MTV Video Music Awards 2025

MTV Video Music Awards 2025
Verliehen für	MTV Video Music Awards
Datum	7. September 2025
Moderation	LL Cool J
Verleihungsort	UBS Arena, Long Island, New York
Staat	Vereinigte Staaten
Verliehen von	MTV
Meiste Auszeichnungen	Lady Gaga (4)
Meiste Nominierungen	Lady Gaga (12)
Website	mtv.com/vma

Die MTV Video Music Awards 2025 wurden am 7. September 2025 in der UBS Arena, Long Island, New York verliehen. Moderator war LL Cool J.^[1]

Lady Gaga war mit zwölf Mal am häufigsten nominiert und gewann insgesamt vier Awards.^[2]

Neu eingeführt wurden die beiden Awards Best Country and Best Pop Artist.

Nominierungen und Gewinner

Die ersten Nominierungen wurden am 5. August 2025 verkündet.^[3]


Video of the Year	Song of the Year
Ariana Grande – Brighter Days Ahead Billie Eilish – Birds of a Feather Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars – Die with a Smile Rosé and Bruno Mars – Apt. Sabrina Carpenter – Manchild The Weeknd and Playboi Carti – Timeless	Rosé and Bruno Mars – Apt. Alex Warren – Ordinary Billie Eilish – Birds of a Feather Gracie Abrams – I Love You, I'm Sorry Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars – Die with a Smile Tate McRae – Sports Car
Artist of the Year	Best New Artist
Lady Gaga Bad Bunny Beyoncé Kendrick Lamar Taylor Swift Morgan Wallen The Weeknd	Alex Warren Ella Langley Gigi Perez Lola Young Sombr The Marías
Push Performance of the Year	Best Collaboration
Januar 2025: Katseye – Touch August 2024: Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy) September 2024: Ayra Starr – Last Heartbreak Song Oktober 2024: Mark Ambor – Belong Together November 2024: Lay Bankz – Graveyard Dezember 2024: Dasha – Bye Bye Bye Februar 2025: Jordan Adetunji – Kehlani März 2025: Leon Thomas – Yes It Is April 2025: Livingston – Shadow Mai 2025: Damiano David – Next Summer Juni 2025: Gigi Perez – Sailor Song Juli 2025: Role Model – Sally, When the Wine Runs Out	Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars – Die with a Smile Bailey Zimmerman and Luke Combs – Backup Plan Kendrick Lamar and SZA – Luther Post Malone featuring Blake Shelton – Pour Me a Drink Rosé and Bruno Mars – Apt. Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco – Sunset Blvd
Best Pop	Best Hip Hop
Ariana Grande – Brighter Days Ahead Alex Warren – Ordinary Ed Sheeran – Sapphire Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars – Die with a Smile Rosé and Bruno Mars – Apt. Sabrina Carpenter – Manchild	Doechii – Anxiety Drake – Nokia Eminem featuring Jelly Roll – Somebody Save Me GloRilla featuring Sexyy Red – Whatchu Kno About Me Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us LL Cool J featuring Eminem – Murdergram Deux Travis Scott – 4x4
Best R&B	Best K-Pop
Mariah Carey – Type Dangerous Chris Brown – Residuals Leon Thomas and Freddie Gibbs – Mutt (Remix) PartyNextDoor – No Chill SZA – Drive Summer Walker – Heart of a Woman The Weeknd and Playboi Carti – Timeless	Lisa featuring Doja Cat and Raye – Born Again Aespa – Whiplash Jennie – Like Jennie Jimin – Who Jisoo – Earthquake Rosé – Toxic Till the End Stray Kids – Chk Chk Boom
Best Latin	Best Rock
Shakira – Soltera Bad Bunny – Baile Inolvidable J Balvin – Rio Karol G – Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido Peso Pluma and Netón Vega – La Patrulla Rauw Alejandro and Romeo Santos – Khé?	Coldplay – All My Love Evanescence – Afterlife (aus der Netflix-Serie Devil May Cry) Green Day – One Eyed Bastard Lenny Kravitz – Honey Linkin Park – The Emptiness Machine Twenty One Pilots – The Contract
Best Alternative	Best Afrobeats
Sombr – Back to Friends Gigi Perez – Sailor Song Imagine Dragons – Wake Up Lola Young – Messy MGK and Jelly Roll – Lonely Road The Marías – Back to Me	Tyla – Push 2 Start Asake and Travis Scott – Active Burna Boy and Travis Scott – TaTaTa Moliy, Silent Addy, Skillibeng, and Shenseea – Shake It to the Max (Fly) (remix) Rema – Baby (Is It a Crime) Tems and Asake – Get It Right Wizkid and Brent Faiyaz – Piece of My Heart
Video for Good	Song of the Summer
Charli XCX featuring Billie Eilish – Guess Burna Boy – Higher Doechii – Anxiety Eminem featuring Jelly Roll – Somebody Save Me Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco – Younger and Hotter Than Me Zach Hood featuring Sasha Alex Sloan – Sleepwalking	Tate McRae – Just Keep Watching Addison Rae – Headphones On Alex Warren – Ordinary Benson Boone – Mystical Magical BigXthaPlug featuring Bailey Zimmerman – All the Way Chappell Roan – The Subway Demi Lovato – Fast Doja Cat – Jealous Type Huntr/x: Ejae, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami – Golden Jessie Murph – Blue Strips Justin Bieber – Daisies Moliy, Silent Addy, Skillibeng and Shenseea – Shake It to the Max (Fly) (remix) Morgan Wallen featuring Tate McRae – What I Want Ravyn Lenae featuring Rex Orange County – Love Me Not Sabrina Carpenter – Manchild Sombr – 12 to 12
Best Pop Artist	Best Country
Sabrina Carpenter Ariana Grande Charli XCX Justin Bieber Lorde Miley Cyrus Tate McRae	Megan Moroney – Am I Okay? Chris Stapleton – Think I'm in Love with You Cody Johnson and Carrie Underwood – I'm Gonna Love You Jelly Roll – Liar Morgan Wallen – Smile Lainey Wilson – 4x4xU
Best Direction	Best Art Direction
*Lady Gaga – Abracadabra* (Regie: Lady Gaga, Bethany Vargas and Parris Goebel)** Ariana Grande – Brighter Days Ahead (Regie: Christian Breslauer) Charli XCX featuring Billie Eilish – Guess (Regie: Aidan Zamiri) Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us (Regie: Dave Free and Kendrick Lamar) Rosé and Bruno Mars – Apt. (Regie: Bruno Mars and Daniel Ramos) Sabrina Carpenter – Manchild (Regie: Vania Heymann and Gal Muggia)	*Lady Gaga – Abracadabra* (Art Director: Wesley Goodrich)** Charli XCX featuring Billie Eilish – Guess (Art Director: Daniel Lane) Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us (Art Director: Freyja Bardell) Lorde – Man of the Year (Art Directors: Chad Keith and Jenny Lass) Miley Cyrus – End of the World (Art Director: David Meyer) Rosé and Bruno Mars – Apt. (Art Director: Elizabet Puksto)
Best Choreography	Best Cinematography
*Doechii – Anxiety* (Choreographer: Robbie Blue)** FKA Twigs – Eusexua (Choreographer: Zoi Tatopoulos) Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us (Choreographer: Charm La'Donna) Lady Gaga – Abracadabra (Choreographer: Parris Goebel) Tyla – Push 2 Start (Choreographer: Lee-ché Janecke) Zara Larsson – Pretty Ugly (Choreographer: Zoi Tatopoulos)	*Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us* (Kamera: Xiaolong Liu)** Ariana Grande – Brighter Days Ahead (Kamera: Jeff Cronenweth) Ed Sheeran – Sapphire (Kamera: Nic Minns) Lady Gaga – Abracadabra (Kamera: Xiaolong Liu) Miley Cyrus – Easy Lover (Kamera: Benoît Debie) Sabrina Carpenter – Manchild (Kamera: Chris Ripley)
Best Editing	Best Visual Effects
*Tate McRae – Just Keep Watching* (Schnitt: William Town and Modern Post)** Charli XCX featuring Billie Eilish – Guess (Schnitt: Neal Farmer) Ed Sheeran – Sapphire (Schnitt: Liam Pethick) Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us (Schnitt: Chaz Smedley and Eddy Street Post) Lady Gaga – Abracadabra (Schnitt: Sofia Kerpan) Sabrina Carpenter – Manchild (Schnitt: Vania Heymann, Gal Muggia and Nick Rondeau)	*Sabrina Carpenter – Manchild* (Visual Effects: Vania Heymann and Tal Baltuch)** Ariana Grande – Brighter Days Ahead (Visual Effects: Mathematic) Lady Gaga – Abracadabra (Visual Effects: Yeap Crew, Yura Karikh and Igor Eyth) Rosé and Bruno Mars – Apt. (Visual Effects: Maksymilian Rafal Ojster) Tate McRae – Just Keep Watching (Visual Effects: Daniel Saldivar and White Rhino VFX) The Weeknd – Hurry Up Tomorrow (Visual Effects: Zeke Faust)
Group of the Year	Best Trending Video
Blackpink Aespa All Time Low Backstreet Boys Coldplay Evanescence Fuerza Regida Grupo Frontera Imagine Dragons Jonas Brothers Katseye My Chemical Romance Seventeen Stray Kids The Marías Twenty One Pilots	Megan Thee Stallion featuring Yuki Chiba – Mamushi Beyoncé – Texas Hold ’Em Camila Cabello featuring Playboi Carti – I Luv It Chappell Roan – Hot to Go! Charli XCX – Apple Tinashe – Nasty
Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award
Mariah Carey
Rock the Bells Visionary Award
Busta Rhymes
Latin Icon Award
Ricky Martin

