2015 MTV Europe Music Awards

The 2015 MTV EMAs (also known as the MTV Europe Music Awards) were held at the Mediolanum Forum in Assago, near Milan, Italy, on 25 October 2015.^[1][2] This was the third time the awards have taken place in Italy, second time Milan has been the host city, and the first (and so far, the only) time that the awards have been held in October. The awards was held in the same venue as the 1998 MTV EMAs. On 30 September 2015, it was announced that singer Ed Sheeran would host the awards, along with actress Ruby Rose.

2015 MTV Europe Music Awards
Date	25 October 2015
Location	Mediolanum Forum, Assago (Metropolitan City of Milan), Italy
Hosted by	Ed Sheeran Ruby Rose
Most awards	Justin Bieber (6)
Most nominations	Taylor Swift (9)
Website	mtvema.com
Television/radio coverage
Network	MTV Channel 5
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Justin Bieber won six awards, including Best Male and Best Worldwide Act.^[3][4]

Throughout mid-2015, Milan also hosted Expo 2015, a partner of this year's awards.^[5]

In association with the EMAs, MTV Italia organised an event called MTV Music Week, which ran from 19 October to 25 October. In addition, on the nights of 24 and 25 October, two concerts were held in Piazza del Duomo, Milan, one of which was related to MTV World Stage. International and Italian acts performed on both nights, including Ellie Goulding, Marco Mengoni, Duran Duran, Martin Garrix and Afrojack.

Nominations

Winners are in bold text.^[6]

Best Song	Best Video
Taylor Swift (featuring Kendrick Lamar) — "Bad Blood" Ellie Goulding — "Love Me Like You Do" Major Lazer and DJ Snake (featuring MØ) — "Lean On" Mark Ronson (featuring Bruno Mars) — "Uptown Funk" Wiz Khalifa (featuring Charlie Puth) — "See You Again"	Macklemore & Ryan Lewis — "Downtown" Kendrick Lamar — "Alright" Sia — "Elastic Heart" Pharrell Williams — "Freedom" Taylor Swift (featuring Kendrick Lamar) — "Bad Blood"
Best Collaboration
Skrillex and Diplo (featuring Justin Bieber) — "Where Are Ü Now" David Guetta (featuring Nicki Minaj, Bebe Rexha and Afrojack) — "Hey Mama" Mark Ronson (featuring Bruno Mars) — "Uptown Funk" Taylor Swift (featuring Kendrick Lamar) — "Bad Blood" Wiz Khalifa (featuring Charlie Puth) — "See You Again"
Best Female	Best Male
Rihanna Ellie Goulding Miley Cyrus Nicki Minaj Taylor Swift	Justin Bieber Pharrell Williams Kanye West Jason Derulo Ed Sheeran
Best New Act	Best Pop
Shawn Mendes Tori Kelly Jess Glynne James Bay Echosmith	One Direction 5 Seconds of Summer Ariana Grande Justin Bieber Taylor Swift
Best Electronic	Best Rock
Martin Garrix Avicii Calvin Harris David Guetta Major Lazer	Coldplay AC/DC Foo Fighters Muse Royal Blood
Best Alternative	Best Hip-Hop
Lana Del Rey Fall Out Boy Florence and the Machine Lorde Twenty One Pilots	Nicki Minaj Kanye West Kendrick Lamar Wiz Khalifa Drake
Best Live Act	Best World Stage Performance
Ed Sheeran Taylor Swift Katy Perry Foo Fighters Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett	Ed Sheeran Afrojack Alicia Keys B.o.B. Biffy Clyro Charli XCX Dizzee Rascal Iggy Azalea Jason Derulo Jessie Ware Kaiser Chiefs Slash Tomorrowland YG
Best Push Act	Biggest Fans
Shawn Mendes James Bay Jess Glynne Echosmith Kwabs Natalie La Rose Royal Blood Shamir Tori Kelly Years & Years Zara Larsson	Justin Bieber 5 Seconds Of Summer Katy Perry One Direction Taylor Swift
Best Look	Artist on the Rise[7]
Justin Bieber Nicki Minaj Rita Ora Taylor Swift Macklemore & Ryan Lewis	Troye Sivan Tori Kelly Travis Scott Halsey Kygo
Video Visionary Award
Duran Duran

Regional nominations

Winners are in bold text.

Europe

Best Adria Act	Best Belgian Act
Daniel Kajmakoski 2Cellos Hladno pivo Marčelo Sassja	Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike Lost Frequencies Netsky Oscar & The Wolf Selah Sue
Best Danish Act	Best Dutch Act
Lukas Graham Ankerstjerne Christopher Djämes Braun Topgunn	Kensington Dotan Martin Garrix Natalie La Rose Oliver Heldens
Best Finnish Act	Best French Act
JVG Antti Tuisku Kasmir Mikael Gabriel Robin	Black M The Dø The Avener Christine and the Queens Fréro Delavega
Best German Act	Best Greek Act
Lena Andreas Bourani Cro Revolverheld Robin Schulz	Giorgos Mazonakis Stavento Rec Despina Vandi Giorgos Sampanis
Best Israeli Act	Best Italian Act
Eliad Café Shahor Hazak Eden Ben Zaken E-Z Guy & Yahel	Marco Mengoni Fedez The Kolors J-Ax Tiziano Ferro
Best Norwegian Act	Best Polish Act
Astrid S Donkeyboy Kygo Madcon Sandra Lyng	Margaret Natalia Nykiel Sarsa Tabb & Sound'n'Grace Tede
Best Portuguese Act	Best Romanian Act
Agir Carlão Carolina Deslandes D.A.M.A Richie Campbell	Inna Dan Bittman Feli Randi Smiley
Best Russian Act	Best Spanish Act
MBAND IOWA Quest Pistols Serebro Ivan Dorn	Sweet California Alejandro Sanz Leiva Neuman Rayden
Best Swedish Act	Best Swiss Act
The Fooo Conspiracy Alesso Avicii Tove Lo Zara Larsson	Stefanie Heinzmann DJ Antoine Lo & Leduc Can "Stress" Canatan 77 Bombay Street
Best UK & Ireland Act
Little Mix Jess Glynne One Direction Ed Sheeran Years & Years

