American R&B singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor Christopher Maurice "Chris" Brown was the big winner at Sunday night's BET Awards, taking home four awards during the live telecast from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.Brown received the first award of the night, best male R&B artist."All my fans are everything to me," he said in accepting the award. "I know it's been a long road. I just appreciate every blessing that's been put in front of me."The scandal-prone singer has had a rough couple of years. Just last week, he retreated from comments in which he used the word "gay" as an insult. He also was forced to apologize for a meltdown on the Good Morning America set earlier this year.Brown also accepted the award for best collaboration for  "Look at Me Now" featuring Lil Wayne and Busta Rhymes. He performed the song with Rhymes during the show.Also during the live telecast, there was a huge gaffe that resulted in the wrong name being called for the Coca-Cola Viewers' Choice Award. A fan who was presenting first read Brown's name, then changed to Rihanna and Drake, the latter of whom called the situation "awkward" while on stage.

But after the show ended, BET then tweeted that Brown actually was the winner of the award for "Look at Me Now."Brown won another fan-voted award as well, the FANdemonium award. He led all nominees going into Sunday night's show with a total of six noms, followed by Lil Wayne with five.Meanwhile, Nicki Minaj was named best female hip-hop artist, while Kanye West took the trophy in the male category. West wasn't in attendance, so Justin Bieber accepted on his behalf.Wiz Khalifa was named best new artist, beating J. Cole,Willow Smith,Bruno Mars and Miguel Wiz.Meanwhile, the Young Stars Award resulted in a tie, given to brother and sister Jaden and Willow Smith, children of Will and Jada Pinkett Smith. Willow Smith wore a Fresh Prince of Bel-Air T-shirt in a nod to her dad's breakout TV role.Other winners included Michael Vick and Serena Williams, named best sportsman and sportswoman of the year.

Before the ceremony began, singer-songwriter Marsha Ambrosius accepted the Centric Award from the red carpet.Also during the show, Patti LaBelle received the Lifetime Achievement Award. Cee-Lo Green dressed up as LaBelle and sang her song "Somebody Loves You"; Beyonce, Gladys Knight, Shirley Ceasar and Ambrosius also took part in the tribute."When anyone asks me who I want to be like, I always say Patti LaBelle," Beyonce told the audience.In addition, Steve Harvey was presented with the State Farm Humanitarian Award. In his acceptance speech, he said the award was a testament to God and his power, as well as his own mother.The night also featured performances from Blige and Anita Baker; Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, DJ Khaled and Ace Hood. Alicia Keys and Bruno Mars; Jill Scott and Trey Songz; and Donnie McClurkin, Mary Mary and Deitrick Haddon.

Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, dancer, singer songwriter, musician, and philanthropist. Referred to as the King of Pop, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records. His contribution to music, dance, and fashion, along with a much publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades. On June 25, 2009, Jackson died while in his bed at his rented mansion at 100 North Carolwood Drive in the Holmby Hills district of Los Angeles. Attempts at resuscitating him by Conrad Murray, his personal physician, were unsuccessful. Jackson's death triggered a global outpouring of grief. The news spread quickly online, causing websites to slow down and crash from user overload. Both TMZ and the Los Angeles Times suffered outages. Google initially believed that the input from millions of people searching for "Michael Jackson" meant that the search engine was under DDoS attack. After his death, Jackson became the best selling albums artist of 2009 in the United States selling over 8.2 million albums in the U.S. and a total of 35 million albums worldwide in the 12 months that followed his death.

As long as there are appreciators of great music, Michael Jackson will continue to live on. He has grown to become larger than a phenomenon and more like myth. It is a shrine to the man who thanks to Elizabeth Taylor became known to the world as The King of Pop.  The site has a plethora of facts, lyrics, pictures, videos, merchandise, and just about anything else from Michael that a fan can dream of. Every song from Michael Jackson’s solo career and every one of his short films is available to listen to and watch for free.

What stood out to me is the amount of love that his fans showed to him, these are real fans. In the photo galleries are hand drawn and computer rendered pieces of art that are inspired by Michael, one of his songs, or recreations of him. They are crafted with the love that he tried to show everyone in the world through music that often contained messages of hope and inspirations to fight a struggle. Through most of Michael’s career he fought a struggle. A struggle deep from within that manifested itself in an ever changing face and a retreat into his inner child. That lifestyle garnered national attention, everyone raised an eyebrow… Except for a Michael Jackson fan. Quincy Jones once said that the one thing that every one of Michael’s songs were autobiographical. If there was any truth to this then the fans knew Michael through his music. The fans knew that there was no way possible Michael would ever do the things that he was accused of. This was the beginning of Michael’s fall from grace in the United States in the eyes of everyone… Except for a Michael Jackson fan.
A fan will view this as justice; I view it as a tragic irony, Evan Chandler committed suicide shortly after Michael’s death. Evan is the father of Jordan Chandler; the two of them together accused Michael of child molestation in 1993. It has been rumored a multitude of times that Jordan has openly admitted to people close to him that he was forced to go along with it and that nothing improper had ever actually taken place. Michael Jackson fans believe this. Michael was the type of artist that thrived off of being able to make others happy, once he fell from hard from fame, he felt he had lost everything, so he retreated. So did the nation, and again that excludes Michael Jackson fans. Since the release of the first posthumous album called Michael, there have been three new videos, oddly enough without Michael in them. The first was from the duet song Hold My Hand with Akon. The video featured Akon with historical clips of Michael. The second was from the song Hollywood Tonight and told an interesting story about a girl much like the one described in the song and the last just released is from the song Behind the Mask. The thing that these videos share in common is that they are feature either largely or completely consist of fans.

The mother of two, Jennifer Lopez, also known as “J Lo” is a singer, actress, dancer, song writer, record producer, entrepreneur, fashion designer and television producer. Though her one season stint on American Idol put Jennifer Lopez back into the spotlight, the singer says she's not sure if she'll be returning for the show's 11th season.Jennifer Lopez is quite content singing and dancing especially around the issue of whether she'll return to "American Idol."

The actress and singer is promoting her album "Love?" abroad, performing and making the interview rounds. Fter her successful season on "Idol," the wife and mom says she's not under the gun to renew her contract and she's loving every second of it. "I haven't been forced to make a decision and I'm glad about that," Lopez told bbc Radio. "I'm very kind of on the fence about it, we're not really at the breaking point of 'You have to make a decision right now.' So I'm not."

Lopez said that with her busy schedule she can only take it day by day and needs to ponder what she wants to do with her upcoming year. In addition to her music, she's up for a movie that films in September and has endorsement deals for L'Oreal hair products and Gucci's kids line.