Lady Gaga and Kings of Leon nominated for five MTV EMAs

Lady Gaga and Kings of Leon have been nominated for five MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs).

The singer and the band will both compete for Best Song, for 'Poker Face’ and 'Use Somebody’ respectively, Best Live Act and Best World Stage Performance, with Gaga also nominated for Best Female and Best New Act, while Kings of Leon are also up for the Best Group and Best Rock prizes.

Beyonce Knowles follows them in the nominations list, receiving nods in four categories, while Eminem and Green Day are each up for three accolades.

American artists dominate the shortlists, with Jay-Z, Katy Perry, Kanye West and Black Eyed Peas each named in two categories.

U2 are the only non-American stars to receive more than one nomination, competing for Best Live Act and Best Rock.

British singer Leona Lewis, 'American Idiot’ hitmakers Green Day and German group Tokio Hotel will perform live at this year’s ceremony, which takes place in Berlin, Germany, on November 5.

MTV viewers can vote for the winners in 11 of the 13 categories via website www.mtvema.com.

The nominees for Best European Act are yet to be revealed.

MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs) 2009 full list of nominations:

Best Song:
Beyonce Knowles - 'Halo'
Black Eyed Peas - 'I Got A Feeling'
David Guetta feat. Kelly Rowland – 'When Love Takes Over’
Kings of Leon – 'Use Somebody’
Lady Gaga - 'Pokerface'

Best Male:
Eminem
Jay-Z
Kanye West
Mika
Robbie Williams

Best Live Act:
Beyonce Knowles
Green Day
Kings of Leon
Lady Gaga
U2

Best Urban:
Ciara
Eminem
Jay-Z
Kanye West
TI

Best Group:
Black Eyed Peas
Green Day
Jonas Brothers
Kings of Leon
Tokio Hotel

Best Rock:
Foo Fighters
Green Day
Kings of Leon
Linkin Park
U2

Best New Act:
Daniel Merriweather
La Roux
Lady Gaga
Pixie Lott
Taylor Swift

Best Alternative:
Muse
Paramore
Placebo
The Killers
The Prodigy

Best Female:
Beyonce Knowles
Katy Perry
Lady Gaga
Leona Lewis
Shakira

Best Video:
Beyonce Knowles – 'Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)’
Britney Spears – 'Circus’
Eminem – 'We Made You’
Katy Perry – 'Waking up in Vegas’
Shakira – 'She Wolf’

Best World Stage Performance:
Coldplay
Kid Rock
Kings of Leon
Lady Gaga
Linkin Park

Best Push Artist:
Daniel Merriweather
Hockey
La Roux
Little Boots
Metro Station
Pixie Lott
The Veronicas
White Lies

The Beatles continue breaking records

Underlining their timeless appeal and unique status in music, The Beatles have broken multiple chart records around the world following the September 9, 2009 (9-9-09) CD release of their digitally re-mastered catalogue.

In the major music markets of North America, Japan and the UK, consumers purchased more than 2.25 million copies of The Beatles' re-mastered albums, individually and in two multiple-CD boxed sets, one in stereo and one in mono, during the first five days of release (excluding non-traditional retail outlets whose sales are not tracked by the chart compilers).

The Beatles' original UK studio albums were re-mastered by a dedicated team of engineers at Abbey Road Studios in London over a four year period, carefully maintaining the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings. The result is the highest fidelity the catalogue has seen since its original release

Robbie Williams and Shirley Bassey to headline BBC Electric Proms

The BBC today announced pop icon Robbie Williams and legendary singer Dame Shirley Bassey as the final headline acts to perform at this year’s BBC Electric Proms, which takes place at The Roundhouse in London from 20th – 24th October 2009.

Robbie Williams will open this year’s BBC Electric Proms on Tuesday 20th October. He will be accompanied by a string section, horn section and full band in a show featuring new material from the forthcoming album 'Reality Killed the Video Star’ alongside some classic tracks – all overseen by Musical Director Trevor Horn. This Electric Proms show at the Roundhouse will be Robbie’s first live UK stage performance since his Close Encounters tour of 2006, and will be broadcast on BBC Radio 1.

Superstar singer Dame Shirley Bassey will grace the Roundhouse stage on Friday 23rd October with an unique performance celebrating 50 years at the top of showbusiness. Dame Shirley will be performing some of her most famous tracks alongside new songs from her forthcoming album, 'The Performance’. Dame Shirley will be joined on stage by the BBC Concert Orchestra for her only live show this year. The show will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 2.

Dame Shirley Bassey and Robbie Williams join Smokey Robinson, Dizzee Rascal, Doves, Magazine, Florence and the Machine and Metronomy to complete the stellar line-up of acts at this year’s BBC Electric Proms.

The BBC Electric Proms, now in its fourth year, is dedicated to creating new moments in music and providing a platform to showcase international and UK artists who present one-off collaborations. All performances will be available online. All headline shows will be filmed in High Definition, broadcast on BBC Two and simulcast on the HD Channel.

Tickets for Robbie Williams and Dame Shirley Bassey cost £25 and go on sale at 8am on Wednesday 23rd September

Miley Cyrus says paparazzi ruin her life

Miley Cyrus claims her life is being ruined by the paparazzi.

The 'See You Again’ singer has blasted photographers who follow her everywhere and has branded the profession 'disgusting'.

