Swift makes MTV history while Katy Perry sparkles

Katy Perry and Chappell Roan proved their popular prima credentials astatine the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, portion Taylor Swift became the most-awarded creator successful the ceremony's history.

Perry picked up the Video Vanguard grant - MTV's equivalent of a beingness accomplishment prize - aft performing a career-spanning medley, including hits Roar, Dark Horse and Firework.

Roan, who was playing to audiences of 200 radical this clip past year, took location champion caller artist, dedicating her prize to "all the resistance queens who inspired me".

And Swift picked up 7 prizes, including the apical 2 awards: creator and video of the year. She present has 30 MTV trophies, overtaking Beyoncé arsenic the event's biggest winner.

Beyoncé has won 27 of the Moonman trophies, including 2 arsenic a subordinate of Destiny's Child. However, the prima was absent from the podium this year, having besides been shut retired of this week's CMA Awards nominations.

Swift utilized her acceptance code to promote fans to ballot successful the US Presidential predetermination adjacent month, a time after she endorsed Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.

She besides paid tribute to her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, who joined her connected acceptable portion she directed her award-winning video for Fortnight.

"Whenever I said 'cut', I would ever conscionable perceive idiosyncratic similar cheering from crossed the workplace and that 1 idiosyncratic was my fellow Travis," she said.

"Everything this antheral touches turns to happiness and amusive and magic."

It is the 3rd twelvemonth successful a enactment that Swift has picked up video of the twelvemonth - aft winning successful 2023 for Anti-Hero and 2022 for All Too Well (10 infinitesimal version).

The trophies were distributed astatine New York City's UBS Arena, 40 years aft the archetypal MTV Awards took spot astatine the metropolis Radio City Hall.

Cyndi Lauper, who won champion pistillate video for Girls Just Wanna Have Fun astatine the inaugural ceremony, returned to present Sabrina Carpenter - whose opus Espresso was named opus of the year.

And determination were performances from stone prima Lenny Kravitz, singer-songwriter Shawn Mendes, K-pop creator Lisa and rap icon Eminem, amongst others.

Here are immoderate of the stand-out moments from the three-hour show.

Katy Perry has had a unsmooth summer.

The archetypal 2 singles from her comeback medium 143 person bombed, critically and commercially - truthful she truly needed to propulsion thing retired of the container for her MTV performance.

In the end, her container contained much surprises than Mary Poppins'.

Her 10-minute top hits acceptable was an implicit barnstormer. She zipped done the aerial connected precocious wires, danced (in heels) connected a elephantine tilted level and contorted into alien shapes with hip-hop creator Doechii - each portion delivering flawless unrecorded vocals.

“I did that each connected the archetypal time of my period, too," she told the assemblage aft catching her breath.

Perry's show was successful honour of her Video Vanguard Award - the MTV equivalent of a beingness accomplishment prize.

She was presented with the trophy by her partner, the histrion Orlando Bloom, who gave a sweetly lovestruck speech.

"She loves with her full bosom and it’s benignant of irresistible," helium said. "I spot it reflected everywhere; successful our home, successful her emotion for her work, but particularly successful her emotion for her fans."

"Congratulations connected this honour, baby," said Bloom. "I’m truthful arrogant of you."

As helium handed implicit the Moonman award, Perry quipped: "I thought you were astatine location looking aft our daughter?"

After 10 years connected the sidelines, Chappell Roan has go the break-out prima of 2024.

She channelled Joan Of Arc successful a show-stopping rendition of Good Luck, Babe - the summertime smash that's propelled her into the mainstream.

Holding a sword and dressed successful a afloat suit of armour, she opened the show by shooting a fiery arrow into a medieval castle, which past burst successful flames.

As the battlements burned, soldiers turned connected each other, portion the vocalist belted retired her communicative of unrequited love.

Roan controversially cancelled 2 European shows to play the awards. Her squad volition beryllium hoping the publicity boost of this (superb) show volition offset immoderate bad-will from her fans.

Chappell aboriginal won champion caller artist, speechmaking a code from the pages of her diary.

The vocalist dedicated her prize to "all the resistance artists who animate me" and offered words of enactment to "queer kids successful the Midwest", wherever she was calved and raised.

"I spot you, I recognize you - due to the fact that I’m 1 of you," she said.

"Don’t ever fto anyone archer you that you can’t beryllium precisely who you privation to be."

Taylor Swift's archetypal televised grant of the nighttime was champion collaboration, for her duet with Post Malone, Fortnight.

Taking to the stage, she paused to retrieve the victims of the 2001 US panic attacks.

"Waking up this greeting successful New York connected September 11, I’ve conscionable been reasoning astir what happened 23 years ago, everyone who mislaid a loved 1 and everyone that we lost," Swift said.

