The American Music Award 2016 were held earlier tonight live at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California.
The Gigi Hadid and Jay Pharaoh co-hosted ceremony had many-a-highlight thanks to jaw-dropping performances from the likes of Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars, The Weeknd, Justin Bieber, and many more, but the biggest star of the show – as expected – remained the awards themselves.
Curious to know who took home the coveted diamond trophies? Tuck in below as we update the list of winners:
Check out the 2016 AMAs winners list below!
ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Adele
Beyoncé
Justin Bieber
Drake
Selena Gomez
Ariana Grande — WINNER
Rihanna
Twenty One Pilots
Carrie Underwood
The Weeknd
NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR UN-LEASHED BY T-MOBILE
Alessia Cara
The Chainsmokers
DNCE
Shawn Mendes
ZAYN — WINNER
COLLABORATION OF THE YEAR
The Chainsmokers Featuring Daya, “Don’t Let Me Down”
Drake Featuring Wizkid & Kyla, “One Dance”
Fifth Harmony Featuring Ty Dolla $ign, “Work From Home” — WINNER
Rihanna Featuring Drake, “Work”
Meghan Trainor Featuring John Legend, “Like I’m Gonna Lose You”
TOUR OF THE YEAR
Beyoncé — WINNER
Madonna
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Justin Bieber “Sorry” — WINNER
Desiigner “Panda”
Rihanna Featuring Drake “Work”
FAVORITE MALE ARTIST – POP/ROCK
Justin Bieber — WINNER
Drake
The Weeknd
FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST – POP/ROCK
Adele
Selena Gomez — WINNER
Rihanna
FAVORITE DUO OR GROUP – POP/ROCK
The Chainsmokers
DNCE
Twenty One Pilots — WINNER
FAVORITE ALBUM – POP/ROCK
Adele, 25
Justin Bieber, Purpose — WINNER
Drake, Views
FAVORITE SONG- POP/ROCK
Adele, “Hello”
Justin Bieber, “Love Yourself” — WINNER
Drake Featuring Wizkid & Kyla, “One Dance”
FAVORITE MALE ARTIST – COUNTRY
Luke Bryan
Thomas Rhett
Blake Shelton — WINNER
FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST – COUNTRY
Kelsea Ballerini
Cam
Carrie Underwood — WINNER
FAVORITE ARTIST – RAP/HIP-HOP
Drake — WINNER
Fetty Wap
Future
FAVORITE ALBUM – RAP/HIP-HOP
Drake, Views — WINNER
Drake & Future, What A Time To Be Alive
Fetty Wap, Fetty Wap
FAVORITE SONG – RAP/HIP-HOP
Desiigner, “Panda”
Drake, “Hotline Bling” — WINNER
Fetty Wap, “679”
FAVORITE MALE ARTIST – SOUL/R&B
Chris Brown — WINNER
Bryson Tiller
The Weeknd
FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST – SOUL/R&B
Beyoncé
Janet Jackson
Rihanna — WINNER
FAVORITE ALBUM – SOUL/R&B
Beyoncé, Lemonade
Rihanna, Anti — WINNER
Bryson Tiller, T R A P S O U L
FAVORITE SONG – SOUL/R&B
Drake Featuring Wizkid & Kyla, “One Dance”
Rihanna Featuring Drake, “Work” — WINNER
Bryson Tiller, “Don’t”
FAVORITE ARTIST – ALTERNATIVE ROCK
Coldplay
Twenty One Pilots — WINNER
X Ambassadors
FAVORITE ARTIST – ADULT CONTEMPORARY
Adele — WINNER
Rachel Platten
Meghan Trainor
FAVORITE ARTIST – LATIN
J Balvin
Enrique Iglesias — WINNER
Nicky Jam
FAVORITE ARTIST – CONTEMPORARY INSPIRATIONAL
Lauren Daigle
Hillsong UNITED — WINNER
Chris Tomlin
FAVORITE ARTIST – ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC (EDM)
The Chainsmokers — WINNER
Calvin Harris
Major Lazer
TOP SOUNDTRACK
Purple Rain — WINNER
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Suicide Squad: The Album
Go Ari!!!
Did beyonce pay for any awards? Must’ve not cause she didn’t win
Nope! She’s saving her black card for the Grammys! ???????
LOL SHE HAS PENDING CHARGES UNTIL THE GRAMMY BALLOTS ARE IN LMAO
Lemonade trashed by Anti.
Lol, btw, Lemonade failed to produce hit songs. No wonder.
I really hope Donald Trump will intervene for next year’s Grammy.
Sack all black judges and give all awards to Adele.
