It previously stated T.I.If you've always believed the Australian rapper was a little fake, then you'll no doubt want to tell your friends all about the leaked music video from Iggy's days as an admittedly uninspired wannabe pop star. Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix, Vol. Newsboys Favourite artist – electronic dance music WINNER: Katy Perry Favourite artist – contemporary inspirational Pharrell Williams, G I R L Favourite artist – adult contemporary Pharrell Williams Favourite female artist – soul /R&B Lady Antebellum Favourite male artist – soul/R&B WINNER: Carrie Underwood Favourite band, duo or group – country Pharrell Williams, Happy Favourite female artist – country WINNER: Katy Perry featuring Juicy J, Dark Horse Romeo Santos Favourite album – rap/hip-hopĮminem, The Marshall Mathers LP 2 Favourite band, duo or group – pop/rock Pharrell Williams Favourite artist – Latin Katy Perry, Prism Favourite male artist – countryīlake Shelton Favourite male artist – pop/rock WINNER: Katy Perry Favourite album – pop/rock Meghan Trainor Favourite artist – alternative rock WINNER: Brantley Gilbert, Just As I Am Favourite artist – rap/hip-hop Garth Brooks, Blame It On My Roots: Five Decades of Influences Pharrell Williams Favourite album – country Photograph: Image Group LA/Getty Images Artist of the year One Direction pick up their American Music Award for favourite pop/rock album. Perry is already in Australia for her Prismatic tour, and was thus unable to accept her three awards from the night: favourite female pop/rock artist, favourite adult contemporary artist and single of the year for Dark Horse, featuring Juicy J. The five-piece band also won favourite group and favourite album in the pop/rock categories.īoth groups, along with Charli XCX and Katy Perry, will be appearing at Australia’s most important music awards, the Arias, on Wednesday evening. Upon accepting their best new artist award, drummer Ashton Irwin said, “this just shows a little band from Sydney can do great things.”īut it was another boy band from a different continent, UK’s One Direction, who took out the top award of the night, artist of the year. Other performers from the night included Ariana Grande, Jessie J, Nicki Minaj, Mary J Blige, Lorde and Sam Smith.ĥ Seconds of Summer performed a cover of The Romantics song What I Like About You. In thanking her fans, the American singer said “what you did by going out and investing in music and albums is you are saying that you believe in the same thing that I believe in: that music is valuable and music should be consumed in albums and albums should be consumed as art and appreciated.”Īzalea performed her No 1 hit Fancy, with Charli XCX, described by The Guardian’s Alex Needham as: “a big production number with tons of dancers and costume changes but most importantly, genuinely charismatic singers/rappers.” She also accompanied Jennifer Lopez in her song Booty, for the show finale. Her speech has been widely read as a continuation of her recent opposition to the use of streaming services in music. Taylor Swift opened the night with her song Blank Space and was awarded the new Dick Clark award for excellence. However, her acceptance speech gave no hint of the fracas, with Azalea adding: “It means so much that I can stand here against Eminem and Drake and come out with this”, before acknowledging friend and mentor, rapper T.I. She added, “women in music have the bigger balls anyhow, we endure much more harassment and critic.” You don’t wanna blow that rape whistle on me.”Īzalea took to Twitter to say she was bored with “old men threatening young women as entertainment” and that she was more interested in the “young women getting $ trend”. The win comes after Azalea hit back at the leak of an explicit new track from Eminem, which includes the words: “Put that shit away, Iggy. Michael Clifford, Luke Hemmings, Ashton Irwin and Calum Hood of 5 Seconds of Summer at the American Music Awards.
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