{"id":467472,"date":"2026-05-26T08:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T08:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/467472\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T08:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T08:28:11","slug":"bts-wins-artist-of-the-year-at-2026-amas-taylor-swift-goes-0-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/467472\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS Wins Artist of the Year at 2026 AMAs; Taylor Swift Goes 0-8"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThere was no one big winner at the 2026 American Music Awards<\/a>, which were presented at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Monday (May 25). Instead, seven acts tied for the lead with three awards<\/a> each \u2013 Bruno Mars<\/a>, BTS<\/a>, Cardi B<\/a>, KATSEYE<\/a>, Sabrina Carpenter<\/a>, HUNTR\/X<\/a> and Sombr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut one artist had a notably off night \u2013 Taylor Swift<\/a>, who led the nominations with eight nods but didn\u2019t win any of them. Despite her disappointing showing this year, Swift remains the artist with the most AMAs in the show\u2019s history \u2013 a whopping 40.<\/p>\n

\n\tBTS won artist of the year for the second time. The K-Pop superstars first won in the category in 2021. BTS is one of just four repeat winners in the history of the category. Swift leads all artists with seven awards in the category. BTS is tied with Justin Bieber<\/a> and One Direction<\/a> with two wins each. BTS is thus tied with 1D as the group with the most wins in the category.<\/p>\n

\n\tBTS also won song of the summer for \u201cSwim\u201d and best male K-Pop artist. These three awards bring their career tally of AMAs to 14. Among groups or duos, they are second only to\u00a0Alabama<\/a>. The country titans won 23 AMAs.<\/p>\n

\n\tBieber won best male pop artist, which brings his career tally of AMA awards to 19. That puts him in a tie with the late Kenny Rogers for the second-most wins among male artists. (The late Michael Jackson leads among men, with 24 awards.) This obviously makes Bieber the living male artist with the most AMA wins.<\/p>\n

\n\tKATSEYE won new artist of the year. The global girl group was nominated for the Grammy for best new artist in February but lost to Olivia Dean, who was among the nominees here. KATSEYE is the seventh consecutive female act to win in this category. The last six winners were female solo artists: Camilla Cabello, Billie Eilish, Doja Cat, Olivia Rodrigo, Dove Cameron and Gracie Abrams. The last male winner in this category was Niall Horan in 2017. KATSEYE also won best music video and breakthrough pop artist.<\/p>\n

\n\tHUNTR\/X\u2019s \u201cGolden\u201d won song of the year, continuing its winning streak at award shows. It won best song written for visual media at the Grammys and best original song at the Oscars. HUNTR\/X also won AMAs for best vocal performance and best pop song.<\/p>\n

\n\tSombr won three awards \u2013 best rock\/alternative song for \u201cBack to Friends,\u201d best rock\/alternative album for I Barely Know Her and breakthrough rock\/alternative artist. Sombr\u2019s win in the song category was no surprise, but even he expressed surprise at his win in the album category. The album reached No. 10 on the Billboard 200; all of the other nominees climbed higher. Sleep Token\u2019s Even in Arcadia, Twenty One Pilots\u2019 Breach and Zach Bryan\u2019s With Heaven on Top each reached No. 1. Tame Impala\u2019s Deadbeat climbed as high as No. 4. This shows the power of a smash single with universal appeal.<\/p>\n

\n\tOf the three other three-time winners on the night, Mars won best male R&B artist, best R&B song and best R&B album; Cardi B won best female hip-hop artist, best hip-hop song and best hip-hop album; and Carpenter won album of the year, best female pop artist and best pop album.<\/p>\n

\n\tSwift wasn\u2019t the only artist with a large number of nominations who was shut out. Also going winless were Dean, who had seven nods; and Warren and Lady Gaga, with six nods each.<\/p>\n

\n\tKarol G<\/a>\u2018s Tropicoqueta won best Latin album, beating, among others, Rosal\u00eda\u2019s Lux. Lux is expected to be a major player in next year\u2019s Grammy Awards. Tropicoqueta was nominated for best Latin pop album at the 2026 ceremony. Karol G also won the international artist award of excellence.<\/p>\n

\n\tZara Larsson<\/a> won two awards \u2013 collaboration of the year and breakthrough album of the year. This is another sign of how the Swedish star is levelling up in her career. She received her first Grammy nod at the 2026 ceremony \u2013 best dance pop recording for \u201cMidnight Sun.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTwenty One Pilots <\/a>won best rock\/alternative artist for the second year in a row and the fourth time overall. Only one act has won more times in this category, which was first presented in 1995. That\u2019s Linkin Park, which won has won six times (and was nominated this year).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Black Eyed Peas<\/a>\u2019 \u201cRock That Body\u201d won in the new category of best throwback song. The song was the fifth single from the group\u2019s Billboard 200-topping 2010 album The E.N.D. It was the most recently released song among the nominees. The other nominees were 4 Non Blondes\u2019 \u201cWhat\u2019s Up\u201d (1993) and Goo Dolls\u2019 \u201cIris\u201d (1998).<\/p>\n

\n\tQueen Latifah<\/a> hosted the 52nd American Music Awards, which aired on CBS and streamed on Paramount+. The AMAs, the world\u2019s largest fan-voted award show, was created by legendary producer Dick Clark and first awarded in 1974.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 52nd American Music Awards nominees are based on key fan interactions, including streaming, album and song sales, radio airplay and tour grosses. These measurements are tracked by Billboard and Luminate, and cover the data tracking eligibility period of March 21, 2025 through March 26, 2026.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe American Music Awards are produced by Dick Clark Productions, which is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a joint venture between Eldridge Industries and Billboard parent company Penske Media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was no one big winner at the 2026 American Music Awards, which were presented at the MGM…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[171684,6971,93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-467472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-american-music-awards","tag-awards","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}