The 2025 MTV Video Music Awards are proper across the nook, and the performers and honorees have simply been introduced. There are going to be some firsts for the award present with this go round.
MTV‘s VMAs have been the occasion of the 12 months for the cable community for 4 a long time, however this 12 months, for the primary time ever, the awards present will alter the place it airs. As an alternative of operating completely stay on MTV, the 2025 VMAS will air on community tv in addition to streaming. Though followers should wait a few months to see who wins the coveted Moon Particular person Awards, some key particulars about this 12 months’s awards present have been launched already.
Here’s what we all know to this point in regards to the 2025 VMAs to this point.
When are the 2025 VMAs?
The VMAs will air stay on Sunday, September 7, at 8/7c, from the UBS Area in Elmont, New York.
The place will the 2025 VMAs air?
The VMAs will air on CBS for the primary time in historical past. So, in case you don’t have cable, it is possible for you to to look at it on a broadcast channel as a substitute of MTV. Nonetheless, the three-hour broadcast can even simulcast on MTV for previous instances’ sake.
The one-hour stay pre-show will air throughout Paramount Media Networks.
Will the VMAs be streaming?
Sure! The awards will stream on Paramount+ on the identical time.
Who’s internet hosting the 2025 VMAs?
LL Cool J will host. The Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame inductee and Hip-Hop trailblazer was introduced on August 14. He’ll take the VMAs reins solo for the primary time, after beforehand serving as co-emcee in 2022 with Nicki Minaj and Jack Harlow. He took residence his first Moon Particular person in 1991 for Finest Rap and was the primary rapper to obtain the Video Vanguard Award in 1997. Different milestone moments on the VMAs stage embrace a show-stopping celebration for Def Jam Recording’s fortieth anniversary with shock visitor Public Enemy in 2024 and celebrating Hip-Hop turning 50 with an all-star tribute in 2023. This 12 months, his single “Murdergram Deaux” (ft. Eminem) is nominated for Finest Hip-Hop. The music was off his 2024 critically acclaimed album The Power.
In 2024, Megan Thee Stallion hosted the VMAs.
Who’s nominated for the 2025 VMAs?
2025 MTV Video Music Awards, Sunday, September 7, CBS and Paramount+, 8/7c