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Taylor Swift makes for an unforgettable night, Chappell Roan tears down the stage and a full list of winners

The 2024 MTV Video Music Awards brought the house to rock.

Since 1984, the VMAs have delivered unforgettable performances, and this year was no exception. Megan Thee Stallion hosted the evening's festivities and also performed. Over the course of the evening, she was joined onstage by a number of high-profile presenters and artists, including Eminem, who opened the show, as well as Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan and Katy Perry, who received the Video Vanguard Award.

Taylor Swift received the final award of the night, Video of the Year, for “Fortnight” featuring Post Malone. In her acceptance speech, she took the opportunity to thank her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce, for making the video shoot “something I'll always remember.”

Yahoo Entertainment's live coverage of the show has concluded. Find all of the evening's highlights below.

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  • Megan Thee Stallion ends the show

    Megan Thee Stallion closed the VMAs with her signature energy after Taylor Swift won Video of the Year for “Fortnight” featuring Post Malone.

    “Thank you to all our fans around the world! Congratulations to all the winners!” she said before turning to the camera with a special message. “And to my hotties at home: vote!”

  • Taylor Swift on “boyfriend” Travis Kelce: “Everything this man touches becomes happiness, fun and magic”

    As the 2024 VMAs came to a close, Taylor Swift took home the biggest honor of the night: Video of the Year for “Fortnight.” The Department for Tortured Poets The singer shared a nice anecdote about what it was like shooting the video, which she also directed.

    “I will always remember that when I finished a take and said 'cut,' I would hear someone cheering… from across the studio where we were shooting. And that one person was my friend Travis. [Kelce]she said. “Everything this man touches turns into happiness, fun and magic. So I want to thank him for bringing that to our shoot.”

    Swift concluded her speech by urging award ceremony attendees and viewers at home to register to vote in the presidential election.

  • Taylor Swift wins Video of the Year for “Fortnight” feat. Post Malone

    Taylor Swift and Post Malone at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards. Taylor Swift and Post Malone at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards.

    Taylor Swift and Post Malone. (Christopher Polk/Billboard via Getty Images)

    • Ariana Grande – “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)”

    • Billie Eilish – “Lunch”

    • Doja Cat – “Paint the Town Red”

    • Eminem – “Houdini”

    • Sza – “Slumber”

    • Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone – “Fortnight”

  • Chappell Roan: “Thank you for listening”

    Chappell Roan accepts the award for best new artist. Chappell Roan accepts the award for best new artist.

    Chappell Roan accepts the award for Best New Artist. (Mike Coppola/Getty Images for MTV)

    With her schedule in hand, Chappell Roan took the VMAs stage to accept the award for Best New Artist.

    “I wrote a speech from my diary,” she began. “I dedicate this to all the drag artists who have inspired me, who inspire me. And I dedicate this to the queer and trans people who power pop. … To the gay people who dedicate my songs to someone they love or hate, and thank you to the people who are fans, who listen to me, who listen to me share my joy and my fears. Thank you for listening.”

    The “Good Luck, Babe!” singer concluded, “To all the queer kids in the Midwest watching right now, I see you, I get you, because I'm one of you. And don't let nobody tell you that you can't be exactly who you want to be, bitch.”

  • Anitta wins Best Latin for “Mil Veces”

    Anitta performs on stage at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards.Anitta performs on stage at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards.

    Anitta performs onstage at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards. (Christopher Polk/Billboard via Getty Images)

    • Anitta – “Many times”

    • Bad Bunny – “Monaco”

    • Karol G – “Mi Ex Tenía Razón”

    • Myke Towers – “Lala”

    • Peso Pluma & Anitta – “Bellakeo”

    • Rauw Alejandro – “Touch the sky”

    • Shakira & Cardi B – “Punteria”

  • Chappell Roan wins the award for best new artist

    Chappell Roan sings at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards.Chappell Roan sings at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards.

    Chappell Roan. (Christopher Polk/Billboard via Getty Images)

    • Benson Boone

    • Chappell Roan

    • Gracie Abrams

    • Shaboozey

    • Teddy swims

    • Tyla

  • Eminem wins Best Hip-Hop for “Houdini”

    • Sexyy Red & Sza – “Rich Baby Daddy”

    • Eminem – “Houdini”

    • GloRilla – “Yes, Glo!”

    • Gunna – “Fukumean”

    • Megan Thee Stallion – “Whoa”

    • Travis Scott feat. Playboi Carti – “Fe!n”

  • Dua Lipa wins the award for best choreography for “Houdini”

    • Stands – “Small Movements”

    • Dua Lipa – “Houdini”

    • Lisa – “Rock Star”

    • Rauw Alejandro – “Touch the sky”

    • Tate McRae – “Greedy”

    • Troye Sivan – “Rush”

  • Eminem wins the award for best visual effects for “Houdini”

    • Ariana Grande – “The boy is mine”

    • Eminem – “Houdini”

    • Justin Timberlake – “Selfish”

    • Megan Thee Stallion – “Whoa”

    • Olivia Rodrigo – “Get Him Back!”

    • Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone – “Fortnight”

  • Taylor Swift wins Best Pop

    • Camila Cabello

    • Dua Lipa

    • Olivia Rodrigo

    • Sabrina Carpenter

    • Tate McRae

    • Taylor Swift

  • Taylor Swift wins for Best Director and Best Editing

    Best direction

    • Ariana Grande – “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)”

    • Stands – “Small Movements”

    • Eminem – “Houdini”

    • Megan Thee Stallion – “Whoa”

    • Sabrina Carpenter – “Please, please, please”

    • Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone – “Fortnight”

    Best editing

    • Anitta – “Many times”

    • Ariana Grande – “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)”

    • Eminem – “Houdini”

    • Lisa – “Rock Star”

    • Sabrina Carpenter – “Espresso”

    • Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone – “Fortnight”

  • Sza wins Best R&B for “Snooze”

    • Alicia Keys – “Lifeline”

    • Muni Long – “Made for me”

    • Sza – “Slumber”

    • Tyla – “water”

    • Usher, Summer Walker, 21 Savage – “Good, good”

    • Victoria Monét – “On My Mama”

  • Taylor Swift is Artist of the Year

    Taylor Swift on the red carpet at the VMAs.Taylor Swift on the red carpet at the VMAs.

    (Gotham/WireImage)

    • ArianaGrande

    • Bad Bunny

    • Eminem

    • Sabrina Carpenter

    • Sza

    • Taylor Swift

  • Lenny Kravitz heats things up

    The fire that lights up the stage during Lenny Kravitz's performance makes the temperatures inside really hot.

    — Live coverage from the UBS Arena

  • Halsey channels early 2000s pop punk with “Ego”

    Halsey will perform at the 2024 VMAs. Halsey will perform at the 2024 VMAs.

    Halsey performs at the 2024 VMAs. (Manny Carabel/Getty Images for MTV)

    Halsey took the VMAs stage to perform “Ego,” the second track from her upcoming album, The great imitator. In a very pop-punk-inspired ensemble – collared shirt and tie, low-waisted denim shorts and lace-up boots – Halsey channeled early '00s angst as she performed with a full band in a garage-style set.

    Attentive viewers — including some of us at Yahoo Entertainment — initially mistook Victoria De Angelis, the Italian songwriter and producer who played guitar alongside Halsey during the performance, for none other than Taylor Swift.

  • Carson Daly comes home

    Carson Daly returned to the MTV VMAs stage to announce the winner of Best K-Pop, and he was feeling a little nostalgic.

    “It's an honor to be here, crazy, but an honor to be here for the 40th anniversary of the VMAs,” Daly said. “For those of you who are a little too young to know who I am, I was the host of a show on MTV called Total request live, or TRLa long time ago. It was the best. The best show. The kids went crazy in Times Square and every day after school I was at your mother's, so please say hello to her for me.”

  • Ariana Grande wins the award for best cinematography

    • Ariana Grande – “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)”

    • Charli XCX – “Von Dutch”

    • Dua Lipa – “Illusion”

    • Olivia Rodrigo – “Obsessed”

    • Rauw Alejandro – “Touch the sky”

    • Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone – “Fortnight”

  • Lisa wins Best K-Pop for “Rockstar”

    • Jung Kook feat. Latto – “Seven”

    • LisaISA – “Rockstar”

    • NCT Dream – “Smoothie”

    • NewJeans – “Super Shy”

    • Stray Kids – “Lalalala”

    • Tomorrow X Together – “Deja vu”

  • Billie Eilish wins “Video for Good”

    • Alexander Stewart – “If you only knew”

    • Billie Eilish – “What Was I Made For” (from the movie “Barbie”)

    • Coldplay – “Feels like I’m falling in love”

    • Joyner Lucas & Jelly Roll – “The Best for Me”

    • Raye – “Genesis”

    • Tyler Childers – “In Your Love”

  • Megan Thee Stallion wins the award for best artistic direction

    Megan Thee Stallion performs on stage.Megan Thee Stallion performs on stage.

    Megan Thee Stallion. (Johnny Nunez/Getty Images for MTV)

    • Charli XCX – “360”

    • Lisa – “Rock Star”

    • Megan Thee Stallion – “Whoa”

    • Olivia Rodrigo – “Bad idea, right?”

    • Sabrina Carpenter – “Please, please, please”

    • Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone – “Fortnight”

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