Was saying the same thing, she must have sat this one out…Although she did deserve an award for that Formation tour I can’t even hate, ha!
Being fan of beyonce is not cool anymore. She’s old and ancient.
The Grammys is where its at
So basically Rihanna overshadows Beyonce big time.
Yayyy!!!
Beyonce is fading so fast.
Lemonade has no hits nor did it break/set any records. Let’s stop riding the hype machine for a min and be logical.
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She won best tour, which made sense. Congrats to her!
I understand what you are saying and I admit I do get jealous of Beyonce. She is just so pretty and talented, and that makes a hog body like me feel worthless, so I take every chance I can to talk crap about her. Me and my mom are heading to Walmart, so I will talk to you all later. I need ointment for my legs.
FAVORITE ALBUM – SOUL/R&B
Beyoncé, Lemonade
Rihanna, Anti — WINNER
Bryson Tiller, T R A P S O U L
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FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST – SOUL/R&B
Beyoncé
Janet Jackson
Rihanna — WINNER
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lol
Shadeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee on Beyonce. She deserved all those awards with her fake jumping on the “Black” campaign trail. But Riri won them. Arianna Grande – artist of the year????? HOW? when? What hit? Bulllllllllll
Every smart business man or woman clearly knows that beyonce was using Blacklives matter and blacks victims to promote her album and make money which is very wrong to take someone misfortune to the Bank. but not only business a lot of artist. the same way gaga used Gay people for fame.
Rihanna beat Beyonce twice. Lol wow no wonder the hives are seething!
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Did they raffe the names for Artist of the year???? Htf did Ariana win??
How did Ariana win Artist Of The Year?
Still scratching my head…
Her fans actually voted more for her than your fav. fans
well, it’s fan voted..
Ariana Blande winning artist of the year over Beyoncé, Adele, Rihanna and The Weeknd?? LOL. The AMAs are the new Kids Choice Awards
only Adele, Drake, and Rihanna deserved over Ariana. Based on chart performances this year.
no I don’t think so. The other artists who were nominated had top grossing tours,higher charting albums & singles and overall better performances & promo. This year Ariana didn’t have a #1 single or album, tour, high album sales, or memorable performances. Pretty much everyone in this category was more deserving of this award than her
Serena won over Adele and rihanna like what???
LMAO! These awards are a mess! But congrats to all that won their Adult T*** Choice Awards! ?????
rihanna extends her record
CONGRATS QUEEN ON YOUR WELL DESERVED TOUR OF THE YEAR AWARD
LOL THE CHECK MUST HAVE CLEARED JUST IN TIME FOR THE SHOW LMAO
Lmaoooo, wow!!!
ANTI won over Lemonade?
http://giphy.com/gifs/beyonce-scared-shocked-6XLRY6rdBbC9y
lol
The B-List Awards…smh and ???? at Zayn for winning and showing up after having not done anything all year. Everyone knows Adele killed it, but the Grammys will do her justice. Don’t really have much expectations for an American Music Awards anyway…I mean look at who our President-elect is.??? Enough said.
LOL PURCHASEYONCE MUST HAVE FORGOTTEN TO SIGN THE CHECK LMAO
Wowwww @purchyonce omg y’all play too much *falls* lmao
Lol beyboughtbishhh
Isn’t it Cheque?
Adele will clean up at the Grammy’s
A joke! But atleAst they new quality when it came to anti and lemonade!
LOL MAYBE ANTI, CUZ KOOLAID DIDN’T WIN SHYT LMAO
I wish you understood the difference between new and knew…
Although context allowed you to still understand my message ???
When I get as heated up and angry as I do when discussing Rihanna over beyonce, I am very likely to make spelling or grammar errors. My mom is always saying, “Dammit, I cant understand you” whenever we talk about Rihanna. My dad thought I was drunk once cuz I was slurring my words so badly, but nope, just drunk of the greatness that is Rihanna.
This is horrific. Smh
Chris brown got an award.. Did he have any music out? Congrats I guess. Drake too
People forget that fans vote for the American music awards. It’s like the t*** choice awards with a bigger budget.
LOL SO THEN CAN ANY OF THE BUGS EXPLAIN WHAT HAPPENED TO KOOLAID? I THOUGHT THE ROACH NEST WAS SO ICONIC LMAO
Kimye, is that you? lol
Okay, I apologize. I get pretty emotionally charged over Beyonce. Its just not fair she gets EVERYTHING. She is pretty, talented, and unstoppable…..and that makes me so angry. One day when I lose the weight and can get up and move around again, I am going to show the world what a true pop star is.
Thank you, I needed that laugh.
