Woman Gaga had an evening to recollect on the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards.
Gaga, 39, was the most-awarded artist on the Sunday, September 7, ceremony, at UBS Enviornment in New York. With a complete of 4 wins, the “Abracadabra” hitmaker took residence the Moon Individual trophies for Artist of the 12 months, Finest Collaboration for her work with Bruno Mars on “Die With a Smile,” Finest Path and Finest Artwork Path.
Through the pop star's Artist of the 12 months acceptance speech, she gave fiancé Michael Polansky a loving shout-out, dedicating the respect to her associate.
Previous to the awards present, Gaga earned probably the most nominations of any artist this 12 months. The singer landed 12 nods for Video of the 12 months, Music of the 12 months, Finest Collaboration and Finest Pop for her and Mars' “Die With a Smile,” Finest Path, Finest Artwork Path, Finest Cinematography, Finest Enhancing, Finest Choreography and Finest Visible Results for “Abracadabra,” Finest Album for Mayhem and Artist of the 12 months.
Regardless of her potential for wins in so many classes, Gaga was pressured to skip a few of the VMAs as a consequence of a scheduling battle. She was performing her closing Mayhem Ball live performance at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York Metropolis throughout the awards present however did handle to simply accept her Artist of the 12 months award in individual.
Whereas Gaga acquired extra nods than some other artist in 2025, she was not the one prime nominee on the VMAs. Mars, 39, trailed carefully behind with 11 nominations, adopted by Kendrick Lamar with 10, Rosé and Sabrina Carpenter with eight, Ariana Grande and The Weeknd with seven, Billie Eilish with six, Charli XCX with 5 and Dangerous Bunny, Doechii, Ed Sheeran, Jelly Roll, Miley Cyrus and Tate McRae with 4.
Forward of Sunday's ceremony, Gaga had 18 VMA wins throughout her profession. Her 12 nominations gave her the potential to tie Taylor Swift's file for many VMAs within the awards present's historical past for the reason that “All Too Properly” singer has 30 Moon Individual trophies. Swift, 35, additionally had a possibility to surpass her personal aim since she was up for Artist of the 12 months in 2025.
Swift grew to become the most-awarded VMAs artist ever in 2024 when she secured seven wins out of her 12 nominations. Her accolades that evening included Video of the 12 months, Finest Collaboration, Music of the Summer time, Finest Enhancing and Finest Path for “Fortnight,” Artist of the 12 months and Finest Pop.
As for this 12 months's most-nominated artists, Grande already had 10 wins previous to Sunday's awards present, whereas Lamar had eight, Eilish had seven, Mars had 4, The Weeknd and Cyrus had three, Dangerous Bunny and Sheeran had two and Carpenter had one. Rosé, Charli, Doechii, Jelly Roll and McRae had but to win a VMA earlier than Sunday.
