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BEYONCE, 50 CENT, LUDACRIS, JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, SNOOP DOGG, NELLY MTV TRL CANCELED GOODBYE FINALE VIDEOS PHOTOS

MTV taped it's final 2 hour episode of TRL after being on the air for 10 years. Former host Carson Daily returned to the once popular music video countdown show which was canceled due to low ratings. Justin Timberlake, Beyonce, P. Diddy, Snoop Dogg, Nelly, Ludacris, Hillary Duff, Taylor Swift and 50 Cent stopped by the final episode to remember the show and perform some of their hit songs.

"Folks who helped make TRL what is, whether that's Justin, and his guys in N' Sync, the Backstreet Boys, Britney, Eminem - I think we would love to see all of them here," Sirulnick told the AP.

"I'm going to miss TRL," rapper Eminem said in a statement. "Where else will I be able to start feuds, defend my honor vigorously and act like an angry teenager on national TV? Oh wait ... The VMAs!" source

Watch some of the performance videos below.

Blame the show's loss of popularity on the lack of boy bands and popstars in the music industry. Click here for more photos from the show.

A constant victim of sagging ratings, the music video countdown show will conclude in a two-hour special on a Saturday afternoon in November, executive producer Dave Sirulnick said on Monday.

“We want to close this era of `TRL’ in a big celebratory way, and 10 is a great number,” Sirulnick said. “And 10 is the number that `TRL’ counted down every single day for 10 years, and we hit this 10th (anniversary) and we thought, `You know what? This feels like the right time and let’s celebrate it and let’s reward it. And let’s let it have a little bit of a rest for a minute.’ Let it catch its breath! Been working hard — for 10 years!” source

MTV'S "Total Request Live" will air its final episode Sunday and the show's original host, Carson Daly, will be back for what he calls his "high school reunion." "I didn't actually go to my own high school reunion, but that's what this 'Total Finale Live' is starting to feel like," Daly told the Daily News. "I'm nostalgic in a way that I would be if I heard some of the names of people that I went to high school with." "Total Finale Live," a two-hour tribute to the long-running music video countdown show, will air at 8 p.m. and will include performances by Beyoncé, 50 Cent, the Backstreet Boys and Fall Out Boy. Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Travis Barker, Kid Rock and JC Chasez will also be on hand to talk about what the show has meant to their careers. Daly suspects even more names will pop up at the last minute. Daly can still recall his first day on the job, back in 1998, when it was just him and three camera guys making a dinky show about music videos. "There was no audience, no Times Square, and no kids in the room," said Daly. "But it was just the perfect storm of pop culture and it snowballed from there." Over the course of five years, Daly interviewed everyone from Madonna to Eminem to Britney Spears. "It wasn't a job, it was a lifestyle, so it's hard to articulate how profound of a time that was for me and what it's done for me since," Daly said. source

BEYONCE IF I WERE A BOY

Beyonce Medley TRL Finale
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50 Cent's live performance:

50 Cent Medley TRL Finale
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Ludacris, Snoop Dogg, and Nelly's live performance:

Luda Nelly & Snoop Medley TRL Finale
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MTV EUROPE AWARDS BEYONCE, KANYE WEST, KATY PERRY, LEONA LEWIS,ESTELLE, PINK

The MTV Europe Awards took over Liverpool England.

Katy Perry hosted the awards  show which featured live performances by Beyonce, Kanye West, Estelle and Pink. Sir Paul McCartney was the big winner of the night.

Other celebs at the show were Kelly Rowland, Solange, Leona Lewis, Craig David, Tokyo Hotel, 30 Seconds to Mars, Kerry Katona and Travis McCoy from Gym Class Heroes.

Everyone was still happy about Barack Obama's victory in the presidential election and work clothes to show their excitement. We think Katy Perry looks chic in her Barack Obama dress.

Visit mtv.co.uk to get a complete list of winners and watch highlights from the show. Click here for more photos from the event.

Former Beatle Paul McCartney stole the show at the MTV Europe Music Awards on Thursday, accepting a one-off prize from the pop channel in his home city of Liverpool to deafening applause.

The 66-year-old was named Ultimate Legend at the 15th edition of the annual awards ceremony, one of pop music's biggest nights outside the United States.

"This is the man who invented my job," said U2 lead singer Bono, introducing McCartney.

"On the way here Paul McCartney, who was driving the car, was pointing out every place in Liverpool. It was like being in the Pope-mobile with the Pope driving. In the universe of rock and roll bands, the Beatles were the big bang.

"I saw tonight how much Liverpool means to Paul McCartney and you can feel how much Paul McCartney means to Liverpool."

