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 Taylor Swift seems to be the favorite to win big at the 2010 Grammys on Sunday night. To triumph, though, she'll have to beat fellow fierce ladies Beyoncé and Lady Gaga in three top categories: Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Song of the Year.

Six-time Grammy winner John Legend, who's up for another statue this year, is a big supporter of all three artists, but he has a feeling the youngest is going to walk away with the most awards.

Do you think Taylor has what it takes? Let us know, below! (MTVNews)

Tags Beyonce, John Legend, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift

Whether or not the Black Eyed Peas win one of the six Grammy Awards for which they're nominated, they'll be taking the stage in a big way on Sunday. Members Will.I.Am and Taboo promise that their performance will go beyond what they've done in other recent TV appearances.

Will.I.Am is quick to point out that the nominations mean so much for the band and having their work on their album The E.N.D. be recognized with so many nominations means so much after he says he felt that the music community didn't believe in them very much after their release 2005 Monkey Business. Will.I.Am continued:

"This one means a lot to us. People were ready to write us off like, 'What — Black? They're coming back?' 'Cause we've been away since 2005. Really we hadn't put out a record in a while. So, out of sight, out of mind, but we smashed it, like, oh my gosh."  (MTVNews)

Do you think the Peas will bring home a Grammy? Weigh in below!

Tags Black Eyed Peas, Grammy Awards, Taboo, Will.I.am

Belinda has been working on a new track, as she recently told her fans in a live chat.  Joining her on vocal duty is none other than current duet king, Pitbull.

First Jennifer Lopez, then Paulina Rubio... ahora Belinda?  Looks like Pitbull's piling up those duets with bellas Latinas, and we can't blame him.  Rumor has it he's also planning on recording a duet with the late great Celia Cruz using some new mixing technology. Is there anyone with who he wouldn't collaborate?

Either way, we can't wait to hear it!  [LatinGossip; Latina]

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Tags Belinda, Celia Cruz, duet, Jennifer Lopez, Música, Paulina Rubio, Pitbull

Felicitaciones a Tommy Torres!  El cantautor boricua was named "Compositor del Año" by the ASCAP (that would be The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, for those who don't know) for penning some of 2009's hottest songs.

Not only is he responsible for writing his own hit ballad "Imparable," which featured hermanos Jesse y Joy, pero tambien the duet between Alejandro Sanz and Alicia Keys, "Looking for Paradise."

Keep writing those hits, Tommy!

Tags Alejandro Sanz, Alicia Keys, ASCAP, Compositor del Año, Imparable, Jesse y Joy, Looking for Paradise, Tommy Torres

Que que?  Shakira vs. Wisin y Yandel?  De que estamos hablando?

Bueno -- en la lucha to be the ULTIMATE Latin music superstar, who would win?  We're picturing a Celebrity Deathmatch of epic proportions, pero con sabor latino.  Tell us, who is the bigger superstar?

Is it Shakira, the highest-selling Colombian artist of all time, humanitarian, Grammy-Award winner and belly-dancing, hip-shaking stunner?

OR, is it Wisin y Yandel, one of the hottest Puerto Rican duos out of Cayey and 50 Cent's right-hand Reggaetoneros?

YOU TELL US!!

Watch music videos by both artistas aquí!

And make sure you don't miss the show down, starting este Sábado a las 2pm EST, solo por MTV Tr3s!

Tags La Loba Vs. Los Extraterrestres, Latin Music, Música, Shakira, superstar, Tr3s shows, Wisin y Yandel

ABC's "Ugly Betty" is strutting off the primetime catwalk. The show will close its doors this May with a series finale, the network confirmed on Wednesday.  The decision to end the series was announced to "Ugly Betty's" cast and crew this morning.

The show still has four episodes left to produce this season -- and series exec producer Silvio Horta now plans to use that opportunity to tie up loose ends and wrap things up. Horta announced:

"We've mutually come to the difficult decision to make this Ugly Betty's final season, and are announcing now as we want to allow the show ample time to write a satisfying conclusion. We are extremely proud of this groundbreaking series, and felt it was important to give the fans a proper farewell."

The decision to end "Ugly Betty's" run doesn't come as a huge surprise; the show narrowly avoided cancellation last year -- but was moved from its longtime Thursday home to a rough Friday night spot this fall. More recently, the show has joined ABC's hot Wednesday night lineup, appearing earlier this month in the 10 p.m. slot.  (Variety)

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The newest addition to MTV Tr3s' music vault comes from our favorite 'Wizards of Waverly Place' star Selena Gomez. Check out "Naturally" and let us know what you think of her fresh new sound from her Kiss and Tell album!

