Taylor Swift, the leading nominee with eight American Music Awards nods, did not attend the ceremony in Las Vegas and was shut out of major categories announced May 25—her streak of AMAs wins now stops at 40 career victories.
Taylor Swift walked into the American Music Awards as the night’s leading nominee with eight nods. By the time the major categories were announced May 25 on CBS and Paramount+, the outcome was stark: she was shut out—after skipping the ceremony at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
The singer-songwriter, who did not attend the fan-voted show hosted by Queen Latifah, entered as the most-awarded artist in AMAs history with 40 career wins. Still, when it came time for the biggest prizes, her name didn’t land among the winners.
In the top honors, artist of the year went to BTS. Song of the year was awarded to EJAE. Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami for “Golden. ” credited as The Singing Voices of HUNTR/X. Swift had been nominated for artist of the year. album of the year for “The Life of a Showgirl. ” and song of the year for “The Fate of Ophelia. ” among other categories.
She also lost song of the summer for “Elizabeth Taylor,” with BTS winning the category for “SWIM.”
Swift’s absence at the ceremony came after recent weeks spent in New York City date-night attention, and after traveling with fiancé Travis Kelce to Cleveland for an NBA playoff game between the New York Knicks and Cleveland Cavaliers.
The American Music Awards winners, announced through CBS and Paramount+, left Swift without a single major-category win—despite arriving as the most decorated artist in AMAs history and the show’s leading nominee.
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Wait so she didn’t go and still had 8 nominations?? That seems wild.
Honestly the AMAs are rigged anyway. If she wasn’t there then of course BTS wins artist of the year, like come on. I’m sure she’ll win something dumb later.
I thought she skipped because she was mad at Queen Latifah or something? But the article says it was fan-voted and she didn’t attend. Also “Golden.” and “The Singing Voices of HUNTR/X” sounds like a typo, like who are these people lol.
So her streak ends at 40 just because she went to Cleveland to watch an NBA game with Travis Kelce? That logic doesn’t even make sense to me. Like if she’s the most nominated, how you gonna shut her out of the big categories? Also I saw “SWIM” by BTS and I was like… did they really have a song called that? anyway Taylor will be fine.