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See how the newcomers, hitmakers and veterans stacked up. 9/8/2025 Sabrina Carpenter performs during the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Arena on September 07, 2025 in Elmont, New York. Mike Coppola/Getty Images The 2025 VMAs have wrapped, with Lady Gaga walking away from the USB Arena in Elmont, N.Y., with the most Moon Person trophies this year – four in total. Well, technically Gaga left the arena before winning all four of those VMAs – after all, she had a headlining show to perform at Madison Square Garden – but she was there long enough to collect one in person before jetting off to Manhattan. Hosted by LL COOL J, the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards were one of the best VMAs in recent memory, a smart mix of newcomers who brought their A-game (and inventive visuals) and veterans who demonstrated why they’ve lasted in the game so long. Of the latter category, each one received some sort of Moon Person trophy during the three-hour telecast, with Mariah Carey receiving the Video Vanguard Award, Ricky Martin collecting the Latin Icon Award and Busta Rhymes getting the Rock the Bells Visionary Award. As with any awards show, the awards are important, sure – and based on the deeply personal acceptance speeches from ROSÉ and Ariana Grande, they seem to mean quite a lot – but most viewers are tuning in to see some incredible live music. And this year’s VMAs did not disappoint. We’re running down our ranking of the 2025 VMA performances, from worst to best, below. We’re not including the side stage performances (doesn’t really seem fair to rate a 70-second performance against a full-on song) or the pre-recorded halftime show from Gunna (though that was pretty sick). All that being said, here we go. Post Malone & Jelly Roll Usually when he’s at an awards show, Jelly Roll absolutely steals the spotlight, delivering gritty, astonishing vocals and smart, simple staging that knocks your socks off. So maybe the problem with this performance was simply that Jelly Roll and Post Malone were not actually at the show. Beamed in from an arena in Hanover, Germany, this duet on “Losers” sounded fine but just couldn’t complete with magic you get from an in-venue awards show performance. That being said, another VMA performer who did an offsite show at this year’s ceremony absolutely smashed it (more on that later). But her outlandish theatricality goes a long way toward making up for the distance; while Posty and Jelly have chemistry, this duet unfortunately faded into the background. Socks were not, in fact, knocked off. Alex Warren Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” is a certified smash, a Billboard Hot 100 topper and 2025’s song of the summer. But a ballad, no matter how powerful, is a tough proposition at an awards show, and his new single, “Eternity,” didn’t exactly set up this two-song medley to soar. When he brought out the choir for “Ordinary,” his impassioned vocals (and the audience’s enthusiasm) helped right the ship a bit. Even so, with the forest glen staging and the smiling choir singers wearing all-white outfits, the whole thing was giving a bit of “for those suffering from moderate to severe psoriasis” advertisement energy. J Balvin Certainly the night’s most colorful performance came via J Balvin, who brought a widescreen neon vision of boom boxes and palm trees to the VMAs. Justin Quiles and Lenny Tavárez joined him for recent track “Zun Zun,” before DJ Snake took over, dropping the beat for his Balvin collab “Noventa,” a thumping reggaetón track complete with dancers, a bodega storefront and gigantic shoes. Conan Gray Conan Gray gave the VMAs a queer Sleeping Beauty/Romeo & Juliet fantasia, belting his lovely, emotional “Vodka Cranberry” while draped in princely, velvety robes (and sporting some seriously luscious locks). The fairytale production was sumptuous, the fatalistic ending was romantically theatrical, and that high note he hit toward the end? Pro-level. Mariah Carey As Mariah Carey pointed out in her acceptance speech for the Video Vanguard Award, that award was her first-ever VMA. “What in the Sam Hill were you waiting for?” she asked. Well, MTV’s tardiness to honor the icon was our gain, as it was a delight to watch the elusive chanteuse take a trip down memory lane, trotting out her evil alter ego Bianca (and roller-skating dancers) for “Heartbreaker,” bringing in a string section for “We Belong Together” and touching front-row fans during “It’s Like