MTV has announced that Mariah Carey will receive the Video Vanguard Award at the 2025 Video Music Awards. Unlike many Video Vanguard winners—like Katy Perry, Shakira, Nicki Minaj, Missy Elliott, Jennifer Lopez, P!nk, and Rihanna—Carey has never actually won a VMA, despite numerous nominations. She’s nominated this year, too, in the Best R&B category, for “Type Dangerous.”
The 2025 MTV Video Music Awards take place on Sunday, September 7, at Long Island’s UBS Arena—a fitting venue for the coronation of Huntington, New York, native Mariah Carey. The show is being hosted by another native Long Islander, Bay Shore’s LL Cool J—a fitting host because Carey presented the Video Vanguard Award to him in 1997.
Carey will release the new album Here for It All on September 26. The long-awaited follow-up to 2018’s Caution will include the singles “Type Dangerous” and “Sugar Sweet.”
