2024 MTV VMAs: Taylor Swift makes it a night to remember, Chappell Roan shuts down the stage and a full list of winners

Megan Thee Stallion brought the VMAs to a close with her signature energy after Taylor Swift won Video of the Year for "Fortnight" featuring Post Malone.

"Thank you to all our fans all around the world! Congratulations to all the winners!" she said, before turning to the camera with a special message. "And to my Hotties at home, vote!"

As the 2024 VMAs came to a close, Taylor Swift took home the biggest honor of the night: Video of the Year for "Fortnight." The Tortured Poets Department singer shared a sweet anecdote about what it was like filming the video, which she also directed.

"Something that I'll always remember is that when I would finish a take and I'd say 'Cut,' I would just hear someone cheering ... from across the studio where we were shooting it. And that one person was my boyfriend, Travis [Kelce]," she said. "Everything this man touches turns to happiness and fun and magic. So, I want to thank him for adding that to our shoot."

Swift concluded her speech by urging awards show attendees and viewers at home to register to vote in the presidential election.

• Ariana Grande — “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)”

• Billie Eilish — “Lunch”

• Doja Cat — “Paint the Town Red”

• Eminem — “Houdini”

• Sza — “Snooze”

• Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone — “Fortnight”

With her diary in hand, Chappell Roan took to the VMAs stage to accept the award for Best New Artist.

"I wrote a speech from my diary," she began. "I dedicate this to all the drag artists who inspired me, who inspire me. And I dedicate this to queer and trans people that fuel pop. ... To the gays who dedicate my songs to someone they love or hate and thank you to the people who are fans, who listen to me, who hear me when I share my joy and my fears. Thank you for listening."

The "Good Luck, Babe!" singer concluded, "For all the queer kids in the Midwest watching right now, I see you, I understand you, because I'm one of you. And don't ever let anyone tell you that you can't be exactly who you want to be, bitch."

• Anitta — “Mil Veces”

• Bad Bunny — “Monaco”

• Karol G — “Mi Ex Tenía Razón”

• Myke Towers — “Lala”

• Peso Pluma & Anitta — “Bellakeo”

• Rauw Alejandro — “Touching the Sky”

• Shakira & Cardi B — “Puntería”

• Benson Boone

• Chappell Roan

• Gracie Abrams

• Shaboozey

• Teddy Swims

• Tyla

• Drake feat. Sexyy Red & Sza — “Rich Baby Daddy”

• Eminem — “Houdini”

• GloRilla — “Yeah Glo!”

• Gunna — “Fukumean”

• Megan Thee Stallion — “Boa”

• Travis Scott feat. Playboi Carti — “Fe!n”

• Bleachers — “Tiny Moves”

• Dua Lipa — “Houdini”

• Lisa — “Rockstar”

• Rauw Alejandro — “Touching the Sky”

• Tate McRae — “Greedy”

• Troye Sivan — “Rush”

• Ariana Grande — “The Boy Is Mine”

• Eminem — “Houdini”

• Justin Timberlake — “Selfish”

• Megan Thee Stallion — “Boa”

• Olivia Rodrigo — “Get Him Back!”

• Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone — “Fortnight”

• Camila Cabello

• Dua Lipa

• Olivia Rodrigo

• Sabrina Carpenter

• Tate McRae

• Taylor Swift

Best Direction

• Ariana Grande — “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)”

• Bleachers — “Tiny Moves”

• Eminem — “Houdini”

• Megan Thee Stallion — “Boa”

• Sabrina Carpenter — “Please Please Please”

• Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone — “Fortnight”

Best Editing

• Anitta — “Mil Veces”

• Ariana Grande — “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)”

• Eminem — “Houdini”

• Lisa — “Rockstar”

• Sabrina Carpenter — “Espresso”

• Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone — “Fortnight”

• Alicia Keys — “Lifeline”

• Muni Long — “Made for Me”

• Sza — “Snooze”

• Tyla — “Water”

• Usher, Summer Walker, 21 Savage — “Good Good”

• Victoria Monét — “On My Mama”

• Ariana Grande

• Bad Bunny

• Eminem

• Sabrina Carpenter

• Sza

• Taylor Swift

The fire lighting up the stage during Lenny Kravitz's performance is making it actually hot in here.

— Reporting live from UBS Arena

Halsey took the VMAs stage to perform "Ego," the second track off her forthcoming album, The Great Impersonator. Wearing a very pop-punk-inspired ensemble — a collared shirt and tie, low-rise jean shorts and lace-up boots — Halsey channeled early aughts angst as she performed with a full band in a garage-decorated set.

Eagle-eyed viewers — including some of us at Yahoo Entertainment — initially mistook Victoria De Angelis, the Italian songwriter and producer who played guitar alongside Halsey during the performance, for none other than Taylor Swift.

Carson Daly returned to the MTV VMAs stage to announce the winner for Best K-Pop, and he was feeling a little nostalgic.

"It's an honor to be here, crazy, but an honor to be here for the 40th anniversary of the VMAs," Daly said. "For those of you who are a little too young to know who I am, I was the host of a show on MTV called Total Request Live, or TRL, a very long time ago. It was the best. The best show. Kids going crazy in Times Square and every day after school I was with your mother, so please tell her I said hi."

• Ariana Grande — “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)”

• Charli XCX — “Von Dutch”

• Dua Lipa — “Illusion”

• Olivia Rodrigo — “Obsessed”

• Rauw Alejandro — “Touching the Sky”

• Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone — “Fortnight”

• Jung Kook feat. Latto — “Seven”

• Lisa — “Rockstar”

• NCT Dream — “Smoothie”

• NewJeans — “Super Shy”

• Stray Kids — “Lalalala”

• Tomorrow X Together — “Deja Vu”

• Alexander Stewart — “If You Only Knew”

• Billie Eilish — “What Was I Made For” (from the motion picture “Barbie”)

• Coldplay — “Feelslikeimfallinginlove”

• Joyner Lucas & Jelly Roll — “Best for Me”

• Raye — “Genesis”

• Tyler Childers — “In Your Love”

• Charli XCX — “360”

• Lisa — “Rockstar”

• Megan Thee Stallion — “Boa”

• Olivia Rodrigo — “Bad Idea Right?”

• Sabrina Carpenter — “Please Please Please”

• Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone — “Fortnight”