LONDON, UK (Top40 Charts) MTV today announced the nominees for the '2011 MTV EMA' with
Lady Gaga leading the pack with six nods, and
Katy Perry and
Bruno Mars following closely behind with four nominations. British songstress
Adele, who stands as the top-selling artist of the year, has been nominated for three awards, with
Justin Bieber and
Thirty Seconds To Mars also up for three. The 18th annual MTV EMA will broadcast live on
Sunday, 6th November at 9PM CET from Belfast's Odyssey
Arena on MTV channels around the world.
The '2011 MTV EMA' are sponsored by Dell, Replay, Hyundai and Swatch.
Two of the reigning queens of pop will go head to head at this year's EMA in four of the same categories, as
Lady Gaga and
Katy Perry compete for
Best Live, Best Pop and
Best Female, as well as
Best Song, with Perry nominated for
'Firework' and
Gaga for
'Born This Way'. Gaga is also nominated for
Best Video for '
Born This Way' and
Biggest Fans.
Multi-talented singer/songwriter
Bruno Mars is up for four awards, including
Best New, Best Male, Best Push and
Best Song for
'Grenade.' Adele has been nominated for
Best Female, as well as
Best Song and
Best Video for
'Rolling In The Deep', and
Justin Bieber will compete for
Best Pop, Best Male and
Biggest Fans. Thirty Seconds To Mars is up for
Best Alternative, Best World Stage and
Biggest Fans. As always, the MTV EMA - MTV's global celebration of the year's best in music - features nominees from across genres, recognizing today's hottest acts and global superstars.
Foo Fighters, Snoop Dogg, My Chemical Romance, Jennifer Lopez, LMFAO, Jessie J, Beyonce, Coldplay, Eminem, Arcade Fire, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Far East Movement, Kanye West, Linkin Park, Wiz Khalifa and
Kings of Leon are each up for two EMA nominations.
New to the '2011 MTV EMA' is the
Biggest Fans award, which will go to the most passionate fan base for a particular artist. Beginning Monday, 19th September, viewers can vote for their favourite EMA artists by visiting www.mtvema.com. The more fans engage with the EMA content featured on the site, the more their participation and points can boost the chances for their favourite artist to win.
Also new this year is the
World Wide Act category, which celebrates diversity and the breadth of all the music that MTV has to offer by nominating incredible artists from all corners of the world. Fans will be able to vote for an artist/group from their respective territory in
Europe starting Monday,
September 19th, and then those local winners will vie for the European title the week of 17th October. The representative for
Europe will be announced the week of 24th October along with the regional nominees from Latin America, North America, Asia Pacific and Africa/India/Middle East, and those five regional nominees will then battle for the 'World Wide Act' distinction. The winner will be named at the show in Belfast.
Here is the list of nominees for the '2011 MTV EMA':
BEST SONG Adele - 'Rolling In The Deep'
Bruno Mars - 'Grenade'
Jennifer Lopez ft
Pitbull - 'On The Floor'
Katy Perry - 'Firework'
Lady Gaga - 'Born This Way'
BEST LIVE Coldplay
Foo Fighters
Katy Perry
Lady Gaga
Red Hot
Chili Peppers
BEST POP Britney Spears
Justin Bieber
Katy Perry
Lady Gaga
Rihanna
BEST NEW Bruno Mars
Far East Movement
Jessie J
LMFAO
Wiz Khalifa
BEST FEMALE Adele
Beyonce
Jennifer Lopez
Katy Perry
Lady Gaga
BEST MALE Bruno Mars
David Guetta
Eminem
Justin Bieber
Kanye West
BEST HIP HOP Eminem
Lil Wayne
JAY Z & Kanye West
Pitbull
Snoop Dogg
BEST ROCK Coldplay
Foo Fighters
Linkin Park
Kings of Leon
Red Hot
Chili Peppers
BEST VIDEO Adele - 'Rolling In The Deep'
Beastie Boys - 'Make Some Noise'
Beyonce - 'Run The World (Girls)'
Justice - 'Civilization'
Lady Gaga - 'Born This Way'
BEST ALTERNATIVE Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys
My Chemical Romance
The Strokes
Thirty Seconds To Mars
BEST WORLD STAGE Arcade Fire
The
Black Eyed Peas
Diddy Dirty Money
Enrique Iglesias
Kings of Leon
Linkin Park
My Chemical Romance
Ozzy Osborne
Snoop Dogg
Thirty Seconds To Mars
BEST PUSH Alexis Jordan
Big Time Rush
Bruno Mars
Far East Movement
Jessie J
Katy B
LMFAO
Neon Trees
Theophilus London
Wiz Khalifa
BIGGEST FANS Justin Bieber
Lady Gaga
Paramore
Selena Gomez
Thirty Seconds To Mars
The '2011 MTV EMA' will be available to a potential viewing audience of more than 1.2 billion people via MTV's global network of more than 60 channels reaching more than 640 million households around the world as well as through syndication. In addition, its convergent programming and content will reach the entire interactive community, via MTV's nearly 200 digital media properties around the world. Richard Godfrey and Bruce Gillmer are Executive Producers for the '2011 MTV EMA.'
The '2010 MTV EMA', held in Madrid, was the event's most watched telecast ever with a total of 22.2 million viewers tuning in to MTV and VIVA channels around the world. The 17th annual show saw a +61% increase year over year with the coveted P12-34 demographic and grabbed a +72% increase in live streams of the show online to more than 4.5 million.
