MTV Unveils the Nominations for the '99 MTV Europe Awards

Back - Index - Submissions - - What is RSS? Date: Oct 06, 2099 Source: MTV Europe Submitted By: Sol a.k.a. ^KaOs^ Monday October 4, 4:48 pm Eastern Time Company Press Release MTV Unveils the Nominations for the 1999 MTV Europe Music Awards Britney Spears & Backstreet Boys Top List of Nominations Ronan Keating of Boyzone to Host Show LONDON--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Oct. 4, 1999-- Performers Include Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, Sean Puffy Combs, Whitney Houston, The Cardigans, Marilyn Manson, Jamiroquai & More MTV Europe today revealed the all-star line-up and nominations for the 1999 MTV Europe Music Awards. The list of top international artists was revealed at Home House, London by Brent Hansen, President & Chief Executive, MTV & VH1, and Ronan Keating, Host of the 1999 MTV Europe Music Awards, in the presence of Irish performers The Corrs and nominees Westlife. The show will be broadcast live around the world from Ireland's premier music venue, The Point in Dublin on November 11, 1999. Performers at this year's show will include: Britney Spears, The Cardigans, Mariah Carey, The Corrs, Jamiroquai, Marilyn Manson, The Offspring, Sean Puffy Combs, Whitney Houston and Underworld. Guest presenters will include: Pierce Brosnan and Denise Richards, Carmen Electra, Christina Aguilera, Des'ree, Eternal, 5ive, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Gary Barlow, Jay-Z, Jovanotti, LL Cool J, Armand van Helden and Mary J. Blige. Additional presenters will be announced in the run up to the event. Commented Brent Hansen: ``This year's awards is going to have the strongest performer and presenter line-up we've ever had, and I am confident that this is going to be the best show we've ever broadcast in the history of MTV Europe. We're proud to provide such a great showcase for existing and emerging talent, and especially this year to be doing so from a country with such tremendous musical heritage.'' The 1999 MTV Europe Music Awards will comprise 10 performances and 17 individual awards. The nominations for 11 of the awards have been compiled by MTV Europe's voting ``Academy'' of 800 people, consisting of key figures from the European music industry and MTV viewers from across Europe. The nominations for The 1999 MTV Europe Music Awards are: Best Male Artist: Ricky Martin George Michael Sasha Will Smith Robbie Williams Best Female Artist: Geri Halliwell Lauryn Hill Whitney Houston Madonna Britney Spears Best Pop Artist: Backstreet Boys Boyzone Five Ricky Martin Britney Spears Best Breakthrough Artist: Eminem Jennifer Lopez Britney Spears Vengaboys Westlife Best Group: Backstreet Boys The Cardigans Jamiroquai The Offspring TLC Best R&B Artist: Mariah Carey Lauryn Hill Whitney Houston Jennifer Lopez TLC Best Hip-Hop Artist: Beastie Boys Busta Rhymes Eminem Sean "Puffy" Combs Will Smith Best Dance Artist: Basement Jaxx Chemical Brothers Fatboy Slim Jamiroquai Mr. Oizo Best Rock Artist: The Cardigans Lenny Kravitz Marilyn Manson The Offspring Red Hot Chili Peppers Best Album: Backstreet Boys, "Millennium" Boyzone, "By Request" Lauryn Hill, "The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill" The Offspring, "Americana" Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Californication" Best Song: Backstreet Boys, "I Want It That Way" Madonna, "Beautiful Stranger" George Michael with Mary J. Blige, "As" Britney Spears, "Baby One More Time" TLC, "No Scrubs" Best Video: Aphex Twin, "Windowlicker" Bjork, "All Is Full Of Love" Blue, "Coffee And TV" Fatboy Slim, "Praise You" George Michael with Mary J. Blige, "As" Best UK & Ireland Act: Basement Jaxx Boyzone Lynden David Hall Manic Street Preachers Texas Westlife Best Italian Act: Alex Britti Elio e le Storie Tese Jovanotti Negrita Vasco Rossi Best German Act: Absolute Beginner Freundeskreis Guano Apes Xavier Naidoo Sasha Best Nordic Act: Jennifer Brown The Cardigans Andreas Johnson Lene Marlin Petter Every year, MTV aims to raise awareness of key social issues with the special Free Your Mind award. The award is based upon the ideals of MTV's global Free Your Mind campaign, which aims to encourage freedom from all kinds of intolerance and prejudice. The Free Your Mind award highlights these principles at the MTV Europe Music Awards and is intended for any individual organization which exemplifies these ideals. In 1998, the award was presented to B92, the independent Serbian FM radio station by Michael Stipe of R.E.M. Previous winners include: The Landmine Survivors' Network, Amnesty International, Greenpeace and The Buddies and Carers of Europe. A limited number of tickets for the MTV Europe Music Awards have been made exclusively available to fans and viewers from October 4, 1999. Ticket box office numbers were revealed exclusively on MTV Europe at 2:00pm GMT/3:00pm CET on October 4, 1999. As in 1998, all tickets are expected to sell out within hours of going on sale. MTV can be seen in 300 million households across 83 territories. Each network has localized programs reflecting the language, culture and attitudes of the youth audience it serves. MTV's international channels are MTV: Music Television (U.S.), MTV Asia, (South East Asia, India, Korea, Mandarin), MTV Australia, MTV Brasil, MTV Europe (European, Central, South, Nordic and UK/Ireland), MTV Latin America (Northern & Southern) and MTV Russia. MTV also has two ``free form'' music services, MTV 2 (U.S.) and M2 (Europe), which feature videos from a wide variety of genres. Digital programming services MTV ``X'' and MTV ``S'' are also available in the U.S. as well as MTV BASE and MTV EXTRA in the U.K. & Ireland. MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom Inc., owns and operates five cable television programming services -- MTV: Music Television, MTV 2, VH1, Nickelodeon/Nick at Nite, and TV Land -- all of which are trademarks of MTV Networks. 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