They've got the year's best-selling album and single, respectively, and now Justin Timberlake and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis will go head-to-head at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, as they lead the field of nominees with six nods apiece.

Bruno Mars is close behind with four VMA nominations, while Pink, Robin Thicke, Miley Cyrus and Thirty Seconds To Mars each picked up three. Taylor Swift, Drake, Calvin Harris and Fun. are also in the running for multiple Moonmen heading up to the big show, set for Sunday, August 25 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

Timberlake's striking "Mirrors" clip earned nominations for Video of the Year, Best Male Video, Best Pop Video and Best Editing, while his team-up with Jay-Z is in the running for Best Collaboration and Best Direction. If he wins these prizes this year, JT will add them to his already impressive haul of Moonmen, having won seven at previous VMAs.

Meanwhile, Macklemore & Lewis are hoping to take home their first awards. Their massive hit "Thrift Shop" is up for Video of the Year, and their follow-up single, landed nods for Best Hip Hop Video, Best Cinematography, Best Direction and Best Editing. The equality anthem earned the dynamic duo their sixth nomination, for Best Video with a Social Message.

Mars continues to roll, as his clip is up for Video of the Year, Best Pop Video and Best Male Video. The smooth summer grooves of were also enough to garner him a nod for ...

Ed Sheeran has previously said that his new album would feature and a strong dose of Durst.

Yes, asking him for album updates has always resulted in, uh, interesting answers, so now that the record is nearing completion, we posed the question to him one more time. So, Ed, what should fans be getting ready for?

"Fans can expect songs. Good songs," Sheeran deadpanned. "Though I'm not 100-percent through with the production yet, I keep changing my mind about the songs."

So there you have it: Ed Sheeran's new album will feature songs. Good ones. Unless he changes his mind about them, that is. Sheeran added that the album is "finished," and joked that "I should be putting it out soon, [but] I keep adding songs to it." So, really, it seems like there's still a fair amount of uncertainty surrounding the follow-up to his + album ... though Ed is adamant about one thing: It most certainly won't feature any new collaborations with Taylor Swift.

"There's been no talks with Taylor about writing tunes, because when we both have time off, we just want to have time off," he said. "And she's got a beautiful new house, which is always fun to hang out in. I don't want to pick up a guitar and be like 'Hey, let's write another hit song!' I just want to chill; she's got a pool table, I quite like that."

And though he's been working with several hip-hop producers on the new album, Sheeran also said that his new music probably won't ...

Ryan Gosling will make his directorial debut next year with the fantasy "How to Catch a Monster" (which he also wrote), but in the meantime, he's re-teaming with "Drive" auteur Nicolas Winding Refn for the crime thriller

Set in Bangkok, the film centers around drug smuggler Julian (played by Gosling), who is convinced by his mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) to avenge the death of his brother. It's a dark, blood-tinged drama, to be sure, and much like Gosling and Refn's previous collaboration, finds the actor relying more upon his body language and facial expressions to convey emotion rather than lengthy lines of dialogue.

As Gosling explained to MTV News, this largely silent, stoic approach called to mind a certain video game.

"I feel like it reminded me of a video game, you know?" Gosling mused. "Like, you know, in a game like 'Grand Theft Auto.' Like, if you don't play the game, you can still, you can cause an accident. The extras in the game are still walking around in their little computer lives, and you can just follow them around."

And much like, "Drive," "Only God Forgives" will likely be a divisive film — you'll either love it...or not. Regardless, Gosling said he was impressed that, with all of his options, Refn chose a follow-up project a bit more intimate than a summer blockbuster.

"You know, we're pretty good friends," Gosling said of Refn. "I know he had a lot of options after 'Drive,' and there's a lot of, you know, big names and budgets being thrown around, and he still ...

Kanye West's acting chops were put on display Tuesday (July 16) when a 4-minute clip from his unnamed, never-aired 2008 HBO show circulated online. West has been called "awkward" and told "don't give up your day job," but West's co-star Alison Quinn told MTV News that "he was a good improviser."

The clip — which features an awkward encounter between Kanye West, a Make-A-Wish kid and his supervisor, played by Quinn — surfaced this week on the Web, originating from Quinn's YouTube channel, where it had previously gone unnoticed for the last three years.

The video was taken off YouTube on Tuesday due to copyright right claims from HBO. Still, there is a shorter version of the scene still available on Quinn's channel.

The actress, who also appeared on "Curb Your Enthusiasm," has no idea how the video started spreading around the Web. "I didn't think it was that big of a deal," she said. "My manager had wanted to put it up, because it didn't air, so that they could send a link to the casting directors. I didn't really think anyone would ever see it."

After auditioning for "Curb Your Enthusiasm," Quinn was picked up for the unnamed pilot. The Kanye project was intended to be a single camera show in the style of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," and writer and producer Larry Charles, who executive produces "Curb," was also tied to it. Kanye, at the time, called himself "the black Larry David," according to Charles.

Back in 2008, however, Charles said that the show ...

The aftermath of Saturday's not guilty verdict in the George Zimmerman trial has left many young people asking: Where do we go from here?

"RapFix Live" will attempt to tackle that tough question and address other communal concerns with rapper and activist Wyclef Jean, Prodigy, Styles P, DJ Khaled and many more on Wednesday at 4 p.m. ET/ 1 p.m. PT on MTV Jams and RapFix.MTV.com.

After two days of deliberation, a Sanford, Florida jury found George Zimmerman not guilty in the February 2012 shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin, igniting protests from New York to Los Angeles. Artists and celebrities have expressed their thoughts through social networking sites and some through song.

Young Jeezy released his Trayvon dedication Raheem Devaughn and Styles P put out and Wyclef dropped the video for The latter follows a teenager walking down the street in a hooded sweatshirt, talking to his girlfriend on the phone, in an effort to mirror Trayvon's last moments before he was fatally shot. "He could've been the next president, he could've been the next Steve Jobs," 'Clef sings in a reggae-tinged melody.

Last year, a month after Trayvon's death, Killer Mike and Prodigy appeared on to discuss their feelings on the case. Mike called it "an assassination," and Prodigy, who checked in to the show via Skype, believed that Zimmerman murdered the teen. "The dude, Zimmerman, I don't know what he thought he was doing, but he murdered that kid for no reason," Pee said.

Prodigy will return to the ...