2024 MTV VMAs: Taylor Swift makes it a night to remember, Chappell Roan shuts down the stage and a full list of winners

Megan Thee Stallion brought the VMAs to a close with her signature energy after Taylor Swift won Video of the Year for "Fortnight" featuring Post Malone.

"Thank you to all our fans all around the world! Congratulations to all the winners!" she said, before turning to the camera with a special message. "And to my Hotties at home, vote!"

As the 2024 VMAs came to a close, Taylor Swift took home the biggest honor of the night: Video of the Year for "Fortnight." The Tortured Poets Department singer shared a sweet anecdote about what it was like filming the video, which she also directed.

"Something that I'll always remember is that when I would finish a take and I'd say 'Cut,' I would just hear someone cheering ... from across the studio where we were shooting it. And that one person was my boyfriend, Travis [Kelce]," she said. "Everything this man touches turns to happiness and fun and magic. So, I want to thank him for adding that to our shoot."

Swift concluded her speech by urging awards show attendees and viewers at home to register to vote in the presidential election.

• Ariana Grande — “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)”

• Billie Eilish — “Lunch”

• Doja Cat — “Paint the Town Red”

• Eminem — “Houdini”

• Sza — “Snooze”

• Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone — “Fortnight”

With her diary in hand, Chappell Roan took to the VMAs stage to accept the award for Best New Artist.

"I wrote a speech from my diary," she began. "I dedicate this to all the drag artists who inspired me, who inspire me. And I dedicate this to queer and trans people that fuel pop. ... To the gays who dedicate my songs to someone they love or hate and thank you to the people who are fans, who listen to me, who hear me when I share my joy and my fears. Thank you for listening."

The "Good Luck, Babe!" singer concluded, "For all the queer kids in the Midwest watching right now, I see you, I understand you, because I'm one of you. And don't ever let anyone tell you that you can't be exactly who you want to be, bitch."

• Anitta — “Mil Veces”

• Bad Bunny — “Monaco”

• Karol G — “Mi Ex Tenía Razón”

• Myke Towers — “Lala”

• Peso Pluma & Anitta — “Bellakeo”

• Rauw Alejandro — “Touching the Sky”

• Shakira & Cardi B — “Puntería”

• Benson Boone

• Chappell Roan

• Gracie Abrams

• Shaboozey

• Teddy Swims

• Tyla

• Drake feat. Sexyy Red & Sza — “Rich Baby Daddy”

• Eminem — “Houdini”

• GloRilla — “Yeah Glo!”

• Gunna — “Fukumean”

• Megan Thee Stallion — “Boa”

• Travis Scott feat. Playboi Carti — “Fe!n”

• Bleachers — “Tiny Moves”

• Dua Lipa — “Houdini”

• Lisa — “Rockstar”

• Rauw Alejandro — “Touching the Sky”

• Tate McRae — “Greedy”

• Troye Sivan — “Rush”

• Ariana Grande — “The Boy Is Mine”

• Eminem — “Houdini”

• Justin Timberlake — “Selfish”

• Megan Thee Stallion — “Boa”

• Olivia Rodrigo — “Get Him Back!”

• Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone — “Fortnight”

• Camila Cabello

• Dua Lipa

• Olivia Rodrigo

• Sabrina Carpenter

• Tate McRae

• Taylor Swift

Best Direction

• Ariana Grande — “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)”

• Bleachers — “Tiny Moves”

• Eminem — “Houdini”

• Megan Thee Stallion — “Boa”

• Sabrina Carpenter — “Please Please Please”

• Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone — “Fortnight”

Best Editing

• Anitta — “Mil Veces”

• Ariana Grande — “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)”

• Eminem — “Houdini”

• Lisa — “Rockstar”

• Sabrina Carpenter — “Espresso”

• Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone — “Fortnight”

• Alicia Keys — “Lifeline”

• Muni Long — “Made for Me”

• Sza — “Snooze”

• Tyla — “Water”

• Usher, Summer Walker, 21 Savage — “Good Good”

• Victoria Monét — “On My Mama”

• Ariana Grande

• Bad Bunny

• Eminem

• Sabrina Carpenter

• Sza

• Taylor Swift

The fire lighting up the stage during Lenny Kravitz's performance is making it actually hot in here.

— Reporting live from UBS Arena

Halsey took the VMAs stage to perform "Ego," the second track off her forthcoming album, The Great Impersonator. Wearing a very pop-punk-inspired ensemble — a collared shirt and tie, low-rise jean shorts and lace-up boots — Halsey channeled early aughts angst as she performed with a full band in a garage-decorated set.

Eagle-eyed viewers — including some of us at Yahoo Entertainment — initially mistook Victoria De Angelis, the Italian songwriter and producer who played guitar alongside Halsey during the performance, for none other than Taylor Swift.

