Taylor Swift wins artist of the year at the 2024 MTV VMA Ariana Grande Sabrina Carpenter Bad Bunny Eminem and S Za were also nominated for the coveted Moon person at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards on Wednesday September 11th the pop Superstar 34 took home the mooners for artist of the year beating out Ariana Grande Sabrina Carpenter Bad Bunny Eminem and sza while the awards show took place at New York's UBS Arena Swift's latest victory was announced during a commercial break she also LED this year in nominations with a total of 12 mostly for fortnite her tortured poet's Department single featuring post Malone the hit songs accompanying video starred Dead Poets society's Ethan Hawk and Josh Charles so far Swift has taken home the trophies for best collaboration best pop song of the summer best Direction and best editing all thanks to her Milestone year and the black and white fortnite video. Vietti Malone 29 and Swift accepted the best collaboration award together at the top of the show when Swift thanked the 10 time Grammy nominee for his contributions to the duet and used the opportunity to thank and honor the people who worked so hard with me on this video