MUTV MUSIC VIDEO AWARDS 2016- BEYONCE AND ADELE DOMINATE NOMINEES LIST

A powerful image from Beyoncé’s “Formation,” which is up for six Moonmen this year.

The nominees for the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards have been announced, and following her four Emmy nominations for Lemonade, Beyoncé has nabbed 11 VMAs noms — a career best — for various videos from that groundbreaking visual album. Beyoncé’s politically charged “Formation” is up for Video of the Year and Best Pop Video, while “Sorry,” “Hold Up,” and “Freedom” are also recognized in multiple categories.

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Trailing Beyoncé, with an also impressive eight nods, is Adele. Her “Hello” is nominated in seven of those categories, including Video of the Year. Adele fans who hope the British diva can beat Beyoncé can vote, starting today, at vma.mtv.com — but unfortunately, they probably won’t be able to vote using a “Hello”-inspired, clamshell-style, old-school cell phone.

The other contenders in the Video of the Year race are Drake’s meme-inspiring “Hotline Bling,” Justin Bieber’s “Sorry,” and Kanye West’s NSFW “Famous, ” the latter of which ironically probably would never get past network censors, even for late-night airplay. “Famous,” which West directed, famously features nude lookalikes of assorted controversial celebrities, including Kanye’s old 2009 VMAs nemesis, Taylor Swift. “Famous” is also up for Best Male Video — alongside “This Is What You Came For” by Swift’s ex-boyfriend, Calvin Harris.

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Swift appeared at last year’s VMAs, where her “Bad Blood” took home top honors, to introduce West when he received the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. However, considering her recent social media feuds with both West and Harris over “Famous” and “This Is What You Came For,” we have a feeling she will sit out this year’s VMAs ceremony, which airs live from New York’s Madison Square Garden on Aug. 28.

Below is the full list of 2016 MTV Video Music Awards nominations, which, it should be noted, includes four technical nods for the late David Bowie — three for his haunting swan-song video, “Lazarus.”

VIDEO OF THE YEAR

Adele – “Hello” (Director: Xavier Dolan)

Beyoncé – “Formation” (Director: Melina Matsoukas)

Drake – “Hotline Bling” (Director: Director X)

Justin Bieber – “Sorry” (Director: Parris Goebel)

Kanye West – “Famous” (Director: Kanye West)

BEST FEMALE VIDEO

Adele – “Hello”

Beyoncé – “Hold Up” (Directors: Jonas Åkerlund, Beyoncé Knowles Carter)

Sia – “Cheap Thrills” (Director: Lior Molcho)

Ariana Grande – “Into You” (Director: Hannah Lux Davis)

Rihanna ft. Drake – “Work,” short version (Director: Director X)

BEST MALE VIDEO

Drake – “Hotline Bling”

Bryson Tiller – “Don’t” (Director: Cris)

Calvin Harris ft. Rihanna – “This Is What You Came For” (Director: Emil Nava)

Kanye West – “Famous”

The Weeknd – “Can’t Feel My Face” (Director: Grant Singer)

BEST COLLABORATION

Beyoncé ft. Kendrick Lamar – “Freedom” (Directors: Beyoncé Knowles Carter, Kahlil Joseph)

Fifth Harmony ft. Ty Dolla $ign – “Work From Home” (Director: Director X)

Ariana Grande ft. Lil Wayne – “Let Me Love You” (Director: Grant Singer)

Calvin Harris ft. Rihanna – “This Is What You Came For”

Rihanna ft. Drake – “Work,” short version

BEST HIP-HOP VIDEO

Drake – “Hotline Bling”

Desiigner – “Panda” (Director: Paul Geusebroek)

Bryson Tiller – “Don’t”

Chance the Rapper ft. Saba – “Angels” (Director: Austin Vesely)

2 Chainz – “Watch Out” (Director: Motion Family)

BEST POP VIDEO

Adele – “Hello”

Beyoncé – “Formation”

Justin Bieber – “Sorry”

Alessia Cara – “Wild Things” (Director: Aaron A)

Ariana Grande – “Into You”

BEST ROCK VIDEO

All Time Low – “Missing You” (Director: Patrick Tracy)

Coldplay – “Adventure of a Lifetime” (Director: Mat Whitecross)

Fall Out Boy ft. Demi Lovato – “Irresistible” (Director: Wayne Isham)

twenty one pilots – “Heathens” (Director: Andrew Donoho)

Panic! At the Disco – “Victorious” (Director: Brandon Dermer)

BEST ELECTRONIC VIDEO

Calvin Harris & Disciples – “How Deep Is Your Love” (Director: Emil Nava)

99 Souls ft. Destiny’s Child & Brandy – “The Girl Is Mine” (Directors: Ludovic Zuili, Simon Bouisson)

Mike Posner – “I Took a Pill in Ibiza” (Director: Jon Jon Augustavo)

Afrojack – “SummerThing!” (Director: Sam Sneed)

The Chainsmokers ft. Daya – “Don’t Let Me Down” (Director: Marcus Kuhne)

BREAKTHROUGH LONG FORM VIDEO

Florence + The Machine – The Odyssey

Beyoncé – Lemonade

Justin Bieber – PURPOSE: The Movement

Chris Brown – Royalty

Credit- Yahoo music