The 2003 MTV Europe Music Awards were held in Western Harbour in Edinburgh, Scotland. The awards ceremony was held in a 6,000-capacity big top arena constructed specifically for the main event.
Making the Video is an MTV show, consisting of half-hour episodes, which chronicles the process of filming various music videos. Usually the director outlines the concept of the video and the show often includes light-hearted and humorous moments. It always concludes with a premiere of the finished video. The show premiered on June 28, 1999, and ended in 2010.
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2006.
The 2006 MTV Video Music Awards aired live on August 31, 2006, honoring the best music videos from June 11, 2005, to June 26, 2006. The show was hosted by Jack Black at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
Jamal Fincher Jones, known professionally as Polow da Don, is an American record producer and rapper from Atlanta, Georgia. He began his career as a recording artist in the late 1990s, leaving college to pursue a career with the short-lived hip hop group Jim Crow. They signed with Epic Records in 1999 and released two albums—Crow's Nest (1999) and Right Quick (2001)—before being dropped from the label.
"I Wanna Love You" is a song written and recorded by American singer Akon featuring American rapper Snoop Dogg. It was released in October 2006 as the second single from his second studio album, Konvicted. It is also featured on Snoop Dogg's eighth album, Tha Blue Carpet Treatment. This song was Akon's first #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 and was also Snoop's second #1 on the same chart. It also reached a peak of #3 on the UK Singles Chart. The track originally had Akon as a featured artist and was performed by rapper Plies from Fort Myers, Florida, but his verse was replaced by Snoop's and his name has been left out from the writers' credits. This song was #88 on MTV Asia's list of Top 100 Hits of 2007. The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration at the 50th Grammy Awards in 2008.
The 20th annual Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards were held on 29 October 2006 at the Acer Arena at the Sydney Olympic Park complex. Presenters on the night included James Mathison, Johnny Knoxville, Jesse McCartney and John Mayer.
So Fresh: The Hits of Summer 2007 Plus the Best of 2006 is a compilation of the latest songs that were popular in Australia. This particular version includes "the best of 2006", featuring the best music of all 2006 compilations. It was released on 25 November 2006. It was the number one compilation album in the 2006 End of Year ARIA Charts. The album also was certified quintuple platinum in 2007.
The second annual AVMA's aired live in the Acer Arena in Sydney on 12 April 2006 on the Foxtel, Austar and Optus platforms and was hosted by Ashlee Simpson.
The 2006 show left out the VH1 Music First Award, Best Dressed Video and Sexiest Video.
Anthony Mandler is an American film, television, and music video director and photographer.
So Fresh: The Hits of Winter 2007 is an Australian compilation album containing the latest music that were popular in Australia at the time of release. It was released on 16 June 2007. On 2 July 2007 the album was certified as platinum for selling 70,000 copies.
The 2007 MuchMusic Video Awards were held in Toronto, Ontario at MuchMusic's headquarters on June 17, 2007, and featured performances by Fergie, Maroon 5, The Used, Avril Lavigne, Finger Eleven, Hilary Duff, and others. The most nominated artists were Billy Talent and Nickelback with five nominations each.
The 2003 MTV Video Music Awards aired live on August 28, 2003, honoring the best music videos from June 1, 2002, to June 9, 2003. The show was hosted by Chris Rock at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The ceremony is best remembered for Madonna kissing Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera during the show's opening performance.
The following list is the discography of production and co-production by will.i.am. It includes a list of songs produced, co-produced and remixed by year, artist, album and song title. Alongside this, will.i.am was also a member of the production duo Jawbreakers.
So Fresh: The Hits of Summer 2008 Plus the Best of 2007 is a compilation of the latest songs that were popular in Australia. This particular version includes "the best of 2007", featuring the best music from the 2007 So Fresh compilations. It was released on 26 November 2007. The album has been certified 3× Platinum by ARIA, for shipments of 210,000+ and has spent fourteen weeks in the Compilations Top 20.
The MTV Australia Awards started in 2005 and were Australia's first awards show to celebrate both local and international acts. The last edition took place in 2009.
Hosted by Misaki Ito and Hidehiko Ishizuka, the awards show took place at the Saitama Super Arena before a live audience of 12,000 screaming music fans. The 6th annual show premiered live on MTV, Saturday May 26 to over 6.6 million homes in Japan.
So Fresh: The Hits of Summer 2010 & The Best of 2009 is a compilation of songs which were popular on the ARIA Charts of Australia in 2009, and hits in summer 2010. The album was released on 20 November 2009.
Jaycen Joshua is an American audio engineer who owns Canton House Studios in Studio City, California
