MTV Video Music Awards 2025: Complete list of winners

Ricky Martin He accepted the first Latin icon prize, delivered by his former tour of tour, Jessica Simpsonafter interpreting a repertoire that included its success of 1999, “Livin ‘La Vida Loca”. Busta Rhymes also took the stage to play a potpourri of his songs before being awarded the Rock The Bells Visionary Award.

This year’s avant video award was for Mariah Careywho interpreted an electrifying selection of his own jewels for the occasion, including “Fantasy”, “Honey”, “Heartbreaker”, “Obseed”, “It’s Like That” and “We Belong Together”. When he accepted his Moon Person, Carey hastened to point out that the trophy was, surprisingly, his first VMA.

Then read the complete list of winners.

Video of the year

• Winner: Ariana Grande – “Bright 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”

Artist of the year

• Bad Bunny
• Beyoncé
• Kendrick Lamar
• Winner: Lady Gaga
• Morgan Wallen
• Taylor Swift
• The Weeknd

Song of the year

• Billie Eilish – “Birds of A Feather”
• Alex Warren – “Ordinary”
• Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars – “Die with a Smile”
• Winner: Rosé and Bruno Mars – “APT.”
• Gracie Abrams – “I love you, i’m sorry”
• Tate McRAE – “Sports Car”

Best new artist

• Winner: Alex Warren
• She Langley
• Gigi Perez
• Lola Young
• Umbrer
• Las Marías

Best pop artist

• Ariana Grande
• Charli XCX
• Justin Bieber
• Lorde
• Miley Cyrus
• Winner: Sabrina Carpenter
• Tate mcrae

Summer song

• Addison Rae – “Headphones on”
• Alex Warren – “Ordinary”
• Benson Boone – “Mystical Magical”
• Bigxthaplug with Bailey Zimmerman – “All The Way”
• Chappell Roan – “The Subway”
• Demi Lovato – “Fast”
• Doja Cat – “Jealous Type”
• Gor/x: Ejae, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami – “Golden”
• Jessie Murph – “Blue Strips”
• Justin Bieber – “Daisies”
• Moliy, Silent Addy, Skillibeng and Shensea – “Shake It To the Max (Fly) (Remix)”
• Morgan Wallen with Tate McRAe – “What I Want”
• Ravyn Lenae with Rex Orange County – “Love Me Not”
• Sabrina Carpenter – “Manchild”
• MOLDR – “12 TO 12”
• Winner: Tate McRAE – “Just Keep Watching”

Better performance of the MTV year

• Shaboozey – “A bar Song (Tipsy)”
• Ayra Starr – “Last Heartbreak Song”
• Mark Ambor – “Belong Together”
• Lay Bankz – “Severayard”
• Dasha – “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 Rons out”

Better collaboration

• Bailey Zimmerman and Luke combs – “Backup Plan”
• Kendrick Lamar y Sza – “Luther”
• Winners: Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars – “Die with a Smile”
• Post Malone with Blake Shelton – “Pour Me A Drink”
• Rosé and Bruno Mars – “APT”
• Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco – “Sunset Blvd”

Best Pop

• Alex Warren – “Ordinary”
• Winner: Ariana Grande – “Bright Days Ahead”
• Ed Sheeran – “Sapphire”
• Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars – “Die with a Smile”
• Rosé and Bruno Mars – “APT.”
• Sabrina Carpenter – “Manchild”

Best Hip-Hop

• Winner: Doechii – “Anxiety”
• Drake – “Nokia”
• Eminem with Jelly Roll – “someone save me”
• Glorilla with Sexyy Red – “What do you know about me”
• Kendrick Lamar – “We are not like us”
• Ll Cool J with Eminem – “Murdergram Deux”
• Travis Scott – “4×4”

The best R&B

• Chris Brown – “residuals”
• Leon Thomas and Freddie Gibbs – “Mutt (Remix)”
• Winner: Mariah Carey – “Type Dangerous”
• Partynextdoor – “No Chill”
• SZA – “Drive”
• Summer Walker – “Heart of A Woman”
• The Weeknd and Playboi Carti – “Timeless”

The best alternative

• Gigi Perez – “Sailor Song”
• Imagine Dragons – “Wake Up”
• Lola Young – “Messy”
• MGK and JELLY Roll – “Lonely Road”
• Winner: Umbr – “Back to Friends”
• The Marías – “Back To Me”
• Best Rock
• Winner: Coldplay – “All My Love”
• Evanescence – “Afterlife”
• Green Day – “One Eyed Bastard”
• Lenny Kravitz – “Honey”
• Linkin Park – “The Emtness Machine”
• Twenty One Pilots – “The Contract”

Best Latino

• Bad Bunny – “unforgettable dance”
• J Balvin – “Rio”
• Karol G – “If I had met you before”
• Pen and Net Weight Vega – “La Patrol”
• Rauw Alejandro and Romeo Santos – “Khé?”
• Winner: Shakira – “Single”

