MTV Video Music Awards announce additional categories as Taylor Swift maintains nomination lead

MTV Video Music Awards revealed a new batch of nominations which have unique voting requirements.

Fans will need to head over to MTV's Instagram story to weight in on these Social Categories . The four new nomination categories are Best Trending Video, Best Group, Song of the Summer, and VMAs Most Iconic Performance. Despite the new options, the current standings didn't face much of a shakeup.

Taylor Swift still leads with an overwhelming number of nominations following the release of her album, The Tortured Poets Department. Plus, the addition of an iconic performance category takes fans back to 2009 which would be the same year that her feud with Kanye West kicked off at the award show.

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The additions, which come less than two weeks before the big night, also bump Beyonce up with two additional nominations after her massive snub in the initial round-up. Keep an eye out on MTV's social media pages to vote for your favorite artists.

Best Trending Video

• Beyoncé – “TEXAS HOLD 'EM” – Parkwood Entertainment / Columbia Records
• Camila Cabello ft. Playboi Carti – “I LUV IT” – Geffen / Interscope Records
• Chappell Roan – “HOT TO GO!” – Amusement Records / Island Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
• Charli xcx – “Apple” – Atlantic Records
• Megan Thee Stallion ft. Yuki Chiba – “Mamushi” – Hot Girl Productions
• Tinashe – “Nasty” – Nice Life Recording Company

Best Group

• *NSYNC – RCA Records
• Coldplay – Atlantic Records
• Imagine Dragons – KIDinaKorner / Interscope Records
• NCT Dream – SM Entertainment / Virgin Music Group
• NewJeans – ADOR / Geffen Records
• SEVENTEEN – PLEDIS Entertainment / Geffen Records
• TOMORROW X TOGETHER – BIGHIT MUSIC / IMPERIAL / Republic Records
• Twenty One Pilots – Fueled By Ramen

Song of the Summer

• Ariana Grande – “we can’t be friends (wait for your love)” – Republic Records
• Benson Boone – “Beautiful Things” – Night Street Records, Inc. / Warner Records
• Billie Eilish – “BIRDS OF A FEATHER” – Darkroom / Interscope Records
• Chappell Roan – “Good Luck, Babe!” – Amusement Records / Island Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
• Charli xcx & Billie Eilish – “Guess featuring Billie Eilish” – Atlantic Records
• Eminem – “Houdini” – Shady / Aftermath / Interscope Records
• Future, Metro Boomin & Kendrick Lamar – “Like That” – Wilburn Holding Co. / Boominati / Epic / Republic
• GloRilla, Megan Thee Stallion – “Wanna Be” – CMG / Interscope Records
• Hozier – “Too Sweet” – Columbia Records
• Kendrick Lamar – “Not Like Us” – pgLang, under exclusive license to Interscope Records
• Post Malone ft. Morgan Wallen – “I Had Some Help” – Mercury / Republic / Big Loud
• Sabrina Carpenter – “Please Please Please” – Island
• Shaboozey – “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” – American Dogwood / EMPIRE
• SZA – “Saturn” – Top Dawg Entertainment / RCA Records
• Taylor Swift ft. Post Malone – “Fortnight” – Republic Records
• Tommy Richman – “MILLION DOLLAR BABY” – ISO Supremacy / PULSE Records / Concord

VMAs Most Iconic Performance

• Beyoncé – “Love on Top”
• Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Madonna, Missy Elliot – “Like a Virgin” & “Hollywood”
• Eminem – “Real Slim Shady” & “The Way I Am”
• Katy Perry – “Roar”
• Lady Gaga – “Paparazzi”
• Madonna – “Like a Virgin”
• Taylor Swift – “You Belong With Me”

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