That.” Plus, new single “Sugar Sweet” sounded great, making us even more excited for upcoming LP Here For It All (Sept. 26). Ricky Martin Prior to accepting the inaugural Latin Icon Award, Ricky Martin delivered a sizzling medley of bilingual hits, opening with his 1999 smash “Livin’ La Vida Loca” before hitting “Shake Your Bon-Bon,” “The Cup of Life” and more. His voice is a bit deeper and fuller than back in the ‘90s, but that’s not a bad thing – one thing that hasn’t changed, however, is Martin’s tireless energy and his dynamite dance moves. He’s still got it, and then some. Busta Rhymes Rapping with a speed and intensity that puts rappers half his age to shame, Busta Rhymes brought fire to the VMAs stage – not to mention GloRilla, Papoose, Spliff Star and Joyner Lucas. Ripping through “Touch It,” “Gimme Some More” and “Pass the Courvoisier,” Rhymes reminded viewers he’s one of New York’s finest. You might point out, hey, didn’t Busta do a career-spanning medley at the VMAs not that long ago? And yes, he did one of those in 2021, too. But when a performance is this strong, who cares? Sombr Sombr, whose debut studio album I Barely Know Her dropped last month, brought some ‘00s New York City dive-bar vibes to the VMAs – which is kinda funny, consider he was born in NYC in 2005. Whether singing in a photobooth or letting a dancer gratuitously lick his chest, Sombr maintained a cool insouciance in his demeanor while wailing through romantic

The eternal dissonance of the MTV Video Music Awards ostensibly celebrating a form no longer actively promoted on the brand’s flagship channel has long made the show a tricky tightrope to be walked. It’s led to a lot of confusion in category nomenclature, of course — with the nouns disappearing from categories like “best pop” and “best hip-hop,” and artists now accepting awards like “song of the summer” and “best album” that are totally divorced from the music video format. But a much bigger concern for the VMAs than what awards they should be giving out in 2025 is who they’re putting the show on for the first place: the kids who have been the lifeblood of the channel’s audience for over 40 years now, or the millennials who actually remember when music videos on MTV still moved the culture. It’s a question whose answer the VMAs annually attempts to split the difference between, usually with some balance of veteran and new performers, mostly weighted towards the latter. A few times in recent years, birthdays had even been given something of a built-in excuse to go retro, via the 40th anniversary of both the channel (2021) and the VMAs themselves (2024), and the widely celebrated 50th anniversary of hip-hop in 2023. (LL Cool J even closed the ’24 VMAs with a medley to celebrate the iconic Def Jam label turning 40.) Those anniversary-themed tributes and performances occasionally took a little too heavy a touch, but they felt timely enough and were generally spaced out well enough that they didn’t feel like they overwhelmed the newer artists — the artists who would, ostensibly, keep the show relevant enough to keep it from ever turning entirely into a Those Were the Days fest. And that’s what made the 2025 VMAs so frustrating. Those contemporary artists were there on Sunday night (Sept. 7), and basically in full effect — superstars who’d already made their share of VMA history, and rising hitmakers who already seem poised to potentially do so in the future. And yet it could be easy to lose track of them with all the stage and screen time given to legacy artists, often without a particular urgency (and certainly no over-arching anniversary peg) to their performances, and stacked within the first two hours of the broadcast. It felt like a missed opportunity to really showcase the present and future, and finally let the past take a bit of a backseat. Because the opportunity was there. What felt like a higher concentration of A-list names than in many recent years showed up to the awards; anytime you’ve got Doja Cat doing robot dance breaks with keytarists on stage while Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande boogie together in the audience to start the show, you’re getting off on the right foot. Taylor Swift was missing this year, and her world-swallowing presence was certainly conspicuous in its absence, but that also meant that stars like Doja, Gaga and Grande could step up to carry a little more of the veteran load for the evening — at least until Gaga had to book it for her own concert that night at Madison Square Garden, though