Of the 10 double honorees, seven are women, two are men and just one is a team.
Katy Perry accepts the award onstage at the 28th Annual MTV Video Music Awards at the Nokia Theater in LA on August 28, 2011.
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Today's announcement that Katy Perry will receive the Video Vanguard Award at the 2024 Video Music Awards on Wednesday, September 11, puts her in some company. Perry is only the 10th performer to receive both of the VMAs' highest-profile awards – the Vanguard Award and Video of the Year. He won the last award in 2011 for 'Firework'.
Of the 10 double honorees, seven are women, two are men and just one is a team. Three are Black. One is British. One is from Barbados.
Additionally, Perry hosted the VMAs in 2017. None of the other people who have won both top VMA laurels have ever hosted the show.
MTV has presented both of these awards since the very first show on September 14, 1984 – though it hasn't had a Video Vanguard honoree in 13 years and has had multiple Video Vanguard honorees in seven years.
The first video of the year winner, in a twist, was “You Might Think” by The Cars. (Most expected Michael Jackson's “Thriller” to win.) The first winners of the Video Vanguard Award were the Beatles and director Richard Lester, who pioneered the form in a pair of 1960s films (A rough night and Aid!), and David Bowie, who also performed at that first show. She sang “Blue Jean,” which reached the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, in a segment taped from London.
Here are the 10 artists in VMA history who have received both the MTV Video Vanguard Award and Video of the Year.
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Madonna
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Vanguard Award: Madonna was, arguably, the first woman to be honored with the Vanguard Award. He was 28 when he received the award in 1986.
Video of the Year: The Queen of Pop finally won in 1998 for “Ray of Light.” It was her third nod in the category. She scored back-to-back nominations in 1989 and 1990 for her classic videos in 'Like a Prayer' and 'Vogue'. He was nominated a fourth time for “Hung Up” in 2006.
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Peter Gabriel
Vanguard Award: Gabriel was 37 when he was awarded the Vanguard Award in 1987. He received it the same year he won video of the year, a double feat accomplished by only one other artist. (Read below.)
Video of the Year: Gabriel won for the highly imaginative “Sledgehammer,” which still holds the record for most wins by a single video (nine). Six years later he was nominated again for 'Digging in the Dirt'.
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REM
Vanguard Award: In 1995, REM became the third American band to receive the honor. Bon Jovi (1991) and Guns N' Roses (1992) followed.
Video of the Year: The band won in 1991, in their first nomination, for the stunning music video for their smash hit “Losing My Religion”. They continued to receive nods in 1993-94 for 'Man on the Moon' and 'Everybody Hurts'.
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Britney Spears
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Vanguard Award: Spears was 29 when she received the honor in 2011. The award was presented to her by Lady Gaga, who will join this list once she and MTV can come up with the right year to receive the Vanguard. (Gaga was the recipient of MTV's “Tricon” award in 2020, the show's only time to date to hand out the award.) She won video of the year in 2010 for “Bad Romance.”
Video of the Year: Spears won in 2008 for “Piece of Me.” She was nominated four years earlier for “Toxic” and would be nominated again in 2009 for “Womanizer.”
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Justin Timberlake
Vanguard Award: Timberlake was the second (and most recent) artist to receive both of these awards on the same night. He achieved the feat in 2013, when he was 32 years old.
Video of the Year: He won for 'Mirrors'. It was his fifth (and most recent) nomination in the category, following his *NSYNC-era hits “Bye Bye Bye” (2000) and “Gone” (2002) and his solo “Cry Me a River” (2003). and “What Goes Around… Comes Around” (2007).
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Beyoncé
Vanguard Award: Beyoncé, then 32, received the honor in 2014. She was the second black woman to receive the honor, following Janet Jackson in 1990. Bey was presented with the award by her husband Jay-Z and their then-two-year-old daughter Blue Ivy Carter .
Video of the Year: Beyoncé won twice, in 2009 for “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” — “one of the best videos of all time,” in the memorable words of an opening — and again in 2016 for “Formation.” In addition, she was nominated for “Irreplaceable” (2007), “Telephone” (2010), a collaboration with Lady Gaga. “Drunk in Love” (2014), a collaboration with Jay-Z; “7/11 (2015) and “Apeshit” (2018), another collaboration with Jay-Z (as The Carters).
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Rihanna
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Vanguard Award: Rihanna, then 28, received the honor in 2016. Frequent collaborator Drake presented the award.
Video of the Year: Rih also won twice, for “Umbrella” (with Jay-Z) in 2007 and “We Found Love,” a collaboration with Calvin Harris, in 2012. Additionally, she was nominated for “Take Care ” (2012) , a collaboration with Drake and “Wild Thoughts” (2017), a collaboration with DJ Khaled and Bryson Tiller.
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P!nk
Vanguard Award: P!nk was 37 when she received the award in 2017.
Video of the Year: She had won in 2001 for LaBelle's all-star remake of “Lady Marmalade” which also starred Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim and Mýa and featured Missy Elliott. Surprisingly, this is her only video of the year.
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Missy Elliott
Vanguard Award: Elliott was 48 when she received the honor in 2019. She was the first female rapper to receive the honor, which was presented by another female rapper, Cardi B.
Video of the Year: She has won twice, once as featured artist and once as first. She won in 2001 as a featured artist on the all-star remake of LaBelle's “Lady Marmalade” by Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya and P!nk. She won again two years later for her own “Work It.” She was the second artist to win twice in the category, after Eminem. She was also nominated for “Get Ur Freak On” (2001).
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Katy Perry
Vanguard Award: Perry, 39, is set to receive the award at this year's show on Sept. 11.
Video of the Year: He won Video of the Year in 2011 for 'Firework'. He was nominated again the following year for 'Wide Awake'.
from our partners at https://www.billboard.com/lists/mtv-video-music-awards-video-of-the-year-and-video-vanguard-winners/
