. ‘N Sync, Missy Elliott, Alicia Keys and U2 were previously announced as part of the entertainment lineup. Spears, who made waves during last year’s kudocast with her bare-it-all rendition of “Oops!… I Did It Again,” will, for the first time, perform “I’m a Slave 4 U,” the first single… Read more »

Stars figured they could say and do just about anything at the 2001 MTV Movie Awards on Saturday night. “And I’m gonna,” presenter Halle Berry predicted two hours before she took the stage with her Swordfish co-stars, John Travolta and Hugh Jackman. Playing off the rumor (which she later denied) that she received an extra $500,000 to show her breasts in her upcoming action movie, Berry encouraged the two men to show a body part. Then she patted their buns as they playfully unbuttoned their jackets in striptease fashion. It was all part of the fun that took place at… Read more »

The MTV Movie Awards are raunchy and irreverent, and while they have a reputation for being outrageous, they’re also quite canned. When Tom Cruise’s publicist was spotted nervously pacing outside the Shrine Auditorium, gossip fans knew the 2001 Movie Awards would be rich with fodder. It was more than an hour into the show, and the star still hadn’t appeared.   When Cruise finally showed up in a chauffeur-driven SUV, he was dateless and slumped in the passenger seat, looking glum and listless. When he got out, his publicist Pat Kingsley gave him a long, affectionate hug. “How are you,… Read more »

Only at the irreverent MTV Movie Awards could “Dude, Where’s My Car” get a nomination. For his role in the critically maligned goofball-comedy, Ashton Kutcher, a regular on “That ’70s Show,” received a nod Tuesday for best male breakthrough performance. Other nominees in the category included Jack Black in “High Fidelity,” Patrick Fugit for “Almost Famous” and Hugh Jackman for “X-Men.” After claiming an Oscar for best picture, “Gladiator” had five nominations, including nods for best movie and best male performer for star Russell Crowe, who won an Oscar for the role. The island drama “Cast Away” and the teen-romance… Read more »

Ticket sales are down, and big tours are scaling back to smaller venues. It looks to be a long, hot summer for the touring industry. On the cusp of the industry’s peak period, a number of high-profile tours and festivals have already hit snags, among them highly touted outings from Mariah Carey, the Field Day Music Festival, Lollapalooza, and Beck and Dashboard Confessional. Faced with a crowded tour market combined with high ticket prices, permit hassles, a sluggish economy and poor buzz, these tours and a handful of others have either had to scale back the size of the venues… Read more »