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The year’s biggest names in music gathered Wednesday at Ubs Arena in Long Island, NY for a chance to take home a Moon Person.

Hosted by Megan Thee Stallion, the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards featured the likes of Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, Glorilla, Karol G and LL Cool J, making his first VMAs gig in over 25 years, all while celebrating the best performances of the year.

With 10 nominations, Taylor Swift led the pack at the awards show, followed by Post Malone, Ariana Grande, Eminem, Sabrina Carpenter, Megan Thee Stallion and Sza.

Carpenter and Roan were among this year’s crop of first-time nominees, which also includes Teddy Swims, Benson Boone, Tyla, Jelly Roll, Jessie Murph, Rauw Alejandro, Sexyy Red, Victoria Monét, Alexander Stewart, Burna Boy, Coco Jones, Flyana Boss, Gracie Abrams, Gunna, Joyner Lucas, Laufey, Le Sserafim, Lojay, Morgan Wallen, Myke Towers, Nct Dream, Pheelz, Playboi Carti, Raye, Shaboozey,...

Are we in for another Taylor Swift love fest at the MTV Video Music Awards? A year after she made history with nine wins, including her fourth Video of the Year title for “Anti-Hero,” she racked up another 12 nominations including, yes, Video of the Year again for “Fortnight” featuring Post Malone. As most of the VMAs are fan-voted and Swifties are one of the most dominant fan bases in the world, we’re expecting her to win more often than not in what could be a historic night for the superstar. Scroll down for our official odds in 15 categories, with our projected winners highlighted in gold.

Based on the combined predictions of music fans who have placed their bets here in our predictions center, Swift will win five awards: Video of the Year, Best Collaboration and Best Direction for “Fortnight,” plus Artist of the Year and Best Pop. That doesn...

The 2024 MTV Video Music Awards are airing live tonight at 8 p.m. Et from the Ubs Arena in New York.

Megan Thee Stallion is set to host the event, marking her first-ever awards show hosting gig. Katy Perry will receive the Video Vanguard Award and perform a career retrospective medley.

There will also be a ton of performers throughout the evening!

See the full list of presenters, pre-show hosts and extended play stage performers!

Find out who is nominated this year…

Keep reading to see all of the nominees…

2024 MTV Vmas Nominees

Video Of The Year

Ariana Grande – “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)”

Billie Eilish – “Lunch”

Doja Cat – “Paint The Town Red”

Eminem – “Houdini”

Sza – “Snooze”

Taylor Swift ft. Post Malone – “Fortnight”

Artist Of The Year

Ariana Grande

Bad Bunny

Eminem

Sabrina Carpenter

Sza

Taylor Swift

Song Of The Year

Beyoncé – “Texas Hold ‘Em”

Jack Harlow...

The 2024 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) fall on the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks Wednesday. In observance of the occasion, MTV will support the nonprofit, 9/11 Day, which organizes the National Day of Service and Remembrance as well as Tuesday’s Children, which serves the families affected by the event.

Those wondering how to watch the VMAs can find details about streaming, performers, nominees and more below:

Where can I watch the 2024 MTV VMAs?

MTV will air the 2024 VMAs, live from Ubs Arena Wednesday, September 11 starting at 8 p.m. Et/ 5 p.m. Pt. There will be a live simulcast of the awards show via TelevisaUnivision.

Are the 2024 MTV VMAs streaming?

Yes, the ceremony will be available to stream on Paramount+ the next day, on demand.

Who is hosting the 2024 MTV VMAs?

Megan Thee Stallion will host and perform at the 2024 ceremony. She is also up for five nominations this year...

Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter is much more than a country album — it’s actually a tour through the Black roots of American music that manages to be both thematically rich and stuffed with indelible pop songs, in multiple genres. Kendrick Lamar’s virtuosic “Not Like Us,” meanwhile, completely transcends its status as a killing blow in the Lamar-Drake battle, packing in an astonishing amount of lyrical and musical density — and it’s somehow also the year’s most entertaining, endlessly replayable track.

In the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast,...

MTV has revealed the nominees for the 2024 VMAs. Taylor Swift leads the pack with 10 noms, including Video of the Year, in which she could break her own record as the only artist to ever three-peat and win five times in the category. Following Swift is her “Fortnight” collaborator Post Malone with 9, Ariana Grande, Eminem and Sabrina Carpenter with 6 each, Megan Thee Stallion and Sza (5 each), and Lisa, Olivia Rodrigo and Teddy Swims with 4 each.

