Hey Taylor Swift lovers the 40th MTV Video Music Awards celebrated some of today's biggest names and songs as well as the show's own storied history the star studded Affair broadcast from the UBS arena in New York late Wednesday featured several hours worth of presentations and performances including from pop stars Sabrina Carpenter and Chapel rone rap Legend LL Cool J and the evening's host Megan the stallion those were interspersed with flash backs of some of the award shows most iconic moments such as Madonna's 1984 Like a Virgin performance Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley kissing on stage in 1994 Taylor Swift's 2009 rendition of you belong with me and Miley Cyrus twerking with Robin Thick in 2013 some of the performances paid tribute to that history one of Megan the stallions outfit changes saw her take the stage draped in a live snake a la Britney Spears 2001 I'm a Slave for You performance and Eminem opened the show with a medley of hits accompanied by a mob of Slim Shady lookalikes in a scene reminiscent of his 2000 performance he picked up two trophies bringing his career total to 15 the most VMAs of any male artist Swift took home seven Awards the most of any artist to bring her overall total to 30 VMAs and tied Beyonce's record here's a look at some of the the night's highlights and biggest winners Taylor Swift swept Swift took home the top award video of the year for fortnite featuring post Malone it's the third year in a row she's won in that category after anti-hero in 2023 and All Too Well 10-minute version Taylor's version in 2022 she also won artist of the year for the second year in a row that makes her the first artist to win the award twice The Washington Post reports Swift made headlines in several acceptance speeches throughout the night she began the first by honoring the victims of 9/11 calling that the most important thing about today in her final speech she shouted out her boyfriend Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce while their relationship has played out extremely publicly it was a rare Shout Out by Swift that Drew sustained Applause from the audience something that I'll always remember is that when I would finish a take and I'd say cut and we'd be done with that take I would always just hear someone like cheering and like going who from across the studio where we were shooting it and that one person was my boyfriend Travis she said as the crowd roared everything this man touches turns to happiness and fun and Magic so I want to thank him for adding that to our shoot because I'll always remember that Swift closed Her speech by thanking the fans who voted for her and urging people over 18 to register to vote for something else that's very important our presidential election Swift's Instagram endorsement of democratic Presidential nominee kamla Harris just the previous night drove over 300,000 visitors to the voter registration website vote.gov as NPR has reported please do like and share the video