Justin Bieber Named AMA finalist For ‘Favorite Breakthrough Artist’

Justin Bieber has already received four AMA nominations, and today it was announced he can add a fifth to his list. Dick Clark Productions, producer of the American Music Awards announced today thatJustin Bieber, Lady Antebellum, Travie McCoy and Mike Posner are the finalists in the Favorite Breakthrough Artist category. This is the only AMA category where fans can text their vote and continue to vote during the show. The winner of the T-Mobile Breakthrough Artist will be revealed during the live telecast. Voting will conclude at approximately 9 p.m. ET during the show. The nominees were the top new artists based on sales and airplay from December 2009 through August 2010.

According to a press release dated 10/25/10, fans voted the last two weeks to determine the top four nominees who are now vying for the T-Mobile Breakthrough Artist Award. T-Mobile USA customers can text message using their phones by sending the letter corresponding to their favorite artist to short code “AMA” (262). Message & data rates may apply. In addition, all fans can cast their votes via the Internet at ama.abc.com. Corresponding letters to text for each artist are as follows:

• A. Justin Bieber
• B. Lady Antebellum
• C. Travie McCoy
• D. Mike Posner

This newly announced AMA nomination means that Justin Bieber now ties rapper Eminem for total noms. Both artists were nominated for a 2010 AMA Award in five categories. Bieber’s other four nominations are for Artist of the Year, Favorite Male Artist, Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist, and Favorite Pop/Rock Album.

The 2010 American Music Awards (AMS) is set to air live on Sunday, November 21st at 8/7c on ABC. Last year’s AMA Awards were led by Taylor Swift and Michael Jackson. Swift took home five AMA’s, and Jackson four. Taylor Swift took home the biggest award of the night for Artist of the Year.

About the American Music Awards:

In 1973, Dick Clark created the American Music Awards to pay tribute to popular musicians from various genres of music and to put audiences in touch with the latest phenomena in American music. Since its founding, the AMAs have honored and showcased the talents of some of the biggest names in the music industry.

About Dick Clark Productions, Inc.

Since its inception in 1957, Dick Clark Productions has been a leading independent producer of television programming. It produces perennial hits such as “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest,” “American Music Awards,” “Golden Globe Awards” and “Academy of Country Music Awards.” Dick Clark Productions also produces popular weekly television programming, including “So You Think You Can Dance” and “Shaq VS,” and owns and maintains one of the world’s most unique and extensive entertainment libraries, which includes more than 30 years of “American Bandstand” footage.

Justin Bieber Launching ‘My World’ Fragrance

Just when you thought Justin Bieber was getting back to the music with a new acoustic album, the pop star is now adding a unisex fragrance to his ever-expanding portfolio.

The fragrance, which is naturally called My World, will come not in a bottle but instead in the form of scented wristbands and dog tags, reports WWD. Bieber has teamed up with Etoile Nation Beauty to produce the scented accessories, which will hit Wal-Mart stores on Black Friday (Nov. 26).

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In an interview, the pop singer indicated that the process of choosing the notes for his signature scent is just getting underway. “They actually brought me a bunch of stuff to smell today,” Bieber said. “One of them smelled too young, too fruity. One was really good.” Bieber also stated his preference for Britney Spears’ perfume, saying that “it smells good” on girls.

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The star’s fragrance is yet another addition to an already-robust list of Bieber-branded products hitting stores in time for the holidays: a nail polish line for OPI, headphones under the Beats by Dre brand, and a collection of singing dolls dressed in his signature looks. Bieber’s memoir, “First Step 2 Forever: My Story,” also hit bookshelves in early October, while a “Fame” comic book dropped last week and his 3D biopic, “Never Say Never,” is slated for a February 11, 2011 theatrical release.

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Next For Justin Bieber: Fragrance-Filled Accessories

Another day, another new endeavor for Justin Bieber.

The singer – who already has released a memoir, will star in a 3D biopic and even has plans for a nail polish – has now announced an upcoming fragrance… with a twist!

Bieber has teamed with Etoile Nation Beauty to sell wristbands and dog tags infused with a unisex scentcalled “My World.” These items will go on sale at Wal-Mart the day after Thanksgiving.

What type of scent is Justin going for with this product?

