Drake, Rihanna Lead 2012 MTV Video Music Awards Nominations

    The nominees for this year’s MTV Video Music Awards have been announced.

    Drake and Rihanna lead the pack with five nominations apiece, including Video of the Year (“We Found Love,” “Take Care”), Best Cinematography (“Take Care”) and more.

    A$AP Rocky scores a nod for “Goldie” in the Best Editing category, which also includes Jay-Z and Kanye West’s “Paris” and Beyonce’s “Countdown.”

    The 2012 MTV VMAs are scheduled to take place on September 6th at 8 p.m., broadcasting live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.

    Check out the full list of nominees below. 

    Video of the Year

    Katy Perry, “Wide Awake”
    Gotye, “Somebody That I Used To Know”
    Rihanna, “We Found Love”
    Drake feat. Rihanna, “Take Care”
    M.I.A., “Bad Girls”

    Best New Artist

    Fun. feat. Janelle Monae, “We Are Young”
    Carly Rae Jepsen, “Call Me Maybe”
    Frank Ocean, “Swim Good”
    One Direction, “What Makes You Beautiful”
    The Wanted, “Glad You Came”

    Best Hip-Hop Video

    Childish Gambino, “Heartbeat”
    Drake feat. Lil Wayne, “HYFR”
    Kanye West feat. Pusha T, Big Sean & 2 Chainz, “Mercy”
    Watch the Throne, “Paris”
    Nicki Minaj feat. 2 Chainz, “Beez in the Trap”

    Best Male Video

    Justin Bieber, “Boyfriend”
    Frank Ocean, “Swim Good”
    Drake feat. Rihanna, “Take Care”
    Chris Brown, “Turn Up the Music”
    Usher, “Climax”

    Best Female Video

    Rihanna, “We Found Love”
    Katy Perry, “Part of Me”
    Beyoncé, “Love on Top”
    Nicki Minaj, “Starships”
    Selena Gomez & The Scene, “Love You Like a Love Song”

    Best Pop Video

    One Direction, “What Makes You Beautiful”
    Fun. feat. Janelle Monae, “We Are Young”
    Rihanna, “We Found Love”
    Justin Bieber, “Boyfriend”
    Maroon 5 feat. Wiz Khalifa, “Payphone”

    Best Rock Video

    Coldplay, “Paradise”
    The Black Keys, “Lonely Boy”
    Linkin Park, “BURN IT DOWN”
    Jack White, “Sixteen Saltines”
    Imagine Dragons, “It’s Time”

    Best Electronic Dance Music Video

    Duck Sauce, “Big Bad Wolf”
    Calvin Harris, “Feel So Close”
    Skrillex, “First of the Year (Equinox)”
    Martin Solveig, “The Night Out”
    Avicii, “Le7els”

    Best Video With a Message

    Demi Lovato, “Skyscraper”
    Rise Against, “Ballad of Hollis Brown”
    Kelly Clarkson, “Dark Side”
    Gym Class Heroes, “The Fighter”
    K’Naan feat. Nelly Furtado, “Is Anybody Out There?”
    Lil Wayne, “How to Love”

    Best Art Direction

    Katy Perry, “Wide Awake”
    Drake feat. Rihanna, “Take Care”
    Lana Del Rey, “Born to Die”
    Regina Spektor, “All the Rowboats”
    Of Monsters & Men, “Little Talks”

    Best Choreography

    Chris Brown, “Turn Up the Music”
    Rihanna, “Where Have You Been”
    Beyoncé, “Countdown”
    Avicii, “Le7els”
    Jennifer Lopez f/Pitbull, “Dance Again”

    Best Cinematography

    M.I.A., “Bad Girls”
    Adele, “Someone Like You”
    Drake feat. Rihanna, “Take Care”
    Coldplay feat. Rihanna, “Princess of China”
    Lana Del Rey, “Born to Die”

    Best Direction

    M.I.A., “Bad Girls”
    Duck Sauce, “Big Bad Wolf”
    Coldplay feat. Rihanna, “Princess of China”
    Frank Ocean, “Swim Good”
    Watch the Throne, “Otis”

