Beyoncé leads VMA nominations with impressive 11 nods

Parris Goebel’s dance moves are up for MTV’s top award.

MTV announced the nominees for this year’s Video Music Awards yesterday (July 26).

Last week, Swift’s frequent music video director Joseph Kahn ripped Kim Kardashian and Kanye West for releasing a private conversation about hit single “Famous”.

But Swift later said she was upset because West did not play her the entire track or tell her the full lyric regarding her, which included the line, “Why?”

MTV had a blank space and didn’t write Taylor Swift’s name, ouch! He got another nod for Best Male Video with “How Deep is Your Love”.

Drake nearly broke the internet with his instantly memorable (and meme-able) dad-like dance moves in the video clip for Hotline Bling.

But this year, she did not score any nominations after touring worldwide for much of 2015, in spite releasing videos for “Out of the Woods” and “New Romantics” in late 2015 and early 2016. Finally, the whole “Lemonade” masterpiece is nominated for the newly-created category Breakthrough Long Form Video.

Beyoncé broke her own personal record, earning 11 nominations this year, thanks to her critically acclaimed visual album “Lemonade”.

The 2016 MTV Video Music Awards will air live from NYC’s Madison Square Garden Sunday, August 28, at 9 p.m. ET.

Also in the running for the top prize at the VMAs are two videos dominated by dancing – rapper Drake’s Hotline Bling and pop celebrity Justin Bieber’s Sorry.

Recall how she infamously beat out Beyonce’s “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)” for 2009’s Best Female Video with “You Belong With Me” (prompting Kanye’s on-stage interrupting meltdown).

Bryson Tiller; Desiigner; Zara Larsson; Lukas Graham; DNCE.

The song is the running for Video of the Year against Beyoncé’s Formation, the most overtly political work of her career as she aligned herself with the Black Lives Matter protest movement.

Beyonce, Formation; Missy Elliott featuring Pharrell, WTF (Where They From); Beyonce, Sorry; FKA Twigs, M3LL155X; Florence + the Machine, Delilah.

The video for Australian rock band Tame Impala’s The Less I Know the Better has been nominated for a best direction award.