VMAs Hit a Viewership Low for MTV but Break a Twitter TV Record

Miley Cyrus hosts the most-tweeted nonsports program

Just over 5 million viewers watched the MTV Video Music Awards on the main network Sunday night—a new low that dates to 1994, when MTV began using Nielsen to track its audience levels, and down 3 million viewers from the 2014 show.

All in, the VMAs drew 9.8 million viewers across 10 Viacom networks. That's also down from last year's 10.3 million who watched on four networks: MTV, MTV2, VH1 and Logo.

The VMAs were the No.

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