The 16-year-old singer wrote on her Twitter page: 'Being a paparazzi is the most DISGUISTING job imaginable.

'Being followed around by creepy photographers is NOT in the job description! YOU try being stuck inside cuz creepers are waiting for u. [sic]'

In reply to her comments gossip blogger Perez Hilton defended photographers, saying: 'But some of them are your friends! You're always chummy with that one videographer!'

Miley – who has sold over four million records - has previously revealed she has bad dreams about being photographed.

She said: 'I have nightmares about paparazzi. I always have these flashing things in my dreams. They're so scary."

Miley has also released a song, 'Fly On The Wall’, about the pitfalls of fame.

Elliot Minor new single and Abbey Road video

After an incredible 2008/09 so far, which has included a debut top 10 album, 2 full headline UK and European tours, European dates with Simple Plan, Radio 1 B listed singles, over 125,000 singles sold and a whole run of festivals, ELLIOT MINOR are now set to release their new single 'Electric High’ on October 5th and second album 'Solaris’ October 19th.

'Electric High’ signifies a more mature leap forward in every department for ELLIOT MINOR, from playing to song writing, production and ambition. Along with recent single 'Solaris’, front man and songwriter Alex Davies started writing the new material as soon as the band came off the road in December last year. The new songs pull from the band’s experiences of making and touring their first album, as songwriter Alex Davies says 'I had heard about the pressures of a second album on the songwriter and I can assure you it is true, you have all your life to write your first album and months to write your second. Fortunately I had a load of melodies running around my head and lyric ideas that pulled from the changes in my life over the years that Elliot Minor was formed till now. The majority of the songs are uplifting as I was being positive in a pretty tough year to work through and the others are more personal and intimate.

The new single was recorded during the album sessions starting in April this year at Chapel Studios in Lincoln and at Mavehole Studios in York. Produced once again by Jim Wirt (Incubus, Hoobastank, Something Corporate) and mixed by the multi Grammy award winning Tom Lord-Alge (Manic Street Preachers, Taking Back Sunday, Weezer, The Rolling Stones), this second collaboration meant that the band and Jim knew what had worked before but gave them a lot of room to add new creative ideas and to push into bold new territory. Jim Wirt says 'Electric High was a natural,.everything came together immediately! We ended up using the original scratch vocal, and the original guitars, this is what makes this song stand out, nothing contrived about it.' Live wise, the band have played Oxegen, T in the Park, Leeds and Reading and Download last year. They also played main support to Simple Plan in Europe and

Fall Out Boy in the UK, have been to Japan three times doing their own headline shows, have toured as a headline act through Europe into Paris, Prague, Brussels and Amsterdam on every tour. On top of this, they have also taken the likes of You Me at Six, We are the Ocean, The Higher and Mission District out as support. A huge UK headline tour has now been announced, full list of dates are below:

NOV Wed 4 - Wrexham , Central Station
NOV Thu 5 - Porstmouth, Wedgewood Rooms
NOV Fri 6 - Oxford, O2 Academy 2
NOV Sat 7 - Northampton, Roadmender
NOV Mon 9 - Exeter, Pheonix Arts Centre
NOV Tue 10 - Nottingham, Rescue Rooms
NOV Thu 12 - Leeds, Cockpit
NOV Fri 13 - Coventry, Kasbah
NOV Sat 14 - Birmingham, 02 Academy 2
NOV Mon 16 - Cambridge, Junction
NOV Tue 1 - Norwich, Waterfront
NOV Wed 18 - Manchester, Academy 2
NOV Thu 19 - Swansea, Sin City
NOV Fri 20 - London, HMV Forum
NOV Sat 21 - Newcastle, O2 Academy
NOV Thr 26 - Aberdeen, HMV Moshulu
NOV Fri 2 - Dundee, Fat Sams
NOV Sat 28 - Edinburgh, HMV Picturehouse
DEC Thr 3 - Belfast, Limelight
DEC Fri 4 - Cork, Cyprus Avenue
DEC Sat 5 - Galway, Roisin Dubh
DEC Sun 6 - Dublin, Academy

Geri Halliwell confirms Spice Girls reunion

Geri Halliwell has confirmed the Spice Girls are discussing reforming again.

The singer, who famously quit the girl band in May 1998, says she and the other members – Victoria Beckham, Mel B, Emma Bunton and Mel C – are considering getting back together for a third time.

She said on UK TV show 'This Morning’: "We are friends first and foremost. Obviously a career and music evolved through that friendship I think. Whatever happens afterwards is a bonus. We always talk about creative plans. Right - now, I'll be honest: We are gathering information about a possibility, but I don't like to... when you are evolving a plan, you don't want to share it with the world."

Her comments come just days after she met up for dinner with Emma and the two Mels, where it is thought they discussed the plans.

Mel B later hinted at an imminent reunion, writing on her Twitter account: "Spice girls, stadiums?????????? Had dinner with the amazing melc emma and geri I love them so much (sic)."

Victoria was not at the meeting, because she was busy launching her Spring/Summer 10 collection at New York Fashion Week.

The girl group shot to fame in 1996 with their hit single 'Wannabe'. They sold over 65 million albums before going their separate ways in 2001.

They briefly reformed in 2007 for the hugely successful 'Return of the Spice Girls' tour, which saw them perform 47 concerts across the world.