The nominees for the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) are out!
On August 18 native time, MTV formally introduced the nominations for this 12 months’s award ceremony, which included nods for a number of Okay-pop artists.
BTS’s current hit “SWIM” scored two nominations: one for Track of the Yr and one for Finest Okay-Pop. Additionally nominated for Track of the Yr is HUNTR/X’s “Golden,” the smash hit from the animated movie “KPop Demon Hunters” (sung by EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami).
In the meantime, BLACKPINK’s Lisa racked up a complete of 4 solo nominations for her “Dream” music video that includes Kentaro Sakaguchi, which is within the operating for Finest Pop, Finest Okay-Pop, Finest Cinematography, and Finest Enhancing. BLACKPINK additionally snagged a separate nomination as a gaggle within the Finest Okay-Pop class for his or her hit music “JUMP.”
In what marks the first-ever VMA nominations of their profession, CORTIS earned two nods: one for Finest New Artist and one for Finest Okay-Pop (for his or her newest hit “REDRED”).
KATSEYE additionally scored two nominations with their single “PINKY UP,” which is within the operating for Finest Choreography and Finest Okay-Pop.
Lastly, LE SSERAFIM’s hit music “SPAGHETTI” (that includes BTS’s j-hope) has been nominated for Finest Okay-Pop. This 12 months’s nominees for the Okay-pop class are BLACKPINK’s “JUMP,” BTS’s “SWIM,” CORTIS’s “REDRED,” KATSEYE’s “PINKY UP,” LE SSERAFIM’s “SPAGHETTI,” and Lisa’s “Dream.”
The 2026 MTV Video Music Awards will air reside from Los Angeles on September 27 at 7:30 p.m. ET/4:30 p.m. PT. Within the meantime, you may vote for the awards on MTV’s web site here! (Voting for many classes might be open till September 25 at 6 p.m. ET, whereas voting for Finest New Artist will stay lively all the best way into the reside present.)
Which of this 12 months’s nominees are you rooting for?
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