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UPDATED, Aug. 24: Roddy Ricch and J Balvin will no longer will perform at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards. The two singers, who were announced to perform earlier this month, have dropped from the performance lineup citing COVID-19 concerns. On an Instagram story, the “Rockstar” singer announced that he could not make…

The 2020 MTV Video Music Awards have decided against holding an indoors event at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. Instead, it will stage a series of outdoor performances in various NYC boroughs. The show will still be held on Aug. 30. The outdoors shows will take place in front of limited or no audiences. “In…

The 2019 MTV Video Music Awards celebrated pop, hip-hop, rock and R&B Monday night — during the first ever VMAs in New Jersey. Actor and comedian Sebastian Maniscalco hosted the show at the Prudential Center in Newark, where Moon Persons in 20-plus competitive categories were handed out. The awardsfest opened with a…

The 2019 MTV VMAs kick off tonight, airing live on the East Coast from Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. The show will air at 8 PM ET/PT across MTV’s sister Viacom networks including MTV2, VH1, BET, CMT, Comedy Central, Logo TV, Paramount Network and TV Land. MTV.com and the MTV app will also host the show. Both…

Comedian and actor Sebastian Maniscalco will host the 2019 Video Music Awards, MTV has announced. The announcement is expected to be made tonight on NBC’s The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. Named Billboard’s 2018 Comedian of the Year, Maniscalco will host the VMA event live on Monday, August 26, from the…

A private plane carrying rapper Post Malone a night after he performed at MTV’s VMAs made a successful emergency landing at a regional New York airport after its tires had blown during takeoff. The jet, a Gulfstream IV, landed without incident this afternoon at New York Stewart International Airport in Newburgh, NY…

Considering it was the MTV Video Music Awards, one would think they would have some sort of tribute to the late, great Aretha Franklin — and they did. Madonna stepped out on the stage at the VMAs adorned in what looks like everything from her appropriation jewelry box, then paid homage to the Queen of Soul…but it wasn…

Moon Men (or is it Moon Persons?) were handed out at the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards with Camila Cabello winning not one, but two trophies for Artist of the Year and Video of the Year. Other winners of the evening included Post Malone’s “Rockstar” taking the trophy for Song of the Year and Cardi B nabbing Best New…

The Hills, the hit MTV reality series that ran on the network for six seasons in the late 2000s, is making a comeback. Members of the original series and Laguna Beach — Heidi Montag, Spencer Pratt, Audrina Patridge, Jason Wahler, Stephanie Pratt, Justin Bobby and Frankie Delgado — were in attendance at the VMAs. But…

From In Living Color Fly Girl to actress to pop superstar, Jennifer Lopez’s career will hit another milestone at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards where she will not only perform but also be honored with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. Sway Calloway announced the news today live which was followed by a…

The 2018 Video Music Awards show is headed back to where it all began. MTV said today that the 35th annual VMAs will be held August 20 at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan — the site of its first two trophy shows in the mid-1980s. The show has hopscotched coasts nearly every year since playing Las Vegas in 2007, and…

After murmurings of its return, the popular music video countdown show from the ’90s and ’00s Total Request Live is officially returning for a new, social media-driven generation. MTV president Chris McCarthy has officially confirmed in an interview with the New York Times that the show will return in October. The…