MUSIC NEWS: KANYE, ADELE & MORE NOMINATED FOR VMA AWARDS / COMMON TO RELEASE ALBUM IN FALL

July 21st, 2011

It’s that time of year again and the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards nominations are in! As far as those leading with nominations we have Kanye West and Adele with 7 nods, Bruno Mars with 4, and Beyonce, Eminem and Nicki Minaj with 3 nods each. Chris Brown, Tyler the Creator and Lil Wayne join the list with 2 nominations.

“Yonkers” by Odd Future’s Tyler, the Creator and “Rolling in the Deep” by British singer Adele will be fighting for the Video of the Year title. Big Sean‘s “My Last” and Wiz Khalifia‘s “Black & Yellow” will be vying for the Best New Artist award as well. Click here to peep the entire nomination list!

The MTV VMAs are scheduled to air LIVE from Los Angeles’ Nokia Theater on Sunday, August 28 at 9/8 CST. Congrats to all the nominees!

COMMON TO SET TO RELEASE 9TH STUDIO ALBUM

Rapper/actor Common is set to drop his ninth studio album through Warner Brothers records. The lead single “Ghetto Dreams” features Nas and hit the web earlier this month.


♫ Common – Ghetto Dreams (feat. Nas)

The album, The Dreamer, The Believer is scheduled to hit iTunes and record stores on November 22. It has been two years since Common’s last album, Universal Mind Control (2008).

( Photos: Getty Images/Google Images )
  1. 1.
    Indigo

    That make up is too heavy for Adele. Makes her look too old.

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    • Connie

      maybe so..but Adele will rack up at the VMA’s …:)

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  2. 2.
    DIORULEUX

    Let’s Go ADELE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  3. 3.
    truthfullyspeaking

    I don’t care for Adele’s and Bruno Mar’s music whatsoever, but they deserve all those nods. I am glad Chris Brown and Nicki Minaj are being recognized this year.
    LOL at Rihanna, Kesha and Jlo for not getting any nods!!!!!

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  4. 4.
    Holly Wolly

    Beyonce u better Win a VMA Girl!!!

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  5. 5.
    fresh87

    DAMN ADELE LOOKS LIKE AN OLD ASS WOMAN

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  6. 6.
    Holly Wolly

    Chris, Chris, you better do your thing and pick up some too. Record for most people at the Today Show!!! Just keep ur Cool Chris!!!

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  7. 7.
    butta

    I KNEW ADALE HAD THE NUMBER ONE SELLING ALBUM 21!!! BUT NOOO EVERYONE WAS SAYING BEYONCE’. I MEAN SHE MY GIRL BUT TRUTH HURTS! MAN ADELE GONE KILL EM AT THE VMA’S!

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  8. 8.
    TruthSeeker

    Hmm, I wonder how many occultic rituals will be performed at this years VMA?

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  9. 9.
    Classy!

    I’m so pissed Rihanna wasn’t nominated for either “S and M” or “Man Down”!! I hope Britney wins best Pop Video, that’ll make me feel better:-) Oh well, what does MTV know about videos anyway? They have zero credibility anymore.

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  10. 10.
    Samantha W.

    Adele is going to clean up at the VMAs. She’s the only reason I’m watching. I usually hate the VMAs. Hope she is performing.

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  11. 11.
    BEN

    A lot more of a variety this year than last, however if Katy don’t win a trophie for the 4th year in a row, then that will be certified BOGUS. I expected Beyonce to get in somehow, despite how wack the song is, the video was expensive. Damn, only feature nods for Rihanna? Didn’t she just rack up 10 number one singles?

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    • tch

      why would it be a bogus? it took them 10 years to give britney spears her first VMA, christina aguilera got zero to this date!

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  12. 12.
    Johnathon

    Adele and Kanye are not leading the pack with nominations. Katy Perry is, she has 9 nominations.

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  13. 13.
    BEN

    You know it’s funny, Rihanna ain’t nominated for nothing solo, she is damn near forgotten this year, but I bet you she will still attend the show as opposed to snubbing the BET Awards when she was a leading lady.

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    emily

    Lmao at Adele being nominated for Best Choreography when all she did was sit on that damn chair
    DEAD at Rihanna getting 0 NODS. LMFAO. No love for Riri on Mtv
    Beyonce deserves the best choreography award HANDS DOWN. The song might not have been a hit but the dances were ON POINT!!
    Even J Lo got no nominations? MTV is wack as hell for that

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  18. 18.
    cam

    hope Adele, Tyler and kanye to win something…could care less about the rest.

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  19. 19.
    htown

    I HOPE BEYONCE WINS

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  20. 20.
    tch

    Beyonce should have received video of the year nom, just for that group tofo tofo, the video was simple, with fashion, beauty shots, epic scenes, dance, but MTV loves to sabotage black artists. At least she deserves best choreography.
    Of course to thank Kanye for the ratings for the past two years, they gave him his noms but no video of the year? Im not mad though congrats.
    Rihanna had zero nominations!
    Adelephant is officially mainstream now, she didnt deserve these noms, these awardshows dont honor the videos themselves, they honor popularity. Adelephant has amazing music and that song was nice but wasnt she in a damn chair the whole thing, how can she have all these noms? And Rihanna zero? Hell even Gaga deserved more than 3 noms! But anyway, congrats the nominees, and Tyler, I guess it would be Katy Perry and Adele night!

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    • N/A

      SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!! Adele can sing she is better than that no singing half-naked Rihanna. Rolling in the Deep was a great music video the b&w images to me that was the best video of 2011.

      I can’t stand annoying stans like you your fav artist get nominated every year and when they don’t you complain. SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • tch

      @ N/A no you shut the phuck up, I say whatever the phuck I wanna say and you will phuckin deal, her music is great and she can sing thats obvious but this isnt about talent, its about videos and her video didnt deserve all these noms! DEAL BITCH!

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  21. 21.
    smdh

    and where is the r&b category? SMH! and everytime beyoncé has to win for best dance video, they take that category off, in 2009 they took it off, in 2010 they put iot back for gaga, now again, its off! shady bitches MTV!

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  22. 22.
    BrealK

    Adele looks like Tammy Faye Baker in that picture.

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  23. 23.
    Lupefan

    As always, I’m rooting for Kanye West. BTW, what happened to Lupe Fiasco this year? That guys is rarely recognized. Such a shame. He’s so talented.

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    • Papaya

      Totally agree with you on that, LupeFan. And I honestly don’t like Katy Perry that much, she’s overrated.

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  24. 24.
    Lupefan

    I’ll bet Odd Future wins video of the year. The internet has been going nuts over Yonkers.

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  25. 25.
    For Real

    No comments on Common music so far huh. It’s sounds very been there done that. Listening to the lyrics, I notice the “ghetto dreams” are very shallow where the women like Cinderella are looking for wealthy men to help with their material needs. No talk of getting a college education, creating their own businesses or bringing a innovate opportunity to the ghetto community. I expected different and better from common. I was expecting lyrics that would highlight the ignorance of the people who talked trash about him and the president recently. Oh well.

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