Mariah Carey to headline MTV celebration

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Mariah Carey is confirmed to headline MTV's 20th anniversary concert, dubbed "MTV 20: Live and Almost Legal," which will air live Aug. 1 on the network from New York's Hammerstein Ballroom. Other acts on the star-studded bill include Jane's Addiction, TLC, Busta Rhymes, Mary J. Blige, Method Man, Run-DMC, Billy Idol and the Neptunes. The event will be hosted by MTV's Carson Daly, and will feature appearances by the network's five original VJs - Martha Quinn, Mark Goodman, Nina Blackwood, Alan Hunter and JJ Jackson. Leading up to the special, MTV will air "Buggles to Bizkit," a 12-hour block of videos and other programming culled from its first years. "The videos that will air helped change the way we look at music," MTV president of programming Brian Graden said. "This is the definitive list of the most important and influential music videos from the first 20 years of the medium."