Category Archives: MTV Video Music Awards

Backstage at the VMAs, Rihanna said she’s enjoying filming “Battleship” and mentioned “True Blood” star Alexander Skarsgard.

Watch below a video of RiRi telling how Eminem convinced her to perform at this year’s VMAs:

Even though the VMAs were only half over, nothing got Twitter followers more excited than Rihanna’s surprise opening performance with Eminem. Slim Shady launched the show with a performance of “Not Afraid,” before the camera cut to Rihanna standing on the stage singing the opening chords of “Love the Way You Lie.”

Fans took to Twitter with their thoughts, and Rihanna and Eminem became two of the most talked-about performers of the night. More than 4,700 tweets per minute were posted after Rihanna’s performance, with the VMAs following her and Eminem being third most popular.
“SURPRISE!!!….just had to do it guys,” Rihanna tweeted after the performance, and fans responded in kind.

In the gallery you will find now the first pics from Rihanna’s performance with Eminem yesterday at 2010 VMA held in Los Angeles. Don’t you think that RiRi looked like a good fairy? Cute

Live Performance x49

Backstage & Audience x31

Scroll down for the complete show coverage. Pictures are still keep on coming…

UPDATES:

• Rihanna and Eminem just performed “Love The Way You Lie”!

Pictures coming in a few hours.

• We believe she didn’t walk the red carpet, since there are no pictures.
• RiRi tweeted:

“SURPRISE!!!….just had to do it guys”

• Click here or here to watch Eminem and Rihanna’s performance in medium quality.

Fast foward to 2:45.

• Click here to view a funny gif of Rihanna and Katy Perry together in the audience.

• Click here and here to view more pictures of Rihanna and Katy in the audience. Thanks, Lu!
• Unfortunately, Rihanna’s “Rude Boy” music video lost the “Best Editing” award — the only category Rihanna was nominated.
• The 2010 MTV Video Music Awards is over… and so is our coverage! Be sure to visit RihannaDaily.com tomorrow!

• Katy Perry’s new single, “Teenage Dream,” knocked Eminem’s “Love The Way You Lie” featuring Rihanna from No. 1 after a seven-week reign on the Billboard Hot 100.

• RihannaNow.com, Rihanna’s official website, has been updated with another “Loud” promotional picture!

• According to Ascap.com, a Rihanna song called “Cheers” has been written by Avril Lavigne, Jermaine Jackson and 5 other artists. We can’t wait to hear it!

• Be sure to click here and watch an amazing fan video called “The Rihanna Phenomenon”. You will be even more proud to be a Rihanna fan after watching it!

• Rihanna has recently said that she won’t be at this years VMAs, on Sunday.

• In case you haven’t checked @RihannaDaily’s Twitter lately, we’ve uploaded a few unseen Rihanna pictures to our Twitpic page.

• RiRi has updated her twitter with the following messages:

“http://twitpic.com/2mlf13 – The response to this record has been incredible THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!!”

“Special thanks to my boy @ryanseacrest …….WORK!”

Rihanna has been nominated in the following category for the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards:

• Best Editing – “Rude Boy”

Rihanna Daily is definitely not going to support this year’s show. If you wish to view the full list of nominees, click here.

Rihanna’s VMAs highlights:

2005: Rihanna performed “Pon de Replay” at the pre-show;
2006: Rihanna was nominated in the categories “Best New Artist in a Video” and “Viewer’s Choice”. Ne-Yo and Rihanna presented “Ringtone of the Year”;
2007: Rihanna was nominated for “Video of the Year” (with Umbrella), “Female Artist of the Year” and “Monster Single of the Year” (with Umbrella). Rihanna won 2 awards and the “Umbrella” video director won the “Best Director” award. Rihanna performed “Umbrella” with her ex-boyfriend and “Shut Up And Drive” with Fall Out Boy;
2008: Rihanna opened the 2008 VMAs performing “Disturbia“. “Take A Bow” was nominated for “Best Female Video” and the video’s director was nominated for “Best Direction in a Video”. Rihanna also performed “Live Your Life” with T.I.;
2009: Rihanna didn’t attend the awards show.

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Afterall she didn’t appear at the ceremony but she did show up at the official after party looking extremly casual and sweet at the same time! Update: Fellow singer Shontelle was also going to attend VMA but she didn’t go either! Suspicious!

We don’t know why, but Rihanna did not attend the 2009 Video Music Awards. She and Stevie Boi confirmed that she would be there, but there was not sign of her. Maybe RiRi just changed her mind. This was the first time Rihanna was not there since the beggining of her career, in 2005.

However, “Live Your Life”, by T.I. feat. Rihanna, won the award of “Best Male Video” – congratulations to T.I., Rihanna and the fans who voted!

Don’t forget that Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kanye West will perform “Run This Town” at the Jay Leno Show tomorrow in Los Angeles!

All the 2009 VMA updates will be posted here. If you want to get all the latest news about it, refresh this page to check the updates.

• 5:50PM (NYC time): Julie Chang, a reporter for Fox 5 New York, updated her Twitter with the following message: At the VMAs, Rihanna just walked by. We don’t know if it’s true or not, we will know in the next hours.

• 6:20PM (NYC time):  More people on Twitter are saying that Rihanna is really there. She may do something special, there’s no reason for her to arrive so early. Let’s wait and see!

• 6:30PM (NYC time): Click here to watch the red carpet live.

• 7:00PM (NYC time): The awards shows will start in 2 hours! If you don’t have MTV, you can watch it live here.

• 7:55PM (NYC time): The celebrities are already walking the red carpet, there’s no sign of Rihanna yet.

• 8:15PM (NYC time): The awards show will start in 45 minutes! As usual, Rihanna is one of the latest to walk the red carpet – don’t forget that she may not walk the red carpet, like she did at the 2008 MTV Movie Awards.

• 8:30PM (NYC time): The fans are screaming Rihanna’s name all the time. Still no sign of her!

• 8:50PM (NYC time): No sign of Rihanna…

• 8:55PM (NYC time): Well, looks like RiRi is really not going to walk the red carpet. Hopefully we will see backstage/audience pictures. The 2009 MTV Movie Awards will start in 5 minutes! Be sure to watch, hopefully Rihanna will surprise us.

• 9:30PM (NYC time): No sign of Rihanna…

• 9:45PM (NYC time): No sign of Rihanna…

• 10:10PM (NYC time): No sign of Rihanna…

• 10:30PM (NYC time): Still no sign of Rihanna! Well, seems like she changed her mind, because last night she said she was going to attend!

• 10:35PM (NYC time): “Live Your Life”, by T.I. feat. Rihanna, won the award of “Best Male Video” – congratulations to T.I., Rihanna and the fans who voted! They were not there to receice the moonman.

• 11:30PM (NYC time): The 2009 Video Music Awards is over and so is this coverage. Rihanna did not attend the awards show.