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MTV has announced that Mariah Carey<\/a> will receive the Video Vanguard Award at the 2025 Video Music Awards<\/a>. Unlike many Video Vanguard winners\u2014like Katy Perry<\/a>, Shakira<\/a>, Nicki Minaj<\/a>, Missy Elliott<\/a>, Jennifer Lopez<\/a>, P!nk, and Rihanna<\/a>\u2014Carey has never actually won a VMA, despite numerous nominations. She\u2019s nominated<\/a> this year, too, in the Best R&B category, for \u201cType Dangerous<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n The 2025 MTV Video Music Awards take place on Sunday, September 7, at Long Island\u2019s UBS Arena\u2014a fitting venue for the coronation of Huntington, New York, native Mariah Carey. The show is being hosted by another native Long Islander, Bay Shore\u2019s LL Cool J<\/a>\u2014a fitting host because Carey presented<\/a> the Video Vanguard Award to him in 1997.<\/p>\n Carey will release the new album Here for It All<\/em><\/a> on September 26. The long-awaited follow-up to 2018\u2019s Caution<\/em><\/a> will include the singles \u201cType Dangerous\u201d and \u201cSugar Sweet<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n