Who will perform the VMA's is an annual entertainment series on Kalshi, with markets like “Will Any member of GENER8ION perform at MTV Video Music Awards 2026?”. The Kalshi Eye archive lists 29 of its markets and has 13 days of daily Parquet files from October 12, 2026 to October 24, 2026 (377 KB), with every order book change and trade.

Venue: Kalshi, series KXPERFORMVMA
Category: Entertainment, annual
Markets: 29 (28 settled, 1 open)
Files: 13 days, October 12, 2026 to October 24, 2026, 377 KB, 12,004 rows
Datasets: Order book (L2, incremental), Order book snapshots (top 10, 1 second), Top of book (every change), Top of book (1-minute bars), Trades

Open Who will perform the VMA's in Markets to see every day and market, then export the days you need. Free sample files of each dataset are on the Kalshi data page.

Reading the files

Every KXPERFORMVMA trade on October 24, 2026, in DuckDB:

SELECT ts_recv, ticker, yes_price, size, taker_side
FROM 'kalshieye-data/trades/date=2026-10-24/series=KXPERFORMVMA/trades-KXPERFORMVMA-2026-10-24.parquet'
ORDER BY ts_recv;

To test a strategy on this series, see How to backtest Kalshi markets.

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Figures through October 24, 2026. All Kalshi series with pages are listed on Kalshi series.