MTV Awards: Taylor Swift breaks records, Blackpink, Selena Gomez win

Taylor Swift’s hugely successful year shows no signs of slowing down after last night’s MTV Video Music Awards.

On Tuesday the singer became the first artist to win Video of the Year twice in a row – as well as the first artist to win the category a total of four times.

Anti-Hero helped him take the top prize this year, following previous wins for Bad Blood, You Need to Calm Down and All Too Well: The Short Film.

After the results were announced, the singer said: “It’s incredible – I just want to say that the fact that it’s a fan-voted award means a lot to me.”

“Based on the memories we’ve made recently – the most joyful and exhilarating experiences – and we’re not even half done.”

But this wasn’t the only award the singer had to celebrate!

Anti-Hero also won in five other categories: Song of the Year and Best Pop, while his team that created the video won Best Visual Effects, Best Cinematography and Best Direction.

Taylor herself also won three more awards – Artist of the Year, Show of the Summer and Album of the Year for Midnights.

The total of nine wins on Tuesday makes the music megastar the second-highest MTV VMA winner ever, with 25 total awards — only Beyoncé has more.

Beyoncé currently has 28 – two of which were earned as a member of her band Destiny’s Child.

This new set of records for Taylor comes on the heels of last week’s critical success, when her track Cruel Summer was named one of the Songs of the Summer by the UK Official Charts.

Last week the singer made history by becoming the first female artist to receive more than 100 million streams in just one month.

This occurred when the superstar released her re-recorded album, Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), in July, which reached the top of the US and UK charts, giving her four US top 10 album charts at the same time. Became the first woman with the album. ,

There was also an award for Taylor’s best friend Selena Gomez, who won Best Afrobeats for her hit single Calm Down with Rema.

It was also a successful night for K-pop girl band Blackpink, who won Group of the Year and Best Choreography for their song Pink Venom – but missed out on winning Best K-pop.

Olivia Rodrigo missed out on several categories, but her team won best editing for her song Vampire, while the 20-year-old stole the show with her performance of Vampire and Get Him Back.

Dove Cameron won the award for Video for Good for her song Breakfast.