Ariana Grande won video of the year at the 2025 Video Music Awards, which were handed out Sunday night.

The video for her song “brighter days ahead” won the night’s highest honor. Overall, Grande went home with a total of three awards.

Lady Gaga was the biggest winner of the night; among her four wins was artist of the year, which was presented to her two days after she was forced to cancel a show in Miami due to an “extremely strained” voice. She said in her acceptance speech that she couldn’t stick around for the rest of the VMAs as she had to get to Madison Square Garden, where she was scheduled to perform Sunday night. About 90 minutes later, the VMAs broadcast her performing “Abracadabra” and “The Dead Dance” live from her show at MSG.

Sabrina Carpenter also took home three “Moon

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