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The countdown has begun to one of Europe’s biggest and most prestigious live music events. The 16th Annual 2009 Europe Music Awards will take place at the O2 Arena and in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on Thursday 5th November 2009. This year’s awards will be part of a week-long celebration for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. This is the fourth time that the Awards will be held in Germany as it returns to the original city where it was launched in 1994. The O2 Arena is a state-of-the-art, 17,000 seat, multi-purpose venue and is one of the most modern multifunction arenas in the world.

The MTV EMA”s features phenomenal live performances, astronomical presenters, and the winners are chosen by the people who really matter...YOU! The most successful names in rock and pop will descend on the city as it celebrates artist in the following catagories: Best Song, Best Live Act, Best Group, Best New Act, Best Female Artist, Best Male Artist, Best Urban Act, Best Rock Act, Best Alternative Act, as well as regional Awards for artist across Europe. In 2008 the Awards were broadcast in over 40 countries, was hosted by Katy Perry, and featured performances by artists including Beyoncé, P!nk, The Killers, Estelle, Kanye West and Kid Rock.

Beyoncé
"Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"

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Beyoncé

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Tokio Hotel

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maNga

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Pixie Lott

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Eminem

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Lady Gaga

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Placebo

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Linkin Park

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Beyoncé
"Halo"

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Green Day

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Jay-Z

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U2

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Best Song Beyoncé - 'Halo' Black Eyed Peas - 'I Got A Feeling' David Guetta feat. Kelly Rowland – ‘When Love Takes Over’ Kings Of Leon - 'Use Somebody' Lady GaGa - 'Pokerface'	Best Male Eminem Jay-Z Kanye West Mika Robbie Williams
Best Live Act Beyoncé Green Day Kings Of Leon Lady GaGa U2	Best Urban Ciara Eminem Jay-Z Kanye West T.I
Best Group Black Eyed Peas Green Day Jonas Brothers Kings Of Leon Tokio Hotel	Best Rock Foo Fighters Green Day Kings Of Leon Linkin Park U2
Best New Act Daniel Merriweather La Roux Lady GaGa Pixie Lott Taylor Swift	Best Alternative Muse Paramore Placebo The Killers The Prodigy
Best Female Beyoncé Katy Perry Lady GaGa Leona Lewis Shakira	Best Video Beyoncé – ‘Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)’ Britney Spears – ‘Circus’ Eminem – ‘We Made You’ Katy Perry – ‘Waking up in Vegas’ Shakira – ‘She Wolf’
Best Push Artist Daniel Merriweather Hockey La Roux Little Boots Metro Station Pixie Lott The Veronicas White Lies	Best World Stage Performance Coldplay Kid Rock Kings Of Leon Lady GaGa Linkin Park

GENERAL VIEWING & ATTENDANCE
• The MTV Europe Music Awards will be broadcast to a global audience of 532 million homes around the world via the MTV global TV network.

WHEELS AND RIDES
• MTV has commissioned over 120 Limousines/MPVs to move artists around the city of Berlin, 70 buses to transport VIP guests to and from the O2 World and the surround events and parties/hotels.
• 60 cars have been hired for VIP and crew transportation and 2 boats on River Spree will be used for sponsor hospitality.

CRIBS
• Crew, guests, media and talent attending the Awards have so far booked 1,400 flights to Berlin.
• More than 1,500 hotel rooms have been booked in the city, representing over 5,000 individual room nights.

BACKSTAGE & CREW
• The backstage area at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2009 contains 6625m² of temporary office structures. This area will contain 700 power sockets, 600 tables, 2000 chairs, 550 walkie talkies, 32 photocopiers and 50km of standard lighting cable. All the tables lined up end to end would stretch more than a mile.
• Over 40 artist dressing rooms will be equipped with a list of furniture including a total of 50 sofas, 70 tables, 130 chairs, 51 mirrors, 30 coffee tables and 45 dress rails.
• The EMA production team will be creating 1,800 laminated passes for crew, talent, executives and media working at the MTV Europe Music Awards.

STAGE & SET
• The set has been designed by celebrated German stage and set designer Florian Wieder who previously worked on the MTV Europe Music Awards in Munich and Edinburgh.
• The architecturally inspired set includes cues and imagery from Berlin’s celebrated cultural life and landmarks.

GLITZ AND GLAMOUR
• The EMA Glam Squad once again will be headed by the PRO MAC team, headed by James Malloy.
• MAC is a great supporter of the EMAs with their fabulous palette of colours and glitters. Artists and dancers involved in the show will use 600 false eye lashes, more than 25 different glitters, 60 eye shadows, 300 nail polishes, 20 pots of loose powder, 200 powder puffs and 125 different shades of lipstick. They will be applied by makeup artists using 1,000 makeup sponges and 1,200 makeup brushes.
• Makeup for dancers and artists will be supplied by over 40 makeup artists, ten of whom will be from top Frankfurt-based makeup agency Crew Sistars They will be working 10 hour days from Monday 2nd November until the night of the show.
• For the fourth year running talented graffiti artist "The Urbanizt" will be providing stylish finishing touches for the performers – from graffiti on Snoop's clothing to Nellie Furtado's graffitied arms.
• Jason and India Miller from the internationally renowned Charlie Miller salon will be heading the looks for the hair team. They have been working with the Glam Squad since the Edinburgh Awards in 2003.
• To keep the artists perfectly coiffed, MTV is trucking into town with 200 wigs, 500 hair pieces, 1,500 hair products, 20 wig blocks and 60 poly heads.

FOOD AND DRINK
• Artists’ meals, snacks and treats will be provided by specialist catering outfit Eat Your Hearts Out – a veteran of many MTV Europe awards shows.
• Artists, crew and guests will drink 24,000 bottles of water on site at the O2 World - all of which will be recycled after the show.

SONY ERICSSON
• One-hundred hardcore music fans from throughout Europe have set out on a ten-day, 300-kilometre journey that will take them to the MTV Europe Music Awards. The FanWalkers began their trek in Hamburg on October 27 and arrive in Berlin on November 5. During their walk, each FanWalker will walk an average of 8 hours a day to get to the Awards, burning 3,120 kcal a day and sleeping 5 hours per night.

THE BEATLES: ROCK BAND
• EMA performers Foo Fighters, Green Day and Tokio Hotel, as well as nominees Kings of Leon, Linkin Park, Muse, Paramore and The Killers all have music available in the Rock Band Music Store for playing with the Rock Band music video game.

DELL
• The biggest number of people singing “Lollipop” in one recording was the 4,500 young people gathered together in Argentina.