Pop-punksters 5 Seconds Of Summer won among Australian and New Zealand acts, and girl idol group Dempagumi.inc took the Japanese category.
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The “Baby” singer, who revived his music career earlier this year, was the first victor of the night, picking up the Best Male trophy for the sixth consecutive time.
After saying he was opposed to a person’s right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, Carson added: “During slavery, a lot of the slave owners thought that they had the right to do whatever they wanted to that slave. what if the abolitionists had said, ‘I don’t believe in slavery”.
There was, however, a welcome nod to MTV’s roots, when Duran Duran was honored with the first ever MTV video visionary award.
“I just want to let people know that for a while I feel like I lost my goal and I’m gaining it back… and I feel like it’s so important that everyone finds their objective… so basically my message is that no matter how far you feel away from who you were, or who you think you were, or whether you’re lost, there’s always room to grow and always room to find your objective”. “I want to thank my mom and my dad and God, everyone who helped me get to this place”. You guys are unbelievable and that’s where I belong. He said thanking his family.
Meanwhile, Justin Bieber was overjoyed as he received most number of awards from the EMA 2015.
“It’s been a long couple of years”. Well, Justin sure has a very huge lady fan following indeed!
The singer was named best male; worldwide act: North America; look, collaboration; and the best fans award. Host Sheeran was waltzed off with the Best Live Act and Best World Stage Awards.
Biebs, with one song out this year, won five out of his six nominations (that’s an 83.3% success rate stats fans – Taylor Swift’s was 11.1%).
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We love Nicki Minaj’s carefree demeanor, and okay, she wins a lot of awards, but her pre-taped acceptance speech for winning Best Hip-Hop was perhaps the most pre-taped acceptance speech of all pre-taped acceptance speeches: “I wish I was in Milan eating a few delicious…[long pause]… spaghetti”.
