The furore surrounding Kanye West gave MTV.com it's second largest daily unique visits

"One day after 2.7 million unique visitors gave MTV.com its best VMA premiere day in the site's history, 5.5 millionpeople visited the site on Monday, September 14 to recap and experience more
from the "2009 MTV Video Music Awards," tying MTV.com's second-place record for unique visitors, all-time. The site saw 53.4 million page views, marking the second-highest day overall for the site. 17.9 million video streams were watched across the site on Monday, a whopping 64% increase from the day after the "2008 MTV Video Music Awards" and the second highest stream total in MTV.com's history."
Source: MTV press release, published by Reuters, 16th September 2009