Shakira and Ludacris will perform on the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards.

"The line-up of performers for the 2005 VMAs will be the most diverse, star-studded musical experience of the year," said Christina Norman of MTV. "The addition of the Shakira and Ludacris as performers will help take this year's show to the next level in terms of talent, spectacle, and excitement."

Shakira is nominated this year in the Best Female and Best Dance Video categories for La Tortura, which along with Daddy Yankee's Gasolina is the first ever all Spanish language video to be nominated for a VMA. This is the first time an artist will perform in Spanish on the VMA's.

Shakira met with fans in June at the Virgin Megastore in Times Square to sign copies of Fijacion Oral.

Shakira's Spanish-language album Fijacion Oral Volume 1 has sold more than 2.5 million copies worldwide since it's release in June, breaking records along the way. In the US, the album enjoyed the biggest single week sales for a Spanish language album in the history of Soundscan.

The single La Tortura has been a genre-busting sensation in the US, getting airplay on the country's biggest English dominated Top 40 radio stations while maintaining the #1 slot on the Latin Airplay charts for nine weeks.