{"id":1008761,"date":"2026-08-18T14:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1008761\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T14:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:24:17","slug":"mtv-vma-nominations-madonna-leads-taylor-swift-may-make-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1008761\/","title":{"rendered":"MTV VMA nominations: Madonna leads, Taylor Swift may make history"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Madonna<\/a> leads the 2026 MTV Video Music Award nominations,<\/a> the network announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The pop superstar has been nominated in every decade of her musical career. She has 19 competitive MTV VMA wins and in 1986 became the first solo female artist to receive the Video Vanguard Award.<\/p>\n

She is up for 11 awards at this year\u2019s ceremony, including video, artist and song of the year as well as best collaboration, dance, direction, art direction, cinematography, editing, choreography and visual effects.<\/p>\n

If she were to sweep, she\u2019d tie Beyonc\u00e9<\/a> and Taylor Swift<\/a> for the title of most-awarded musician<\/a> in VMA history. They have 30 each. (Eminem is the male artist with the most VMAs, with 15.)<\/p>\n

Speaking of Swift: She follows Madonna with the second-most nominations, with nine. If she takes home even one award, she will become the most-awarded artist in VMA history.<\/p>\n

Swift is up for video and artist of the year as well as best pop, direction, art direction, cinematography, editing, choreography and visual effects.<\/p>\n

Madonna and Swift are followed by Ariana Grande<\/a> and Sabrina Carpenter with seven nods to their name as well as Bruno Mars, PinkPantheress and Zara Larsson with five. Blackpink\u2019s LISA has four and Shakira, Tate McRae, GENER8ION and Yung Lean are tied for three.<\/p>\n

Rounding out the artist of the year category nominees are Grande, Mars, Carpenter and Morgan Wallen, in addition to Madonna and Swift.<\/p>\n

The top prize of the night, video of the year, sees Swift\u2019s \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia\u201d compete against Madonna\u2019s \u201cConfessions II \u2014 The Film,\u201d Grande\u2019s \u201cHate That I Made You Love Me,\u201d Mars\u2019 \u201cI Just Might,\u201d Carpenter\u2019s \u201cTear\u201d and GENER8ION\u2019s \u201cStorm\u201d starring Yung Lean.<\/p>\n

The two-hour show will broadcast live on CBS<\/a> on Sunday, Sept. 27, at 7:30 p.m. Eastern and 4:30 p.m. Pacific, from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. It will also simulcast on MTV and be available to stream on Paramount+ in the U.S.<\/p>\n

The show will become available to stream globally the next day on Paramount+ and MTV.<\/p>\n

CBS is home to a number of award shows, including the Tony Awards and the American Music Awards. It has aired the Grammys since 1973, though that show will head to ABC in 2027<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Video Music Awards features 26 first-time nominees, which include GENER8ION and Yung Lean (with their aforementioned three nods, for their \u201cStorm\u201d collaboration) and the K-pop boy band CORTIS and viral \u201cBoston\u201d singer Stella Lefty with two each. Other notable first-time nominees include Don Toliver, Kali Uchis, Noah Kahan, Olivia Dean, Tucker Wetmore and Sienna Spiro<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The best dance category has returned for the first time in seven years. Nominees include McRae\u2019s \u201cNobody\u2019s Girl,\u201d Bebe Rexha and Faithless\u2019 \u201cNew Religion,\u201d Harry Styles\u2019 \u201cAperture,\u201d Lady Gaga and Doechii\u2019s \u201cRunway,\u201d Madonna\u2019s \u201cConfessions II \u2014 The Film,\u201d PinkPantheress\u2019 \u201cStateside\u201d with Larsson and Slayyyter\u2019s \u201cDance \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Fan voting began online Tuesday across 13 categories and ends Sept. 25 at 6 p.m. Eastern and 3 p.m. Pacific.<\/p>\n

Voting in the best new artist category will remain active during the show.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

An earlier version of this story had an incorrect spelling of Lady Gaga and Doechii\u2019s song \u201cRunway.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Madonna leads the 2026 MTV Video Music Award nominations, the network announced Tuesday. The…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1008762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[2122,20147,276,10929,82185,41065,18979,171,57,49244,224,24991,57119,75364,975,22015,49527,117689,27377,403877,3571,61,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1008761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-arts-and-entertainment","tag-beyonce-knowles","tag-california","tag-dance","tag-doechii","tag-don-toliver","tag-eminem","tag-entertainment","tag-general-news","tag-lady-gaga","tag-los-angeles","tag-madonna","tag-media-and-entertainment-industry","tag-mtv-video-music-awards","tag-music","tag-music-videos","tag-noah-kahan","tag-olivia-dean","tag-shakira","tag-stella-lefty","tag-taylor-swift","tag-u-s-news","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117116972108457308","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1008762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}