The Black Keys took home three awards while the Keys' Dan Auerbach won one on his own as the year's top producer

Frank Ocean is one of five artists with six nominations, a group that also includes Kanye West, Jay-Z, Mumford & Sons and Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys

Plus: Ray Romano and the "Everybody Loves Raymond" alumni stand-up for Peter Boyle, "Funny or Die" comics choose a strange new home, and their leader Will Ferrell conquers downtown L.A.

Universal faced fierce opposition from consumer groups and rival labels, especially Warner Music, which had aggressively pursued EMI as well

Snooki’s guido baby? A Kim and Kanye kiss? Whatever happens at the show, here are the parties everyone will be tweeting about on Sept 6

Only the Super Bowl and the Grammys drove social chatter more than the BET Awards in 2012

"I know her intentions were not to be offensive," Russell Simmons says of Gwyneth Paltrow's tweeted slur

Day 9: The festival winds down with baffling movies, a Roman Polanski short and a giddy Kim Kardashian

The Kardashian ex stars in a FunnyorDie.com spoof in which he gets tips on how to be douchbaggier and gets in a couple of jabs at Kanye West

And then there was that Beach Boys reunion ...

Kanye is talking with Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Qatar about serving as the backdrop for his next short film (or long music video) to "Runaway"

His firing of blogger Seth Abramovitch was "ill-timed" and based on more than single post, he says, while offering to write job recommendation and chiding the media