she still waved to the VMAs from Manhattan via her jaw-dropping remote performance of “Abracadabra” and “The Dead Dance.” (The obvious emotion Gaga and Grande displayed in their respective speeches should also be considered a win for MTV, as them putting such clear stock in the actual awards is not something to be taken for granted in 2025.) More importantly, though, this was a great chance for MTV to really put some of the rising leading lights of top 40 front and center. Tate McRae — who with her expert-level dance moves, keen sense of staging and design and obvious reverence for TRL-era megapop, was absolutely born to play the VMAs — was an obvious contender to be a breakout performer, and she lived up to every expectation with her scintillating two-song set. Sabrina Carpenter, who’d already dominated the VMAs stage the year before, made it two-for-two with this year’s “Tears” debut, ending her performance with a too-rare statement of her backup dancers holding up signs with pro-trans rights sentiments. And just below their minted-star level, newer hitmakers Sombr and Conan Gray came correct with their own cleverly presented, excitingly delivered performances that should make for important markers on their career timelines, and continue pushing their momentum in the right direction. Hopefully fans who watched MTV (or CBS, also airing the VMAs broadcast for the first time) caught all those. But they might’ve very well missed a couple in between the three lengthy, multi-song medleys — complete both with introduction and acceptance speech — delivered in the show’s first two hours. None of them were bad, or totally unwelcome. Certainly, Mariah Carey winning the Video Vanguard award made for a nice moment — particularly given her career 0-fer at the VMAs before that, which she understandably made a faux-salty joke about during her acceptance speech. But while Ricky Martin has an inarguably massive legacy and always gives a high-energy performance, did we need to have him delivering a five-song Latin Icon medley barely 20 minutes into the show? Or Busta Rhymes, accepting the Rock the Bells Visionary award with a half-dozen-song flashback of his own — all bangers, of course, but overlapping considerably with a similar performance he gave at the VMAs just four years earlier? On their own, any of these would’ve been fine. With three in the space of the show’s first 90 minutes, it became overbearing — and we still had a multi-song Ozzy Osbourne tribute to get to, though at least that felt obviously timely following Osbourne’s passing, and was led by Yungblud, the 28-year-old U.K. rocker whose electrifying version of Black Sabbath’s “Changes” had recently brought him to a new level of stateside exposure. Meanwhile, as the VMAs were honoring Martin’s and Busta’s legacies in Latin pop and hip-hop, respectively, they were paying those genres fairly

Kendrick Lamar won his second Primetime Emmy on Night 2 of the Creative Arts Emmys, which were presented on Sunday (Sept. 7) at the Peacock Theater at L.A. Live in Los Angeles. He won outstanding music direction for The Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show Starring Kendrick Lamar, alongside co-nominee Tony Russell. The rapper won his first Primetime Emmy three years ago for outstanding variety special (live) for The Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show Starring Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, 50 Cent. Adam Blackstone won as music director of that show. The 2025 Grammys won two awards – outstanding choreography for variety or reality programming for choreographer Robbie Blue, specifically for Doechii’s musical performance on the show, and outstanding lighting design/lighting direction for a special. Barack Obama won his third Primetime Emmy for outstanding narrator for Our Oceans, a Netflix documentary series. He previously won in the category for Working: What We Do All Day and Our Great National Parks, also for Netflix. Obama has now won more Primetime Emmys than he has Grammys (two). The Saturday Night Live episode hosted by Lady Gaga won two Emmys – outstanding production design for a variety or reality series and outstanding lighting design/lighting direction for a series. Music by John Williams won outstanding sound editing for a nonfiction or reality program. Beatles ’64 won outstanding sound mixing for a nonfiction program. The latter award went to Josh Berger, re-recording mixer, and Giles Martin, re-recording music mixer. Martin is the son of legendary Beatles producer George