Cardi B Leads The MTV VMA Nominations

The year of Cardi B continues – this time with 10 MTV Video Music Award nominations. MTV announced that the rapper is the most nominated act at this year’s show, which returns to New York City’s Radio City Music Hall on August 20th.

Five of Cardi B’s nominations are thanks to her collaboration with Bruno Mars on the upbeat anthem, “Finesse (Remix).” The song’s video, inspired by ’90s sketch comedy series In Living Color, will compete for Video of the Year along with Childish Gambino’s “This Is America,” Drake’s “God’s Plan,” Beyonc and Jay-Z’s “Apesh*t,” Camila Cabello’s “Havana” and Ariana Grande’s “No Tears Left to Cry.”

Beyonc and Jay-Z – who recently released a collaborative album as The Carters – are nominated for eight awards with “Apesh*t,” which was filmed at the Louvre museum in Paris. Gambino’s “This Is America,” which tackles racism and gun violence, earned him seven nominations. Drake, who gave away $1 million dollars to Miami residents in his “God’s Plan” clip, also scored seven nods. Mars, who has six nominations, is up for Artist of the Year alongside Cardi B, Drake, Post Malone, Cabello and Grande.

Others nominated for multiple VMAs include Ed Sheeran, Khalid, SZA, Shawn Mendes, Alessia Cara and Dua Lipa. Avicii, who died in April, earned a nomination for Best Dance with “Lonely Together,” which features Rita Ora.

Meanwhile, Justin Timberlake, a video of the year winner (and Michael Jackson vanguard award recipient) in 2013, is nowhere to be found among the major categories for his Man of the Woods videos, only nominated for his “Say Something” in the Best Direction category and for “Filthy” in best choreography.

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Kendrick Lamar, last year’s winner of top honors for his “Humble” clip, is similarly absent for both his DAMN. clips for “Love” and “Loyalty,” as well as his visuals for collaborative Black Panther soundtrack singles “King’s Dead” and “All the Stars,” with the latter earning him his lone recognition, in the Best Visual Effects category.

Also missing in the big awards is Taylor Swift. Despite having several of the year’s most ambitious and most hyped music videos, for Reputation singles “Delicate,” “End Game,” “…Ready for It?” and “Look What You Made Me Do” (the latter of which even premiered at last year’s ceremonies), Swift’s name only appears among the 2018 nominations in a trio of technical nominations for “Look”: Best Art Direction, Best Visual Effects and Best Editing. Swift’s fans believe the singer was purposely snubbed and they wasted no time heading to social media to express their anger.