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2025 MTV VMAs: Complete winner list
The MTV Video Music Awards have been annouced Lady Gaga, being the top winner of the night, securing four big wins.
The event, which was LL Cool J, was held at UBS Arena in Elmont, New York, On September 7, 2025.
Here’s a complete list of winners from the 2025 MTV VMAs:
Video of the Year
WINNER- Ariana Grande – brighter days ahead
Billie Eilish – BIRDS OF A FEATHER
Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us
Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars – Die with a Smile
ROSÉ & Bruno Mars – APT.
Sabrina Carpenter – Manchild
The Weeknd, Playboi Carti – Timeless
Song of the Year
Alex Warren – Ordinary
Billie Eilish – BIRDS OF A FEATHER
Doechii – Anxiety
Ed Sheeran – Sapphire
Gracie Abrams – I Love You, I’m Sorry
Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars – Die With A Smile
Lorde – What Was That
Tate McRae – Sports Car
The Weeknd, Playboi Carti – Timeless
WINNER – ROSÉ & Bruno Mars – APT.
Artist of the Year
Bad Bunny
Beyoncé
Kendrick Lamar
Morgan Wallen
Taylor Swift
The Weeknd
WINNER – Lady Gaga
Best New Artist
Ella Langley
Gigi Perez
Lola Young
sombr
The Marías
WINNER – Alex Warren
Best Pop Artist
Ariana Grande
Charli xcx
Justin Bieber
Lorde
Miley Cyrus
Sabrina Carpenter
Tate McRae
MTV Push Performance of the Year
Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy)
Ayra Starr – Last Heartbreak Song
Mark Ambor – Belong Together
Lay Bankz – Graveyard
Dasha – Bye Bye Bye
WINNER – KATSEYE – Touch
Jordan Adetunji – KEHLANI
Leon Thomas – YES IT IS
Livingston – Shadow
Damiano David – Next Summer
Gigi Perez – Sailor Song
ROLE MODEL – Sally, When the Wine Runs Out
Best Collaboration
Bailey Zimmerman with Luke Combs – Backup Plan (Stagecoach Official Music Video)
Kendrick Lamar & SZA – luther
WINNER-Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars – Die with a Smile
Post Malone ft. Blake Shelton – Pour Me a Drink
ROSÉ & Bruno Mars – APT.
Selena Gomez, Benny Blanco – Sunset Blvd
Best Pop
Alex Warren – Ordinary
WINNER-Ariana Grande – brighter days ahead
Ed Sheeran – Sapphire
Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars – Die with a Smile
ROSÉ & Bruno Mars – APT.
Sabrina Carpenter – Manchild
Best Hip-Hop
WINNER-Doechii – Anxiety
Drake – NOKIA
Eminem ft. Jelly Roll – Somebody Save Me
GloRilla ft. Sexyy Red – WHATCHU KNO ABOUT ME
Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us
LL COOL J ft. Eminem – Murdergram Deux
Travis Scott – 4X4
Best R&B
Chris Brown – Residuals
Leon Thomas & Freddie Gibbs – MUTT (REMIX)
PARTYNEXTDOOR – N o C h i l l
Summer Walker – Heart of a Woman
SZA – Drive
The Weeknd, Playboi Carti – Timeless
WINNER – Mariah Carey – Type Dangerous
Best Alternative
Gigi Perez – Sailor Song
Imagine Dragons – Wake Up
Lola Young – Messy
mgk & Jelly Roll – Lonely Road
The Marías – Back to Me
WINNER – sombr – back to friends
Best Rock
Coldplay – ALL MY LOVE
Evanescence – Afterlife (From the Netflix Series ‘Devil May Cry’)
Green Day – One Eyed Bastard
Lenny Kravitz – Honey
Linkin Park – The Emptiness Machine
twenty one pilots – The Contract
Best Latin
Bad Bunny – BAILE INoLVIDABLE
J Balvin – Rio
KAROL G – Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido
Peso Pluma – LA PATRULLA
Rauw Alejandro & Romeo Santos – Khé?
