Justin Bieber to make triumphant return to MTV VMAs

The 2021 MTV Video Music Awards volition get a dose of “Bieber fever” for the archetypal clip successful six years.

Justin Bieber is acceptable to instrumentality to the VMAs signifier for an all-star caliber lawsuit that volition aerial Sunday nighttime astatine 8 p.m. EDT. The awards amusement volition beryllium held in-person astatine the Barclays Center successful New York aft holding a mostly virtual amusement past twelvemonth due to the fact that of the coronavirus pandemic.

Bieber leads this year’s amusement with 7 nominations, including video of the twelvemonth for “POPSTAR” and creator of the year. He past took the VMAs signifier successful 2015 erstwhile helium performed “What Do You Mean?”

Other scheduled performances see Lil Nas X, Camila Cabello, Chloe, Kacey Musgraves, Shawn Mendes, Olivia Rodrigo, Machine Gun Kelly and Doja Cat — who volition besides service arsenic the show’s host.

Presenters see Billy Porter, Conor McGregor, 50 Cent, Fat Joe, Megan Fox, Ashanti, Rita Ora, Simone Biles and Travis Barker.

Megan Thee Stallion enters the amusement arsenic the second-leading nominee with six nominations. BTS, Doja Cat, Drake, Giveon, Lil Nas X and Olivia Rodrigo, a archetypal clip nominee, each person 5 nods.

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Bieber and Megan Thee Stallion volition vie with Ariana Grande, Doja Cat, Rodrigo and Taylor Swift for creator of the year.

The Foo Fighters volition execute and person the Global Icon Award, an grant handed retired for the archetypal clip astatine the VMAs. The grant recognizes an creator oregon set “whose unparalleled vocation and continued interaction and power has maintained a unsocial level of planetary occurrence successful euphony and beyond.”

The prestigious grant was antecedently presented astatine the yearly MTV Europe Music Awards. Past recipients see Queen, Eminem and Whitney Houston.

The stone set — comprised of Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett, Pat Smear and Rami Jaffee — volition execute astatine the VMAs for the archetypal clip since 2007.

The amusement volition simulcast crossed CMT, Comedy Central, Logo, MTV2, Nickelodeon, Paramount Network, Pop, TV Land, VH1 and The CW Network.

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