Michael Jackson will be in London next month to attend the World Music Awards.
On November 15th, Michael will receive the Diamond Award, only given to artists who have sold over 100 million albums. The ceremony is taking place at Earl's Court Arena.

"The presence of Michael Jackson is very exciting for us," Melissa Corken, founder of the awards, told the Associated Press. The annual event is most famous for taking place in Monaco before it moved to America in 2004 and 2005. "We are thrilled to be bringing the World Music Awards to London, the music capital of the world."

As well as the presentation of Michael's award there will be performances from Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, Katie Melua and Andrea Bocelli. Actress Lindsay Lohan is said to be hosting.

Fans looking to purchase tickets for the event can do so from Ticketmaster.co.uk from Tuesday.
[Edited 10/29/06 13:44pm]

The "Didn't get caught touching a child this year" award?!

I am so excited!!!!!

i bet 10 bucks he called WMA and told em to make an award for him since he was making an appearence.

EmbattledWarrior said:

You can send those 10 bucks this way, please. It's the same reward others (Mariah Carey, JBJovi, ...) received in previous years.

SpcMs said:

damn
:pays out:

EmbattledWarrior said:

The word pays out, in a Michael Jackson thread, without the mention of child sex scandals..Yay!!!!!

Good for him.

That aside, the quicker he's back making music again, the better.

This award show is known for being bullshit. They only give awards if people show up, not because they deserve any awards.
For god's sake, they have Lindsay Lohan hosting the ceremony, that just says it all right there.

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[Edited 10/30/06 4:01am]

If you award him, he will come.

jayaredee said:

True, hence why they suck up to Mariah Carey all the time and not Madonna. Still, it's at Earls Court, a bus ride away from home and the cheapy front standing tickets go on sale tomorrow. I might as well givei t a go.

Id much rather hear some new music from him.

JackieBlue said:

As with most people.

double freakin' posts.
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Cloudbuster said:

Not often enough or else there wouldn’t be so many presenters accepting on the behalf of others.

JackieBlue said:

Let the circus begin!!!!
Can't wait - the hair - the outfit - the make-up!!!
Its always exciting to see how krazee he looks & sounds.
Who cares if he ever makes another record - he'll always be a fun freek show.

"im honored to accept the artist of the millenium award..thank you mtv.."
um..michael..it's just a birthday award.
oh.

purplerein said:

Very strange how MTV had on their website the "Artist of the Millenium"- Michael Jackson, along with the other winners. My local newspaper even printed ALL of the winners, including Michael, the very next day. The newspaper had gotten their info from the MTV website. Even stranger is how MTV lied and pretended that they had never given him such an award, when it was on their website. Someone at MTV and "others" went out of their way to humiliate Michael. It's sad that people would be so vindicitive to want to do such a thing. Oh well, it only reflects their ignorance.
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skyecute said:

Is this the same year that Britney Spears gave the award out ot Michael and he thought it was his?
am sorry i cant remember the full story but i thought Britney said here to present the life time achievement award with me is Michael jackson and he came on stage to take the award away as if it was his!?? is this the same story..

ThaCat said:

No, what happened was that he was told he was to receive the award. MJ's camp were all told this and fans knew beforehand too. For some very ODD reason, that's not what they'd planned. Seriously, why would they get him to fly out and come on stage to accept a bloody birthday cake and then walk off? What sorry ass segment of the show was that supposed to be? It might have been even slightly understandable if Britney had sung Happy Birthday when he walked out

Mike, why do you have to show up when I am broke and not in UK????

JackieBlue said:

isn't that the truth...lawd.

Isn't David Hasselhoff a pop megastar in Europe?

Case closed

Adisa said:

Only Germany and that was just in 1989. He had a UK Top 10 this year though mainly for ironic comedy reasons. We love our "joke" releases.

Ellie said:

It's kind of strange that his career has come to the point of just collecting accolades, no?

purplerein said:

That wasn't even a birthday award, it was just wishing him a happy birthday so he would appear on the show, I assume.

At the last World Music Awards didn't he say "You ain't seen nothin' yet".

Well, he wasn't lying, cause we sho ain't.....