Linkin Park have been nominated for two awards at MTV's Video Music Awards which air live from Miami on August 29th. For the first award, LP hopes to win their third straight award for "Best Rock Video" with their "Breaking The Habit" video, following the clips for "In The End" (2002) and "Somewhere I Belong" (2003). Competitors for the award include Jet ("Are You Gonna Be My Girl"), The Darkness ("I Believe In A Thing Called Love"), Evanescence ("My Immortal") and Hoobastank ("The Reason"). The second award is a "Viewers Choice Award" for Favorite Band. This years voting is different, you vote between two videos in twenty seperate groups in a playoff-esque manner. Linkin Park and "Breaking The Habit" is currently up against Kelis and her "Milkshake" video. Click here to vote. VMA Main Page Thanks to Beavis!
um...isn't double posting wrong or something? anyways.....make sure you vote as many times for LP as you can by refreshing the page....and yeah lets hope they win... can someone expalain to me how it works? if LP beat Kelis, what happens next?
In round one, it's a field of 40 videos with 20 competitions between two bands/artists. Whoever wins round one advances along with 19 other videos to round two. From there, the pack is narrowed down to 10 (round three), then 5 (round four); the final five videos.