Jack Harlow and Maneskin are additionally set to take the stage on the awards present later this month.
Lizzo, Jack Harlow, BLACKPINK and Maneskin have been added to the lineup of performers for the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards. The present is ready to air dwell from Prudential Heart in Newark, N.J., on Sunday, Aug. 28, at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
Lizzo is ready to carry out “2 Be Liked (Am I Prepared)” from her second major-label studio album Particular, which lately entered the Billboard 200 at No. 2. The tune, the follow-up to her No. 1 Billboard Sizzling 100 smash “About Rattling Time,” has to date reached No. 84 on that chart. Lizzo is up for 4 awards this 12 months, together with tune of the 12 months for “About Rattling Time” and artist of the 12 months. This will likely be Lizzo’s second efficiency on the VMAs. Three years in the past, she carried out a medley of her breakthrough hits “Good as Hell” and “Reality Hurts.”
Harlow made his VMAs efficiency debut final 12 months, performing “Business Child” alongside Lil Nas X. This 12 months, that No. 1 Sizzling 100 smash is up for video of the 12 months. Harlow is tied with LNX and Kendrick Lamar for probably the most VMA nominations this 12 months (seven). This will likely be Harlow’s first solo efficiency on the VMAs. He's anticipated to carry out a tune from his sophomore studio album Come House the Youngsters Miss You, which entered the Billboard 200 at No. 3.
BLACKPINK will make their U.S. award present debut with their first U.S. efficiency of “Pink Venom.” The tune is drawn from the group’s second studio album, Born Pink, which is due Sept. 16. The group’s first album, The Album, reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200 in 2020. That very same 12 months, BLACKPINK turned the primary all-female Okay-Pop group to win a VMA. They took tune of the summer time for “How You Like That,” which turned their first prime 40 hit on the Sizzling 100, peaking at No. 33. BLACKPINK is nominated this 12 months within the new greatest metaverse efficiency class for BLACKPINK: The Digital. Group member LISA is nominated for greatest Okay-pop for “Lalisa.” She is first solo feminine Okay-pop star and Korean soloist to ever be nominated for a VMA.
Maneskin will make their VMAs debut with a dwell efficiency of their new single “Supermodel,” which has climbed as excessive as No. 13 on Billboard’s Sizzling Rock & Different chart. The primary-time nominees are up for 2 awards – greatest new artist and greatest various (for “I Wanna Be Your Slave”). They're the primary Italian act to be nominated in a most important class.
Anitta, J Balvin, Marshmello x Khalid and Panic! At The Disco had been within the first spherical of artists set to carry out on the VMAs. It was subsequently introduced that Kane Brown would be the first male nation solo artist to carry out on the present, which launched in 1984.
Trailing Harlow, Lamar and LNX on this 12 months’s checklist of prime nominees are Doja Cat (the 12 months’s prime feminine nominee) and Harry Types, every of whom obtained six nods. Billie Eilish, Drake, Dua Lipa, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift and The Weeknd obtained 5 nods every. BTS is probably the most nominated group or duo, with 4 nods. The total checklist of nominations will be discovered right here.
Followers can vote for his or her favorites throughout 22 gender-neutral classes by visiting vote.mtv.com by way of Friday, Aug. 19. Voting for greatest new artist stays energetic into present.
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