Mariah Carey [ tickets ] and The Killers [ tickets ] are the latest additions to the list of performers scheduled to appear at this year's MTV Video Music Awards, set for Aug. 28.

They'll join previously announced VMA performers Kanye West, Kelly Clarkson and Green Day.

The hits compilation "NOW! That's What I Call Music! Vol. 19" logs its second consecutive week atop The Billboard 200 album chart, holding off the solo debut of rapper Young Jeezy [ tickets ], who enters the chart at No. 2 with "Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101."

Mariah Carey's Top 5 mainstay "The Emancipation of Mimi" falls one slot to No. 3, while comedian Dane Cook's "Retaliation" debuts at No. 4, marking the first Top 5 showing for a comedy album since Steve Martin's 1979 set "A Wild and Crazy Guy," according to Billboard.

Jason Mraz enters the chart at No. 5 with his sophomore album, "Mr. A-Z."

Motown great Martha Reeves, who scored hits including "Dancing in the Street" and "Heat Wave" while fronting Martha & The Vandellas, has advanced in her run for a Detroit City Council seat.

With the vast majority of the votes counted, Reeves was running in ninth place among 120 candidates in a primary election held Tuesday (8/2), enough to earn her a spot among 17 council hopefuls on November's general-election ballot.

Franz Ferdinand [ tickets ]'s upcoming sophomore album, which previously was to be the band's second self-titled set, will instead be dubbed "You Could Have Had It So Much Better with ...."

The set's early October release date is unaffected by the title and cover-art change.