Carson Daly returned to the MTV VMAs stage to announce the winner for Best K-Pop, and he was feeling a little nostalgic.

"It's an honor to be here, crazy, but an honor to be here for the 40th anniversary of the VMAs," Daly said. "For those of you who are a little too young to know who I am, I was the host of a show on MTV called Total Request Live, or TRL, a very long time ago. It was the best. The best show. Kids going crazy in Times Square and every day after school I was with your mother, so please tell her I said hi."

• Ariana Grande — “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)”

• Charli XCX — “Von Dutch”

• Dua Lipa — “Illusion”

• Olivia Rodrigo — “Obsessed”

• Rauw Alejandro — “Touching the Sky”

• Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone — “Fortnight”

• Jung Kook feat. Latto — “Seven”

• Lisa — “Rockstar”

• NCT Dream — “Smoothie”

• NewJeans — “Super Shy”

• Stray Kids — “Lalalala”

• Tomorrow X Together — “Deja Vu”

• Alexander Stewart — “If You Only Knew”

• Billie Eilish — “What Was I Made For” (from the motion picture “Barbie”)

• Coldplay — “Feelslikeimfallinginlove”

• Joyner Lucas & Jelly Roll — “Best for Me”

• Raye — “Genesis”

• Tyler Childers — “In Your Love”

• Charli XCX — “360”

• Lisa — “Rockstar”

• Megan Thee Stallion — “Boa”

• Olivia Rodrigo — “Bad Idea Right?”

• Sabrina Carpenter — “Please Please Please”

• Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone — “Fortnight”

• Beyoncé — “Texas Hold ’Em”

• Jack Harlow — “Lovin on Me”

• Kendrick Lamar — “Not Like Us”

• Sabrina Carpenter — “Espresso”

• Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone — “Fortnight”

• Teddy Swims — “Lose Control”

VMAs host Megan Thee Stallion took the stage for a medley performance of her own.

In a yellow ensemble, the Houston Hottie brought the charisma as she danced her way around the stage while performing her tracks "Boa," "B.A.S." featuring Kyle Richh, "Hiss" and "Mamushi" featuring Yuki Chiba from her 2024 album Megan.

Chappell Roan wowed the crowd with a fiery performance of "Good Luck, Babe!"

Dressed in armor, she began her performance holding a flaming bow and arrow. The set revealed a castle backdrop as the singer shot the flaming arrow into a tower.

Surrounded by dancing knights, Roan channeled Joan of Arc as the castle became engulfed in flames.

She finished on her knees with the knights falling dramatically around her. Clearly, the Midwest Princess wanted to make a big statement for her first-ever VMAs performance.

• Ayra Starr ft. Giveon — “Last Heartbreak Song”

• Burna Boy — “City Boys”

• Chris Brown ft. Davido & Lojay — “Sensational”

• Tems — “Love Me JeJe”

• Tyla — “Water”

• Usher, Pheelz — “Ruin”

Following her career-spanning medley performance, Katy Perry was honored with the Video Vanguard Award. After accepting the award from her partner, Orlando Bloom, Perry launched into a heartfelt acceptance speech.

"One of the biggest reasons I'm standing here right now is I learned to block out all the noise that every single artist in this industry has to constantly fight against. Especially women," she said. "I just want to say with my whole heart, do whatever it takes to stay true to yourself and true to your art. Turn off social media, safeguard your mental health. Pause. Touch grass, and do what you were born to do just like I was born to do this."

The honor has been bestowed to artists like Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake, Jennifer Lopez, Pink and Rihanna, and like her predecessors, Perry performed a 10-minute mash-up of her greatest (and newest) hits:

• "Dark Horse"

• "E.T."

• "I'm His, He's Mine" feat. Doechii

• "California Gurls"

• "Teenage Dream"

• "I Kissed a Girl"

• "Firework"

• "Lifetimes"

Perry began with some wild acrobatics in the air when she opened with "Dark Horse," something that had the audience "gasping," according to Yahoo Entertainment reporter Kelsey Weekman.

When Doechii came out for "I'm His, He's Mine," the duo steamed up the stage. (Perry and Orlando Bloom's daughter, Daisy, who is watching at home for the first time, might have some questions!)

But it was "I Kissed a Girl" that had the crowd roaring. "People are SCREAMING the lyrics it's SOOO loud in here," Weekman said. "The enthusiasm really feels like we went back in time to 2008."

Perry danced her heart out onstage through what felt like a time warp of her career. She ended with "Lifetimes," the second single off her upcoming album, 143.

Video Vanguard Award recipient Katy Perry had a heartwarming introduction from her partner, Orlando Bloom.

"You fell in love with her as Katy Perry. I fell in love with her as Katheryn Hudson," he said, using her birth name.

