Camila Cabello, Ozuna, J Balvin & Bad Bunny Set To Appear At The 2019 MTV VMAs Airing Live On Monday, August 26 at 8:00pm ET/PT
21 Aug 2019 by Sandra Escobedo in Celebrities, Event, Fame, Film, Films, General, Home, Music, Pleasure, Power, Stars, Television
Camila Cabello, Ozuna, J Balvin, Bad Bunny, Big Sean featuring A$AP Ferg, H.E.R., and Normani are among the artists scheduled to perform at the 2019 MTV VMAs, airing live globally from Newark, N.J. on Monday, August 26 at 8:00 p.m.ET/PT.
Hosted by comedian, actor and best-selling author Sebastian Maniscalco, the show will air live from the Prudential Center across MTV’s global footprint in more than 180 countries, reaching more than half a billion households around the world. Music’s biggest stars and fans will celebrate the year’s most iconic videos with electrifying performances, viral moments and a new, first-of-its-kind immersive fan experience.
Multi-platinum Puerto Rican singer/songwriter OZUNA broke the record in 2019 as the biggest winner in a single year in the history of the Billboard Latin Music Awards. Ozuna also won Contemporary Latin Songwriter of the Year at the 2019 BMI Awards. In 2018, he was named YouTube’s most-viewed artist globally and also holds the record as the artist with the most videos with over one billion views, seven in total. His debut studio album “Odisea” became the longest-leading No. 1 album by a male artist on Billboard’s Top Latin Albums charts, with an impressive 46 weeks atop; while his sophomore studio album “Aura” debuted No. 7 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart and remained #1 in the Top Latin Albums chart for 17 weeks.
As previously announced, Missy Elliott will be honored with the “Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award” and is set to hit the VMAs main stage.
Additional performers include Jonas Brothers, Lil Nas X, Lizzo, Rosalía, Shawn Mendes, and Taylor Swift.
Bruce Gillmer and Den of Thieves co-founder Jesse Ignjatovic are Executive Producers for the 2019 “VMAs.” Barb Bialkowski is Co-Executive Producer. Jackie Barba, Joe Buoye and Alicia Portugal serve as Executive in Charge of Production. Amani Duncan is Executive in Charge of Music. Wendy Plaut is Executive in Charge of Celebrity Talent.
Official sponsors of the 2019 “MTV Video Music Awards” include Extra Refreshers Gum, PEPSI, Taco Bell, the 2020 Toyota Corolla and truth.
Fans can vote for the “Best New Artist” award, presented by Taco Bell, by visiting vma.mtv.com leading up to the VMA broadcast before the winner is revealed during the show. The full list of nominees for the 2019 VMAs, is available here.
This year, for the first time ever, MTV is rewarding fans for voting through VMA Power Hour on vma.mtv.com, where their votes are doubled from 1-2pm ET daily. Superfans can come back each day within this voting window beginning tomorrow to show double the love for their favorite artists. The full list of nominees for the 2019 VMAs, is available here.
Additionally, for the first time, fans can vote for their favorites in select categories on MTV Instagram Stories, including “Best Group,” “Best Power Anthems,” and “Song of the Summer,” which is sponsored by Samsung.
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