The 2022 VMAs: Nominees Include Lil Nas X, Doja Cat and Harry Styles
The MTV Video Music Awards show is happening in about a month, on Aug.
28. While we still don’t know who’s taking the stage to perform, we do know who’s up for awards.
Announced Tuesday, the 2022 VMA nominees include Lil Nas X, Jack Harlow and Kendrick Lamar, who each received seven noms. They’re followed by Doja Cat and Harry Styles, who both collected six.
Drake, Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Ed Sheeran, Dua Lipa and The Weeknd scored five apiece. The show celebrates the best music videos of the past year. Doja Cat hosted last year, but a host for 2022 has yet to be announced.
The Video of the Year award nominees include Doja Cat for Woman, Drake ft. Future and Young Thug for Way 2 Sexy, Ed Sheeran for Shivers, Harry Styles for As It Was, Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow for Industry Baby, Olivia Rodrigo for Brutal and Taylor Swift for All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version). Here are all the nominees:
The 2022 VMAs nominees
Video of the Year
Doja Cat, Woman
Drake ft. Future and Young Thug, Way 2 Sexy Ed Sheeran, Shivers
Harry Styles, As It Was Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow, Industry Baby Olivia Rodrigo, Brutal
Taylor Swift, All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version)
Artist of the Year
Bad Bunny Drake Ed Sheeran
Harry Styles Jack Harlow Lil Nas X
Lizzo
Song of the Year
Adele, Easy on Me Billie Eilish, Happier Than Ever Doja Cat, Woman
Elton John and Dua Lipa, Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) Lizzo, About Damn Time The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber, Stay
Best New Artist
Baby Keem
Dove Cameron Gayle Latto
Maneskin Seventeen
Push Performance of the Year
Griff, One Night Remi Wolf, Sexy Villain
Nessa Barrett, I Hope Ur Miserable Until Ur Dead Seventeen, Rock With You Mae Muller, Better Days
Gayle, abcdefu Shenseea, R U That Omar Apollo, Tamagotchi
Wet Leg, Chaise Longue Muni Long, Baby Boo Doechii, Persuasive
Best Collaboration
Drake ft.
Future and Young Thug, Way 2 Sexy Elton John and Dua Lipa, Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow, Industry Baby
Megan Thee Stallion and Dua Lipa, Sweetest Pie Post Malone and The Weeknd, One Right Now Rosalia ft.
The Weeknd, La Fama The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber, Stay
Best Pop
Billie Eilish, Happier Than Ever Doja Cat, Woman
Ed Sheeran, Shivers Harry Styles, As It Was Lizzo, About Damn Time
Olivia Rodrigo, Traitor
Best Hip-Hop
Eminem and Snoop Dogg, From the D 2 the LBC Future ft. Drake and Tems, Wait for U
Kendrick Lamar, N95 Latto, Big Energy Nicki Minaj ft.
Lil Baby, Do We Have a Problem? Pusha T, Diet Coke
Best Rock
Foo Fighters, Love Dies Young Jack White, Taking Me Back
Muse, Won’t Stand Down Red Hot Chili Peppers, Black Summer Shinedown, Planet Zero
Three Days Grace, So Called Life
Best Alternative
Avril Lavigne ft. Blackbear, Love It When You Hate Me Imagine Dragons and JID, Enemy
Machine Gun Kelly ft. Willow, Emo Girl Maneskin, I Wanna Be Your Slave
Panic! at the Disco, Viva Las Vengeance Twenty One Pilots, Saturday Willow and Avril Lavigne ft.
Travis Barker, G R O W
Best Latin
Anitta, Envolver Bad Bunny, Titi Me Pregunto Becky G and Karol G, Mamiii
Daddy Yankee, Remix Farruko, Pepas J Balvin and Skrillex, In Da Getto
Best R&B
Alicia Keys, City of Gods (Part II)
Chloe, Have Mercy H.E.R., For Anyone Normani ft.
Cardi B, Wild Side Summer Walker and SZA and Cardi B, No Love (Extended Version) The Weeknd, Out Of Time
Best K-pop
BTS, Yet to Come (The Most Beautiful Moment)
Itzy, Loco Lisa, Lalisa Seventeen, Hot
Stray Kids, Maniac Twice, The Feels
Video for Good
Kendrick Lamar, The Heart Part 5 Latto, P*ssy
Lizzo, About Damn Time Rina Sawayama, This Hell Stromae, Fils de Joie
Best Metaverse Performance
Blackpink the Virtual | PUBG
BTS | Minecraft Charli XCX | Roblox Justin Bieber – An Interactive Virtual Experience | Wave
Rift Tour ft. Ariana Grande | Fortnite Twenty One Pilots Concert Experience | Roblox
Best Longform Video
Billie Eilish, Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles
Foo Fighters, Studio 666 Kacey Musgraves, Star-Crossed Madonna, Madame X
Olivia Rodrigo, Driving Home 2 U Taylor Swift, All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version)
Best Cinematography
Baby Keem and Kendrick Lamar, Family Ties Camila Cabello ft.
Ed Sheeran, Bam Bam Harry Styles, As It Was Kendrick Lamar, N95
Normani ft. Cardi B, Wild Side Taylor Swift, All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version)
Best Direction
Baby Keem and Kendrick Lamar, Family Ties
Billie Eilish, Happier Than Ever Ed Sheeran, Shivers Harry Styles, As It Was
Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow, Industry Baby Taylor Swift, All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version)
Best Art Direction
Adele, Oh My God Doja Cat, Get Into It (Yuh)
Drake ft. Future and Young Thug, Way 2 Sexy Kacey Musgraves, Simple Times
Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow, Industry Baby Megan Thee Stallion ft. Dua Lipa, Sweetest Pie
Best Visual Effects
Billie Eilish, Happier Than Ever
Coldplay and BTS, My Universe Kendrick Lamar, The Heart Part 5 Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow, Industry Baby
Megan Thee Stallion and Dua Lipa, Sweetest Pie The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber, Stay
Best Choreography
BTS, Permission to Dance Doja Cat, Woman
FKA twigs ft. The Weeknd, Tears In The Club Harry Styles, As It Was
Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow, Industry Baby Normani ft. Cardi B, Wild Side
Best Editing
Baby Keem and Kendrick Lamar, Family Ties
Doja Cat, Get Into It (Yuh) Olivia Rodrigo, Brutal Rosalia, Saoko
Taylor Swift, All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version)
The Weeknd, Take My Breath