Mariah Carey will take the center on 2025 MTV Video Music Awards, where she is set to get the prestigious Video Clip Prize and deliver a career -exciting performance. The ceremony will be broadcast live on Sunday, September 7 from the UBS Arena in New York at. 20 et/17.00 PT on CBS, with simultaneous broadcasts on MTV and Paramount+ in the United States
The honor makes Carey, 56, the oldest recipient of the award Hittills-a milestone that she may not live on, given her often quoted line that she does not “recognize” age. She surpasses Richard Lester, head of A hard day night and help!, which received the award of 52 during the first VMA 1984. Carey’s recognition also expands an eight -year line of female Honorees, after Rihanna, Pink, Jennifer Lopez, Missy Elliott, Nicki Minaj, Shakira and Katy Perry.
For Carey, the award marks a full circle moment with the VMAs. She last performed at the TeleCasten in 2005 and showed “We obtained together” and “Shake it off” with Jadakiss and Jermaine Dupri. She first adorned the VMA scene in 1991 with “Emotions” and returned in 1998 in a pop culture disturbance moment together with Whitney Houston, when the two stars jokes had identical dresses before presenting an award to Will Smith. In another twist of symmetry, Carey once divided the Vanguard Award to LL Cool J 1997; This year, LL returns as the host of the ceremony.
MTV’s announcement of the award has referred to it by both its current and original title, Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award – a nod to Carey’s own long -term label band to Sony under Jackson’s Era of Dominance. The recognition arrives when Carey maintains an extraordinary chart heritage.
With 19 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1-Singlar spanning from the 1990s “Vision of Love” to her multi-year “everything I want for Christmas, you are, which last topped the chart in January 2025-she stands as the most successful solo artist in Hot 100 History, just a hit Shy of the Beatles’ All-Time Record. It is remarkable that she wrote 18 of these chart topers. Beyond her Singles Run has Carey Sex No. 1 album, five Grammy and induction to the songwriter’s Hall of Fame 2022. She has also been nominated twice for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, a recognition that many observers believe is due.
Her VMAS -Potlight also corresponds to the publication of her 16th studio album, Here for everythingSeptember 26. Its leading single, “Type Dangerous”, is nominated this year for Best R&B video – and gives Carey its ninth career out. Despite her decades of dominance, she has not yet won a competitive VMA, which makes the Vanguard creation both celebration and corrective.
This year’s broadcast has an eclectic range of artists, including Sabrina Carpenter, Alex Warren, J Balvin with DJ Snake, Ricky Martin and Busta Rhymes, who will get The Rock The Bells Visionary Award. Martin will be honored separately with the first Latin icon. On the nomination front, Lady Gaga leads the field with 12 nods, followed by Bruno Mars with 11.
But for Carey, the night will mark something more permanent: a rare return to the VMAS scene, two decades ago her last. In a career that has extended over four decades, the Vanguard Award not only recognizes her life, but her role in shaping the visual and cultural landscape of pop music itself.
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