MTV Special About Chris & Rihanna To Air TODAY

MTV will have a special discussing the events of Rihanna & Chris Brown's alleged domestic violence event that happened after a Pre-Grammy party. The show will feature journalists, industry professionals, and other experts explaining what this incident means for the two stars and their careers. The special will touch base on Brown's alleged domestic violence past while growing up. Dont forget to check out "Chris Brown & Rihanna: Love in Trouble" tonight (Monday Feb 16) at 6pm ETPT on MTV.
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Quick Updates

Marc Anthony will sing and wife Jennifer Lopez will speak at the Latino Inaugural Ball in DC on Jan. 18.

Attorneys for Fantasia Barrino agreed over the weekend to settle a debt with a Florida creditor to prevent the American Idol star’s $1.3 million home from being auctioned today.

Charlotte Church named her newborn son Dexter Lloyd. Dexter, 7 lbs. 5 oz, was born January 11th. He is the second child for Church and boyfriend Gavin, who also have daughter Ruby Megan.

MTV will be broadcasting from President-elect Barack Obama’s “Youth Inaugural Ball” on Jan. 20, the cable network announced Sunday.

MTV Lists Top 28 Hip Hop Songs

MTV News has chosen their top 28 commercially released hip-hop singles of 2008. Did you favorite make the list?

1. Lil Wayne - “A Milli”
2. Kanye West - “Flashing Lights”
3. Shawty Lo - “Dunn Dunn”
4. M.I.A. - “Paper Planes”
5. Fat Joe (featuring J. Holiday) - “I Won’t Tell”
6. T.I. (featuring Rihanna) - “Live Your Life”
7. Lil Wayne - “Lollipop”
8. Snoop Dogg - “Sexual Eruption”
9. Young Jeezy (featuring Nas) - “My President”
10. Rick Ross (featuring T-Pain) - “The Boss”
11. Plies (featuring Ne-Yo) - “Bust It Baby Pt. 2″
12. The Game (featuring Keyshia Cole) - “Game’s Pain”
13. Young Jeezy (featuring Kanye West) - “Put On”
14. David Banner (featuring Chris Brown and Young Joc) - “Get Like Me”
15. Maino - “Hi Hater”
16. Shawty Lo - “Foolish”
17. Rick Ross (featuring Nelly) - “Here I Am”
18. T.I. - “Whatever You Like”
19. Lil Wayne (featuring T-Pain) - “Got Money”
20. The G-Unit - “Rider Pt. 2″
21. Busta Rhymes - “Don’t Touch Me”
22. Lupe Fiasco - “Hip-Hop Saved My Life”
23. Jay-Z - “I Know”
24. Kanye West - “Heartless”
25. Lil Wayne (featuring Bobby Valentino) - “Mrs. Officer”
26. Red Cafe (featuring Fabolous, Fat Joe and Jadakiss) - “Paper Touching” remix
27. Ron Browz and Jim Jones (featuring Juelz Santana) - “Pop Champagne”
28. Busta Rhymes (featuring Ron Browz) - “Arab Money”

MTV's Aids Awareness Turns 10

MTV marks the 10th anniversary of its AIDS awareness campaign this year with an hour-long documentary by U.S. singer and Destiny's Child founding member Kelly Rowland. 

The music channel launched "MTV Staying Alive" in 1998, and has produced films, competitions and celebrity tie-ins to educate young people about the risks of HIV and AIDS and encourage them to talk about it. 

The latest initiative is a video diary featuring Rowland, who along with Beyonce Knowles helped launch the successful girl band Destiny's Child in 1990. The group split in 2005. 

In "The Diary of Kelly Rowland," the 27-year-old travels to South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania and the United States and meets young people affected by HIV/AIDS and those trying to educate people about the risks. 

"It places HIV/AIDS out in the open, and in doing so creates an openness of dialogue on the 'taboo' subject," MTV said in a statement. 

The video can be watched at www.staying-alive.org from Monday, which is World AIDS Day. 

Now Its Time To Say Goodbye To TRL

It's the end of an era for MTV.
Executive producer Dave Sirulnick said Monday that the final episode of TRL will air in November.
And, considering what MTV's program schedule looks like these days, the two-hour special—which doesn't have an exact date yet but will be shown on a Saturday afternoon—will seemingly be the most time the network has devoted to music videos all at once (minus the annual VMAs) in ages.
While this won't be the last episode ever of what premiered in 1998 as the Carson Daly-hosted Total Request Live, which helped introduce über-popsters such as Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake (as part of 'N Sync) to the world, Sirulnick agreed that the interactive video-countdown show could use a break.
Daly left his career-making venture for NBC's late-night pastures in 2003, after which a revolving lineup of VJs, including Damien Fahey, LaLa Vasquez and Nick Lachey squeeze Vanessa Minnillo, took turns hosting.
TRL, which started taping two episodes a day last year, marked its 2,000th episode on May 22, 2007. Later that year, in a nod to the fact that the show was no longer a singular destination for fans' video-viewing pleasure, producers turned to a combination of votes, chart action, downloads, ringtone purchases, radio play and Internet streaming to determine the top videos each week.
"I'm going to miss TRL," Eminem, who graced the show's Times Square studio many times over the years, 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!"
Pretty much, considering MTV is known to the current channel-flipping generation more for being the home of The Hills than the network where, for most of the 1990s, you could catch the Top 100 Videos of All Time countdown (which always ended with Guns N' Roses' "November Rain" and Michael Jackson's "Thriller" in the No. 1 and 2 spots).
Starting in November, new and viewer-tested videos will continue to have a home on the Pete Wentz-hosted FNMTV, featuring a pretaped combo of videos and in-studio performances, which had a successful 15-episode run on Friday nights this summer.

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