Taylor Swift accepts the Video of the Yr award for “Fortnight” on the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards held at UBS Enviornment September 11, 2024 in Elmont, New York. (Photograph by Christopher Polk/Billboard by way of Getty Photographs) Christopher Polk/Billboard/Getty Photographs
Taylor Swift loved a large, record-setting night time on the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards.
In profitable Video of the Yr for “Fortnight” — her Tortured Poets Department single with Post Malone — Swift grew to become the primary artist ever to win the prize three years in a row. She additionally prolonged her own record of probably the most general Video of the Yr wins to 5, having beforehand received in 2023 for “Anti-Hero,” 2022 for All Too Well: The Short Film, 2019 for “You Need to Calm Down,” and 2015 with “Bad Blood.”
“To the followers, I’m at all times attempting to determine a strategy to say thanks to you for making my life what it’s, for making the Eras tour what it has turn out to be, for making the Tortured Poets Division what it has turn out to be,” Swift stated in her speech. “That’s all you guys for doing that and for voting for this award. So thanks to MTV for giving me this chance to thank the followers, to thanks for what you’ve accomplished.”
The pop star got here into the present on the verge of hitting a number of milestones because of her 12 nominations. The night ended along with her tying Beyoncé as probably the most embellished VMA winner of all time, technically surpassing her depend as a solo artist. Coming into the 2024 VMAs, Swift had 23 VMAs to Beyoncé’s 30, which included her work as a solo artist, with Future’s Baby, and alongside Jay-Z as The Carters. She has 25 on her personal. Swift’s seven wins tonight had been sufficient to place her simply above Beyoncé on the solo entrance. Beyoncé was nominated for 3 awards this 12 months however didn’t add any new trophies to her assortment
Together with Video of the Yr, Swift’s trophy haul included Artist of the Yr, Greatest Pop, Greatest Collaboration, Greatest Path, Greatest Modifying, and Tune of the Summer time. She was additionally up for the VMAs’ new Most Iconic Efficiency prize for her rendition of “You Belong With Me” on the New York Metropolis subway in 2009 (a efficiency admittedly overshadowed by a really different incident involving Swift).
Swift’s landmark VMA night time comes because the pop star gears up for the final leg of The Eras Tour. The North American run is ready to begin Oct. 18 and run by mid-December, with reveals scheduled in Miami, New Orleans, Indianapolis, Toronto, and Vancouver.
From Rolling Stone US.
