Taylor Swift made history at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, winning seven awards, including Video of the Year for 'Fortnight.' This achievement ties her with Beyoncé for the most VMAs won by a single artist. Swift also used her platform to encourage voter registration ahead of the upcoming presidential election.
The 2024 MTV VMAs took place on September 11, coinciding with the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Swift entered the night with ten nominations, leading the pack, and ultimately surpassed Beyoncé's record for most VMA wins as a solo artist.
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Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. Her narrative songwriting, which often centers around her personal life, has received widespread media coverage.
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An MTV Video Music Award is an award presented by the cable channel MTV to honor the best in the music video medium. Originally conceived as an alternative to the Grammy Awards, the annual MTV Video Music Awards ceremony has often been called the "Super B
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Austin Richard Post, known professionally as Post Malone, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Known for his introspective songwriting and laconic vocal style, Malone has gained acclaim for bending a range of genres including hi
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Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter is an American singer, songwriter and businesswoman. Regarded as one of the most influential cultural figures of the 21st century, Beyoncé is renowned for her expert vocal ability, live performances and artistic innovation
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Travis Michael Kelce is an American football tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Chiefs in the third round of the 2013 NFL Draft and later won Super Bowl LIV with the team over the San Francisco 49er
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Megan Jovon Ruth Pete, known professionally as Megan Thee Stallion, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. Born in Bexar County, Texas and raised in South Park, Houston, Megan Thee Stallion began writing and performing raps as a teenager.
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Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson, known professionally as Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter, and television judge. After singing in church during her childhood, she pursued a career in gospel music as a teenager.
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Morgan Cole Wallen is an American country music singer and songwriter. He is signed to Big Loud Records and has released six singles: "The Way I Talk", "Up Down", which features Florida Georgia Line, "Whiskey Glasses", "Chasin' You", "More Than My Hometow
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Sabrina Annlynn Carpenter is an American singer and actress, who is signed to Hollywood Records. After making her acting debut with an appearance in the crime series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, she starred in a recurring role as the young versi
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Marshall Bruce Mathers III, known professionally as Eminem, is an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer. Credited with popularizing hip hop in Middle America, Eminem's global success and acclaimed works are widely regarded as having broken raci
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Madonna Louise Ciccone is an American singer-songwriter, actress, author, and record executive. Having been referred to as the "Queen of Pop" since the 1980s, she is regarded as one of the most impactful figures in popular culture.
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Oasis were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1991. Developed from an earlier group, the Rain, the band originally consisted of Liam Gallagher, Paul Arthurs, Paul McGuigan, and Tony McCarroll.
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Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, actress, and businesswoman.
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Leonard Albert Kravitz is an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, multi-instrumentalist, and actor. His style incorporates elements of rock, blues, soul, R&B, funk, jazz, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, pop, folk, and ballads.
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Kamala Devi Harris is an American attorney and politician who has served as the junior United States Senator from California since 2017.
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Luke Albert Combs is an American country music singer and songwriter. Combs has released two albums for Columbia Nashville, which have combined to produce 10 singles, nine of which reached number one on Billboard's Country Airplay chart: "Hurricane", "Whe
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Solána Imani Rowe, known professionally as SZA, is an American singer and songwriter. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, she began making music in the early 2010s, releasing two extended plays—See.SZA.Run and S—before signing with the hip hop record label
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Ariana Grande-Butera is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Born in Boca Raton, Florida, Grande began her career in the 2008 Broadway musical 13.
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Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell is an American singer and songwriter. She first gained attention in 2015 when she uploaded the song "Ocean Eyes" to SoundCloud, which was subsequently released by the Interscope Records subsidiary Darkroom.
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Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, known professionally as Chappell Roan, is an American singer and songwriter. Working with collaborator Dan Nigro, the majority of her music is inspired by 1980s synth-pop and early 2000s pop hits.
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The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual open national championship of golf in the United States.
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Fortnite is an online video game developed by Epic Games and released in 2017. It is available in three distinct game mode versions that otherwise share the same general gameplay and game engine: Fortnite: Save the World, a cooperative shooter-survival ga
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UBS Arena is a $1.5 billion multi-purpose arena under construction and development in Elmont, New York, next to the Belmont Park race track. The venue is projected to open for the 2021–22 NHL season.
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Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
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Christopher Alvin Stapleton is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and grew up in Staffordsville, Kentucky.
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Noel Thomas David Gallagher is an English singer, songwriter, record producer and musician. He served as the songwriter, lead guitarist, and co-lead vocalist of the rock band Oasis.
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Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Copeland Bloom is an English actor. He made his breakthrough as the character Legolas in The Lord of the Rings film series, a role he reprised in The Hobbit film series.
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James Todd Smith, known professionally as LL Cool J, is an American rapper, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur from Queens, New York.
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Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini, known professionally as Doja Cat, is an American singer and rapper. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Doja Cat began making and releasing music on SoundCloud as a teenager.
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The September 11 attacks, also commonly referred to as 9/11, were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the militant Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.