Alicia Portugal and Jackie Barba serve as executives in charge of production. Barb Bialkowski is co-executive producer. Nominations for social categories, including group of the year and song of summer, will be announced at a later date.īruce Gillmer and Den of Thieves co-founder Jesse Ignjatovic are executive producers for the 2022 VMAs. For the third year in a row, the VMAs will simulcast on The CW Network, making the show available to an expanded broadcast audience, in addition to BET, BET Her, CMT, Comedy Central, Logo, MTV2, Nickelodeon, Paramount Network, Pop, TVLand and VH1.īeginning Tuesday, fans can vote for their favorites across 22 gender-neutral categories by visiting. The show was first broadcast from that venue three years ago. ET/PT live from Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. The 2022 VMAs will be held on Sunday, Aug. There are 26 first-time nominees this year, including Baby Keem, GAYLE, Musgraves and Måneskin, all of whom received multiple nods, as well as Anitta, Becky G, Dove Cameron, Karol G, ITZY, JID, Muni Long, Tems and Wet Leg, among others. The VMA nominees are Lamar’s “The Heart Part 5,” Latto’s “P-y,” Lizzo’s “About Damn Time,” Rina Sawayama’s “This Hell” and Stromae’s ”Fils de joie.” The Grammys are adding a similar category - best song for social change - this coming year (a special merit award, in their case, not a member-voted award). The video for good category, which the VMAs introduced in 2011 as best video with a message, has proved influential.

MTV added a new category this year - best metaverse performance. The other nominees for best longform video are Eilish’s Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles, Foo Fighters’ Studio 666, Kacey Musgraves’ star-crossed, Rodrigo’s driving home 2 u and Swift’s “All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version).” She didn’t win that year, but her fully-committed performance of “Like a Virgin” stole the show. Madonna was a nominee for best new artist at the very first VMAs in 1984. Madonna, who is second only to Beyoncé as the most-awarded artist in MTV history with 20 wins, is nominated in the revived best longform video category with “MADAME X.” Madonna’s “The Immaculate Collection” won in that category when it was first presented in 1991. Voting in that category will remain active into the telecast on Sunday, Aug. The nominees for best new artist are Baby Keem, Dove Cameron, GAYLE, Latto, Måneskin and Seventeen. The other nominees in the category are Adele’s “Easy on Me,” Eilish’s “Happier Than Ever,” Doja’s “Woman,” Lizzo’s “About Damn Time” and The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber’s “Stay.” The other artist of the year nominees are Drake, Styles, Harlow, Lil Nas X and Lizzo.Įlton John, who became a major star 11 years before MTV went on the air in 1981, is nominated for song of the year for “Cold Heart (PNAU Remix),” his hit collab with Lipa. Should he win, he’ll be the first two-time winner in the category. (Cabello won in the category three years ago, but she’s primarily pop.) Sheeran, who was the first winner in the category when it was introduced in 2017, is nominated again. The other nominees for video of the year are Doja’s “Woman,” Drake featuring Future & Young Thug’s “Way 2 Sexy,” Sheeran’s “Shivers,” Styles’ “As It Was,” and Olivia Rodrigo’s “brutal.” (Young Thug was featured on the 2018 winner in this category, Camila Cabello’s “Havana.”)īad Bunny is the first Latin artist to be nominated for artist of the year. The competition in that category includes Swift’s “All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version).” Swift is a two-time winner in the category, for “Bad Blood” (a collab with Lamar) and “You Need to Calm Down.” If “All Too Well…” wins, she’ll become the first three-time winner in the category. Should it win the top award, Lil Nas X will become the first artist to win back-to-back video of the year awards. The video is nominated in six categories. Lil Nas X, who won last year’s video of the year award for “Montero (Call Me by Your Name),” is defending his title with “Industry Baby,” his collab with Harlow that they premiered on last year’s VMAs. There are also seven nominees here for artist of the year, best collaboration and best alternative. This is in keeping with the recent awards show trend of larger fields of nominees. MTV expanded the number of nominees for its top award, video of the year, to seven for the first time in the show’s 39-year history. Lil Nas X, Chloe Bailey & More Celebrate 2022 VMAs Nominations: 'Woke Up With a Big Smile on My…

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