MTV.com News — Metallers' All Hope Is Gone loses top spot by just 13 scans.By Chris Harris The Game's L.A.X. album cover Photo: Geffen Fourteen maggots. That's all Slipknot needed to score the first chart-topping debut of their impressive, decades-plus... more info

Idolator — So the word is that the leak of Metallica's Death Magnetic last night wasn't spurred by piracy rings or someone breaking into Rick Rubin's house—nope, apparently the album's all over the Internet now because a shop in France broke the street date a... more info

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Abeano — Forget people across South Asia are struggling to cope with a severe shortage of affordable wheat and rice or the protests in Egypt, Bangladesh, the Philippines and Haiti at the cost of staple foods. If you didn’t know there was a credit crunch o... more info

MTV.com News — 'If I get lucky enough to win, I'm going to create a necklace out of it,' Perry says of her Moonman nomination.By Kim Stolz Katy Perry at the MTVu VMA Tour near Baltimore Tuesday Photo: MTV News LARGO, Maryland — On Tuesday, the mtvU Vid... more info