MTV EMA red carpet photos + full list of winners

 Rita Ora and Taylor Swift

The 2012 MTV Europe Music Awards took place last night, Sunday November 11 in Frankfurt, Germany. More red carpet photos and and full list of winners when you continue...

 

Alicia Keys

  

Kim K

  

Event host, Heidi Klum

  

Carly Rae Jepsen and Victoria's Secret model Anne V

 

No doubt

  

Kim K and Kanye West

  

Lana Del Rey and Pixie Geldof

 Supermodel Isabeli Fontana

 

MTV EMAs Full List of Winners

Best Song - Carly Rae Jepson - Call Me Maybe

Best New Act - One Direction

Best Female Act - Taylor Swift

Best Male Act - Justin Bieber

Best Pop Act - Justin Bieber

Best Live Act - Taylor Swift

Best Hip Hop - Nicki Minaj

Best Rock Act - Linkin Park

Best Electronic Act - David Guetta

Best Alternative Act - Lana Del Rey

Best Video - Gangnam Style (Psy)

Best Look - Taylor Swift

Biggest Fans - One Direction

Best Worldwide Act - Han Geng

Best World Stage - Justin Bieber

Best Push - Carly Rae Jepson

  Global Icon - Whitney Houston

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D’Banj named Best African Act at 2012 MTV Europe Music Awards

Nigerian superstar, D’Banj has been named the Best African Act of the 2012 MTV Europe Music Awards, having received the most votes from fans across sub-Saharan Africa.

 D’Banj who has previously won Best African Act at the 2007 MTV Europe Music Awards, Artist of the Year at both the 2008 and 2009 MTV Africa Music Awards, and Best International Act: Africa at the 2011 BET Awards will now compete against India’s Alobo Naga & the Band and Ahmed Soultan from the Middle East for the chance to represent the region in the Worldwide Act category.

 The representative for the Africa/India/Middle East region will be announced on Tuesday 30 October, along with the other regional winners from Europe, Latin America, North America and Asia Pacific.

 These five regional nominees will then battle for votes for the “Worldwide Act” distinction, and the winner will be named at the show in Frankfurt. Voting has already began on the official website www.mtvema.com. The 19th annual awards show will be broadcast live from Frankfurt on Sunday 11 November, 2012 and will be hosted by supermodel, TV host and entrepreneur Heidi Klum. 

 Here’s how D’Banj was described on the MTV website: D’Banj is a Nigerian singer and songwriter as well as harmonica guru. Winner of the 2007 Best African Act EMA, he brings Afrobeat into the 21st century. Congratulations D’Banj! Be Sociable, Share!

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D’BANJ AND WIZKID NOMINATED FOR MTV EMA 2012

Pop singer, Dbanj and EME act, Wizkid have both been nominated in the worldwide category of the annual MTV Europe Music Awards billed to happen in Frankfurt, Germany on Sunday, November 11, 2012.

The category which comprises of acts from Africa, Middle East and India, has other African acts like Camp Mulla from Kenya, Sarkodie form Ghana and South Africa’s Mi Casa as contenders. While D’banj, a multiple MTV award winner is making his debut on the worldwide list, Wizkid was nominated last year but lost to 25-year-old Moroccan, Abdelfattah Grini.

Meanwhile, Rihanna and Taylor Swift lead this year’s overall nominations, with the Bajan singer getting six nominations including Best Song, Best Female and Best Pop while Swift trails closely with five nominations.

Here is a full list of the nominees

Best Song

Carly Rae Jepsen, “Call Me Maybe”

Rihanna (featuring Calvin Harris), “We Found Love”

Gotye, “Somebody That I Used to Know”

Pitbull (featuring Chris Brown), “International Love”

Fun. “We Are Young”

Best New

Rita Ora

Fun.

One Direction

Lana Del Rey

Carly Rae Jepsen

Best Female

Rihanna

Katy Perry

Pink

Taylor Swift

Nicki Minaj

Best Male

Justin Bieber

Kanye West

Flo Rida

Pitbull

Jay Z

Best Pop

Justin Bieber

No Doubt

Katy Perry

Taylor Swift

Rihanna

Best Live

Taylor Swift

Lady Gaga

Jay Z and Kanye West

Green Day

Muse

Best Hip Hop

Jay Z and Kanye West

Nas

Rick Ross

Drake

Nicki Minaj

Best Rock

Linkin Park

Green Day

Muse

Killers

Coldplay

Best Electronic

David Guetta

Swedish House Mafia

Avicii

Skrillex

Calvin Harris

Best Alternative

Jack White

The Black Keys

Arctic Monkeys

Florence and the Machine

Lana Del Rey

Best Video

M.I.A., “Bad Girls”

Lady Gaga, “Marry the Night”

Katy Perry, “Wide Awake”

Rihanna (featuring Calvin Harris), “We Found Love”

PSY, “Gangnam Style”

Best Look

Nicki Minaj

Rihanna

Jack White

Taylor Swift

A$AP Rocky

Biggest Fans

Justin Bieber

One Direction

Lady Gaga

Rihanna

Katy Perry

Best World Stage

Arcade Fire

Arctic Monkeys

B.o.B

Evanescence

Flo Rida

Jason Derülo

Joe Jonas

Justin Bieber

Kasabian

Ke$ha

LMFAO

Maroon 5

Nelly Furtado

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Sean Paul

Snoop Dogg

Snow Patrol

Taylor Swift

Best PUSH

Foster the People

Lana Del Rey

Mac Miller

Michael Kiwanuka

Gotye

Rebecca Ferguson

Fun.

Rita Ora

Conor Maynard

Of Monsters And Men

Carly Rae Jepsen

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