Michael Jackson To Appear At American Music Awards - U2 To Perform At GRAMMY Awards

NEW YORK (ABC.com) - After weeks of squabbling over who gets Michael Jackson to appear on their awards show, the powers that be at the American Music Awards have announced that the King of Pop will indeed join the ABC show.

Jackson has just been confirmed to accept his Artist of the Century Award and perform "Man in the Mirror" live at the 29th Annual American Music Awards on Wednesday (Jan. 9) at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

Jackson has been the center of a battle between Dick Clark's AMAs and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' GRAMMY Awards, which was sued by Clark last month for, among other things, preventing Jackson from performing on the AMAs. NARAS has a policy that allegedly prohibits artists from appearing on the AMA show, if they wish to appear on the GRAMMY telecast one month later.

Meanwhile, other artists have been added to the AMA lineup as well. Janet Jackson will appear on the show via satellite from her tour in Tokyo. Luther Vandross will perform George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" as part of a tribute to the former Beatle. And, joining the show as presenters are Savage Garden's Darren Hayes, Jagged Edge, Sugar Ray's Mark McGrath, Travis Tritt, and Lil' Bow Wow, along with Carrot Top, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Rob Lowe, Bill Maher, and Ashton Kutcher.

With a lion's share of eight nominations under its belt, U2 is confirmed to perform at the 44th annual GRAMMY Awards on Feb. 27 in L.A., and the band is contemplating yet another tour.

The band's manager, Paul McGuinness, told Reuters that they are considering a European tour for this summer - however, nothing is firmed up yet. The band's 2001 tour ranked No. 1 on both Pollstar and Amusement Business' year-end touring charts, raking in $109.7 million (allstar, Dec. 28, 2001).