Carpenter and Swims are among 29 first-time nominees, including Benson Boone and Tyla (3 each), Chappell Roan, Jelly Roll, Jessie Murph, Rauw Alejandro, Sexyy Red and Victoria Monét (2 each) also first timers receiving multiple nods. Other first-time nominees include Alexander Stewart, Burna Boy, Coco Jones, Flyana Boss, Gracie Abrams, Gunna, Joyner Lucas, Laufey, Le Sserafim, Lojay, Morgan Wallen, Myke Towers, Nct Dream, Pheelz, Playboi Carti, Raye, Shaboozey, Tyler Childers and The Warning.

The 2024 MTV VMAs are set to take place on Tuesday,...

Unsurprisingly in a year in which she has dominated all other comers in recorded music and the live sphere, Taylor Swift emerged as the leading nominee for MTV’s Video Music Awards, collecting 10 nominations in the competition for the 2024 spacemen.

Post Malone followed close behind with nine nods, primarily for sharing Swift’s “Fortnight” nominations, as her featured guest on that hit.

Sabrina Carpenter, Eminem and Ariana Grande tied for third place among VMAs finalists, with six nominations each. Sza and Megan Thee Stallion both picked up five nominations.

Moving ahead in the contest with four nods each are Olivia Rodrigo, Teddy Swims and, making big inroads as a solo artist, Blackpink’s Lisa. Tied with three nominations apiece are Benson Boone, Anitta, Dua Lipa, Tyla, Bleachers and GloRilla.

The VMAs will air live from Ubs Arena on Sept. 10 at 8 p.m. Et/Pt. It’s the first time for...

Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big new singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Shakira returns with a dazzling LP, Olivia Rodrigo spills Guts B-sides, and longtime collaborators Future and Metro Boomin team up for their first full-length project. Plus, new music from our April cover star Peso Pluma, Anitta, Skaiwater, Girl In Red, and Sabrina Carpenter.

Shakira, “Cómo Dónde y Cuándo”(YouTube)

Olivia Rodrigo, “So American” (YouTube)

Future, Metro Boomin feat. Kendrick Lamar, “Like That” (YouTube)

Peso Pluma feat.

On Wednesday night, Peso Pluma headlined a night of music that careened from música mexicana to urbano to Norteño-inflected folk at Rolling Stone’s Future of Music showcase, causing lines around the block. The next evening, the showcase pivoted in another, no less potent, direction, mixing up hip-hop with innovative sounds from Ghana, South Africa, Nigeria, and more.

Preacher, a.k.a. Keite Young, came out and showed he wasn’t messing around. Flanked by a five-piece band and 10-member choir, the singer launched right into a cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.

Peso Pluma, Flo Milli, Teezo Touchdown, Young Miko, Faye Webster, and others will grace the stage at Austin’s famed Acl Live at the Moody Theater for Rolling Stone’s weeklong Future of Music showcase at South by Southwest.

The four-night concert series will take place between March 12 and March 15, featuring artists from around the world and across the genre spectrum. Texas Mc Teezo Touchdown will headline night one, March 12, which will also feature performances from Brooklyn’s own Lola Brooke, Detroit punchline king Veeze, rising Atlanta rapper Karrahbooo and...

Usher’s first studio album in six years largely operates as a high-wire homecoming of sorts for the R&b singer. Released two days before his halftime performance at Super Bowl Lviii and following a highly successful Las Vegas residency, Coming Home feels less driven by creative ingenuity or an aesthetic vision than by sheer showmanship. This is further emphasized by the inclusion of the sleepy “Risk It All,” a duet with H.E.R. from the Color Purple soundtrack, and a remix of BTS member Jungkook’s “Standing Next to You,” both of which, thematically and sonically, have little in common with anything else on the album.

Which is to say that the 20-track Coming Home, like many of Usher’s post-Confessions output, is a bit of a bloated mess. For every few colorless duds defined by their embrace of contemporary R&b, such as the overly smooth “Kissing Strangers” or the brassy “Big,...

While preparing for his Super Bowl halftime performance, Usher achieved another goal: He finished recording his ninth album. Coming Home was released on Friday, two days before he celebrates his 30-year career at the big game.

“Life couldn’t be in a better situation for me right now,” he tells The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s going pretty great.”

The album is a 20-track R&b adventure and features collaborations with Latto, Burna Boy, The-Dream and Pheelz, who appears on the current single “Ruin.” Previously released songs include BTS’ Jungkook, 21 Savage, Summer Walker and H.E.R.

Coming Home is Usher’s first independent project, released through his new label Mega with famed music executive L.A. Reid.

Ahead of his Super Bowl performance, the singer talked to THR about his new album, how he reworked Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl” to create a new track, the advice that the King of Pop gave him and more.

Usher is going to be headlining the Super Bowl Halftime Show this weekend and he just dropped his brand new album Coming Home ahead of the big game.

