Ariana Grande took home the top honor at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards. The Wicked star, 32, won the Video of the Year category for "Brighter Days Ahead" during the Sunday, September 7, ceremony at UBS Arena in New York. (Grande also won Best Pop moments earlier, notably thanking her "therapist and gay people.") "I want to start again with my fans, thank you so so so much. I love you with all my heart [and] I have since I was a teenager, since we first crossed paths, and I will for my whole life," Grande said in her speech. "Art has been a safe space for me since I was a kid.