Martin. Duncan Thum and David Bertok won their first Primetime Emmys — outstanding music composition for a documentary series or special (original dramatic score) for their work on Netflix’s Chef’s Table. Conan O’Brien won his sixth Primetime Emmy for outstanding hosted nonfiction series or special for Conan O’Brien Must Go. In addition, Conan O’Brien: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor won outstanding variety special (pre-recorded), but O’Brien didn’t personally win in that category. The late Paul Reubens, aka Pee Wee Herman, won his first Primetime Emmy as an executive producer of Pee Wee as Himself, which won outstanding documentary or nonfiction special. SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night won outstanding documentary series. The Studio was the top winner across the two nights of the Creative Arts Emmys, with nine wins. It was followed by The Penguin (eight); SNL50: The Anniversary Special (seven); Severance (six); Andor, Arcane, Love, Death + Robots and The Traitors (four each); The Boys, Bridgerton, Pee-Wee As Himself and Saturday Night Live (three each); and The 67th Annual Grammy Awards, 100 Foot Wave, Adolescence, The Daily Show: Desi Lydic Foxsplains, Love On The Spectrum, The Pitt and Welcome to Wrexham (two each). Here’s the complete list of nominees in the two music categories that were presented on Sunday, with winners marked: Outstanding Music Direction WINNER: The Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show Starring Kendrick Lamar • FOX • Roc Nation, DPS, Jesse Collins Entertainment and pgLang; Kendrick Lamar, Tony Russell, Music Directors The Kennedy Center Honors • CBS • Done + Dusted in association with Rok Productions; Rickey Minor, Music Director The Oscars • ABC • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; Michael Bearden, Music Director SNL50: The Anniversary Special • NBC • SNL Studios in association with Universal Television and Broadway Video; Lenny Pickett, Leon Pendarvis, Eli Brueggemann, Music Directors SNL50: The Homecoming Concert • Peacock • SNL Studios in association with Universal Television and Broadway Video; James Poyser, Music Director, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Music Director Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special (Original Dramatic Score) The Americas • “Andes” • NBC • BBC Studios Natural History Unit in association with Universal Television Alternative Studio; Hans Zimmer, Anže Rozman, Kara Talve, Composers WINNER: Chef’s Table • “José Andrés” • Netflix • Boardwalk Pictures and David Gelb Planetarium for Netflix; Duncan Thum, David Bertok, Composers Leonardo Da Vinci • PBS • Florentine Films & WETA; Caroline Shaw, Composer Planet Earth: Asia • “Beneath the Waves” • BBC America • A BBC Studios Natural History Unit production co-produced with BBC America and ZDF for BBC; Jacob Shea, Laurentia Editha, Composers Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story • HBO | Max • DC Studios presents in association with HBO Documentary Films and CNN Films in association with Words+Pictures, a Passion Pictures and Misfits Entertainment production in association with Jenco Films; Ilan Eshkeri, Composer Source link

It was pretty obvious that Lady Gaga was in for a big night at the 2025 VMAs, which were held at UBS Arena in Elmont, N.Y., on Sunday (Sept. 7). After all, Mother Monster is coming off one of the biggest years of her career. And she was nominated for 12 awards, more than any other artist this year. Sure enough, Gaga dominated the night, with four awards, more than any other artist. It was also no surprise that LL Cool J was a smooth and effective host. The hip-hop legend is an old pro at this sort of thing, having cohosted the VMAs in 2021 and having hosted the Grammys five times. Several of the awards had been announced in the run-up to the show, namely the Video Vanguard Award to Mariah Carey, the Latin Icon Award to Ricky Martin, and the Rock the Bells Visionary Award to Busta Rhymes. But that doesn’t mean the show was devoid of surprises. Fans got a taste of that on Sunday morning, when the list of new artist of the year finalists was cut from six to three. Alex Warren and sombr made the cut, as expected, but the third slot went to The Marías over Gigi Perez, Lola Young and Ella Langley. That wasn’t a shocker, but many figured that Young would be the third name on the shortlist. You can’t have an awards show without snubs and surprises – it’s in the bylaws somewhere – and this night was no exception. Take a look: Snub: Kendrick Lamar Lamar’s “Not Like Us” seemed to have the inside track to win video of the year. His Drake diss track and its accompanying video had swept the Grammys in February. But it won just Moon Person – best cinematographer. It didn’t even win best hip-hop, which went to Doechii’s “Anxiety.” The factor known as “recency bias” probably came into play here. The “Not Like Us” video was released on July 4, 2024, making it seem like old news at this point. (The same phenomenon probably came into play when Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” lost video of the year at the first VMAs in 1984.)  