Yungblud and Lewis Capaldi are going against each other for the Push Best New Artist award at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards. Representing the UK music scene, both artists are up against rising American star Doja Cat at the final round after eliminating Jack Harlow, Roddy Ricch and Tate McRae during the primary voting rounds. The ceremony will be available to watch on MTV and MTV.com live from 1:00am BST on 31 August.
The VMA20 is the first major award show to be held in the United States since the lockdown began and is going to be broadcast live from various outdoor venues across New York. All performances are set to have very limited or no audience, with some awards being presented exclusively online. Expected to perform at the event are Ariana Grande, BTS, Lady Gaga, Miley Cirus, CNCO, Maluma, Doja Cat, J Balvin and The Weeknd. Lewis Capaldi is set to perform at the pre-show later today at 11:30pm BST (6:30 pm ET at the USA).
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The Push Best New Artist award used to called Best New Artist in a Video and given for specific music video, but after several changes and merging with the Push Artists of the Year in 2018 it is now presented for artists’ material during the whole year. The full list for the 2020 award nominees was announced on 23 July when the voting opened for fans across the globe. Current award holder is Billie Eilish who won in 2019 against Ava Max, H.E.R., Lil Nas X, Lizzo and Rosalia.
The last British music act to win the Best New Artist was One Direction back in 2012 for their performance of ‘What Makes You Beautiful‘. This also happens to be only the second occasion in which UK musician was presented with the award after Eurythmics won in 1984 for ‘Sweet Dreams‘ at the inaugural VMA ceremony. Both Lewis Capaldi and Yungblud have very high chances to snap the award this year, with the latter ralying his fans over the last few weeks.
final day let’s fuckin go! fank u for everythin. always we — YUNGBLUD (@yungblud) August 28, 2020
In other categories Coldplay’s ‘Orphans‘ is going against The Killers, blink-182, Fallout Boy, Green Day and Evanescence for Best Rock Performance, while Ed Sheeran teaming up with Khalid for ‘Bautiful People‘ is nominated for Best Collaboration. The all-American nominees for Artists of the Year include DaBaby, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Megan Thee Stallion, Post Malone and The Weeknd.
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