Africa

Best African Act
Diamond Platnumz Yemi Alade AKA Davido DJ Arafat

Asia

Best Chinese and Hong Kong Act	Best Indian Act
Jane Zhang Han Geng Leo Ku Tan Weiwei Uniq	Priyanka Chopra Indus Creed Monica Dogra The Ska Vengers Your Chin
Best Japanese Act	Best Korean Act
Dempagumi.inc Babymetal Sandaime J Soul Brothers One Ok Rock Sekai no Owari	BTS B1A4 Got7 GFriend VIXX
Best Southeast Asian Act	Best Taiwanese Act
Sơn Tùng M-TP Faizal Tahir James Reid Nadine Lustre Noah Slot Machine The Sam Willows	Jay Chou JJ Lin Jolin Tsai Kenji Wu Leehom Wang

Australia and New Zealand

Best Australian Act	Best New Zealand Act
5 Seconds of Summer Guy Sebastian Peking Duk Sia Vance Joy	Savage Avalanche City Gin Wigmore Six60 Broods

Latin America

Best Brazilian Act	Best Latin America North Act
Anitta Emicida Ludmilla MC Guimê Projota	Mario Bautista Enjambre Ha*Ash Kinky Natalia Lafourcade
Best Latin America Central Act	Best Latin America South Act
J Balvin ChocQuibTown Javiera Mena Pasabordo Piso 21	Axel Indios Maxi Trusso No Te Va Gustar Tan Biónica

North America

Best Canadian Act	Best US Act
Justin Bieber Carly Rae Jepsen Drake Shawn Mendes The Weeknd	Taylor Swift Beyoncé Kendrick Lamar Nick Jonas Nicki Minaj

Worldwide nominations

Winners are in bold text.

Best European Act

• Agir
• Astrid S
• Black M
• Daniel Kajmakoski
• Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike
• Eliad
• Giorgos Mazonakis
• Inna
• JVG
• Kensington
• Lena Meyer-Landrut
• Little Mix
• Lukas Graham
• Marco Mengoni^[8]
• Margaret
• MBAND
• Stefanie Heinzmann
• Sweet California
• The Fooo Conspiracy

Best African and Indian Act

• Diamond Platnumz
• Priyanka Chopra

Best Asian Act

• Dempagumi.inc
• BTS
• Sơn Tùng M-TP
• Jane Zhang
• Jay Chou

Best Australian and New Zealand Act

• 5 Seconds of Summer
• Savage

Best Latin America Act

• Anitta
• Axel
• J Balvin
• Mario Bautista

Best North America Act

• Justin Bieber
• Taylor Swift

Performances

Artist(s)	Song(s)
Pre-show
Fifth Harmony	"Worth It"
Main show
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis	"Downtown"
Jason Derulo	"Want to Want Me"
Ellie Goulding	"Love Me like You Do"
Twenty One Pilots	"Tear in My Heart"
Rudimental Ed Sheeran	"Lay It All on Me"
Justin Bieber	"What Do You Mean?"
Jess Glynne	"My Love" "Hold My Hand" "Don't Be So Hard On Yourself"
James Bay	"Hold Back the River"
Tori Kelly Andrea Bocelli	"Should've Been Us" "No Scrubs" "Real Love" "Ready or Not" "Con te partirò" "Just Give Me a Reason"
Pharrell Williams	"Freedom"

Appearances

• Shay Mitchell and Ashley Benson — presented Best Male
• Novak Djokovic — presented Best Hip-Hop
• Hailey Baldwin, Bianca Balti and Tinie Tempah — presented Best Video
• Mark Ronson - presented Best Live
• Ruby Rose — presented Best North America Act
• Ruby Rose — presented Video Visionary Award
• Martin Garrix and Charli XCX — presented Best Collaboration
• Fifth Harmony — presented Best Look
• Laura Whitmore - presented Biggest Fans

Voting process

Category	Voting Method	Start Date	End Date
Biggest Fans	Twitter, Instagram and Vine Hashtag	15 September	25 October
Worldwide Act	Website/App	8 September	24 October
Best Video	MTV Music Editorial Team - not eligible for audience voting	N/A	N/A
Video Visionary Award	MTV Music Editorial Team - not eligible for audience voting	N/A	N/A
All others	Website/App	15 September	24 October

See also

• 2015 MTV Video Music Awards
• Expo 2015