Looks like MTV's annual Video Music Awards has now become the venue du jour to announce that one is expecting a new arrival. Following in Beyonce's footsteps from last year, hip-hop luminary Wiz Khalifa confirmed on the VMAs red carpet that fiancee Amber Rose is indeed with child. It wasn't too hard to guess--rumors had …

Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz made the MTV Video Music Awards a family affair, bringing their son, Egypt — who will be 2 in October — to the Staples Center for the show. While it sure made for some cute photos — Egypt on the stage! Egypt hugging Mommy after her performance! — some viewers [...]

Just call her Lady Nada...at least as far as this year's MTV Video Music Awards are concerned. When the nominations for Thursday night's awards show were announced and Lady Gaga got exactly zero, it was the snub heard round the world—or at least in the lands most populated by Little Monsters. How to account for a [...]

The red carpet for MTV's Video Music Awards is being supersized. Stars (many in heels) will face a daunting double-decker behemoth with multiple levels. Hope those special-event gift bags have hiking boots. The structure was inspired by a multilevel driving range. But instead of golf balls, fans will be treated to multiple …

Pop heavyweights like Rihanna, Drake, and Katy Perry look primed to walk away with a lot of moonmen at Thursday's MTV Video Music Awards. But not everything has been starry for them in 2012. Looking at the lineup of nominees, it's hard to find anyone who hasn't experienced a year of extreme highs and lows, [...]

If you believe the whispers, Britney Spears might show up for a non-performing cameo appearance on Thursday night's MTV Video Music Awards. That would certainly count as a return to the scene of the crime, since for Spears, she's had a best of times/worst of times relationship with the VMAs. "Worst" came in 2007, when  …

Rihanna's three-times-VMAs-nominated "We Found Love" video is arguably pop music's best illustration of the "art imitates life" cliché. In the clip that is up for Video of the Year, Best Female Video and Best Pop Video, the song tells the story of a passionate young couple who love and fight hard until the demise of [. …

"Somebody That I Used To Know" by Gotye featuring Kimbra stands a very good chance of becoming only the second hit to win both the VMA for Music Video of the Year and the Grammy for Record of the Year. The first was Green Day's "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams." We'll find out in two stages, [...]

Will the year's biggest hit, "Somebody That I Used To Know" by Gotye featuring Kimbra, take the VMA award for Video Of The Year? Will Carly Rae Jepsen take the prize for Best New Artist for her equally inescapable "Call Me Maybe"? Will Nicki Minaj win Best Hip-Hop Video for the second year in a [...]

For MTV's Video Music Awards, it's really been downhill ever since the very first telecast in 1984. That was the awards show that basically presided over Madonna's shotgun marriage to pop culture, thanks to a performance that eliminated any long-standing associations between "white" and "purity" and forever made the phrases …

As we count down the days to MTV's Video Music Awards, undoubtedly music's craziest and buzziest awards show, we of course think back to some of the VMAs' craziest and buzziest performances. And that means Britney Spears and her tangled tussle with a certain albino Burmese python, of course. The slinky performance, one …

Among the things pregnant women should probably avoid, besides alcohol and cigarettes: any accounts of Beyonce's young motherhood. What new mom isn't going to feel like a relative loser hearing about Beyonce's rapid weight loss and full-on return to a show business career in the months following the birth of Blue Ivy? A …

Right about now, this year's VMA nominees for Best New Artist are probably starting to get nervous. A victory could catapult them to a long career. A loss could seriously hurt their career momentum. Yeah, right. Having just studied the list of winners and losers, here's my advice: This year's nominees (fun. featuring Janelle …

Comedian and actor Kevin Hart is set to host the VMAs on Thursday, following in the footsteps of such stars as Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock and Jimmy Fallon. Hart, 32, has amassed a lot of credits in recent years, including Modern Family, Think Like A Man and the last two Scary Movie movies, but the [...]

More than two decades ago--1989, to be exact--a soaring love ballad by the unlikeliest of bands hit No. 1 on the charts and won a Video Music Award for Best Heavy Metal Video. The tune was "Sweet Child O' Mine" by notorious bad boys Guns N' Roses, an unexpected tender moment on an otherwise caustic [...]

Drake and Rihanna lead this year's MTV Video Music Award nominations, with five apiece.  But if Drake ends up winning Video of the Year, Rihanna still prevails, since she is featured in his nominated clip, "Take Care." So it looks like this year's VMAs might be a win-win situation for RiRi. Below is the full [...]

The secret is out--it's finally revealed just which ex Taylor Swift is referring to in her new hit single, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"! Well, at least MTV's 2012 VMAs host Kevin Hart thinks he's solved the mystery: It's him, of course. Didn't you know? In the latest promo for this year's awards [...]

Green Day resorted to comical measures to announce joining the performance lineup for the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards. In a new promo video released exclusively to Yahoo! Music, the Grammy Award-winning rock trio's rehearsal gets interrupted by VMAs host Kevin Hart, who barges in, insisting that he's now in the group. "What …