McCartney was one of several stars on the night to pay tribute to Barack Obama following his victory in the U.S. presidential election this week.

"Many years ago four little boys were born here in Liverpool and we went on to do quite well," McCartney said of his former band the Beatles, the most successful pop act of all time.

"So thanks to all my family, to all of you for coming along to all of you in Liverpool, to everyone in Britain, to everyone in America for voting for Mr. Obama."

The other big winner on the night was Britney Spears, who won the Act of 2008 and Album of the Year categories on a night dominated by U.S. acts.

The prizes marked another step along the comeback trail for the troubled 26-year-old, whose "Blackout" album was well received and will be followed by her new record "Circus" due for release on December 2.

Spears also plans to set the record straight about her highly public meltdown in a 90-minute documentary due to be aired on MTV on November 30. source

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

BRITNEY SPEARS RETURNS MTV VMA's MOST TALKED ABOUT MOMENTS BRITNEY, JONAH HILL, RUSSELL BRAND

Click here to watch some of the most talked about moments at the MTV  VMA's. Britney returned and she looked really good. Britney Spears picked up three Video Music Awards after managing to release lackluster music videos to support her unsuccessful Blackout Album.

No Madonna kiss. No Michael Jackson cameo. No flying Howard Stern. Not even a Kanye tantrum. MTV has set a high standard for the unexpected at its Video Music Awards, but on the show's 25th anniversary, the network instead settled for throwing its full support behind Britney Spears' comeback. Spears won a leading three awards, including video of the year for "Piece of Me."

Any spontaneity was left to host Russell Brand, the British comic whose rock star style and outlandish candor gave the Los Angeles show a pulse. But at the end of the night Sunday, even the manic and mangy Brand — a confessed former sex addict — could only summon a comic semi-feud with the young Jonas Brothers over their premarital celibacy.

But while Brand was unpredictable, witty and offensive, Spears was resolutely careful, determined to set right her pop star image. She was, after all, returning to the scene of the crime, so to speak. At last year's VMAs — Britney Comeback 1.0 — her unpolished performance was roundly disparaged.

In each acceptance speech Sunday, Spears spoke briefly, thanked God and dedicated the awards to her fans. Even while opening the show, she was all business, zipping through her few lines of introduction.

"Thank you so much," she said flatly as the crowd greeted her with a standing ovation. "Thank you for all the love."

MTV has a habit of reengineering the VMAs every year, and, true to form, took this year's show to the Paramount Studios lot in Los Angeles. After last year's awards, splashed throughout a Las Vegas hotel, MTV re-centered the action to a more traditional main stage. source

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MTV TOP 10 HOTTEST MC'S IN THE HIP HOP GAME LIST 2008

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1. Kanye West
2. Jay-Z
3. Lil' Wayne
4. Rick Ross
5. Snoop Dogg
6. 50 Cent
7. Lupe Fiasco
8. Young jeezy
9. Andre 3000
10. T.I.

MTV released their list of the Hottest MC's in 2008. Rapper Kanye West took the number #1 spot on the list.  There's going to be a debate about the whole list. Lil Wayne was named number #1 hottest rapper on the 2007 list.  We must mention that just the fact that "ring tone rapper" Soulja Boy's name was mentioned as a possible candidate shows that the list of MC's is getting weaker and shorter each year.

After "The Greatest Hip-Hop Albums of All Time," "The Greatest MCs of All Time" and "The Greatest Hip-Hop Groups Of All Time," the MTV News hip-hop brain trust — hate 'em or love 'em — went back to the infamous round table and decided upon another list. Yes, the same type of list that our pick for the #1 MC of all time, Jay-Z, told you not to get mad at him about in Beyoncé's "Deja Vu"! This time is way different from the previous adventures: Rather than analyzing the "Greatest of All Time," we decided to break down what's going on today — as in not now, but right now! We looked at the work of the most prominent MCs of the past year or so and factored in the following: straight-up skills, success (both musical and entrepreneurial), impact on the game and — new to our decision-making — swagger: an MC's cool factor and how they carry themselves on and off recordings.

Just like every other time, prior to convening, all nine brain trustees came up with their own lists, choosing who they felt were the MCs keeping things steamy these days. Once all nine lists were in, we mathematically tallied a master list. Each rapper got 10 points for every time they were ranked #1, nine points for #2 and so forth. Once that was accomplished, we sat down at the table and fought it out. Some people who were originally on the master list were taken off and replaced with MCs from outside the mathematical top 10; others rose or fell within the top 10. It was crazy! source