Woman Gaga arrives on the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. Picture: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP
NEW YORK — Abracadabra, really feel the beat below your ft — Woman Gaga is again on prime.
The “Mayhem” musician tops the 2025 MTV Video Music Award nominations with 12, ending Taylor Swift’s two-year run within the prime spot.
Woman Gaga is up for finest collaboration, pop, course, artwork course, cinematography, enhancing, choreography, visible results, in addition to tune, video, album, and artist of the yr.
Rounding out the artist of the yr class nominees introduced Tuesday are Unhealthy Bunny, Kendrick Lamar, Morgan Wallen, and The Weekn,d in addition to Beyoncé and Swift. The latter two are particularly noteworthy as a result of the 2 pop powerhouses are tied for the title of most profession whole VMAs. Every has 30.
Beyoncé and Swift are solely nominated within the artist of the yr class at September’s VMAs, so if considered one of them wins, they’ll turn out to be the most-awarded musician in VMA historical past.
Woman Gaga is adopted carefully by Bruno Mars, with 11 nominations. Lamar has 10. Sabrina Carpenter and first-time nominee Blackpink’s ROSÉ are tied with eight, as are Ariana Grande and The Weeknd with seven. Billie Eilish has six. Charli xcx has 5.
Voting for the 2025 @MTV #VMAs is now OPEN! 🌟🎥
And listed here are your nominees for Video of the Yr, introduced by @BurgerKing!
🚀 #ArianaGrande: “brighter days forward”
🚀 @billieeilish: “BIRDS OF A FEATHER”
🚀 @kendricklamar: “Not Like Us”
🚀 @ladygaga & @BrunoMars: “Die With A… pic.twitter.com/NcKQEFymvn— Video Music Awards (@vmas) August 5, 2025
Unhealthy Bunny, Doechii, Ed Sheeran, Jelly Roll, Miley Cyrus, and Tate McRae boast 4 every.
The highest prize of the night time, video of the yr, sees Woman Gaga and Mars’ “Die With A Smile” go up in opposition to Grande’s “Brighter Days Forward,” Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather,” Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” ROSÉ and Mars’ “APT.”, Sabrina Carpenter’s “Manchild,” and The Weeknd, and Playboi Carti’s “Timeless.”
Woman Gaga and Blackpink’s Rosé star in Bruno Mars’ new music video | Picture: The Black Label by way of The Korea Herald
The three-hour present will broadcast stay on CBS on Sunday, Sept. 7, at 8 p.m. Japanese and 5 p.m. Pacific, broadcast stay from the UBS Area simply outdoors New York Metropolis. It can additionally simulcast on MTV and be obtainable to stream on Paramount+. A one-hour, stay preshow will air throughout Paramount Media Networks.
CBS is residence to quite a lot of award reveals, together with the Tony Awards and the American Music Awards. It has aired the Grammys since 1973, although that present will head to ABC in 2027.
This yr’s Video Music Awards options 33 first-time nominees, which embody Alex Warren, Blake Shelton, Brent Faiyaz, Gigi Perez, KATSEYE, and Lainey Wilson. Mac Miller additionally turned the primary artist to get their first VMA nomination posthumously.
thanks @mtv for nominating “Contact” for PUSH efficiency of the yr at this years @vmas 🖤
voting information:
10 votes per class per day
20 votes per class on double days (8/5, 8/6; and 9/5)
20 votes per class throughout energy hours (8/7 to 9/4 from 1PM to 2PM ET)voting… pic.twitter.com/mB6c8WuNTu
— KATSEYE (@katseyeworld) August 5, 2025
There are additionally two new classes this yr, finest nation and finest pop artist.
Fan voting started on-line Tuesday throughout 19 gender impartial classes and ends Sept. 5 at 6 p.m. Japanese.
Voting in one of the best new artist class will stay energetic in the course of the present. /edv