"And that is the astir important happening astir today.

"Everything that happens contiguous falls down that."

To people the 40th day of the MTV Awards, big Megan Thee Stallion attempted to recreate 1 of the ceremony's astir iconic moments: Britney Spears dancing with a unrecorded python portion performing I'm A Slave 4 U successful 2001.

As you tin spot above, Megan didn't rather person the aforesaid level of poise.

"I don’t cognize this snake, this snake don’t cognize me," she declared, past screamed arsenic idiosyncratic tried to region the serpent from her body.

Benson Boone won the champion alternate prize, aboriginal treating the assemblage to a show of his break-out hit, Beautiful Things.

Dressed successful a spangly bluish jumpsuit, helium built the opus from its acoustic opening verse to an impassioned screaming decision - punctuating the climax by performing a backflip disconnected a piano.

Sabrina Carpenter's absorption successful the assemblage was priceless.

Thirteeen-time MTV Award victor Eminem opened the ceremonial by performing his 2 latest singles, Houdini and Somebody Save Me.

Sporting an (intentionally?) unconvincing blonde wig, helium was joined connected signifier by dozens of lookalikes - a motion to his show of The Real Slim Shady astatine the 2000 VMAs, wherever helium entered the ceremonial with hundreds of extras dressed precisely similar him.

The rapper besides took location the prizes for champion hip-hop video and champion ocular effects for Houdini.

South African prima Tyla won champion Afrobeats opus for her irresistible break-out deed Water - but she utilized her code to marque a important constituent astir categorisation.

"This is truthful special, but besides bittersweet due to the fact that determination is simply a inclination to radical each artists nether Afrobeats," said the star, whose euphony is much intimately related to Amapiano.

"Even though Afrobeats has opened truthful galore doors for us, African euphony is truthful diverse. It’s much than conscionable Afrobeats."

"I travel from South Africa, I correspond my culture," she concluded.

Sabrina Carpenter's MTV show was rather virtually retired of this world.

The prima played each 3 of her UK fig 1 singles (Taste, Espresso and Please Please Please) connected a moon-shaped set, dancing with a squad of astronauts and kissing an alien.

She aboriginal won opus of the twelvemonth for Espresso, dedicating the prize to "my cats and dogs astatine location watching".

To cod the award, Carpenter stepped onto the signifier wearing Madonna’s 1991 vintage Oscars gown.

Made by Bob Mackie, the shimmering bead-embroidered formal is champion known for being worn by Madonna astatine the coveted awards ceremonial and successful the renowned photograph of her and Michael Jackson.

K-pop vocalist Lisa had immoderate of the night's champion choreography, arsenic she raced done a punchy medley of her deed singles Rockstar and New Woman.

The 27-year-old Thai vocalist and rapper, whose existent sanction is Lalisa Manobal, besides picked up the champion K-pop prize for Rockstar.

The triumph capped disconnected her archetypal solo quality astatine the ceremony. She had antecedently appeared arsenic a subordinate of the South Korean miss group, Blackpink.

To the assemblage astatine New York's UBS Arena, Lenny Kravitz is astir apt amended known arsenic Cinna from The Hunger Games than Lenny Kravitz from singing and playing the guitar.

Nonetheless, helium picked up the champion stone video prize for his caller azygous Human; and took to the MTV signifier for the archetypal clip since his 1998 show with Madonna.

He inactive possesses an indecent magnitude of charisma, racing done a medley of Are You Gonna Go My Way, Human, and the 1998 classical Fly Away - which was precocious sampled by hip-hop creator Quavo (who joined him for the climax).

Speaking connected stage, Kravitz touchingly dedicated his Moonman trophy to his precocious mother, who died successful 1995.

"31 years ago, my parent was with me," helium said. "The past clip she was with maine astatine an grant amusement was astatine the VMAs and truthful I dedicate this to her."

Before the ceremony, Latin superstar Rauw Alejandro told reporters helium wanted to honour his Puerto Rican civilization connected stage.

That meant bringing a splash of West Side Story to the ceremony, with the vocalist dancing connected rooftops and occurrence escapes with dancers dressed successful 1950s-style fedoras.

The show besides included a troupe accepted bomba and plena dancers and musicians, playing a stripped-back rendition of Diluvio from his 2023 album, Playa Saturno.

“Mi gente Latina, esta es cosa nuestra,” helium declared (“My Latin people, this is our thing") arsenic the assemblage roseate to their feet.

• The 2024 MTV VMAs volition beryllium screened successful the UK connected MTV and Paramount Plus astatine 8pm connected Thursday, 12 September.