WINNER – Shakira – Soltera
Best K-Pop
aespa – Whiplash
JENNIE – like JENNIE
Jimin – Who
JISOO – earthquake
WINNER – LISA ft. Doja Cat & RAYE – Born Again
Stray Kids – Chk Chk Boom
ROSÉ – toxic till the end
Best Afrobeats
Asake & Travis Scott – Active
Burna Boy ft. Travis Scott – TaTaTa
MOLIY, Silent Addy, Skillibeng & Shenseea – Shake It to the Max (FLY) (Remix)
Rema – Baby (Is It a Crime)
Tems ft. Asake – Get It Right
WINNER – Tyla – PUSH 2 START
Wizkid ft. Brent Faiyaz – Piece of My Heart
Best Country
Chris Stapleton – Think I’m in Love with You
Cody Johnson with Carrie Underwood – I’m Gonna Love You
Jelly Roll – Liar
Lainey Wilson – 4x4xU
WINNER – Megan Moroney – Am I Okay?
Morgan Wallen – Smile
Best Album
Bad Bunny – DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS
Kendrick Lamar – GNX
Lady Gaga – Mayhem
Morgan Wallen – I’m the Problem
WINNER – Sabrina Carpenter – Short n’ Sweet
The Weeknd – Hurry Up Tomorrow
Best Long Form Video
WINNER – Ariana Grande – brighter days ahead
Bad Bunny – DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS (Short Film)
Damiano David – FUNNY little STORIES
Mac Miller – Balloonerism
Miley Cyrus – Something Beautiful
The Weeknd – Hurry Up Tomorrow
Video for Good
Burna Boy – Higher
WINNER – Charli XCX – Guess featuring Billie Eilish
Doechii – Anxiety
Eminem ft. Jelly Roll – Somebody Save Me
Selena Gomez, Benny Blanco – Younger and Hotter Than Me
Zach Hood ft. Sasha Alex Sloan – Sleepwalking
Song of the Summer
Addison Rae – Headphones On
Alex Warren – Ordinary
Benson Boone – Mystical Magical
BigXthaPlug & Bailey Zimmerman – All the Way
Chappell Roan – The Subway
Demi Lovato – Fast
Doja Cat – Jealous Type
Huntr/x – Golden
Jessie Murph – Blue Strips
Justin Bieber – Daisies
Moliy, Silent Addy, Skillibeng & Shenseea – Shake It to the Max (Fly) (Remix)
Morgan Wallen & Tate McRae – What I Want
Ravyn Lenae Featuring Rex Orange County – Love Me Not
Sabrina Carpenter – Manchild
Sombr – 12 to 12
WINNER: Tate McRae – Just Keep Watching (From F1® the Movie)
Best Direction
Ariana Grande – brighter days ahead
Charli XCX – Guess featuring Billie Eilish
Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us
WINNER – Lady Gaga – Abracadabra
ROSÉ & Bruno Mars – APT.
Sabrina Carpenter – Manchild
Best Art Direction
Charli XCX – Guess featuring Billie Eilish
Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us
WINNER _ Lady Gaga – Abracadabra
Lorde – Man of the Year
Miley Cyrus – End of the World
ROSÉ & Bruno Mars – APT.
Best Cinematography
Ariana Grande – brighter days ahead
Ed Sheeran – Sapphire
WINNER – Kendrick Lamar – Not Like U
Lady Gaga – Abracadabra
Miley Cyrus – Easy Lover
Sabrina Carpenter – Manchild
Best Editing
Charli XCX – Guess featuring Billie Eilish
Ed Sheeran – Sapphire
Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us
Lady Gaga – Abracadabra
Sabrina Carpenter – Manchild
WINNER – Tate McRae – Just Keep Watching (from ‘F1® The Movie’)
Best Choreography
WINNER – Doechii – Anxiety
FKA twigs – Eusexua
Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us
Lady Gaga – Abracadabra
Tyla – PUSH 2 START
Zara Larsson – Pretty Ugly
Best Visual Effects
Ariana Grande – brighter days ahead
Lady Gaga – Abracadabra
ROSÉ & Bruno Mars – APT.
WINNER – Sabrina Carpenter – Manchild
Fans believe that Noah Schnapp, who plays Will Byers in Stranger Things, has a crush on his on-screen friend Mike Wheeler, portrayed by Finn Wolfhard.
Now, ahead of the final season, viewers have been asking the actor whether the possible on-screen romance will happen. But the 21-year-old says he is playing coy about it.
In a post on TikTok, he says, “You guys love saying this,” and adds, “And I never listen.”
