Hot Girl Summer is lasting just a little bit longer! Rolling Stone can exclusively reveal that along with hosting the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, Megan Thee Stallion will perform at the awards ceremony on Sept. 11 at New York’s UBS Arena.
The announcement comes just over a week after she was revealed to be the host of this year’s awards show. Megan is up for five awards at this year’s VMAs, including Best Collaboration for “Wanna Be” with GloRilla and Best Hip-Hop for “BOA.”
Although it has yet to be announced what she’ll perform, she teased fans last week about an upcoming collaboration with BTS member RM after she tweeted, “🐎X💜 👀” and the K-pop group’s account quote-tweeted, “🐎X🦔(🐨).” Will she debut the track at the VMAs? (RM is still on military duty in his native Korea).
Megan has had a massive year after releasing her first indie album Megan in June, featuring “Hiss,” “BOA,” and “Mamushi” with Yuki Chiba. She also had a successful Hot Girl Summer tour with GloRilla.
This year’s performers include Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, Halsey, Lenny Kravitz, Rauw Alejandro, Camila Cabello, Benson Boone, GloRilla, and Lisa from Blackpink. Shawn Mendes, Karol G, LL Cool J, and Anitta are also scheduled to appear. Katy Perry will receive the 2024 Vanguard award as well as perform a career-spanning medley.
Taylor Swift leads the nominations list with 10 nods, almost all of which were for her Tortured Poets Department single with Post Malone, “Fortnight.” She’s also up for Artist of the Year, while the “Fortnight” visual picked up additional nods for Song of the Year, Best Collaboration, and a slew of technical categories.
The 2024 VMAs were originally scheduled for Sept. 10, but MTV pushed the ceremony one day in order to avoid a programming conflict with the presidential debate scheduled for that day.
