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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 »

In the years since August 1, 1981, when MTV first went on air by broadcasting a song presciently called “Video Killed the Radio Star,” the cable channel has helped to turn musicians as different as Duran Duran, Guns ‘N’ Roses, Tupac Shakur, Marilyn Manson, and Britney Spears into cultural touchstones. MTV helped to mainstream rap music and to pioneer the trend toward reality television with shows like The Real World. And the channel has been at the center of any number of pop culture brouhahas, whether involving cartoon bad boys Beavis and Butt-head, sexually provocative and spiritually outrageous videos by… Read more »

Rumors of teen-pop’s death have been greatly exaggerated, as genre standard-bearers ‘N Sync showed convincingly by posting the second-best debut-week sales numbers in history. Nearly 1.9 million copies of the superstar quintet’s Jive release “Celebrity” flew from retail shelves in the week ended Sunday, according to data compiled by SoundScan. That’s about a half-million short of the group’s record-breaking sales week with its prior LP “No Strings Attached,” which bowed in March 2000 and has sold 10.6 million copies nationwide to date. It’s more than enough, however, to top 2001’s second biggest bow, the Dave Matthews Band’s “Everyday” (RCA). The… Read more »

French techno dance act Daft Punk have been tooned by the Cartoon Network. This week, the cable channel merged the music of Daft Punk with a serialized story created by famed Japanese animator Leiji Matsumoto. The featured videos, “One More Time,” “Aerodynamic,” and “Digital Love,” make up the first three chapters of a story. The fourth video, “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger,” will exclusively premiere on Cartoon Network during a special music-video edition of Toonami Midnight Run – scheduled to air August 31. Daft Punk has been on the cutting edge of dance music since 1995. Their Homework release achieved sales… Read more »

Children’s television network Nickelodeon is partnering with Jive Records – home of teen pop sensations ‘N Sync, Backstreet Boys, and Britney Spears – to create Nick Records. “Music plays a vibrant part in the lives of our audience,” said Albie Hecht, president of Nickelodeon’s film and entertainment departments. “We are excited to launch a record label that will once again put Nickelodeon in the leadership position in entertainment for kids and tweens.” Cross-promotion will be a key theme for Nick Records; one of its artists, Nick Cannon, will star in his own series for the Nickelodeon network this fall, and… Read more »

MTV is planning a second round of episodes of its new documentary show “Becoming,” in which fans “become” their favorite musicians. The cable channel picks people up in a limousine, gives them makeovers, teaches them choreography and lets them recreate their favorite videos. Cameras capture the transformation along the way, then MTV shows the finished product. Players are chosen from casting calls, fan Web sites, karaoke bars and college campuses. In the first series of episodes, which started airing last month on Tuesday nights, fans became Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, Jennifer Lopez and Blink-182, among others. New episodes will… Read more »

If you’re sick of yourself, MTV can help you become one of your favorite music stars – at least for a little while. The cable music channel this week is launching a new show, “Becoming.” MTV will pick fans up in a limousine, give them makeovers, teach them choreography and let them recreate their favorite videos. Cameras will capture the transformation along the way, then show the finished product. The players were chosen from casting calls, fan Web sites, karaoke bars and college campuses. During the first week, fans will “become” Jennifer Lopez, Blink-182, Destiny’s Child and the Backstreet Boys.… Read more »

Singer A.J. McLean has launched the JNN Foundation, named for his alter ego “Johnny No-Name,” to focus on efforts to raise awareness, as well as funds, for the VH1 Save The Music Foundation and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. The superstar singer made the announcement Thursday at Hard Rock Live in his hometown of Orlando, FL, and kicked off the Foundation’s initial funding with a $1 million personal donation. The VH1 Save The Music Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of education in America’s public schools by restoring music programs in cities across America, and raising… Read more »

Madonna is the latest jewel in the crown that has become HBO’s original music programming. The cable company, which has aired successful concerts by ‘N Sync, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Marc Anthony and numerous others will broadcast Madonna Live: The Drowned World Tour on August 26th. The broadcast will be Madonna’s third collaboration with HBO, having previously worked together in 1993 for Madonna Live Down Under: The Girlie Show and in 1990 on Madonna Live! Blonde Ambition World Tour 90, which was filmed in France. The Drowned World Tour, behind the release of her 2000 release, Music,… Read more »

R.E.M guitarist Peter Buck was arrested Saturday (April 21) for allegedly assaulting two British Airways cabin crew members in the first class section of flight BA48 from Seattle to London, Scotland Yard spokesman Chris Cairns said. Buck was met by police at Heathrow Airport Saturday morning around 11 a.m. after the British Airways flight crew radioed ahead that a first class passenger had assaulted members of the cabin crew and upended a trolley. Buck, 44, was detained at the Heathrow police station Saturday, and was released on bail around 9:00 p.m. after being charged for common assault on the crew… Read more »