Lady GaGa leads the nominations for this year's MTV Europe Music Awards and features in six categories including Best Song for Born This Way, Best Live Act and Best Female.
Katy Perry trails with four nominations and will battle GaGa in the Best Song, Best Female, Best Pop Act and Best Live Act categories.
Adele scoops a Best Female nomination along with Beyoncé and Jennifer Lopez. Adele will battle for Best Video and Best Song with her January hit Rolling in the Deep. She also vies for the Best UK and Ireland Act title, going up against Coldplay, Florence and the Machine, Jessie J and Kasabian.
Justin Bieber will be fighting solo for the men in the Best Pop Act category, which also includes GaGa, Perry, Rihanna and Britney Spears.
Meanwhile, Best Alternative nods go to Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, My Chemical Romance, The Strokes and Thirty Seconds To Mars, while the Best World Stage gong will be fought for by Snoop Dogg and Enrique Iglesias amongst ten nominees.
The MTV Europe Music Awards will take place at Belfast's Odyssey Arena on November 6 and will be broadcast live on MTV from 9pm.
