Pop singer Rihanna and rapper Drake each grabbed a leading five nominations for the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards, including for video of the year for Drake's "Take Care" featuring Rihanna.

Rihanna's dizzying visual romp in the video for her hit "We Found Love" was also nominated for video of the year, along with Katy Perry's "Wide Awake", Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know" and M.I.A. for "Bad Girls."

Perry received four nominations, second overall to Drake and Rihanna, including best female video for her inspirational anthem "Part of Me," which also is the name of her 3-D concert film that debuted earlier this month.

The awards, which will feature Alicia Keys premiering a new song from her upcoming album and a performance by British boy band One Direction, will be handed out during a televised show in Los Angeles on Sept 6. Winners are picked by public voting.

Nominees for best new artist include Fun. featuring Janelle Monae for "We Are Young," Carly Rae Jepsen for "Call Me Maybe" and Frank Ocean for "Swim Good."

Joining Drake and Frank Ocean in the best male video category are Justin Bieber for "Boyfriend", Chris Brown for "Turn Up the Music" and Usher for "Climax".

Along with Rihanna and Perry, best female pop video nods also went to Beyoncé for "Love on Top," Nicki Minaj for "Starships" and Selena Gomez & The Scene for "Love You Like a Love Song".

And in a sign of dance music's growing popularity in the United States, a new category for best electronic dance music video has been added this year. That category includes a nomination for Los Angeles DJ Skrillex for "First of the Year (Equinox)."

滬江娛樂快訊：2012年第29屆MTV音樂錄影帶大獎（MTV Video Music Awards）日前公布了全部獎項的提名名單，美國流行女歌手蕾哈娜（Rihanna）和加拿大說唱歌手德雷克(Drake) 分別獲得五項提名領(lǐng)跑，而去年大贏家之一的超人氣天后凱蒂·佩里（Katy Perry）和備受樂迷喜愛的人氣小天王賈斯汀·比伯（Justin Bieber）分別以四項提名和兩項提名緊隨其后。

據(jù)了解，今年蕾哈娜憑借個人熱門專輯《We Found Love》和Drake合作的《Take Care》在本屆VMA大放異彩，分別入圍最佳女歌手錄影帶、最佳流行錄影帶、最佳年度音樂錄影帶等五項獎項。至于最佳女歌手錄影帶入圍情況，蕾哈娜的《We Found Love》將與凱蒂·佩里的《Part of Me》、美國樂壇天后碧昂斯（Beyoncé）的《Love on Top》、嘻哈歌手尼基·米娜（Nicki Minaj）的《Starships》一較高低。

在今年含金量最高的年度音樂錄音帶的角逐方面，蕾哈娜將有兩首作品入圍，分別是大熱作品《We Found Love》和與Drake合作的《Take Care》。而其他入圍的候選作品還有去年憑借《Firework》拿下這個獎項的凱蒂·佩里，今年憑借《Wide Awake》大熱入選，澳洲另類歌手Gotye與新西蘭女聲Kimbra合唱的《Somebody That I Used to Know》和說唱女歌手M.I.A.的《Bad Girls.》也同樣入圍該項獎的角逐。

而最佳新人獎項角逐也同樣激烈，分別有近期大熱的英國人氣偶像組合One Direction、當(dāng)紅正太組合The Wanted、人氣樂隊fun.、加拿大女歌手Carly Rae Jepsen以及最近被媒體炒的火熱的R&B歌手Frank Ocean。另外，F(xiàn)rank Ocean將憑借今年的人氣作品《Swim Good》與加拿大人氣小天王賈斯汀·比伯（Justin Bieber）的《Boyfriend》、Drake的《Take Care》、美國R&B歌手克里斯·布朗(Chris Brown)的《Turn Up The Music》以及R&B超級巨星亞瑟小子(Usher)的《Climax》角逐最佳男歌手錄影帶。

據(jù)悉，第29屆MTV音樂錄影帶大獎舉辦地將花落洛杉磯斯臺普斯中心(Staples Centre)，而頒獎禮將定于美國時間9月6日周三晚舉行。目前確定出席的表演嘉賓將有美國R&B女星艾莉西亞·凱斯(Alicia Keys)以及英國人氣偶像組合One Direction，大會也將在近幾周陸續(xù)公布其他將要參加本次頒獎禮的歌手名單。

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