Rihanna is set to receive the prestigious Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the MTV Video Awards later this month, it has been confirmed.

The 28 year old pop star has more than a decade’s worth of huge hit singles and popular music videos under her belt, so it’s something of a surprise that it’s taken this long for this award to come her way. She follows in the footsteps of Michael Jackson (for whom the award was posthumously renamed), Madonna, Beyonce, Britney Spears and last year’s winner Kanye West.

RihannaRihanna will receive the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the VMAs

“Honored to take the #VMAs stage as your video #VANGUARD award recipient LIVE from NYC on August 28!” RiRi herself tweeted on Thursday (August 11th).

The Barbadian singer has won the Video of the Year award on two occasions in the past: in 2007 for ‘Umbrella’ and 2012 for ‘We Found Love’. She also opened the 2012 telecast with performances of ‘Cockiness (Love It)’ and ‘We Found Love’.

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This year, she is nominated four times for various other awards, with two nods each picked up by ‘Work’, her collaboration with Drake, and her latest Calvin Harris hook-up ‘This Is What You Came For’.

Rihanna is currently on a European tour in support of her current eighth album Anti, and is due to wrap the tour in Britain just a week before the VMAs. She has also revealed a step into the world of acting after promotion for the new album is completed, with roles in the re-booted ‘Bates Motel’ and in the proposed all-female spin-off movie of Ocean’s Eleven.

The MTV Video Music Awards 2016 will be broadcast from New York’s Madison Square Garden on Sunday August 28th, beginning at 9pm ET/PT.

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