Americas / United States · Culture

Madonna performs at MTV VMAs after 23-year absence

Rank
Ran: 41h
Updated: 6d ago
Final
Outlets: 5
Regions: 2
Countries: 4
Languages: 2

Infobae Argentina · Spanish 28 Sept, 00:30 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Italiano (1)

Read at Infobae

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Infobae, 28 Sept, 00:30 UTC.
Second country: Chile, with BioBioChile.
Second region: Europe, with Rai News.
Last article: 5 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 4 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

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Americas 4 outlets · 3 countries · 80%
Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 20%

First movers

Infobae 28 Sept, 00:30 UTC
BioBioChile +2h 23m
Rai News +3h 24m
La Tercera +14h 48m
Últimas Noticias +41h 30m

The figures

Coverage: 5 outlets in 4 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 5 outlets, 1 public-service, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 3: Argentina, Chile, Venezuela. Europe 1: Italy. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: Spanish, Italian.
Timeline: Earliest article Infobae, 28 Sept 2026, 00:30 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 00:50 UTC. Last seen 29 Sept 2026, 18:00 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Americas, United States. Topic Culture. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

29 Sept 2026 367 3.42 5 4 1 1 3.3 → 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 28 Sept, 00:50 UTC · Updated 29 Sept, 18:00 UTC

Covered by 5 outlets

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Americas 4 outlets

Últimas Noticias Venezuela 29 Sept, 18:00 UTC
Madonna fue la gran triunfadora de los VMAs 2026
La Tercera Chile 28 Sept, 15:17 UTC
Madonna y su espectacular presentación en los VMA junto a Sabrina Carpenter y Charli XCX
BioBioChile Chile 28 Sept, 02:53 UTC
El fiestero y glamuroso show de Madonna en los MTV VMA’s 2026: regresó a los premios tras 23 años
Infobae Argentina 28 Sept, 00:30 UTC
Madonna convierte los premios VMAs en un club con un Sabrina Carpenter y Charlie XCX

Europe 1 outlet

Rai News Italy 28 Sept, 03:54 UTC
Madonna si riprende gli Mtv dopo 23 anni: sul palco con Sabrina Carpenter, Charli XCX e Debi Mazar