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Celeb News: MTV's O Music Award Nominations - Lady GaGa leads with 3!
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MTV's O Music Award Nominations - Lady GaGa leads with 3!
SOURCE: O Music Awards, ABC News
Lady GaGa leads MTV's O Music Award Nominations
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We’ve been hearing buzz about MTV’s new awards show focused on digital music since January, and now the event is beginning to take shape with a list of nominees and a plan for the future.
The O Music Awards (the “O” is open to interpretation) is set to take place on April 28 across multiple platforms and screens, including MTV.com, VH1.com and LogoTV.com.
The event will be largely fan-driven from here on out, with voting opening to the public Tuesday on the O Music Awards website, which is packed with nominees that fans can vote for. (Fans can also write in nominees.)
So what kinds of categories — and nominees — are we talking about here? Well, according to MTV, the awards are focused on how tech and music intersect.
“[Music and tech are] coming together and driving consumption and interest in the space like we’ve never seen before,” says Shannon Connolly, VP of digital music strategy. “This idea was born out of wanting to acknowledge the things that are coming out of this.”
In fact, a lot of nominees and categories should be familiar to Mashable readers: the PS22 Chorus‘s rendition of Phoenix’s “Lisztomania” was nominated for Best Fan Cover.
Andy Grammer, Arcade Fire and The Johnny Cash Project scored nods for Innovative Music Video.
Antoine Dodson and the Gregory Brothers were nominated for Funniest Music Short.
The Flaming Lips, Kanye West, Radiohead and Lady Gaga for Innovative Artist.
And a ton of familiar, and awesome, music discovery services are also being recognized (Bandcamp, The Hype Machine, Pandora, RCRD LBL, Shazam, Shuffler.fm, Soundcloud, WeAreHunted).
Lady Gaga and buzz band Odd Future’s Tyler the Creator lead the pack of digital music innovators with three nominations each.
The awards also feature quirkier categories, like Favorite Animated GIF, Best Music Hack (Tim Soo’s Invisible Instruments got a nom), Best Animal Performance (as did the cats in Holy F*ck’s “Red Lights”), Favorite F**k Yeah Tumblr and Fan Army FTW.
Once the awards are handed out — more on how that will happen later — the O Awards will not simply languish and die.
“This is to celebrate digital music,” Connolly says. “This is not something we can once a year. It has to be ongoing. We’re launching a new franchise that will function all year round. It’s an ongoing celebration of digital music.”
Therefore, after the awards draw to a close, the website will live on, reporting on and rewarding innovations within the digital music space as they transpire.
This new site joins MTV’s growing roster of more music-centric material, including its Music Meter and new hub for music news, Hive.
Will you vote for your favorite video/artist/hashtag, etc.? What categories do you wish MTV had included?
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VOTE HERE
CATEGORIES:
INNOVATIVE MUSIC VIDEO:
Arcade Fire
Robyn
Chris Milk
Cassius
Sour
OK Go
Das Racist
Craig Wedren
Andy Grammer
BEST FAN COVER:
Scampi
Mike Tompkins
Maria Aragon
PS22 Chorus
Jorge and Alexa Narvaez
Alex Goot
BEST PERFORMANCE SERIES:
From the Basement
Yours Truly
La Blogotheque
NPR
4AD
MTV Music Group
Black Cab Sessions
A.V. Club
Daryl Hall
Beck
MUST FOLLOW ARTIST ON TWITTER:
Kanye West
Nicki Minaj
Amanda Palmer
Tyler the Creator
50 Cent
Ted Leo
Questlove
Lady GaGa
BEST MUSIC HASHTAG MEME:
#fatindiebands
#awfulsupergroups
#failedrockbandmovies
#lessambitiousbands
#bustinjieber
INNOVATIVE ARTIST:
Radiohead
Tyler the Creator
Kanye West
Lady GaGa
Lil B
The Flaming Lips
iamamiwhoami
FUNNIEST MUSIC SHORT:
Antoine Dodson and The Gregory Brothers
Portlandia
The Lonely Island
The Lonely Island
Funny or Die
BEST TWEET:
Kanye West
Kanye West
Kanye West
Kanye West
Kanye West
FAN ARMY FTW:
Beliebers
Little Monsters
Taylor Gang
Barbiez
Clouds
Echelon
Killjoys + MCRmy
Tokio Hotel Fans
Bandaids
Rihanna Navy
Glamberts
NSFW MUSIC VIDEO:
Yuck
M.I.A.
The Flaming Lips
Earl Sweatshirt
UNKLE
MOST VIRAL DANCE:
The Dougie
The Berney Dance
Whip My Hair
Lil B's Cooking Dance
Ginuwine Pony
BEST INDEPENDENT MUSIC BLOG:
Aquarium Drunkard
My Old Kentucky Blog
Gorilla vs Bear
Brooklyn Vegan
Nah Right
Arjan Writes
Hipster Runoff
Transparent Blog
Said the Gramophone
Pretty Much Amazing
Discobelle
BEST MUSIC DISCOVERY SERVICE:
Bandcamp
The Hype Machine
Pandora
RCRD LBL
Shazam
Shuffler.fm
Soundcloud
WeAreHunted
FAVORITE **** YEAH TUMBLR:
F**k Yeah Crazy Britney
F**k Yeah Thom Yorke
F**k Yeah Nicki Minaj
F**k Yeah Lady Gaga
F**k Yeah KiD CuDi
F**k Yeah Kanye West
F**k Yeah Beyonce Knowles
F**k Yeah Adam Lambert
F**k Yeah Janelle Monae
F**k Yeah Rihanna
FAVORITE ANIMATED .GIF:
BEST FAN FORUM:
Justin Bieber
Michael Jackson
Phish
Britney Spears
Animal Collective
BEST MUSIC HACK:
Marshall Jones
Jennie Lamere and Paul Lamere
Imanol Gomez, Jorge Garcia, and Vincent Akkermans
Tim Soo
Mike Novack
BEST ANIMAL PERFORMANCE:
Death Metal Rooster
Parrot Dancing To Willow Smith’s Whip My Hair
Sax Playing Walrus
Dancing Merengue Dog
Cats from Holy F**k’s “Red Lights”
Parrot Sings Drowning Pool’s “Let The Bodies Hit The Floor”
BEST REMIX:
Andre 3000
Birdman
Tyler the Creator
Miami Horror
Hercules & Love Affair
Skrillex
BEST ITUNES LP:
Gorillaz
Bruce Springsteen
The Beatles
Talib Kweli
Pink
Janelle Monae
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I forgot about this 
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Hew else? 
