Current:Home > InvestHow many VMAs did Taylor Swift win last night? See the singer's full, record-breaking haul -Mastery Money Tools
How many VMAs did Taylor Swift win last night? See the singer's full, record-breaking haul
View
Date:2025-04-12 21:34:07
It must be exhausting rooting for anyone other than Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards, as the pop superstar just keeps dominating.
Swift cleaned up at Wednesday's VMAs, taking home the most statues with seven and breaking the record for most wins for any solo artist in history with 30.
The night was bookended by major wins for the singer, starting with her taking the best collaboration award for "Fortnight," the "Tortured Poets Department" track featuring Post Malone. Malone joined Swift on stage, and she honored him as "everyone in music's favorite person" to work with.
At the end of the evening, Swift received the top prize of video of the year for "Fortnight." She holds the record for most wins in that category with five, including three consecutive victories since 2022, for "Bad Blood," "You Need to Calm Down," "All Too Well," "Anti-Hero" and "Fortnight."
How many VMAs did Taylor Swift win? Full list of her victories
But that wasn't all for Swift, who in addition to her televised wins took home several additional VMAs that weren't handed out on the telecast. Here's her complete haul:
Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.
- Video of the year - "Fortnight"
- Best collaboration - "Fortnight"
- Song of summer - "Fortnight"
- Best direction - "Fortnight"
- Best editing - "Fortnight"
- Artist of the year
- Best pop
Swift had 12 nominations going into the show and was also up for song of the year, best visual effects, best cinematography and best art direction for "Fortnight" and most iconic performance for "You Belong With Me."
Top moments from the VMAs:Taylor's big night and Sabrina Carpenter kissed an alien
Did Taylor Swift announce 'Reputation (Taylor's Version)' at the VMAs?
Swifties prone to a bit of clowning were on the edge of their seats waiting for the singer to drop an announcement on stage — possibly the long-awaited release date of "Reputation (Taylor's Version)." But Swift did not announce "Reputation," or anything else for that matter, so the wait for her next re-recorded album continues.
The theories that she might drop news weren't too unrealistic, though, considering Swift's last two albums of fully new material were both announced at awards shows: "The Tortured Poets Department" at the 2024 Grammys and "Midnights" at the 2022 VMAs. The singer received some backlash for the "Tortured Poets" announcement at the Grammys, with some critics arguing she was upstaging the other artists and their wins that night.
VMAs 2024 winners:Taylor Swift has a big night as Chappell Roan wins best new artist
Still, Swift did give fans something to latch onto in her last speech of the evening with a nod to her boyfriend Travis Kelce, which blew the roof off the UBS Arena on Long Island and had fans screeching with excitement.
"When I would finish a take and I'd say cut, and we'd be done with that take, I would always hear someone cheering and (saying) 'woo!'' from across the studio, where we were shooting it," Swift said. "And that one person was my boyfriend, Travis. Everything this man touches turns to happiness and fun and magic."
Contributing: Bryan West
veryGood! (9)
Related
- Taylor Swift Eras Archive site launches on singer's 35th birthday. What is it?
- The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 2 Gift Guide: American Eagle, Local Eclectic, Sperry & More
- Make Sure You Never Lose Your Favorite Photos and Save 58% On the Picture Keeper Connect
- Increasingly Large and Intense Wildfires Hinder Western Forests’ Ability to Regenerate
- Most popular books of the week: See what topped USA TODAY's bestselling books list
- Mourning, and Celebration: A Funeral for a Coal-Fired Power Plant
- Boat crashes into Lake of the Ozarks home, ejecting passengers and injuring 8
- Blac Chyna Celebrates 10 Months of Sobriety Amid Personal Transformation Journey
- All That You Wanted to Know About She’s All That
- Raven-Symoné and Wife Miranda Pearman-Maday Set the Record Straight on That Relationship NDA
Ranking
- Tree trimmer dead after getting caught in wood chipper at Florida town hall
- Some will starve, many may die, U.N. warns after Russia pulls out of grain deal
- America’s Forests Are ‘Present and Vanishing at the Same Time’
- Why The View Co-Host Alyssa Farah Griffin's Shirt Design Became a Hot Topic
- Civic engagement nonprofits say democracy needs support in between big elections. Do funders agree?
- Climate Change Wiped Out Thousands of the West’s Most Iconic Cactus. Can Planting More Help a Species that Takes a Century to Mature?
- Inside Climate News Staff Writers Liza Gross and Aydali Campa Recognized for Accountability Journalism
- Banks Say They’re Acting on Climate, But Continue to Finance Fossil Fuel Expansion
Recommendation
Civic engagement nonprofits say democracy needs support in between big elections. Do funders agree?
The Most-Cited Number About the Inflation Reduction Act Is Probably Wrong, and That Could Be a Good Thing
What’s the Future of Gas Stations in an EV World?
Wildfires in Northern Forests Broke Carbon Emissions Records in 2021
McConnell absent from Senate on Thursday as he recovers from fall in Capitol
Texas Eyes Marine Desalination, Oilfield Water Reuse to Sustain Rapid Growth
Buy now, pay later plans can rack up steep interest charges. Here's what shoppers should know.
Aruba Considers Enshrining the ‘Rights of Nature’ in Its Constitution