Taylor Swift, One Direction, Ariana Grande, Luke Bryan and Nicki Minaj are nominated for artist of the year. She is the leading nominee with six including song and collaboration of the year for “Bad Blood” with Kendrick Lamar, favorite female artist – pop/rock, favorite album – pop/rock for “1989” and favorite artist – adult contemporary.
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Bryan beat out Jason Aldean and Sam Hunt, who won new artist of the year.
Before her performance, Nicki Minaj won her second award for the night: favorite artist – rap/hip-hop.
Lopez’s performance was one of the many highlights of the night and the crowd went wild – except for Nicki Minaj who looked distinctly unimpressed when the camera panned to her face while J. Lo was dancing to “Anaconda”.
During the 2015 American Music Awards, host and performer Jennifer Lopez opened the show with an electrifying performance.
Selena Gomez performed a sultry rendition of her latest hit “Same Old Love” dressed in a sequined cat suit, and country star Carrie Underwood belted her romantic ballad Heartbeat.
Charlie Puth, who locked lips with Meghan Trainor for an extended kiss onstage, said he happened to be near the site of the Paris attacks a few weeks before they happened and felt his heart break at the news. MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS were joined by special guest LEON BRIDGES for a powerful new song that takes aim at the pharmaceutical industry.
DEMI LOVATO joined ALANIS MORISSETTE for a searing 20th anniversary performance of “You Oughta Know”.
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Up next was PENTATONIX, dressed in “Star Wars” gear, teamed up with a full sympony orchestra on JOHN WILLIAMS’ famed score for the sci-fi classic.