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they need to do best music forum website
ATRL ><Pulse><AfterLD
and best internet music slang
Pressed><Stan><Haters
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Of course she always leads on everything that's why she's the Queen.
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O Music Awards To Celebrate Online Creativity -- Voting Starts Today!
Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Nicki Minaj and their die-hard fans are up for awards at April 28 event.
The typical awards show is packed with performances, celebrity appearances, red-carpet arrivals and, at some point, the presentations of the night's biggest prize, usually just before the credits roll.
The O Music Awards? Not so much. The first-ever edition of MTV Networks' latest awards extravaganza will take everything you know about awards galas, throw it in a blender, mash it up with an obscure black-and-white cartoon from the 1940s, add a Kanye West beat under it and maybe some adorable LOLcats and a snippet of "Friday" on top, post it on Twitter and watch it go mega-viral.
Instead of just honoring the singers, songwriters, directors and producers who make our favorite digital-music products, the O Music Awards will dig deeper in such categories as Innovative Music Video, Fan Army FTW, Funniest Music Short, Innovative Artist, Must Follow Artist on Twitter, NSFW Music Video, Most Viral Dance, Best Independent Music Blog, Best Animal Performance, Best Performance Series and more to dig up the people behind your favorite online music and videos, professional, amateur or just plain awesome.
Voting begins today (April 5) on the O Music Awards website, and like the best viral memes, it will be simple, social and transparent, with fans encouraged to vote via social media through a mobile voting wap site. You can follow the top vote-getters in the categories on a real-time leader board in the run-up to the April 28 event. Performers and presenters will be announced in the coming weeks.
And unlike those other awards shows, the night's biggest trophy might be handed out before the broadcast, during it or even after, to keep the conversation going.
"There will be an event, but it won't be a traditional awards show with a host, audience and a bunch of celebrities," promised Shannon Connolly, vice president of music strategy for the MTV Music Group. "It will embody what the O Awards celebrates, which is being very interactive. We'll have live performances, mash-ups, collaborations and it will be a Web event that will take place not just on MTV Music Group sites."
Lady Gaga and Odd Future's Tyler the Creator lead with three nominations each, followed by Kanye West, the Flaming Lips and Nicki Minaj with two nominations apiece. Additional nominated artists include Arcade Fire, Radiohead, Justin Bieber, Lil B, Wiz Khalifa, Robyn, OK Go, Katy Perry and iamwhoiam. Notable nominees include Antoine Dodson/ Gregory Brothers (Funniest Music Short), the Lonely Island (Funniest Music Short), Funny or Die (Funniest Music Short), 50 Cent, Rebecca Black and Bert (Favorite Animated GIF), the Hype Machine (Best Music Discovery Service), Pandora (Best Music Discovery Service), Tiny Desk Concerts (Best Performance Series), Gorilla vs. Bear (Best Independent Music Blog) and Marshall Jones (Best Music Hack).
Fans will definitely be front and center, with an entire category devoted to the Best Fan Cover, the most rabid online fan following (which will pit 30 Seconds to Mars' Echelon against the Beliebers, Katy Perry's Bandaids, Gaga's Little Monsters and the followers of My Chemical Romance, Nicki Minaj, Tokio Hotel, Wiz Khalifa, Rain and Rihanna). There are also nods to the Best Fan Forum, Best Music Hack and Best Animal Performance.
The Innovative Artist race is a tight one as well, including such nominees as the Flaming Lips, iamwhoiam, Kanye, Gaga, Lil B, Radiohead and Tyler the Creator. You'll have to choose between the Dougie, the Pony, Lil B's Cooking Dance and the "Whip My Hair" boogie in the Most Viral Dance category.
In keeping with recent digital-music innovations from MTV Networks like MTV Hive and the Music Meter, Connolly said it was apparent that the time was right to create an awards show that moved at the speed of the Net. "Music consumption has never been greater, and it's hugely important to our audience," she said. "We felt like the time was right to look at the convergence of technology and music fans and the YouTube celebrities who've created this new ecosystem where music is exploding."
Voting starts today for the O Music Awards. Make your voice heard!
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Odd Future  
Hopefully we get to see their flair on Bey's new album!
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This award is new right ?
'cause I never hear this award before.
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Curious to see how this will go
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maybe she perform Judas....
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Added the categories!! 
There's a "Best Fan Forum" category.
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Originally posted by Bibliotheque
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If ATRL gets nominated
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Such an interesting awards
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That would be crazy
Imagine if it's just ladygaga.com/forum etc 
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if atrl gets nominated, that would be the first time all stans united to vote for the same noms, lmfao
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OMG there is also Best Animated .GIF and Favorite **** Yeah Tumblr
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