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Stray Kids, Demi Lovato to perform at 2023 MTV Video Music Awards 

Published Aug 23, 2023 02:35 am

K-pop group Stray Kids, Demi Lovato, Karol G and Måneskin have been announced as the first round of performers for the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs), which will be held on Sept. 12 at Prudential Center in New Jersey in the US. 

Stray Kids will mark their first-ever VMAs performance with the US broadcast premiere of “S-Class,” a song from their third studio album “5-Star,” which was released in June. Stray Kids are nominated this year for Best K-pop at the VMAs, the same category which earned them their first VMAs nomination in 2022.

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(Clockwise from top left)  Stray Kids, Demi Lovato, Karol G and Måneskin (Photos from MTV)

Demi Lovato will return for her first VMAs performance in six years just days before the release of her new album “Revamped,” which features rock versions of her hit songs. Her many unforgettable VMAs moments include her 2015 stage debut with “Cool for the Summer” and 2017 performance of “Sorry Not Sorry.” She won “Best Video with a Message” in 2012 and is nominated for Best Pop and Video for Good” this year. 

Karol G will bring her “Bichota Season” to life on the VMAs stage for her first-ever appearance on MTV’s iconic stage. The singer, who holds the title as the first woman to ever debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with a Spanish-language album, will break from her first-ever stadium tour to compete for her first VMAs win after earning three nominations including Artist of the Year.

Måneskin will return to the MTV stage for the world premiere performance of their forthcoming new single “Honey (Are You Coming?) that will be released on Sept. 1. As their latest album “Rush!” is about to surpass the one billion streams mark, they are nominated for “Best Rock” this year. 

BLACKPINK bagged four nominations this year at the VMAs for Best K-Pop, Best Choreography, Best Art Direction and Best Editing, all for “Pink Venom.” 

K-pop boy band Tomorrow X Together (TXT) got nominated in two categories: Push Performance of the Year and Best K-pop for “Sugar Rush Ride.” 

The nominees for Best K-pop are Aespa, “Girls”; BLACKPINK, “Pink Venom”; Fifty Fifty, “Cupid”; Seventeen, “Super”; Stray Kids, “S-Class”; and TXT, “Sugar Rush Ride.” 

Fans can vote for their favorites across 15 gender-neutral categories, including the highly-coveted Video of the Year, at vote.mtv.com until Sept. 1. Voting for Best New Artist will remain active into the show on Sept. 12. Nominations for social categories including Group of the Year and Song of Summer will be announced at a later date.

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