To everyone that's upset about the nominations, I explained it in my MTV thread.
The MTV awards went fan voted in 2003. The nominations are voted by fans and the winners are voted by fans. The only exception are the technical awards.
The VMA'S and EMA's are all fan voted (with the technical award exceptions:
http://www.bustle.com/#/articles/361...ious-strangers
Not many of you wanted to acknowledge that though because it means that the artists that won awards (like madonna) before 2003 won them based on merit.
The point is, with fan voting, of course the most popular people are going to be nominated. If you're unhappy with this I suggest you complain to MTV to go back to Academy voting. MTV did actually recognise fan voting isn't great when they got enough complaints in regards to the MTV MOVIE awards and changed them back to acaemy voting.
Learn about their attempt to restore credibility here
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...-voting-315729
So you can't really have it both ways. You can call these awards unfair, sure. I can agree... but that also means the artists that won awards before 2003 did so based on the
quality of their work and you will have to acknowledge that