Nominees:
Asher Roth (SRC/Universal Mowtown/Schoolboy)
Kings of Leon (RCA)
Drake (Universal Republic/Young Money)
MGMT (Columbia/Red Ink)
Silversun Pickups (Dangerbird Records)

The Breaking Woodie � (Best Emerging Artist)
mtvU is where new developing artists are test driven for the first time by the toughest critics around: college students. One of this year's newest artists will win the coveted "Breaking Woodie."

Nominees:
Grizzly Bear (Warp Records)
Never Shout Never (Warner Bros./Loveway Records)
Wale (Allido/Interscope)
La Roux (Interscope/Cherytree)
Friendly Fires (XL Recordings)
Passion Pit (Columbia/Frenchkiss Records)

Left Field Woodie � (Most Original Artist)
They are genre-busters. They resist classification. They came out of left field, and we are still not sure what section of the record store to find them.

Nominees:
Amanda Blank (Downtown Records)
Janelle Monae (Bad Boy Records)
Major Lazer (Downtown Records)
Jay Reatard (Matador Records)
Tech N9ne (Strange Music Inc)

Best Video Woodie � (Best Video of the Year)
The music video that is so incredible, we would watch it even without the music.

Nominees:
Matt & Kim "Lessons Learned" (Cornerstone/Fader)
The Dead Weather "Treat Me Like Your Mother" (Warner Bros./Third Man)
Death Cab for Cutie "Grapevine Fires" (Atlantic)
Anjulie "Boom" (Hear Music)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Heads will Roll" (DGC/Interscope)
Kid Cudi "Day N Nite" (G.O.O.D Music/Fool's Gold/Universal Motown)

Performing Woodie � (Best Tour)
For those artists who take to the road and never let up, always giving that memorable live performance.

Nominees:
Green Day (Reprise/Warner Bros.)
Phoenix (Glassnote)
3OH!3 (Atlantic/Photo Finish)
Animal Collective (Domino)
POS (Rhymesayers)

The Good Woodie � (Greatest Social Impact)
The award for the artist whose commitment to a social cause has effected the greatest change this year.

Nominees:
John Legend (Columbia Records) � Show Me Campaign
John Legend founded the Show Me Campaign to help end poverty through sustainable development at the individual, family, and community levels. H is organization works closely with Millennium Promise and the people of Mbola,Tanzania to implement practical solutions to poverty including cle an water, improved health care and education, higher-yielding agriculture, and internet connectivity.

Wyclef Jean (Columbia Records) � Yele Haiti
Wyclef Jean has been active in his support of his native country and created the foundation Y�le Haiti to provide humanitarian aid and assistance to Haiti. Y�le Haiti is a non-political organization intended to empower the people ofHaiti and the Haitian diaspora to rebuild their nation.

Kenna (Interscope Records) � PlayPumps
Kenna began working closely with PlayPumps at the beginning of 2009 in an effort to bring 100 PlayPumps water systems to Africa. PlayPumps' goal is to provide access to clean drinking water to ten million people. Kenna also started his own organization, called Summit on the Summit, with the intent to promote safe water drinking worldwide and to teach the importance of setting and attaining goals � physically and emotionally � by climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro and documenting his experience.

Jamie Tworkowski � To Write Love on Her Arms
Jamie Tworkowski founded To Write Love on Her Arms (TWLOHA), a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for those struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire, and to invest directly into treatment and recovery.

Ra Ra Riot (Barsuk Records) � John Ryan Pike Memorial Foundation
When the band's 23-year-old drummer, John Pike, passed away tragically, his family and the band formed the John Ryan Pike Memorial Foundation, to encourage and promote music and the performing arts.

Alicia Keys (J Records) -Keep a Child Alive/AIDSactivism
Alicia Keys is a devoted AIDS activist and philanthropist. In 2003, she co-founded Keep a Child Alive (KCA), a people's movement that provides life-saving AIDS medicine and surrounding care to children and families in Africa andIndia. KCA also provides support to AIDS orphans left behind to keep the most vulnerable children out of harms way.

Radio Woodie � (Best Campus Radio Station)
For the station out there breaking the latest, emerging music, acting as pioneers in the industry.

Top 25 radio stations can also be found on http://radiowoodie.ratemyprofessors.com/. Final five nominees will be announced on October 26.


Best Music on Campus Woodie -
Final five nominees will be announced on November 2.

The "2009 mtvU Woodies" are Executive Produced by Ross Martin and Eric Conte. Tracy Hellerud is Supervising Producer. Joe Buoye is Executive-in-Charge of Production.

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