Jay-Z’s jarring video for 99 Problems, which depicts his own murder as a metaphor for his retirement from rapping, leads the MTV Video Music Awards with six nominations.

Teen rockers McFly were celebrating their first UK number one single last night after knocking R&B star Usher off the top of the charts.

R&B star Usher was celebrating last night after booting DJ Casper’s novelty song Cha Cha Slide off the top spot in the British pop charts.

The music awards have kept coming in for rapper 50 Cent as he won two major awards, including album of the year at The Source Hip-Hop Music Awards in Miami.