Tags Kiss and Tell, Selena Gomez, The Wizards of Waverly Place

As donations continue to pour in from around the world, "Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief" announced on Saturday (January 23) that it has raised more than $58 million to date — a new record for donations made by the general public through a disaster-relief telethon. The preliminary figure includes donations made via phone, online and mobile, and does does not include donations by corporations and large private donors, or iTunes sales figures, all of which are still being calculated.

"Hope for Haiti Now" will continue accepting donations for six months via the following methods:

» Online: www.hopeforhaitinow.org
» Phone: 877-99-HAITI
» Text: Text "GIVE" to 50555
»Mail: Hope For Haiti Now Fund, Entertainment Industry Foundation, 1201 West 5th Street, Suite T-700, Los Angeles, CA 90017

Did you watch Friday night's telethon? Here are a few of the noteworthy performances from Tr3s favorites.

(MTVNEWS)

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Tags Agentes De Cambio, Beyonce, Christina Aguilera, Hope For Haiti, Jay Z, Justin Timberlake, Madonna, Rihanna, Shakira

The Colombian Humanitarian announced this morning that she's building a new school in Haiti through her Barefoot Foundation.

Her foundation will partner with Architecture for Humanity to build the school as well as work to provide education, school feeding, clean water and sanitation services. Shakira stated:

“There is a great need for immediate aid in Haiti, but also for longer-term reconstruction. For that reason, we are doing our small part to help Haiti rebuild and give the children affected by this disaster the chance to learn and thrive. I hope we can use some of what we’ve learned working in Colombia to help Haiti’s children recover. When we educate children we empower societies, and right now Haiti needs all of our help.”  (PerezHilton)

Well said, Shaki! Make sure you catch her alongside Madonna, Beyonce, Jay-Z, Christina Aguilera and a slew of A-list performers on "Hope for Haiti Now" which will air tonigh at 8pm EST/PST across ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, BET, The CW, HBO, MTV, VH1, CMT, PBS, TNT, Showtime, Comedy Central, Bravo, E! Entertainment, National Geographic Channel, Oxygen, G4, CENTRIC, Current TV, Fuse, MLB Network, EPIX, Palladia, SoapNet, Style, Discovery Health, Planet Green, CNN en Español, HBO Latino and Canadian networks, including CBC Television, CTV, Global Television and MuchMusic. The event will be live streamed online globally across sites including YouTube, Hulu, MySpace, Fancast, AOL, MSN.com, Yahoo, Bing.com, BET.com, CNN.com, MTV.com, VH1.com and Rhapsody, and on mobile via Alltel, AT&T, Sprint, Verizon and FloTV. "Hope for Haiti Now" will also air internationally on BET International, CNN International, National Geographic and MTV Networks International, which is available in 640 million homes worldwide. "Hope for Haiti Now" will be available non-exclusively to all terrestrial radio stations around the globe and SIRIUS XM Radio as a one-time-only radio broadcast via the MTV Radio Network and Westwood One.

"Hope for Haiti Now" has begun accepting donations and will benefit Oxfam America, Partners in Health, the Red Cross, UNICEF, United Nations World Food Programme, Yele Haiti Foundation and the newly formed Clinton Bush Haiti Foundation. Proceeds from the telethon will be split among each organization's individual funds for Haiti earthquake relief. With the exception of the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, each partner organization was selected for its history of operation and collaboration within the NGO community in Haiti.

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Tags Agentes De Cambio, Beyonce, Christina Aguilera, Hope For Haiti, Jay Z, Madonna, Shakira

Amid her signature head-swimming whirl of masks, barely there leather and feather outfits, complicated headgear, and lurching dance moves, Lady Gaga proved one very simple point at Wednesday night's kickoff of her sold-out four-night Monster Ball stand at historic Radio City Music Hall: You can go home again.

For nearly two hours, Gaga put on an eye-popping clinic of perverse dance theatrics in a grand hall that was miles away, literally and figuratively, from the grimy clubs where she got her start playing to a handful of people just a few years ago.