"You know her as a global superstar who brings love, light and her unique sense of humor to every song she writes and music video she creates," he said. "In moments when we've most needed it, her music and the remarkable world she creates have brought a sense of joy and laughter, inspiring generations of people from all over the world."

Calling her "irresistible," Bloom congratulated Perry for the honor before she took the stage to perform a medley of her career-spanning hits.

The certified pop star took fans through a medley of her three summer hits: "Espresso," "Please Please Please" and "Taste."

Swinging high above the audience, Carpenter did indeed get the crowd to all yell "motherf***er" — just as Cyndi Lauper predicted during her introduction — when the 25-year-old kicked things off with "Please Please Please," according to Yahoo Entertainment reporter Kelsey Weekman, who is at the show.

As Carpenter landed on the stage, she moved on to her song "Taste," which may or may not be about fellow singers Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello. (Carpenter was linked to Mendes during one of his and Cabello's off-again moments.) Mendes and Cabello are both at the VMAs, but so far there aren't any reaction shots of what they thought of Carpenter's performance.

Fun fact: Weekman said Carpenter sat high up on her swing for several minutes in the dark — including through Lauper's introduction — before it was her time to shine.

Canadian singer-songwriter Shawn Mendes following an insanely high-energy performance from LISA really was an abrupt vibe shift.

Inside the theater, it really looks cool. When one person is cleaning up on the left, you just look to the performer on the right.

— Reporting live from UBS Arena

After Jordan Chiles was stripped of her Olympic bronze medal following the 2024 Paris Olympics, Flavor Flav gave her a custom-made replacement.

On stage, the rapper surprised Chiles with a bedazzled clock necklace, telling her, "I got you something they can't take away" before placing it around her neck.

"Wow, I don't even know what to say here," she said. "Thank you!"

Taylor Swift accepted the award for Best Collaboration with Post Malone and opened her speech with an acknowledgement of the Sept. 11 attacks.

"Guys, I wanted to say waking up this morning in New York on September 11," she began. "I've just been thinking about what happened 23 years ago. Everyone who lost a loved one and everyone that we lost and that is the most important thing today and everything that happens tonight falls behind that."

Megan Thee Stallion is going for gold at this year’s MTV VMAs.

The rapper walked onstage in an Olympics-themed leotard in red, white and blue to open the show.

“As you can see, I am repping team VMA, and tonight, ‘VMA’ stands for the Voluptuous Megan Awards,” she said. “Clearly, I deserve a gold medal for being a bad bitch.”

Guess who's back? Back again? It's been 14 years since Eminem opened the VMAs, so it's no surprise he channeled one of his prior iconic performances for this one.

Eminem — alongside dozens of Marshall Mathers clones — belted out "Houdini" when he kicked things off. It was reminiscent of when he performed "The Real Slim Shady" at the 2000 VMAs with over 100 look-alikes. Taylor Swift busted out some of her signature awards show dance moves.

After the high-energy performance, Eminem switched gears with the emotional song "Somebody Save Me." The Jelly Roll collaboration is an open letter to his children about his past drug addiction.

• Drake feat. Sexyy Red & SZA — “Rich Baby Daddy “

• GloRilla, Megan Thee Stallion — “Wanna Be”

• Jessie Murph feat. Jelly Roll — “Wild Ones”

• Jung Kook feat. Latto — “Seven”

• Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen — “I Had Some Help”

• Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone — “Fortnight”

• Beyoncé — “Texas Hold ’Em”

• Camila Cabello feat. Playboi Carti — “I Luv It”

• Chappell Roan — “Hot to Go!”

• Charli xcx — “Apple”

• Megan Thee Stallion feat. Yuki Chiba — “Mamushi”

• Tinashe — “Nasty”

• Benson Boone — “Beautiful Things”

• Bleachers — “Tiny Moves”

• Hozier — “Too Sweet”

• Imagine Dragons — “Eyes Closed”

• Linkin Park — “Friendly Fire”

• Teddy Swims — “Lose Control (Live)”

• Bon Jovi — “Legendary”

• Coldplay — “Feelslikeimfallinginlove”

• Green Day — “Dilemma”

• Kings of Leon — “Mustang”

• Lenny Kravitz — “Human”

• U2 — “Atomic City”

Megan Thee Stallion has reported for duty. The 29-year-old rapper, who is hosting the night's festivities, hit the black carpet — and she's already a winner. Megan learned live on MTV's preshow that she and Yuki Chiba won Best Trending Video for "Mamushi."

Katy Perry isn't just taking home the Video Vanguard Award tonight — she's also won the fan-voted "Most Iconic Performance" Award for her unforgettable 2013 VMAs performance of "Roar."

Perry beat out music legends Beyoncé, Eminem, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Missy Elliott and Taylor Swift for the honor.