He told WWTD that he doesn’t go for anything “too fruity” and “I actually like the Britney Spears perfume on girls. It smells good.”

Before you go out and purchase cases full of this perfume, gals, check out the following photo montage of Bieber. He attended Variety’s 4th Annual Power Of Youth Event yesterday at The Paramount Studios in Hollywood

Lady Gaga Beats Justin Bieber To One Billion YouTube Views

Lady Gaga has become the first musician to pass one billion views for their videos on YouTube.

The singer reached the mark on Sunday (October 24), beating teenage sensation and nearest rival Justin Bieber to the feat.

“We reached 1 Billion views on YouTube little monsters,” Lady Gaga wrote on her Twitter page.

“If we stick together we can do anything. I dub u kings and queens of YouTube! Unite!”

As of Monday (October 25), Lady Gaga’s Vevo channel on the video-sharing website had received 1,001,708,406 views.

The singer’s biggest YouTube hits include the video for ‘Bad Romance’, which is the website’s second biggest video with 288 million views.

Bieber has the most watched video, with ‘Baby’ accumulating more than 345 million views.

Justin Bieber Fills Ontario Arena

he cavernous Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario was filled with screaming fans Sunday.

The cause wasn’t some Halloween monster. It was smooth-faced teen-idol Justin Bieber performing a sold-out concert for his Inland fans on a school night.

The arena was configured for an audience of about 9,000. At the last minute, 100 seats were added and another 150 seats were released. Concert officials scrambled to tell radio stations so they could alert disappointed fans.

Early arrivals, mostly female, were treated to a preview of Bieber’s music from vendors and radio stations with booths outside the arena. KGGI 99.1 FM held a football trivia contest to compensate girls’ dads for being there.

Many of the girls wore Bieber T-shirts and carried hand-lettered posters on pink and orange neon paper.

Bieber, 16, is at the pinnacle of teen-idol superstardom, enjoying a popularity only achieved by a few. He has joined the ranks of Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers.

Bieber, described as a “soul-singing phenomenon” on his website, signed with a major record label in 2008 with Usher as a mentor. He has two CDs out, “My World” and “My World 2.0″ with song titles such as “One Time” and “Favorite Girl” and “One Less Lonely Girl.”

His memoirs, “First Step 2 Forever,” were released Oct. 12.

Bieber launched his headlining “My World” tour last summer, bringing him to Ontario.

Most of Bieber’s fans lined up at the arena were teens and pre-teens, not old enough to drink, drive or vote in the upcoming elections. But their lungs are fully formed and they put them to use drowning him out on such numbers as “Baby.”

It was a long evening for fans. Bieber took the stage around 9 p.m., two hours after it started.

Bieber’s show didn’t skimp on spectacle. At one point he road a heart-shaped metal swing out over the audience playing an acoustic guitar and singing “Never Let You Go.”

He made his entrance riding an elevator through a trap door in the stage in a burst of fog, an LED light curtain glowing behind him.

His talents include milking applause, as he did in “You Smile I Smile,” constantly putting his hand over his heart and then up to his ear for the audience singalong.

The program ran like clockwork. Opening acts Burnham and Jasmine V did 15-minute sets, followed by 45 minutes of 20-year-old rapper Sean Kingston.

Oh, ‘Baby’! Justin Bieber to Unleash His Signature Scent

After morphing into an action figure and adding his sparkle to nail polish, Justin Bieber is giving fans one more way to catch Bieber Fever — this time putting his own spin on scent with a debut signature fragrance. The mop-topped singer has just announced that he’ll launch My World, a unisex scent that will be produced not in bottles but instead infused into wristbands and dog tags, WWD reports. “They actually brought me a bunch of stuff to smell today,” Justin told the publication on Friday. “One of them smelled too young, too fruity. One was really good.” While the bergamot, lychee, pomegranate, cedar and musk scent is all his own, he wasn’t shy about giving props to the love-at-first-sniff scents of another pop sensation. “I actually like the Britney Spears perfume on girls. It smells good,” he said. My World will come in four designs–Icon, Energy, Tour and Web–which fans can sniff for themselves when the they launch exclusively at Walmart on Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving) for $10 a pop. What do you think of Justin creating a fragrance? Will you try My World?