However, in 2017, Chris McCarthy, the president of MTV, stated that the statue would be called a 'Moon The statue given to winners is an astronaut on the moon, one of the earliest representations of MTV, and was colloquially called a 'moonman'.
By 2001, the VMA had become a coveted award. Originally conceived as an alternative to the Grammy Awards (in the video category), the annual MTV Video Music Awards ceremony has often been called the ' Super Bowl for youth', an acknowledgment of the VMA ceremony's ability to draw millions of youth from teens to 20-somethings each year.
The MTV Video Music Awards (commonly abbreviated as the VMAs) is an award show presented by the cable channel MTV to honor the best in the music video medium.