Snub: Bad Bunny How many times would you say Bunny has won best Latin, which has been presented every year since 2018 (and from 2010 to 2013, before that)? Would you believe, none. The global superstar has been nominated nine times in this category, but has never won. (He won the overall artist of the year award in 2022, he’s just had a hard time winning in the category that he should practically own.) Surprise: Tate McRae McRae won Song of the Summer for “Just Keep Watching” (from F1 The Movie). The song, which peaked at No. 33 on the Billboard Hot 100 in June, beat four songs that reached No. 1 – Alex Warren’s “Ordinary,” HUNTR/X’s “Golden,” Morgan Wallen featuring McRae’s “What I Want” and Sabrina Carpenter’s “Manchild.” There is a precedent for a song that wasn’t a top 30 hit being voted Song of the Summer. BLACKPINK’s “How You Like That,” the 2020 winner, also peaked at No. 33. Snub: Dance The VMAs have 10 genre-specific categories and yet have not had a dedicated dance category since 2019? What’s up with that? Surprise: The Extent of Female Domination Women thoroughly dominated the night. Of the 30 awards that were presented this year (including social categories and previously announced special awards), female solo artists or all-female groups won 22. Male solo artists and one all-male group (Coldplay) won six awards. The other two went to male-female collabs (Gaga and Mars, and ROSÉ and Mars). Of the 10 genre-specific categories, eight went to female artists: Sabrina Carpenter, best pop artist; Grande, best pop; Doechii, best hip-hop; Mariah Carey, best R&B; Shakira, best Latin; LISA featuring Doja Cat & RAYE, best K-pop; Tyla, best Afrobeats; and Megan Moroney, best country. Only two genre-specific awards went to male artists: sombr (best alternative) and Coldplay (best rock). Get weekly rundowns straight to your inbox Sign Up Source link

From Sabrina Carpenter crawling out of a manhole, to Lady Gaga transforming into a haunted doll to Mariah Carey earning her long-awaited first award at the ceremony, the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards certainly did not disappoint when it came to juicy moments.  Related Held at New York’s UBS Arena on Sunday (Sept. 7), the VMAs — which were hosted by rap superstar LL Cool J — saw some of music’s biggest stars descended on the arena for an evening of antics. Mariah Carey, who took home the Video Vanguard Award after a career-spanning mashup performance, remarked that this was somehow her first Moon Person in the ceremony’s history. “And I just have one question: What in the Sam Hill were you waiting for?” she jokingly growled into the microphone.  Across the other categories, Lady Gaga was the evening’s most nominated artist, earning 12 nods for her work over the last year. After making a brief appearance at the top of the show to accept the artist of the year award, Gaga also gave fans a high-octane, pre-taped performance from The Mayhem Ball of “Abracadbra,” alongside the television debut of her newest song, “The Dead Dance.”  Meanwhile, Carpenter — who was nominated for eight awards and took home album of the year — wowed audiences with her head-turning performance of “Tears.” Using her platform to advocate for queer and trans rights, Sabrina was joined on stage by former stars of RuPaul’s Drag Race, including season 17 contestant Lexi Love, while other dancers held up signs urging the audience at home to “Protect Trans Rights.”  