The beloved singer’s ninth studio album includes features from Burna Boy, Summer Walker, 21 Savage, Pheelz, Latto, H.E.R. and The-Dream.

“Coming Home is an ode to going back to your roots, whatever or wherever that may be. I’m Coming Home to where I’m comfortable in being exactly who I am right now. My hope is that you identify with the new album no matter where you are or what you’re going through, too,” Usher said in a statement.

The album features 20 new songs.

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Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Usher delivers a smooth break-up ballad, Lil Yachty laments his Sunday scaries, and the Last Dinner Party offer a ferocious take on generational trauma. Plus, new music from Billy Joel, Del Water Gap and Holly Humberstone, and Cash Cobain.

Usher feat. Pheelz “Ruin” (YouTube)

Lil Yachty, “A Cold Sunday” (YouTube)

The Last Dinner Party, “The Feminine Urge” (YouTube)

Billy Joel, “Turn the Lights Back On” (YouTube)

Del Water Gap feat.

This summer, hip-hop channel On The Radar was on everyone’s radar as it rose to become one of the internet’s finest purveyors of freestyle videos and interviews, reaching a new high with a Drake appearance featuring buzzing U.K. rap star Central Cee. Both traded bars at the show’s New York studio, shrouded in its signature green-means-go lights. Beyond producing the best music meme of the season (Drake slurring “combination” in one of his infamous accents during the song’s intro) it also produced one of the...

Would you believe us if we said a hologram sponsored by the government of Ontario was one of the best things we saw on the second full day of SXSW 2023? There were plenty of flesh-and-blood performances that knocked our socks off, too, as the festival hit its stride with artists big and small from across genres and decades packing the venues that make Austin one of the greatest music cities in the world. Here are our top picks from Wednesday, March 15.

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The beat tag “It’s Kel-p Vibes!” — cooed sultrily at the start of some of Afrobeats’ best tracks — is a signal you’re in for a good time. Kel-p is the 27-year-old producer from Lagos behind much of Burna Boy’s Grammy-nominated African Giant as well as Wizkid’s “Ginger,” and, as he tells Rolling Stone, upcoming projects from heavyweights like Davido, Wande Coal, and Adekunle Gold.

Kel-p is among a budding crop of Nigerian producers (including Pheelz and Young John) hopping up from behind the boards and pursuing careers as the lead act,...

In early 2021, things started to fall apart for Pheelz. That February, he released his debut EP, Hear Me Out, following nearly two decades of producing some of Afrobeats’ greatest hits. The EP was relatively successful, racking up millions of streams all around, but the process cost Pheelz a lot of money, leaving a huge dent in his finances.

Then, his girlfriend ended their five-year relationship, and his best friend of 15 years sent him a text one night, abruptly declaring their friendship over (for reasons Pheelz declines to expand on). “It...

Welcome To Our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big new singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, a top-shelf Taylor Swift remix, a special collab between Sza and Lizzo, a highlight off the new Paramore album, and great new songs from Gracie Abrams, Jesse Ware, and Ayra Starr.

Lizzo feat. Sza, “Special” (YouTube)

Taylor Swift, “Lavender Haze” (Felix Jaehn Remix) (YouTube)

Jessie Ware, “Pearls” (YouTube)

Gracie Abrams, “Amelie” (YouTube)

Paramore, “The News” (YouTube)

Iyla feat. Symba, “Impala” (YouTube)

Babyface Ray feat. 42 Dugg,...

The independent record label Empire has brought nineteen acts from six African nations together on one album and is set to share it with the world in less than two weeks. The compilation, titled Where We Come From (Vol. 1), which arrives November 30th, first started to take shape at a writing camp in San Fransisco following Empire’s “The New Africa” showcase in March at SXSW. After signees including Fireboy Dml, Bnxn (fka Buju), and Wande Coal took the stage in Texas, they jetted to California to collaborate at the label’s headquarters.

Chanel West Coast in skimpy bikini is living her best life. Pic credit: @chanelwestcoast/Instagram

MTV star and rapper Chanel West Coast isn’t letting a little thing like pregnancy get in the way of her bikini pictures.

The Ridiculousness talent, 34, is expecting a baby with her boyfriend, Dom Fenison. The due date is approaching, with November as the anticipated day of arrival.

In the meantime, Chanel hasn’t slowed down with her bikini pictures and high-energy content. She uses her social media to promote Coasty Swim, as the best publicity is often free. Using her 3.6 million Instagram followers to her advantage, Chanel posts her latest styles and consistently links her brand.

Taking to Instagram, she made a white sand beach into a photo shoot with the help of a friend. Chanel added a sparkly effect to the video, turning up the glitz and glamour of the video.

Chanel promoted Coasty Swim in the caption,...