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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damn right, haters come out in full force. this some bullshit!!!!
of course birdman payed mtv. and youngsta down below gets fucked in the ass by lil wayne
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.
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.
Nothing you said is true.
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
Are you mad that your favorite rapper is broke or in jail?
My favorite rapper is Eminem and he shits on all of YMCMB.
lol my fav rapper aint near broke or in jail..
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.
Good joke YMCMB groupie.
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
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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.
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
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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Worst VMA’s ever.
Hell yeah couldn’t get no worse lol
lol how the fuck is Drake nominated for all that shit damn VMA’s are lost.
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.
The VMAS is one big popularity contest. No talented ever win one. The Grammys are much better than this crapfest.
I hope that security is deep, because Chris Brown is going to try, to put them paws on Drake.
who watches mtv?????
yeah Gambino now there is an actual reason to watch this shitty show
People still watch these shows? Don’t they know they’re fixed?
I hope drake and chris brown show up,fight and beat eachother retarded and hope they forget how to rap
lol..
Best Video With a Message
Lil Wayne, “How to Love” that’s ridiculous. smh
I know right!
The fact that they have a category like this tells you how much garbage music is out there!
Fuck Kanye West! The haters are just jealous of Drake…
Kanye West is overrated.
co-sign.
Deez all suck
“Best Video With A Message”
Worst category ever. Matter of fact, this is the worst VMA’s ever.
Mercy & Love on top, best videos ever
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.