Proving that digital bitching, whining and acrimony can totally make up for a band being, well, not good, Billboard’s Social 50 chart ( which “ranks the most active artists on the world’s leading social networking sites — YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and iLike — using a formula blending weekly additions of friends/fans/followers along with weekly artist page views and weekly song plays”) reports today that Paramore has reentered the charts based solely on the fact that recent ex-members of Paramore are publicly sniping with their former band and label.

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Fauxmosexual and “I Kissed a Girl” singer Katy Perry has been granted the prestigious honor of hosting the 15th annual MTV Europe Music Awards at the Echo Arena in Liverpool on November 6.

In addition to her hosting duties, Perry has been nominated for best new act and most addictive track. If you thought Perry wasn’t enough however, she’ll be joined by her bff and pseudo-celeb blogger of the stars, Perez Hilton, who will be hosting the official online awards show and also reporting for MTV News from the red carpet.

Grace Jones, Solange Knowles and Tokio Hotel are set to present, while Duffy, The Killers and Solange’s older sister Beyonce will be performing.

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A step-by-step guide to buying concert tickets this weekend:

1. Read this article.
2. Laugh at this article’s in-jokes and pop culture references.
3. Look up pop culture references.
4. Note ticket onsale times and go about your daily life.
5. Feed your dog.
6. Log onto Ticketmaster.com at onsale time and purchase concert tickets.
7. Complain about service charges being as much as actual ticket prices.
8. Be happy you got tickets, yet deep inside worry about if you can truly afford them.
9. Make peace with your inner self.
10. Enjoy concert.
11. Repeat.

Here is a list of highlighted concert onsale’s for this weekend:

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