Last year, the channel had initially announced that the 2020 edition would take place in Brooklyn, but then it retracted and held a decentralized, audienceless ceremony, with prerecorded musical performances at different locations in New York.
Launched in 1984 in New York, the MTV VMAs later alternated between this city and Los Angeles. In 2019 the ceremony took place in Newark (New Jersey) and in 2018, in New York.
In this edition, videos released between July 2020 and June 2021 compete.
Last year, Lady Gaga topped the awards by taking home five of these statuettes of an astronaut holding a flag with the MTV logo, also known as “Man in the Moon.”
Return of events in New York
Also this Tuesday, the mythical Madison Square Garden venue announced that on June 20 it will host its first concert at full capacity since the start of the pandemic.
The Foo Fighters, a group of former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, will be the debutants of this new era, in a room that will only admit spectators vaccinated against COVID-19, with the requirement of having received both doses when applicable.
“We have been waiting for this day for more than a year,” Grohl said, quoted in the statement released Tuesday. “And Madison Square Garden will feel it strongly. New York, get ready for a long night screaming together for 26 years of the Foos.”
On Monday, Bruce Springsteen announced the resumption of his show “Springsteen on Broadway” at a New York theater beginning June 26, also exclusively for vaccinated viewers.
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