JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE AND MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS LEAD THE NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2013 MTV “VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS”
Bruno
Mars, P!nk, Robin Thicke, Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Drake, Calvin
Harris, Kendrick Lamar, Capital Cities, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Weekend,
fun. &
Thirty Seconds to Mars Receive Multiple Nominations!
New York, 17 July 2013: MTV today revealed the nominations for the 30th
annual MTV “Video Music Awards” taking place at the Barclays Center, Brooklyn, USA on Sunday 25 August.
Today, at 14:00 CAT, the VMA’s most coveted award, “Video of the Year”, was unveiled via the @MTV Instagram
and Vine video accounts – making the VMAs the first awards show to
announce nominations via these social media video platforms.
Justin Timberlake’s “Mirrors”, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ “Thrift Shop”, Bruno Mars’ “Locked Out of Heaven”, Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” featuring T.I. and Pharrell, and Taylor Swift’s “I Knew You Were Trouble”, are set for an epic battle to take home “Video of the Year”. Previous “Video of the Year” winners have included R.E.M’s “Losing My Religion”, Pearl Jam’s “Jeremy”, Madonna’s “Ray of Light”, Eminem’s “Without Me”, Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” and Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)”.
Justin Timberlake’s “Mirrors”, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ “Thrift Shop”, Bruno Mars’ “Locked Out of Heaven”, Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” featuring T.I. and Pharrell, and Taylor Swift’s “I Knew You Were Trouble”, are set for an epic battle to take home “Video of the Year”. Previous “Video of the Year” winners have included R.E.M’s “Losing My Religion”, Pearl Jam’s “Jeremy”, Madonna’s “Ray of Light”, Eminem’s “Without Me”, Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” and Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)”.
The MTV “Video Music Awards“ will broadcast live across Africa on MTV (DStv Channel 130)
on Monday 26 August at 03:00 CAT, with the primetime premiere that evening at 20:30 CAT. The show will air on MTV Base (DStv Channel 322) at 16:00 CAT on Tuesday 27 August.
Justin Timberlake
and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
lead
this year’s VMA pack with six overall nominations each. Timberlake’s
nominations include “Video of the Year”, “Best Male Video”, “Best Pop
Video” and “Best Editing” for “Mirrors”,
while his “Suit & Tie” featuring JAY Z,
scored
nods for “Best Collaboration” and “Best Direction”. Previously,
Timberlake has taken home seven Video Music Awards, including “Best Pop
Video” for “Cry Me A River”.
Fresh off their show-stopping performance at the MTV Movie Awards, Macklemore
& Ryan Lewis score their
first-ever Video Music Award nominations with six nods (tying Timberlake
in total nods) including “Video of the Year” for their smash hit
“Thrift Shop”, “Best Hip-Hop Video”, “Best Cinematography”,
“Best Direction” and “Best Editing” for “Can’t Hold Us featuring Ray
Dalton”, while “Same Love” received a nod for "Best Video with a Social
Message".
As a previous performer at the 2011 “Video Music Awards,” Bruno Mars
continues his hugely successful VMA run by garnering four
nominations this year including “Video of the Year”, “Best Pop Video”,
and “Best Male Video” for “Locked Out of Heaven”, and “Best
Choreography” for the smooth summer groove, “Treasure”.
P!nk, Robin
Thicke, Miley Cyrus
and Thirty Seconds to Mars are
each up for three Video Music Awards. P!nk’s powerful
“Just Give Me A Reason” featuring Nate Ruess
garnered multiple nominations for “Best Female Video”, “Best Collaboration” and “Best Editing”. Robin Thicke’s
sexy video for “Blurred Lines” feat T.I. and Pharrell received VMA nods
for “Video of the Year”, “Best Male Video” and “Best Collaboration”. Miley
Cyrus’ millennial anthem “We Can’t Stop” is up for “Best Female Video”, “Best Pop Video” and “Best Editing” while Thirty
Seconds To Mars’ “Up In The Air” received nominations for “Best Rock Video”, “Best Art Direction” and “Best Cinematography”.
Other
notable nominees receiving multiple 2013 Video Music Award nods range
from the worlds of Pop, Hip-Hop, EDM, R&B and Rock and include
previously nominated
artists such as Taylor Swift, Drake, fun.,
Calvin Harris, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs as well as first-time VMA nominees Kendrick
Lamar, Lana Del Rey, The Weeknd and Capital
Cities.
This
year, the VMA for “Best New Artist” has been re-named “Artist to Watch”
®. This change was inspired by the positive response to MTV's Artist
to Watch campaign, a new music discovery initiative
across all of MTV's television channels, websites and social networks.
The nominees for “Artist to Watch” are: Twenty
One Pilots for “Holding On To You”, Zedd featuring Foxes for “Clarity”, Austin
Mahone for “What About Love”, The Weeknd for “Wicked Games” and Iggy Azalea
for “Work”. Previous “Best New Artist” VMA winners have included iconic names in music such as Eurythmics, Guns
N’ Roses, Nirvana, Eminem, Alicia
Keys, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and One
Direction.
Celebrating
the union between music and social activism, the nominees for this
year’s “Best Video with a Social Message” include Kelly
Clarkson’s “People Like Us”, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ “Same Love”, Snoop
Lion’s “No Guns Allowed”, Miguel’s “Candles in the Sun” and Beyoncé’s “I
Was Here”. First debuting in 2011, this category is presented in conjunction with MTV Act, which spotlights young people and celebrities
who are taking positive action.
