Madonna, BTS & More Receive 2026 VMAs Nominations in Social Categories: Full List

Madonna has a chance to become the first two-time winner for best long-form video at the MTV VMAs.

She won the award the first time it was presented, in 1991, for The Immaculate Collection and is nominated again this year for Confessions II: The Film .

Best long-form video is one of four “social categories” for which CBS and MTV announced nominations on Friday (Sept.

18).

The others are best group, best album and song of summer.

All voting will be hosted on MTV’s Instagram Stories.

Best long-form video has been presented just four times.

Previous winners, following Madonna, were Beyoncé for Lemonade (2016), Taylor Swift for All Too Well: The Short Film (2022) and Ariana Grande for Brighter Days Ahead (2025).

BTS , which won best group four years in a row (2019-22), is nominated in that category for the first time since its hiatus ended.

It faces BLACKPINK , which won last year and in 2023.

Two of the nominees for song of summer are past winners in that category.

Grande, nominated this year for “Hate That I Made You Love Me,” won in 2019 for “Boyfriend,” a collab with Social House.

Swift, nominated for “I Knew It, I Knew You,” won in 2024 for “Fortnight” (featuring Post Malone ).

If either wins, they’ll become just the second repeat winner in the category.