2020 MTV Video Music Awards

2020 MTV Video Music Awards
2020 MTV Video Music Awards
Date	Sunday, August 30, 2020
Venue	MTV Headquarters, (New York City, New York)
Country	United States
Hosted by	Keke Palmer
Most awards	Lady Gaga (5)
Most nominations	Lady Gaga; Ariana Grande (9 each);
Website	mtv.com/vma
Television/radio coverage
Network	MTV; The CW; MTV2; VH1; BET; Nick at Nite; CMT; Comedy Central; Paramount Network; TV Land; BET Her; Pop TV; Logo TV; 10 Peach (AU);
Produced by	Bruce Gillmer ; Jesse Ignjatovic
Directed by	Dave Diomedi ; Sam Wrench

The 2020 MTV Video Music Awards were held on August 30, 2020. Keke Palmer hosted the 37th annual ceremony, which was presented primarily from New York City, but with a virtual ceremony due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This was the first VMA ceremony to be broadcast on The CW.

Lady Gaga was the most awarded act of the night with five awards, as well as the most nominated alongside Ariana Grande, with both artists receiving nine nominations each. Gaga was presented with the inaugural MTV Tricon Award for achievements in three or more fields of entertainment. The longlist of nominees for Push Best New Artist were revealed on July 23, 2020; nominees for other categories were announced on July 30. Fan voting began on July and ended on August 23. Nominees for Song of Summer, Best Group and Everyday Heroes: Frontline Medical Workers were released on August 24. The show was dedicated to Chadwick Boseman, who died of colon cancer two days before the ceremony.^[2] The show received 6.4 million viewers in its first-run viewing (excluding livestreams through network apps), a 5% decrease from the 6.8 million viewers at the previous ceremony.^[3]

^ Countryman, Eli (August 6, 2020). "Keke Palmer to Host 2020 MTV Video Music Awards". Variety. Archived from the original on 8 August 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
^ Daly, Rhian (August 31, 2020). "MTV VMAs 2020 dedicated to Chadwick Boseman: "His impact lives forever"". NME. Archived from the original on 1 September 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
^ Porter, Rick (31 August 2020). "TV Ratings: VMAs Slip on Air, Draw Big Social Media Crowd". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on September 1, 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2020.

[1] Countryman, Eli (August 6, 2020). "Keke Palmer to Host 2020 MTV Video Music Awards". Variety. Archived from the original on 8 August 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2020.

[2] Daly, Rhian (August 31, 2020). "MTV VMAs 2020 dedicated to Chadwick Boseman: "His impact lives forever"". NME. Archived from the original on 1 September 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2020.

[3] Porter, Rick (31 August 2020). "TV Ratings: VMAs Slip on Air, Draw Big Social Media Crowd". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on September 1, 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2020.

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