Taylor Swift and Sam Smith were the big winners at this year’s Billboard Music Awards held on Sunday night in Las Vegas.
Swift picked up accolades in eight of the 14 categories that she was nominated in, while Smith, who was unable to attend due to recent vocal cord troubles, won awards for Top New Artist, Top Male Artist and Top Digital Songs Artist. Smith accepted his awards by sending a video message, which saw him using flash cards to communicate.
One Direction, also winners on the night, dedicated their Top Group award win to “brother” Zayn Malik, who parted ways with the pop group in March. “I just want to say, Billboard, you guys have been so amazing throughout our career, thank you for the support and as well as our fans, there’s one more person to share this with and that’s our brother Zayn, so thank you very much,” Liam Payne said during the boyband’s acceptance speech.
Meanwhile, Iggy Azaleawon the Top Rap Artist award, Hozier was crowned Top Rock Artist, Calvin Harris picked up the Top Dance/Electronic Artist award and Coldplaywon Top Rock Album for ‘Ghost Stories’.
The ceremony also saw Kanye West performing ‘All Day’ and ‘Black Skinhead’ live, being booed by the crowd and censored heavily during his performance. Taylor Swift also premiered her new video for ‘Bad Blood’ at the event, which features cameos from Kendrick Lamar, Paramore’s Hayley Williams, Ellie Goulding and more.
Full list of winners at the Billboard Music Awards 2015:
Top artist: Taylor Swift
Top new artist: Sam Smith
Top male artist: Sam Smith
Top female artist: Taylor Swift
Top duo/group: One Direction
Top Billboard 200 artist: Taylor Swift
Top Hot 100 artist: Taylor Swift
Top digital songs artist: Taylor Swift
Top radio songs artist: Sam Smith
Top touring artist: One Direction
Top social artist: Justin Bieber
Top streaming artist: Iggy Azalea
Top R&B artist: Pharrell Williams
Top rap artist: Iggy Azalea
Top country artist: Florida Georgia Line
Top rock artist: Hozier
Top Latin artist: Romeo Santos
Top dance/electronic artist: Calvin Harris
Top Christian artist: Hillsong
Top Billboard 200 album: Taylor Swift, 1989
Top soundtrack: Frozen
Top R&B album: Pharrell, GIRL
Top rap album: J Cole, 2014 Forest Hill Drive
Top country album: Jason Aldean, Old Boots, New Dirt
Top rock album: Coldplay, Ghost Stories
Top Latin Album: Enrique Iglesias, Sex and Love
Top dance/electronic album: Lindsey Stirling, Shatter Me
Top Christian album: Lecrae, Anomaly
Top Hot 100 song: Meghan Trainor, All About That Bass
Top digital song: Meghan Trainor, All About That Bass
Top radio song: John Legend, All Of Me
Top streaming song (audio): John Legend, All Of Me
Top streaming song (video): Taylor Swift, Shake It Off
Top R&B song: Pharrell, Happy
Top rap song: Iggy Azalea Feat. Charli XCX, Fancy
Top country song: Jason Aldean, Burnin’ It Down
Top rock song: Hozier, Take Me To Church
Top Latin song: Enrique Iglesias Featuring Descemer, Bailando
Top dance/electronic song: DJ Snake & Lil Jon, Turn Down For What
Top Christian song: Carrie Underwood, Something In The Water
Billboard chart achievement award: Taylor Swift
