Lady Gaga triumphs at the MTV Video Music Awards 2025: the artist of the year is still her

Lady Gagastill her. It is she theArtist of the year to the MTV Video Music Awards 2025, crowned on the stage of Newark’s Prudential Center, and also awarded for the video of Babylonwhich brings home the trophy like Video of the year. At his side, among the names that defined the evening, Ariana Grande – awarded for the best collaboration with The Weeknd – And Sabrina Carpenterwhich continues its ascent by winning the best pop and the best assembly. Three different protagonists for style and path, but united by a single thread: that of a pop who knows how to reinvent themselves and capture different generations.

On the stage of Newark’s Prudential Center, the ceremony staged a parade of stars, between spectacular performances and thanksgiving speeches that have told the vitality of a sector in continuous transformation.

Here is the complete list of VMAS 2025 winners:

Video of the year: Lady Gaga – Babylon

Artist of the year: Lady Gaga

Song of the year: Taylor Swift – Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)

Best new artist: Chappell Roan

Best pop: Sabrina Carpenter – Please please please

Best hip-hop: Nicki Minaj – FTCU

Best R&B: Sza – Saturn

Best Rock: Paramore – Burning Down The House

Best alternatives: Rey wool – Tough (feat. Quavo)

Best Latin: Shakira – Sting (Feat. Cardi B)

Best K-Pop: Newjeans – How Sweet

Best Afrobeats: Temples – Love me jeje

Better collaboration: Ariana Grande & the Weeknd – Die for You (Remix)

Better direction: Kendrick Lamar – Not like us (direction Dave Free and Kendrick Lamar)

Best Art Direction: Beyoncé – Ya Ya

Best photography: Billie Eilish – Birds of a feather

Better assembly: Sabrina carpenter – Expressed

Best visual effects: Doja cat – Paint the Town Red

Better choreography: Megan thee stollion – Buoy

Video for good: Hozier – Too Sweet

To hit is the female presence in the center almost of each key category: from Lady Gaga dominating with its visionary imagination, to Taylor Swift who signs the Song of the Yearup to Sabrina Carpenter who transforms her climb into the rankings into official consecration.