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Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big new singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Kendrick Lamar keeps the diss-industrial-complex rolling with a scathing shot at Drake, Dua Lipa sends well wishes to an ex, and Danny Ocean serves up a delicious electro-pop single off his third album. Plus, new music from Gunna, Gracie Abrams, Megan Moroney, Willow, and more.

Kendrick Lamar, “Euphoria” (YouTube)

Dua Lipa, “Happy For You” (YouTube)

Danny Ocean, “Si No No” (YouTube)

Miranda Lambert, “Wranglers” (YouTube)

Gunna,...

In the weeks leading up to her latest project Bug, Kacy Hill is dealing with the usual pre-album jitters. The Arizona-born singer is used to these. She’s been in the industry for over a decade now, having gotten her start as a back-up dancer on Ye’s Yeezus Tour and eventually being signed to Good Music. After releasing one album with the label — 2017’s Like a Woman — she announced her departure in 2019.

In the aftermath of parting ways, Hill pursued an independent music career during the pandemic, debuting Is...

Performing on the MTV Video Music Awards stage for the first time since 2001, Jennifer Lopez made this year’s ceremony an awards show viewers won’t soon forget.

And she also walked away with a Moon Person: best collaboration with DJ Khaled and Cardi B for “Dinero.” Other big winners include Camila Cabello for video and artist of the year, Post Malone and 21 Savage for song of the year, and Cardi B for best new artist.

Logic, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj, Panic! at the Disco, and Travis Scott were among the performers, while Madonna remembered Aretha Franklin while presenting video of the year.

See the full winners list below.

Video of the year:

Ariana Grande – “No Tears Left to Cry” – Republic Records

Bruno Mars ft. Cardi B – “Finesse (Remix)” – Atlantic Records

Camila Cabello ft. Young Thug – “Havana” – Syco Music/Epic Records (Winner)

The Carters – “Apes**T” – Roc Nation/Parkwood Entertainment...

The 2018 MTV Video Music Awards were presented at Radio City Music Hall in New York City during a live telecast that aired on Monday night, August 20. This was the 35th year of these kudos, which have honored the best achievements in music videos from the early 1980s when video killed the radio star to the present day when the most popular videos rack up hundreds of millions, or sometimes billions of views on YouTube. So who were this year’s big winners? Scroll down for the full list, updating live as they’re announced.

The biggest nominee going into these awards was breakthrough rapper Cardi B, who picked up 10 bids including Artist of the Year, Best New Artist and Video of the Year for “Finesse,” her collaboration with Bruno Mars. (She had 12 nominations when you count her two later-announced bids for Song of the Summer.) But the one video that...

The MTV VMAs are airing next month, and we finally have the full list of nominees. While Cardi B is leading the pack with 10 nominations (including best new artist and artist of the year), Beyoncé and Jay-Z (aka The Carters) aren't too far behind with eight nominations for their music video "Apes**t." Who will take home a "Moon Person" this year? Tune in on Aug. 20 to find out!

Video Of The Year

"No Tears Left to Cry" by Ariana Grande

"Finesse (Remix)" by Bruno Mars ft. Cardi B

"Havana" by Camila Cabello ft. Young Thug

"Apes**T" by The Carters

"This Is America" by Childish Gambino

"God's Plan" by Drake

Artist Of The Year

Ariana Grande

Bruno Mars

Camila Cabello

Cardi B

Drake

Post Malone

Song Of The Year

"Finesse (Remix)" by Bruno Mars ft. Cardi B

"Havana" by Camila Cabello ft. Young Thug

"God's Plan" by Drake

"New...

The MTV Video Music Awards nominations were announced Monday with Cardi B leading the way noms in 10 categories, including Video, Song and Artist of the Year. The Carters followed with eight, including Video Of the Year, Best Collaboration and Best Hip Hop for their recent hit single “Apes**T.” Other top contenders include Childish Gambino, Drake and Bruno Mars.

Beginning today, fans can vote in eight VMA categories, including Video of the Year, Artist of the Year, Best Collaboration, among others. Voting concludes Friday August 10, except for the Best New Artist award, which will remain open until the Vma broadcast.

The VMAs will air live from Radio City Music Hall on Monday, August 20 at 9 Pm.

Here’s the full list of nominees:

Video Of The Year

Ariana Grande – “No Tears Left to Cry” – Republic Records

Bruno Mars ft. Cardi B – “Finesse (Remix)” – Atlantic Records

Camila Cabello ft. Young Thug – “Havana...

Cardi B and The Carters led the nominations for the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards, which were announced Monday.

Cardi B drew the most nominations with 10, including “Video of the Year,” “Song of the Year” and “Artist of the Year,” for her collaboration with Bruno Mars, “Fitness (Remix).” The Carters — husband and wife duo Beyonce and Jay Z — scored eight nods, including “Video of the Year,” “Best Collaboration” and “Best Hip Hop” for their recent hit single “Apes—.”

Childish Gambino and Drake each landed six nominations, while Bruno Mars earned five. MTV revealed the nominees on Instagram’s new long-form video platform, Igtv.

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“It has already been a monumental year in music, and this year’s ‘VMAs’ will take things to a whole new level,” said Bruce Gillmer, head of music and music talent, global entertainment group, Viacom.

MTV has announced the nominees for the 35th Annual MTV Video Music Awards, which include a few new categories and are missing a couple of others. Just like the MTV Movie and TV Awards, which consolidated the races for Best Male Performance and Best Female Performance into Best Performance in a Show and Best Performance in a Movie, the 2018 VMAs have done away with gendered categories.

Instead, fans can vote online for Video of the Year, Artist of the Year, Song of the Year, Best New Artist and many more regardless of sex. Men have a slight majority in the top category, where there are five men and four women represented, counting collaborations. Those Video of the Year nominees are Ariana Grande (“No Tears Left to Cry“), Childish Gambino (“This is America“), Drake (“God’s Plan”), Beyonce and Jay-z (“Apeshit”), Bruno Mars and Cardi B (“Finesse”), and Camila Cabello and...

Cardi B and “The Carters” — a.k.a. Beyonce and Jay-z — lead the nominees for the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards, which were announced this afternoon. Cardi received 10 nominations — which are gender-neutral — including video, song and artist of the year, while the Carters received eight, including video of the year, best collaboration and best hip-hop for their eye-popping clip for “Apesh–,” released last month. Other top contenders include Childish Gambino and Drake (with seven nominations each), Bruno Mars (six), Ariana Grande and Camila Cabello (five), and Ed Sheeran, Khalid and Young Thug (four). See the complete list below.

The “VMAs” will air live from Radio City Music Hall on Monday, August 20 at 9:00 p.m. Et/Pt.

“It has already been a monumental year in music, and this year’s ‘VMAs’ will take things to a whole new level,” said Bruce Gillmer, Head of Music and Music Talent, Global Entertainment Group,...