Below, check out some of the best photos taken at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards. Yungblud and Steven Tyler Image Credit: Arturo Holmes/Getty Images Yungblud and Steven Tyler perform during a tribute to Ozzy Osbourne at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Arena on Sept. 7, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. Hale Grande, Edward Butera, Joan Grande, Frankie Grande, and Ariana Grande Image Credit: Christopher Polk/Billboard Hale Grande, Edward Butera, Joan Grande, Frankie Grande, and Ariana Grande at the MTV Video Music Awards 2025 at UBS Arena on Sept. 7, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. Tate McRae Image Credit: John Shearer/Getty Images Tate McRae performs during the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Arena on Sept. 7, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. Ricky Martin Image Credit: Noam Galai/Getty Images Ricky Martin (right) attends the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Arena on Sept. 7, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. Sabrina Carpenter Image Credit: ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images Sabrina Carpenter performs on stage during the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Arena on Sept. 7, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. Rosé and Ariana Grande Image Credit: Christopher Polk/Billboard Rosé and Ariana Grande at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Arena on Sept. 7, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. Paris Hilton, Malin Akerman, Brittany Snow, and Nicky Hilton Rothschild Image Credit: Christopher Polk/Billboard Paris Hilton, Malin Akerman, Brittany Snow, and Nicky Hilton Rothschild at the MTV Video Music Awards 2025 held at UBS Arena on Sept. 7, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. Lexi Love Image Credit: Noam Galai/Getty Images Lexi Love attends the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Arena on Sept. 7, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. Megan Skiendiel, Sophia Laforteza, Manon Bannerman, Yoonchae Jeong, Lara Raj, and Daniela Avanzini of KATSEYE Image Credit: Christopher Polk/Billboard Megan Skiendiel, Sophia Laforteza, Manon Bannerman, Yoonchae Jeong, Lara Raj, and Daniela Avanzini of KATSEYE at the MTV Video Music Awards 2025 held at UBS Arena on Sept. 7, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga Image Credit: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga attend the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Arena on Sept. 7, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. Sabrina Carpenter Image Credit: Mike Coppola/Getty Images Sabrina Carpenter performs during the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Arena on Sept. 7, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. Bailey Zimmerman and The Kid LAROI Image Credit: Christopher Polk/Billboard Bailey Zimmerman and The Kid LAROI at the MTV Video Music Awards 2025 held at UBS Arena on Sept. 7, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. Busta Rhymes and Ciara Image Credit: Mike Coppola/Getty Images Busta Rhymes and Ciara attend the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Arena on Sept. 7, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. Sabrina Carpenter and Ariana Grande Image Credit: Christopher Polk/Billboard Sabrina Carpenter and Ariana Grande at the MTV Video Music Awards 2025 held at UBS Arena on Sept. 7, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. Conan Gray Image Credit: Arturo Holmes/Getty Images Conan Gray performs during the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Arena on Sept. 7, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. Joe Perry, Steven Tyler, and Yungblud Image Credit: Noam Galai/Getty Images Joe Perry, Steven Tyler and Yungblud attend the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Arena on Sept. 7, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. Doja Cat and FKA twigs Image Credit: Christopher Polk/Billboard Doja Cat and FKA twigs at the MTV Video Music Awards 2025 held at UBS Arena on Sept. 7, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. Busta Rhymes and Tyla Image Credit: Noam Galai/Getty Images Busta Rhymes and Tyla attend the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Arena on Sept. 7, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. Get weekly rundowns straight to your inbox Sign Up Source link

Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande were the big winners at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards, which were held at UBS Arena in Elmont, N.Y., on Sunday (Sept. 7). Gaga won four awards, more than anyone else, but Grande took the highest profile award, video of the year, for “Brighter Days Ahead.” Gaga became the second two-time winner for artist of the year, which was introduced in 2017. Taylor Swift was the first. Gaga’s four awards up her career total to 22, which puts her in third place on the all-time leaderboard, behind Swift and Beyoncé, who lead with 30 wins each. Gaga’s new wins enable her to pull ahead of Madonna, once the VMAs leader, who has won 20 Moon People. Women thoroughly dominated the night. Of the 30 awards that were presented this year (including social categories and previously announced special awards), female solo artists or all-female groups won 22. Male solo artists and one all-male group (Coldplay) won six awards. The other two awards went to a pair of male/female collabs (Gaga and Bruno Mars, as well as ROSÉ and Mars). Of the 10 genre-specific categories, eight went to female artists: Sabrina Carpenter, best pop artist; Grande, best pop; Doechii, best hip-hop; Mariah Carey, best R&B; Shakira, best Latin; LISA featuring Doja Cat & RAYE, best K-pop; Tyla, best Afrobeats; and Megan Moroney, best country. Only two genre-specific awards went to male artists: sombr (best alternative) and Coldplay (best rock). Gaga also took best direction for her work on “Abracadabra” (which she co-directed with Bethany Vargas and Parris Goebel). This is the sixth year in a row that an artist has won in that category for directing or co-directing their own video. Swift has won four times times since 2020 as the sole director of her videos. Lil Nas X won four years ago for co-directing “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” with Tanu Muino. Gaga and Mars won best collaboration for “Die With a Smile.” It’s Gaga’s third win in the category, following “Telephone” (featuring Beyoncé) and “Rain on Me” (with Grande). This puts Gaga in a tie with Swift for the most wins in this category. Swift won for collabs with Kendrick Lamar, Zayn and Post Malone. In addition to winning video of the year, “Brighter Days Ahead” also won best long-form video. It’s only the fourth time that award has been presented. Previous winners are Madonna’s The Immaculate Collection (1991), Beyoncé’s Lemonade (2016) and Swift’s All Too Well: The Short Film (2022). Like Grande, Sabrina Carpenter won three awards, including album of the year for Short n’ Sweet. That same album won best pop vocal album at the Grammys in February. Other multiple winners on the night were Mars, Tate McRae, Doechii and Mariah Carey, with two each. Mars was the only male artist to score multiple wins. In addition, ROSÉ and Lisa won two awards, if you combine their best group win with BLACKPINK and their individual wins. ROSÉ won song of the year (in tandem with Mars) for “APT.” Lisa won best K-pop (with “Born Again,” which featured Doja Cat & RAYE). MTV spread the riches around this year, as seen in the fact that no one received more than four wins. Even so, some artists were shut out, despite hefty numbers of nominations. These include The Weeknd (seven nods), and Bad Bunny, Ed Sheeran, Jelly Roll, Miley Cyrus and Morgan Wallen (four nods each). Alex Warren won best new artist, becoming the first man to win in the category since Khalid in 2017. Warren prevailed over sombr and The Marías. (Ella Langley, Gigi Perez and Lola Young, who were nominees initially, didn’t make the cut to the final three.) All six artists are seen as strong candidates in the upcoming Grammy race for best new artist. (Grammy nominations will be announced on Nov. 7.) BLACKPINK won best group, marking the seventh year in a row that a K-pop group has won in this category. Since the category was revived in 2019, it has been won by BTS four times, by BLACKPINK twice and by SEVENTEEN once. Lisa won best K-pop for the third time, putting her in a tie with BTS for the most wins in the category (which originated in 2019). Lisa won this year in tandem with Djoja Cat and RAYE for “Born Again.” Carey won best R&B for “Type Dangerous” – her first VMA win. She also received the Video Vanguard Award. At 56, she’s the oldest recipient of that award to date. She’s the first recipient of that award since the Beastie Boys in 1998 who had (at the time of her selection) not previously won a single VMA. Megan Moroney’s “Am I Okay?” was the inaugural winner of best country, a category the VMAs finally added in its 42nd year. McRae won Song of the Summer for “Just Keep Watching” (from F1 The Movie). The song, which peaked at No. 33 on the Billboard Hot 100 in June, beat four songs that reached No. 1 – Alex Warren’s “Ordinary,” HUNTR/X’s “Golden,” Morgan Wallen featuring McRae’s “What I Want” and Sabrina Carpenter’s “Manchild.” There is a precedent for a song that wasn’t a top 30 hit being voted Song of the Summer. BLACKPINK’s “How You Like That,” the 2020 winner, also peaked at No. 33. Swift wasn’t nominated for video of the year – her only eligible video was “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” – which means this was the first time someone other than Swift won video of the year since 2021, when Lil Nas X took the prize for “Montero (Call Me by Your Name.”) The VMAs aired on CBS for the first time this year and was simulcasted on MTV, and streamed on Paramount+ in the U.S. Source link