Even with conservatively dressed VIPs in the house like Donald Trump, a quick scan of the glitter-blasted crowd provided definitive proof that you'd entered Gagaland. From the couple rocking Batman wings to lovingly re-created replicas of Gaga's red lace headdress and bow-tied hairpiece, the lobby of Radio City was jammed with a galaxy of girls tottering giraffe-like on impossibly high heels, couples wearing matching silver-spangled tops and hot pants, and enough feather boas to make ostriches fear for their lives.

In Gaga's first show since canceling and postponing a string of gigs due to exhaustion last week, she was seemingly back at full tilt, opening the spectacle wrapped in a suit made of Christmas tree lights and moving mechanically behind a screen covered in a "Tron"-like green grid. Gyrating on the fog-shrouded stage to the strains of "Dance in the Dark," she was surrounded by a group of backup dancers sheathed in white body stockings with throbbing neon green chin guards that gave their faces an otherworldly glow.

She reappeared soon after, inside a glowing green box, and levitated 20 feet into the air on a white column while wearing a mirrored catsuit and playing the thumping strains of "Just Dance" on a shimmering keytar. You could definitely believe the cabaret-singer-turned-international-pop-diva when she said she didn't care about money, as nearly every song was accompanied by another outrageous outfit and space-age set piece.

The intro to "Love Game" found the stage exploding into a sea of psychedelic fractal images while her dancers writhed, Gollum-like, to a video of a raven-haired Gaga purging green liquid onto the white dress of a more demure Gaga. When the singer finally emerged, she had changed into a black metallic dress with a gauzy white skirt accented by a glowing scepter and towering black turban. Looking very Material Girl in a silver leotard and blonde Marilyn Monroe wig, she welcomed the crowd to her Monster Ball and ordered, "Now dance, mother----ers!"

Her third costume change in the first half hour found Gaga slipping into a raven black horsehair dress while her gothtastic backup crew did a vigorous "Thriller"-esque workout to the cannibalism fetish song "Monster," complete with bloody jowls. Claiming she would perish without her fans' love, Gaga splayed out on the stage coyly and screamed, "Do you want me to die?" as the crowd roared in response.

"Teeth" thumped like a Bobby Brown classic as Gaga sashayed back to her deconstructed, post-apocalyptic baby grand piano, which, of course, belched purple smoke. She then reminisced about growing up in Manhattan, thanked her fans sincerely and gave a shout-out to her dad — who was in the house — during "Speechless." Gaga performed the touching, cell-phone-waving ballad from behind billowing black feather shoulder pads and a black mask, stopping mid-song to pay tribute to the survivors of the earthquake in Haiti.

"There's a lot of people in the world right now who need our help," said Gaga, who is donating all proceeds from her Radio City finale on Sunday (January 24) — as well as merchandise sales from that night and online merchandise sales that day — to the quake victims. "Sing this so God can hear us. ... Sing this for the people of Haiti!"

"I bled to death on domestic television right here to show you how much I love you," she said during her beer-hall version of "Poker Face," recalling that it was at Radio City where she feigned suicide at last year's MTV Video Music Awards. Then, to really show her love, she pointed a machine gun at the crowd and pulled the trigger, emitting a stream of explosive sparks before sitting back down to end the song by shouting, "I love my hometown!"

For the club anthem "Boys Boys Boys," Gaga left little to the imagination, donning a barely-there red leather bikini, matching sparkly captain's hat, red raccoon-eye makeup and black boots for a raucous shout out to her very vocal gay fanboys.

Moving stiffly against a starry background, the frenetic singer saved her most outrageous getup for "Paparazzi," during which two male dancers led her stiffly around by a black pole that was attached to her hair by two giant silver rings. She freed herself at song's end and was carried off the stage to shouts of "Gaga! Gaga!"

The show ended with Gaga trapped inside her signature spinning set of planetary rings, wearing white pants and a mirrored bra and top with towering heart-shaped shoulder pads, rotating slowly to the Caribbean synth rhythms of "Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)." For the finale, "Bad Romance" started out a cappella before going supernova into a throbbing, ecstatic disco inferno propelled by white-clad dancers doing a vogue-y zombie dance in a sea of fog.

It was a dreamlike triumph for the self-proclaimed former freak, who wound up the night center stage appearing on the verge of tears, grimacing and flashing the universal symbol of the Gaga Nation, the monster claw, as her beloved beasties roared right back and held up their gnarled fists in solidarity.  (MTVNEWS)

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