He adds, “It’s probably the most commented comment in all my late-night videos. And, I always ignore it.”
Despite not revealing anything, Noah has been teasing fans about the possibility of ‘Byler,’ which is ‘By’ from Byers and ‘ler’ from Wheeler.
“This song will be in season 5…I wonder why,” he shared in a previous post on social media, referring to Tiffany’s I Think We’re Alone Now.
Stranger Things season five will be out on Netflix in three parts. Volume 1 will drop on November 26, Volume 2 on Christmas, and the finale will air on Christmas.
- Minister Khalid urges PIF to make way for the private sector.
- PIF chairman said last year fund would focus on domestic projects.
- Project sits at heart of Vision 2030 with $900 billion in assets.
Saudi Arabia’s investment minister on Tuesday urged the kingdom’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) to ease its spending on domestic projects and make way for more investments from the private sector, as the fund prepares to draft a new strategic plan.
“It is time for us to maybe scale back on this government or PIF spend to prove and to seed some of these value chains and clusters and let the private sector start investing,” Khalid al-Falih said on Tuesday as financial titans gathered in Riyadh for the country’s flagship investment conference.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s Vision 2030 economic plan has led to hundreds of billions in spending on projects that are designed to transform the kingdom’s economy away from its dependence on hydrocarbons.
At last year’s edition of the Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference, PIF chairman Yasir Al-Rumayyan said the fund would tap more of its resources to fund plans domestically to wean the economy off oil and said the fund planned to cut its overseas investments.
But many of the plan’s flagship projects have been delayed amid low oil prices and a budget deficit that has forced Saudi Arabia to prioritise and downsize.
Saudi Arabia’s PIF, one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds with more than $900 billion in assets, sits at the heart of Vision 2030. The fund’s initial strategy for 2021-2025 ends this year, and it is due to announce an updated strategy.
Foreign investment into the country has grown 24% in 2024 to $31.7 billion, Rumayyan said earlier on Tuesday as he opened the event, where attendees include Colombian President Gustavo Petro, Blackrock’s Larry Fink, JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon, and Citi’s Jane Fraser.
Falih later added that 90% of that foreign direct investment was into Saudi Arabia’s non-oil sector, without mentioning specifics.
“We just did a transaction here in the kingdom, and we had five times more demand than we could provide. It was for a pipeline in Jafurah, and the amount of money that was interested in investing here in the kingdom was at a record level,” Fink said on a panel.
“To me, this is just an indication of the transformation here in the kingdom, but more importantly, in the whole region, and I do believe we’re seeing more and more, as the GCC, becoming one of the major destinations for capital.”
That Jafurah deal, which raised $11 billion for Saudi state oil giant Aramco upfront in exchange for payments over 20 years to the investors, is in the exact sector the kingdom is trying to reduce its reliance on.
Challenging directly to the established world of online knowledge, Elon Musk’s company xAI launched Grokipedia on Monday, October 27.
Grokipedia is an AI-generated encyclopedia that developed its brand-identity as a truth-seeking alternative to what Musk alleges as the “left-biased” and “activist-controlled” wikipedia.
As mentioned on the original site, “version 0.1” went live with over 885,000 articles which is just a fraction of Wikipedia’s more than seven million English entries.
However, Musk builds its hype by citing on X (formerly known as Twitter) that “even at 0.1 it’s better than Wikipedia” and promising that “Version 1.0 will be 10X better.”
The launch builds on the years of criticism from Musk directed at Wikipedia. Musk repeatedly alleged that the non-profit free online encyclopedia is actually managed by “far-left activists” and has an “extremely left-biased” editorial content.
The SpaceX CEO previously urged his followers to defund it.
“The goal of Grok and Grokipedia is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. We will never be perfect, but we shall nonetheless strive towards that goal,” he added.
This declaration highlights a significant clash in how knowledge is curated.
Wikipedia, founded in 2001, is supported by a global community of human volunteers who write and edit articles following strict “neutral point of view” policy. The source of Wikipedia’s funding is majorly donations.
On the other hand, Grokipedia is entirely curated and “fact-checked” by xAI’s assistant, Grok. The approach is already under criticism as AI-based models are previously known to “hallucinate” or invent facts,
As of now, the site doesn’t enable human editing unlike Wikipedia. But Musk cited that ultimately Grokipedia will allow people to modify articles with the AI having the final say.
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