2021 MTV “VMAs” Announces Foo Fighters to Receive First-Ever US Global Icon Award

Foo Fighters (Credit Danny Clinch)

After a long and storied history with MTV, Foo Fighters will receive the first-ever MTV “VMAs” Global Icon Award at this year’s show, airing LIVE from Barclays Center on Sunday, September 12 at 8 PM ET/PT.

Hailing from MTV’s Europe Music Awards (“EMAs”), the uber prestigious Global Icon Award celebrates an artist/band whose unparalleled career and continued impact & influence has maintained a unique level of global success in music and beyond. The “VMAs” will honor the Global Icon who has left an indelible mark on the musical landscape and continues to influence, inspire and evolve. Past recipients include Queen, Eminem, and Whitney Houston, among others.

Foo Fighters are set to perform at this year’s “VMAs,” marking their return to the iconic stage for the first time since 2007.

Foo Fighters scored three “VMAs” nominations this year:

- Best Rock: “Shame Shame”
- Best Choreography: “Shame Shame”
- Best Cinematography: “Shame Shame”

The 1995 release of Foo Fighters’ self-titled first album began the ascent of Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett, Pat Smear and Rami Jaffee to their current standing as the last great American arena/stadium rock band. Along the way they’ve won 12 Grammy Awards, sold tens of millions of records and created anthems like “This Is A Call,” “Everlong,” “Monkey Wrench,” “My Hero,” “Learn To Fly,” “All My Life,” “Times Like These,” “Best Of You,” “The Pretender,” “Walk,” “These Days,” “The Sky Is A Neighborhood” and more. Foo Fighters’ monolithic catalogue includes The Colour and the Shape, There Is Nothing Left To Lose, One By One, In Your Honor, Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace, Wasting Light, Sonic Highways (which shared its title with the double-Emmy-winning Grohl-directed HBO docuseries), and Concrete and Gold. Foo Fighters globally anticipated 10th album, Medicine at Midnight, was released February 5, 2021 on Roswell Records/RCA Records—Preceded by the chart-topping groove of “Shame Shame,” the brain-rattling “No Son of Mine,” and the epic swell of “Waiting on a War,” Medicine at Midnight has been hailed as “Brighter and more optimistic than anything they’ve ever done” (ROLLING STONE), “One of Foo Fighters’ best albums of this century” (WALL STREET JOURNAL) and “another winner” (MERCURY NEWS).

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