Einzelnachweise

↑ Kirsten Chuba: LL Cool J Set to Host 2025 MTV VMAs. In: The Hollywood Reporter. 14. August 2025, abgerufen am 20. Oktober 2025 (amerikanisches Englisch).
↑ Chris Willman: Lady Gaga Leads MTV VMAs Nominations With 12, Followed by Bruno Mars and Kendrick Lamar. In: Variety. 5. August 2025, abgerufen am 20. Oktober 2025 (amerikanisches Englisch).
↑ Paul Grein: Women Artists, Led by Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande, Own 2025 VMAs. In: Billboard. 8. September 2025, abgerufen am 20. Oktober 2025 (amerikanisches Englisch).

[1] Kirsten Chuba: LL Cool J Set to Host 2025 MTV VMAs. In: The Hollywood Reporter. 14. August 2025, abgerufen am 20. Oktober 2025 (amerikanisches Englisch).

[2] Chris Willman: Lady Gaga Leads MTV VMAs Nominations With 12, Followed by Bruno Mars and Kendrick Lamar. In: Variety. 5. August 2025, abgerufen am 20. Oktober 2025 (amerikanisches Englisch).

[3] Paul Grein: Women Artists, Led by Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande, Own 2025 VMAs. In: Billboard. 8. September 2025, abgerufen am 20. Oktober 2025 (amerikanisches Englisch).

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