MTV VMAs 2024 Biggest Moments: Taylor Swift Leads Nominees

Taylor Swift is on the cusp of becoming the artist with the most VMAs. Currently, the record is held by Beyoncé, who has 30 wins, per the Guinness Book of World Records.

Swift now has 23, and is up for 12 awards at tonight's awards show. She is nominated for the following awards:

Song of the summer: “Fortnight”VMAs Most Iconic Performance: “You Belong With Me”Video of the year: “Fortnight”Artist of the yearSong of the year: “Fortnight”Best collaboration: “Fortnight”Best popBest direction: “Fortnight”Best cinematography: “Fortnight”Best visual effects: “Fortnight”Best art direction: “Fortnight”Best editing: “Fortnight”

If she wins seven awards, she will tie with Beyoncé. If she wins eight, she could win. At last year’s VMAs, Swift took home nine awards, so the eight needed to break the record is not impossible.

Beyoncé is also nominated at the 2023 VMAs, however. She's up for:

Song of the year: "Texas Hold 'Em"VMAs Most Iconic Performance: “Love on Top”Best trending video: "Texas Hold 'Em"

It could be Taylor Swift's night at the 2024 MTV VMAs.

Heading into the annual awards show, Swift leads the list of nominees with 12 nods. The pop star is up for the big award of the night, video of the year for "Fortnight," as well as artist of the year and song of the year.

The video of the year competition is consists of:

Ariana Grande — “we can’t be friends (wait for your love)”Billie Eilish — “LUNCH”Doja Cat — “Paint The Town Red”Eminem — “Houdini”SZA — “Snooze”Taylor Swift ft. Post Malone — “Fortnight”

Other artists who have a high chance at nabbing a moon person includes Post Malone, who collaborated with Swift on “Fortnight,” with nine nominations. Ariana Grande, Sabrina Carpenter and Eminem are each up for six awards.

It's expected to be an exciting show as this year there are 29 first-time nominees all hoping to get their very first moon person.

While there were six nominees for best new artist, only Gracie Abrams, Chappell Roan and Tyla are up for the award. Benson Boone, Shaboozey and Teddy Swims have been knocked out of the final round.

See the full list of nominees, here.

The 2023 MTV VMAs were filled with must-see performances and surprise reunions!

'N Sync made Taylor Swift's millennial dreams come true when the boy band reunited to present her with the award for best pop video.

"Not doing well pivoting from this to this," Swift said before gesturing from Joey Fatone, Lance Bass, Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez and Chris Kirkpatrick to her moon person statuette.

Later, Shakira wowed while performing a medley of some of her biggest hits— "Whenever, Wherever," "Hips Don't Lie," "She Wolf" and more— before being honored with the Video Vanguard Award.

She wasn't the only singer who decided to treat viewers to a medley of songs. Anitta, Doja Cat and Demi Lovato belted out a few of their hit singles, too.

Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion rapped and danced along to their collaboration "Bongos," marking their first-ever live performance of the song.

Megan Thee Stallion will return to the VMAs stage this year to host and perform. Let's see if she can top last year's impressive feat.

The MTV VMAs will be filled with an array of dynamic performances by the biggest names in music.

Eminem is making his return to the awards show and reportedly set to open the ceremony.

"Midwest princess" Chappell Roan is making her VMAs debut and is expected to perform one of her hits, like "Good Luck, Babe!" or "Red Wine Supernova."

Latin artists taking over the VMAs stage include Anitta, Karol G, Rauw Alejandro and Camila Cabello.

Host Megan Thee Stallion is also set to pull double duty and perform.

Additional performers include Benson Boone, FloRilla, Halsey, Jessie Murph, Lenny Kravitz, Le Sserafim, Lisa, LL Cool J, Sabrina Carpenter, Shawn Mendes and Teddy Swims.

The ceremony, which is being held at the UBS Arena in Elmont, New York, will air live on Wednesday, Sept. 11.

To catch the red carpet arrivals, tune in early for the pre-show starting at 6:30 p.m. ET/PT on MTV.

The award show will air simultaneously on MTV, Univision and other Paramount-owned channels, like MTV2, VH1, BET, BET Her, Country Music Television, TV Land, Nickelodeon, Logo, Pop, Paramount Network and Comedy Central.

Those who want to stream the ceremony can watch on Paramount+.