The best Afrobeats

• Asake and Travis Scott – “Active”
• Burna Boy and Travis Scott – “Tatata”
• Moliy, Silent Addy, Skillibeng and Shensea – “Shake It To the Max (Fly) (Remix)”
• Rem – “Baby (is it a crime)”
• Tems with Asake – “Get It Right”
• Winner: Tyla – “Push 2 Start”
• Wizkid with Brent Faiyaz – “Piece of My Heart”

The best K-Pop

• AESPA – “Whiplash”
• Jennie – “Like Jennie”
• Jimin – “Who”
• Jisoo – “Earthquake”
• Winner: Lisa with Doja Cat and Raye – “Born Again”
• Rosé – “Toxic till the end”
• Stray Kids – “Chk Chk Boom”

Best country

• Chris Stapleton – “I think I’m in love with you”
• Cody Johnson and Carrie Underwood – “I’m going to love you”
• Jelly Roll – “Liar”
• Winner: Megan Moroney – “I’m fine?”
• Morgan Wallen – “Smile”
• Lainey Wilson – “4x4xu”

Best album

• Bad Bunny – I had to throw more photos
• 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 -term video

• Winner: Ariana Grande – Bright Days Ahead
• Bad Bunny – I had to throw more photos (short film)
• Damiano David – Funny Little Stories
• Mac Miller – Balloonerism
• Miley Cyrus – Subject Beautiful
• The Weeknd – Hurry Up Tomorrow

Video for good

• Burna Boy – “Higher”
• Winner: Charli XCX with Billie Eilish – “Guess”
• Doechii – “anxiety”
• Eminem with Jelly Roll – “Hoilebody Save Me”
• Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco – “Younger and Hotter Than Me”
• Zach Hood with Sasha Alex Sloan – “Sleepwalking”

Best group

• AESPA
• All Time Low
• Backstreet Boys
• Winner: Blackpink
• Coldplay
• Evanescence
• Girdle force
• Border Group
• Imagine Dragons
• Jonas Brothers
• Katseye
• My Chemical Romance
• Seventeen
• Stray Kids
• The Marías
• Twenty One Pilots

Best address

• Ariana Grande – Bright Days Ahead – Directed by Christian Breslauer
• Charli XCX with Billie Eilish – “Guess” – Directed by Aidan Zamiri
• Kendrick Lamar – “Not Like Us” – Directed by Dave Free and Kendrick Lamar
• Winner: Lady Gaga – “Abracadabra” – Directed by Lady Gaga, Bethany Vargas and Parris Goebel
• Rosé and Bruno Mars – “APT.” – Directed by Bruno Mars and Daniel Ramos
• Sabrina Carpenter – “Manchild” – Directed by Vania Heymann and Gal Muggia

Best artistic direction

• Charli XCX with Billie Eilish – “Guess” – Artistic Directorate of Daniel Lane
• Kendrick Lamar – “Not Like Us” – Artistic Directorate of Freyja Bardell
• Winner: Lady Gaga – “Abracadabra” – Artistic Directorate of Wesley Goodrich
• Lorde – “Man of the Year” – Artistic Directorate of Chad Keith and Jenny Lass
• Miley Cyrus – “End of the World” – Artistic Directorate of David Meyer
• Rosé and Bruno Mars – “APT.” – Artistic Directorate of Elizabet Puksto

Best photography

• Ariana Grande – Bright Days Ahead – Photography by Jeff Cronenweth
• Ed Sheeran – “Sapphire” – Photography by Nic Minns
• Winner: Kendrick Lamar – “Not Like Us” – Photography by Xiaolong Liu
• Lady Gaga – “Abracadabra” – Photography by Xiaolong Liu
• Miley Cyrus – “Easy Lover” – Photography by Benoît Debie
• Sabrina Carpenter – “Manchild” – Photography by Chris Ripley

Best choreography

• Winner: Doechii – “Anxiety” – Robbie Blue Choreography
• FKA TWIGS – “Eusexua” – Zoi Tatopoulos choreography
• Kendrick Lamar – “Not Like Us” – Charm La’donna choreography
• Lady Gaga – “Abracadabra” – Parris Goebel choreography
• Tyla – “Push 2 Start” – Lee -Ché Janecke choreography
• Zara Larsson – “Pretty Ugly” – Zoi Tatopoulos choreography

Better visual effects

• Ariana Grande – Bright Days Ahead – Mathematic visual effects
• Lady Gaga – “Abracadabra” – Visual effects of Yeap Crew, Yura Karikh and Igor Eyth
• Rosé and Bruno Mars – “APT.” – Visual effects of Maksymilian Rafal Ojster
• Winner: Sabrina Carpenter – “Manchild” – Vania Heymann and such Baltuch
• Tate McRAE – “Just Keep Watching” – Visual Effects by Daniel Saldivar and White Rhino VFX
• The Weeknd – Hurry Up Tomorrow – Visual Effects of Zeke Faust

Best edition

• Charli XCX with Billie Eilish – “Guess”
• Ed Sheeran – “Sapphire”
• Kendrick Lamar – “Not Like Us”
• Lady Gaga – “Abracadabra”
• Sabrina Carpenter – “Manchild”
• Winner: Tate McRAE – “Just Keep Watching” (from movie F1)

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