During the VMAs preshow, she expressed her love for her fans and gave a sweet shout-out to her 4-year-old daughter, Daisy, who she shares with boyfriend Orlando Bloom.

"Don't stay up too late, sweetheart — and eat your broccoli!" she said, adding that motherhood has made her feel "a sense of wholeness" as an artist.

"I love you so much," she told her fans after accepting the award on the carpet. "I do it all for you — and for Daisy."

Watch Perry's 2013 performance below:

I’ve been given a wristband that’s going to light up during random performances. There’s no on-off button so I have no idea what to expect!

– Reporting from the UBS Arena

• Ariana Grande — “We can’t be friends (wait for your love)”

• Benson Boon — “Beautiful Things”

• Billie Eilish — “Birds of a Feather”

• Chappell Roan — “Good luck, Babe!”

• Charlie xcx & Billie Eilish — “Guess”

• Eminem — “Houdini”

• Future, Metro Boomin & Kendrick Lamar — “Like That”

• GloRilla, Megan Thee Stallion — “Wanna Be”

• Hozier — “Too Sweet”

• Kendrick Lamar — “Not Like Us”

• Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen — “I Had Some Help”

• Sabrina Carpenter — “Please Please Please”

• Shaboozey — “A Bar Song (Tipsy)”

• SZA — “Saturn”

• Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone — “Fortnight”

• Tommy Richman — “Million Dollar Baby”

Sabrina Carpenter dazzled in a shimmering strapless gown. The sequined dress, paired with her classic red lip and soft curls, effortlessly captured the “Espresso” singer’s Old Hollywood-inspired style.

Carpenter is nominated for seven VMAs tonight, including Artist of the Year.

When Dan Aykroyd and Bette Midler hosted the inaugural MTV Video Music Awards at New York City's Radio City Music Hall on Sept. 14, 1984, people couldn't have predicted that the event would evolve into a pop culture phenomenon going 40 years strong.

Here's a look back at how some critics reviewed the show in fall 1984, as reported by Slate:

Cliff Radel, Cincinnati Enquirer: "The 1st Annual MTV Video Awards was a momentous occasion, ranking right up there with your average yawn."

Richard Harrington, Washington Post: "While no one can deny the profound influence MTV has had — on music, fashion, and film — it’s equally hard to defend MTV’s bullying tactics and virtual exclusion of Black entertainers. Diana Ross accepted two awards for Michael Jackson; it’s just about the only way she’s been able to get on MTV."

Tom Shales, Nashville Tennessean: "Boorish behavior was the order of the night. Even MTV’s behavior was obnoxious; viewers were beaten over the head with promotional materials for MTV, and the MTV logo was in almost every single shot."

Jon Bream, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: "The ceremony was little more than splashy self-aggrandizement for MTV."

David Bianculli, Philadelphia Inquirer: "The true slant of MTV’s self-promotional orgy is complete: an orchestrated, calculated, meaningless event."

Halsey stunned in a sleek red cheetah-print dress by Versace. The gown was originally designed for Elizabeth Hurley in 1996.

The singer, who's debuting her new single "Ego" at the awards show, called the dress a "miracle to find."

"From 1996 to me right now," she said of the dress on the MTV VMAs preshow. "I'm just living it up, I'm loving it."

The vibe inside the arena is astounding — it feels more like a planetarium than a concert venue or a place where hockey games happen.

– Reporting from the UBS Arena

Fresh off a whirlwind summer that catapulted her career — and online presence — to new heights, Sabrina Carpenter can add "MTV VMAs nominee" to her growing list of accomplishments.

The "Taste" singer is in the running for a total of seven awards, including Artist of the Year, Best Pop and Song of the Year.

"Please Please Please," Carpenter's second single from her latest album, Short n' Sweet, nabbed the singer her first No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The pop princess, who performed during the 2023 VMAs preshow, will soon be embarking on the North American leg of her "Short n' Sweet" tour. Tonight she'll hit the VMAs main stage for a hotly anticipated performance.

Yahoo Entertainment's Kelsey Weekman is reporting live from the 2024 MTV VMAs. She's at the UBS Arena as stars arrive for the big night.

The Midwest Princess has arrived. Chappell Roan made her debut on the VMAs black carpet.

In clips circulating on social media, the "Good Luck, Babe!" singer appeared to clap back at a photographer.

Someone is heard saying, "Shut the f*** up!" which quickly caught Roan's attention. She yelled right back.

Cyndi Lauper, who made history by winning Best Female Video at the first MTV VMAs in 1984 for her hit "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," will return to the stage as a presenter this year.

For the singer, it's likely to be a full-circle moment as the VMAs celebrate 40 years of unforgettable music and moments.

For its 40th anniversary, the MTV VMAs took on a bolder, moodier vibe as stars arrived to walk the black carpet.

The cosmic-inspired backdrop complements the show's legendary "Moon Person" trophy.