The highly anticipated MTV Europe Music Awards went down on Sunday, November 6, 2011 at Belfast’s Odyssey Arena and US singer and songwriter Lady Gagaturned out the biggest winner of the night as she walked home with four awards!
Although the the 25-year-old faced stiff competition from the likes of Adele, Beyonce, Jennifer Lopez amongst a few other artistes, she still bagged the awards for the ‘Best Female‘, ‘Best Song‘ and ‘Best Video‘ categories, as well as ‘Biggest Fan‘ – a brand new award that celebrates artistes with the most committed fanbase.
Gaga was followed by Justin Bieber, Bruno Mars and Thirty Seconds To Mars who each won two awards. Teen pop star Bieber walked home with Best Male and Best Pop awards, Mars was given the awards for ‘Best Push’ and ‘Best New’ while Thirty Seconds To Mars were honoured in the ‘Best Alternative’ category and ‘Best World Stage’ categories. A Global Icon award was given to Rock legends Queen who later own performed their past hits such as ‘We are the champions‘ and ‘We will rock you‘.
Spectacular performances (spread across three venues) came from Justin Bieber, David Guetta, Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars, Coldplay, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jessie J, LMFAO, Snow Patrol and Queen.
As announced earlier, the 18th edition of the show was hosted by US actress, singerSelena Gomez who hosted the main show and the digital show simultaneously
List of Award Winners
BEST SONG
Adele – ‘Rolling In The Deep’
Bruno Mars – ‘Grenade’
Jennifer Lopez ft Pitbull – ‘On The Floor’
Katy Perry – ‘Firework’
Lady Gaga – ‘Born This Way’ – Winner
BEST LIVE
Coldplay
Foo Fighters
MORE PICTURES AFTER THE CUT
Katy Perry – Winner
Lady Gaga
Red Hot Chili Peppers
BEST POP
Britney Spears
Justin Bieber – Winner
Katy Perry
Lady Gaga
Rihanna
BEST NEW
Bruno Mars – Winner
Far East Movement
Jessie J
LMFAO
Wiz Khalifa
BEST FEMALE
Adele
Beyoncé
Jennifer Lopez
Katy Perry
Lady Gaga – Winner
BEST MALE
Bruno Mars
David Guetta
Eminem
Justin Bieber – Winner
Kanye West
BEST HIP HOP
Eminem – Winner
Lil Wayne
JAY Z & Kanye West
Pitbull
Snoop Dogg
BEST ROCK
Coldplay
Foo Fighters
Linkin Park – Winner
Kings of Leon
Red Hot Chili Peppers
BEST VIDEO
Adele – ‘Rolling In The Deep’
Beastie Boys – ‘Make Some Noise
BeyoncĂ© – ‘Run The World (Girls)’
Justice – ‘Civilization’
Lady Gaga – ‘Born This Way’ – Winner
BEST ALTERNATIVE
Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys
My Chemical Romance
The Strokes
Thirty Seconds To Mars – Winner
BEST WORLD STAGE
Arcade Fire
The Black Eyed Peas
Diddy Dirty Money
Enrique Iglesias
Kings of Leon
Linkin Park
My Chemical Romance
Ozzy Osborne
Snoop Dogg
Thirty Seconds To Mars – Winner
BEST PUSH
Alexis Jordan
Big Time Rush
Bruno Mars – Winner
Far East Movement
Jessie J
Katy B
LMFAO
Neon Trees
Theophilus London
Wiz Khalifa
BIGGEST FANS
Justin Bieber
Lady Gaga
Paramore
Selena Gomez
Thirty Seconds To Mars
BEST WORLDWIDE
BIGBANG
GLOBAL ICON
Queen
BIGGEST FANS
Lady Gaga
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