    Best Editing

    Beyoncé, “Countdown”
    A$AP Rocky, “Goldie”
    Gotye, “Somebody That I Used to Know”
    Watch the Throne, “Paris”
    Kanye West feat. Pusha T, Big Sean and 2 Chainz, “Mercy”

    Best Visual Effects

    Katy Perry, “Wide Awake”
    Rihanna, “Where Have You Been”
    David Guetta feat. Nicki Minaj, “Turn Me On”
    Linkin Park, “BURN IT DOWN”

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    40 thoughts on “Drake, Rihanna Lead 2012 MTV Video Music Awards Nominations

      1. Birdman is in the business of making money. I know that you don’t make any so you wouldn’t know the feeling. However, Birdman doesn’t buy tons of this artists CDs or pay the radio to play them or pay MTV to nominate them. How would he make money by doing that? Sounds like a way to LOSE money. The truth is that people like YMCMB becuase they embody the American spirit. If you work hard and gind, you can making something of yourself.

      2. YALL KIDDIES DONT EVEN UNDERSTAND THE INDUSTRY…YALL OVERESTIMATE BIRDMAN…THE MAJOR LABELS ARE THE ONES THAT PAY FOR ALL THAT SHIT, NOT SOME BUM ASS BIRDMAN.

    1. best cum on cum video- drake ft. lil wayne
      fucker of the century fucking over artists- Birdman
      weird looking mofo- gudda gudda
      new best tranny- nicki minag twat
      and frog looking mofo fucked by cash money- LIl wayne aka lil gayne

    2. YMCMB stays winning. I see all of the haters and it’s so obvious that you are all jealous of the success which Drake, Wayne, Bidrman and Nicki have achieved. The groups who hate YMCMB the most are welfare recipients, feminists, communists, terrorist sympathizers and pedophiles. So all of you haters need to fess up and admit which group you belong to.

      1. so you must be a pop fan cause thats all this is.. pop music… young money is for little teenie bopper justin beiber fans hahah if the shit I listened to was nominated for a bunch of mtv awards I would be fuckin embarrassed

    3. da next MTV Video music awards will be about So Icy Boi!… my new single komin next week, produced by da late J DILLA. swag

    4. da internet will brunin! ma album is so hot! swag

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      experimental progressive alternative hip hop album by me. swag

    5. I’M GLAD AND SURPRISED THAT THEY NOMINATED SOME UNCONVENTIONAL ARTISTS, BUT AT THE SAME TIME WE ALL KNOW THE POPULAR ONES WILL WIN EVERYTHING.

    6. MTV VMA’s is only dope when niggas like Kanye pull shit off like what he did in ’08

      mTVU Woodie Awards is the only shit worth watching – real artist

    7. Best Video is between “Bad Girls” & “We Found Love”. They are the only videos I even remember, besides “No Church In the Wild” which I don’t even see nominated.

      “Take Care” was a wet firecracker as a video and single. “What’s My Name” was superior in every way, but that’s because it was a Rihanna single and not Drake. Drake is a dud.

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    9. Meh….too many moist niggas in the mix with no fucking talent whatsoever. I’ll pass. Really don’t want to see mulitple faggots walking on stage with skinny jeans and barely being able to talk with some intelligence.

    10. The VMAS is one big popularity contest. No talented ever win one. The Grammys are much better than this crapfest.

    11. I hope that security is deep, because Chris Brown is going to try, to put them paws on Drake.

    12. I hope drake and chris brown show up,fight and beat eachother retarded and hope they forget how to rap

      1. I know right!

        The fact that they have a category like this tells you how much garbage music is out there!

    13. “Best Video With A Message”

      Worst category ever. Matter of fact, this is the worst VMA’s ever.

    14. Drake and Rihanna each have five nominations for the 2012 MTV Video Music looking at the full list of nominees for the 29th annual MTV Video Music Awards. Rihanna and Drake lead the pack with five nominations each.

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