MTV recognized Ricky Martin, already a Latin music icon, with its inaugural Latin Icon Award at the 2025 Video Music Awards on Sunday night. The artist celebrated the honor with a bon-bon–shaking medley of hits and a speech thanking fans who have stood by him for the past four decades, …
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Rosé looked like she could barely believe she won Song of the Year at the 2025 Video Music Awards, but had a two-page speech prepared just in case. After Paris Hilton (who walked out to her own bygone hit of sorts, 2006’s “Stars are Blind”) presented her with a win …
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MTV has named Mariah Carey its 2025 Video Vanguard Award recipient. The seven-time MTV Video Music Award nominee will perform a medley of her biggest hits when the show airs live on CBS from UBS Arena in New York on Sept. 7. The coveted award will be the first VMA …
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The first slate of performers for the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards have been announced, with Sabrina Carpenter, J Balvin, and Alex Warren all set to take the stage. For Carpenter, she’ll be returning to the VMAs after making her debut at the show last year, where she also won …
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The nominations for the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards are here, with Lady Gaga, Kendrick Lamar, and Sabrina Carpenter among this year’s most-nominated artists. Gaga led all contenders with an impressive 12 nominations, thanks largely to her collaboration with Bruno Mars, “Die With a Smile,” which is up for Video …
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The MTV Video Music Awards will retain its namesake, but the annual awards ceremony will no longer be presented on MTV. After 40 years on the network, the VMAs have found a new broadcast home at CBS. On Sept. 7, CBS will present the show for the first time live …
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The summer of Sabrina Carpenter was felt all the way in outer space! On Wednesday, the Short ‘n Sweet pop star hit the stage at the 2024 VMAs for a sexy, space-themed medley of her hits “Espresso,” “Please Please Please,” and “Taste.” Carpenter started her performance with “Please Please Please” …
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Anitta took to the MTV stage for her third year, performing “Savage Funk,” off her latest albumFunk Generation, and “Alegria,” a single with Tiago PZK and Emilia that dropped in August. The singer also performed “Paradise” alongside Fat Joe, DJ Khaled, and Tiago PZK. When “Paradise” was complete, Fat Joe …
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Shawn Mendes returned to the VMAs stage to perform “Nobody Knows” off his upcoming album, Shawn. In the smoky (literally, so there was much smoke), stripped-down set, Mendes played an acoustic guitar and potently sang an ethereal and liquored-up love song. “You’re an amateur drunk and everyone knows it/ You’re …
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A cotton candy career of hits becomes a futuristic, post-apocalyptic dream. At Wednesday night’s VMAs, Katy Perry took the stage to deliver a medley of her greatest hits (and her new album, 143) as she celebrated receiving the coveted Video Vanguard Award. Perry’s performance opened with a montage of her …
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