Every artist who wins a 2013 Video Music Award will take home a limited-edition KAWS
Moonman, created exclusively for this year’s historic show set to take place in Brooklyn for the first time ever.
Beginning
today, fans can vote in general VMA categories, including “Video of the
Year”, “Artist to Watch”, and more by visiting mtv.co.za. In
addition, “Artist to Watch” is available for voting via MTV’s official Facebook page, www.facebook.com/MTV.
Voting for all VMA categories, except “Artist to Watch,” will end on 13 August at 00.00 CAT. ET. Voting for “Artist to Watch” continues through the show and will be announced live.
To build anticipation for the show, MTV launched a successful cross platform social campaign, #RoadToTheVMAs, which features the “Moonman” trophy in a myriad of iconic locations throughout Brooklyn and NYC. Thus far, the campaign has achieved more than 25 million social media impressions including a quarter of a million likes on Instagram, 16 million impressions on Twitter, 8 million impressions on Facebook and 1 million impressions on Tumblr. Throughout the day, MTV will continue its creative use of social media by rolling out the 2013 VMA nominations as a series of imaginative stop motion videos created by 23-year old artist, Khoa, on the @MTV Instagram and Vine accounts.
To build anticipation for the show, MTV launched a successful cross platform social campaign, #RoadToTheVMAs, which features the “Moonman” trophy in a myriad of iconic locations throughout Brooklyn and NYC. Thus far, the campaign has achieved more than 25 million social media impressions including a quarter of a million likes on Instagram, 16 million impressions on Twitter, 8 million impressions on Facebook and 1 million impressions on Tumblr. Throughout the day, MTV will continue its creative use of social media by rolling out the 2013 VMA nominations as a series of imaginative stop motion videos created by 23-year old artist, Khoa, on the @MTV Instagram and Vine accounts.
A
full list of categories and nominations are below. Nominees for an
additional new socially voted category, “Best Song of the Summer” will
be announced
on 12 August.
The 2013 MTV Video Music Awards Nominees are:
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Wanz
- “Thrift Shop”
Bruno Mars - “Locked Out of Heaven”
Robin Thicke feat. T.I.
and Pharrell - “Blurred Lines”
Best Hip-Hop Video
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Ray
Dalton - “Can’t Hold Us”
Drake - “Started From the Bottom”
Kendrick Lamar - “Swimming Pools”
A$AP Rocky feat. Drake,
2 Chainz & Kendrick
Lamar - “F**kin Problems”
Best Male Video
Justin Timberlake - “Mirrors”
Robin Thicke feat. T.I.
and Pharrell - “Blurred Lines”
Bruno Mars - “Locked Out of Heaven”
Ed Sheeran - “Lego House”
Best Female Video
Rihanna feat. Mikky
Ekko - “Stay”
Taylor Swift - “I Knew You Were Trouble”
Miley Cyrus - “We Can’t Stop”
P!nk feat. Nate
Ruess - “Just Give Me A Reason”
Best Pop Video
Bruno Mars - “Locked Out of Heaven”
Justin Timberlake - “Mirrors”
fun. - “Carry On”
Miley Cyrus - “We Can’t Stop”
Artist To Watch Presented by Taco Bell®
Twenty One Pilots - “Holding On To You”
Austin Mahone - “What About Love”
The Weeknd - “Wicked Games”
Best Collaboration
Justin Timberlake feat. JAY Z -“Suit & Tie”
Pitbull feat. Christina
Aguilera - “Feel This Moment”
Calvin Harris feat. Ellie
Goulding - “I Need Your Love”
Robin Thicke feat. T.I.
and Pharrell - “Blurred Lines”
Best Video With A Social Message
Kelly Clarkson - “People Like Us”
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - “Same Love”
Snoop Lion - “No Guns Allowed”
Miguel - “Candles In The Sun”
Best Rock Video
Imagine Dragons - “Radioactive”
Fall Out Boy Fall Out Boy - “My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light
Em Up)”
Mumford & Sons Mumford & Sons - “I Will Wait”
30 Seconds To Mars Thirty Seconds to Mars - “Up In The Air”
Best Art Direction
Capital Cities - “Safe and Sound”
Thirty Seconds To Mars - “Up In The Air”
Janelle Monae feat. Erykah
Badu - “Q.U.E.E.N”
Lana Del Rey - “National Anthem”
Best Choreography
Chris Brown - “Fine China”
Ciara - “Body Party”
Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull
– “Live It Up”
will.i.am feat.
Justin Bieber – “#thatPOWER”
Best Cinematography
Thirty Seconds To Mars - “Up In The Air”
Lana Del Rey - “Ride”
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - “Sacrilege”
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Ray
Dalton - “Can’t Hold Us”
Best Direction
Justin Timberlake feat. JAY-Z
- “Suit & Tie”
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Ray
Dalton - “Can’t Hold Us”
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - “Sacrilege”
fun. - “Carry On”
Best Editing
P!nk feat.
Nate Ruess - “Just Give Me A Reason”
Calvin Harris feat. Florence
Welch - “Sweet Nothing”
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Ray
Dalton - “Can’t Hold Us”
Justin Timberlake - “Mirrors”
Best Visual Effects
Flying Lotus – “Tiny Tortures”
Skrillex feat. The Door – “Breakin’ A Sweat”
The Weeknd – “Wicked Games”
Duck Sauce – “It’s You”
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Issued by Maria McCloy/Alison Reid
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