🏛️ Nuevo jefe de la ONP: Gastón Remy Llacsa Designación: El Poder Ejecutivo nombró a Gastón Remy Llacsa como nuevo jefe de la Oficina de Normalización Previsional (ONP) el 6 de septiembre. ⭕️Perfil profesional: • Abogado por la PUCP • Magíster en Administración Pública por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid • Más de 20 años de experiencia en cargos directivos en el sector público • Exgerente General de la ONP ⭕️Objetivo de su gestión: Liderar la modernización del sistema de pensiones, con énfasis en: • Implementación del Sistema Integral Previsional Peruano (SIPP) • Mejora de servicios para:• 4.5 millones de afiliados • 676 mil pensionistas • 300 mil asegurados al SCTR • Desarrollo de una nueva plataforma tecnológica • Gestión centrada en las personas y el valor social del ahorro previsional Source

Yungblud, Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, and Extreme’s Nuno Bettencourt led an Ozzy Osbourne tribute performance on Sunday (Sept. 7) at the 2025 MTV VMAs, following the Black Sabbath rocker’s death in July. The tribute was introduced by Osbourne’s son Jack, and his family. Yungblud hit the stage wearing a golden cross chain gifted to him by Ozzy, and he proceeded to pay homage to the rock legend with a frenzied performance of Osbourne’s 1980 solo debut single, “Crazy Train.” Yungblud threw on a fur jacket for Black Sabbath’s heartbreaking “Changes,” before Steven Tyler and Joe Perry joined him for “Mama, I’m Coming Home,” which became Osbourne’s lone top 40 solo single on the Billboard Hot 100 (which peaked No. 28). “Ozzy forever, man,” Yungblud shouted to close out the moving tribute. The Aerosmith rockers and Yungblud were all part of what was Ozzy Osbourne’s final concert in Birmingham back in July, which took place about just weeks prior to the iconic rocker’s passing. “Good old rock n’ roll in the name of the king, man,” Yungblud told Billboard on the VMAs red carpet ahead of the show. He listed “Believer” among his favorite Ozzy songs, and Tribute, which was a 1987 live album recorded with Randy Rhoads, as his favorite album from the late metal icon. Ozzy Osbourne passed away on July 22 at the age of 76. A death certificate cited cardiac arrest and coronary artery disease among the causes of death. In his later years, the rocker had been open about undergoing treatment for Parkinson’s and spinal damage. Watch the tribute to Ozzy Osbourne below: Get weekly rundowns straight to your inbox Sign Up Source link

Weeks after scoring the highest-charting album of his career, Conan Gray triumphantly took the stage at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night (Sept. 7) to close out the ceremony with his Wishbone track “Vodka Cranberry.” Explore See latest videos, charts and news Gray is not afraid to utilize elaborate costumes in his stage show, and during his VMAs performance, he opted for a Renaissance Faire look, playing a prince who laid down a sleeping beau on a bed of roses. The singer-songwriter belted out the anthem while prowling the stage and leaning in to the major hooks, as a backing band was whisked around him; while Gray has been showcasing his voice to major festival crowds all summer, he used the VMAs performance to introduce his vocal power to a much wider audience. Eventually, Gray pulled out a vial of what was likely not a cranberry vodka — in an ending worthy of Shakespeare, he downed the potion, then collapsed on his doomed lover to close out the performance. “Vodka Cranberry” was released as the second single from Wishbone, Gray’s fourth studio album, which he once again worked on with producer Dan Nigro. Upon its release last month, Wishbone debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 — Gray’s third top 10 album, and the best debut of his career. Click here to watch Gray explain why his latest album is “truly miserable” in a recent video chat with Billboard. Check out the full winners’ list at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards, held at UBS Arena in Elmont, N.Y.  Get weekly rundowns straight to your inbox Sign Up Source link