Rose makes history, Blackpink wins big at MTV VMAs 2025

Rose (Blackpink) is certainly one of the most mentioned names at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs), when she made history, becoming the first Asian artist and Kpop artist to win the MTV VMAs "Song of the Year" category, with the hit "APT." featuring Bruno Mars.

Song of the Year is one of the four most important categories of the awards ceremony. Artists honored in 3 other major categories are Ariana Grande who won the " video of the year" award with "Brighter Days Ahead"; Lady Gaga who won the "Artist of the Year" award and Alex Warron who won the "Best New Artist" award.

Not only leading the number of nominations this year in 12 categories, Lady Gaga is also the highest-grossing artist with 4 awards. In addition to Artist of the Year Lady Gaga also won the categories of Best Choreography, Best Director and Best Combine for the song Die With a Smile with Bruno Mars.

In addition to the " video of the Year" award, Ariana Grande was also a big winner with the "Best Video of the Year" award and the "Best Pop Song" award for "Brighter Days Ahead".

Sabrina Carpenter also won 3 awards: "Best Pop Artist", "Best Album" and "Best Image effect".

The MTV VMAs are one of the four biggest music awards in the United States. This is originally the "home" of European-American artists and the number of Asian or Kpop artists who have won awards is very rare. But this year, Blackpink has contributed to Kpop's big win in this arena.

In addition to Roses important award, Blackpink member Lisa won the Best Kpop Song award with Born again featuring Doja Cat and Raye.

Lisa became the first K-pop artist in history to win the MTV VMAs "Best K-pop Song" award 3 times (in 2022, 2024 and 2025).

Notably, Blackpink had a complete end when they were honored in the "Best Group" category, affirming the strength of the global fan community after 9 years of activities.

In addition, the multinational Kpop girl group KATSEYE won the Performance of the Year award with the song Touch.