LOL BISHH STOP STEALING LIKE YOUR FAVE THIEFYONCE AND GET YOUR OWN SCREEN NAME LOL
Mess. The similarity in the winners is that they consist of huge fanbases. Ari, JB, Fifth Harmony etc. And JB is soon going to be most awarded artist.
Also lol at Purple Rain winning Top Soundtrack of the year even though it came out over 20 years ago. It’s well deserved though
I guess Doughnut Licking Woman pulled a Beyonce and said she wouldn’t perform unless she wins Artist Of The Year. That’s the only logical way.
LOL, NAH, ARIANA DOESN’T HAVE AN AWARD PURCHASING BUDGET YET LMAO
What you be worried about is the fact that every artist who won is now bigger than the most creative artist deemed better than her blueprint Madonna.
Joe won’t be winning any awards soon lol.
These dumb riri stans. Not riri wining r&b/soul awards loool. Like don’t nobody expect the queens bey & adele to attend awards for under 20. Also death at ari winning best artist over black Madonna despite them having d same music audience.
LOL THEN HOW COME THE DUMB BEDBUGS COULDN’T GET AN AWARD FOR THAT H0 JAY Z MARRIED LMAO
Needed Me was the biggest R&B song of the year sit down. Rihanna doesn’t have to rig her awards, pest you can’t talk about any awards wins ever again.
Needed Me is still my jam!
B**** your fave buy awards STFU
Congratulations to those artist that had won their award
@Lol is trying it and and is failing… The amount of dust it’s getting is greater to that inside of Aliyaah’s urn
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Congratulations to Rih winning 3 more amas for Anti! Love the praise and success Anti has received!!! Supposedly her flop album lol
Lol tbh Anti was the better Album. Lemonade was all hype and controversy but when all the dust settles the music fell waaaay below par.
LOL COME ON!!!!!!
How the hell is Ariana artist of the year? I can tell this is fan voted
And it’s funny bc her fans don’t even buy her music
Didn’t bother watching another dry ass awards show with mediocre talent. But congratulations to all the winners.
Same!
This is a joke. Adele, Beyonce, JB & Rihanna are all more successful than Ari. These fan voted awards are garbage..
Bey don’t promote or put herself out there enough to be getting fan choice awards.
Glad fans recognised what was the hottest tour.
Beiber won a bunch. Well done to the winners.
Where’s Kanye? He’ll now blame Taylor and Bey when gets 0 nominations at award shows
Beyoncé won’t win anything she can’t pay for #bloop
I love how awards are no longer relevant when your fav doesn’t win. If you wanted them to win you should’ve voted. They’re fan voted afterall. But congrats to Ariana! Despite all things this Era turned out alright.
Oh Forgot this was on,was too busy watching survivor series
Congrats to all who won but this shows how fan-voted awards are pretty much an easy ride for those artists with large and active bases. Ariana winning Artist Of The Year is quite shocking considering she experienced a dip in popularity with this new era. Whereas DRAKE, Rihanna, ADELE and Beyoncé scaled new heights of success this year but I’ll let her and The Arianators cook.
LOL! I really was baffled reading through this list, like ‘are they sure??’ Then I realised it was fan voted. I mean, how could Selena possibly win anything over anyone in her categories LOL also. I love rih but anti winning over lemonade?? LMAO I feel like the AMA’s need to be cancelled next year.
Anti shitted on that tired ass Lemonade Album!
lmaoo you have got to be kidding me?!!! I could only listen to anti once all the way through, I picked my favs off of it and never been back. There are way more bangers on Lemonade! And this is coming from someone who loves to see rihanna win and I don’t begrudge her the awards either I guess, but for me Lemonade was musically and lyrically the better album. If this wasn’t fan voted she wouldn’t have won against lemonade. End of story.
@Pat Anti is the superior album whilst Lemonade needed controversy to sell, Anti’s music was amazing. Rihanna’s whole discograohy shyyts on Beyonce’s.
Selena had a good year don’t hate 3 top 10 hits in a year. Bye
Three top ten hits bought by a disney fan base are more or less irrelevant. And her music is super basic.
Lol what’s a Lemonade? JayZ can keep buying those albums because the relevant BB200 and BB100 charts said bye to her music eons ago! Her music is shyyt
Irrelevant! When she has half the u.s. gunning for her due to her political views and music. Babes, she is far from irrelevant. You may not like her music but don’t be a dickhead about it.
Besides Rihanna, Adele, Beyonce'(tour), and Zayn’s wins this s*** is a complete joke!
LOL trying to drag Bey over a fan voted bootleg Grammys (literally) and getting paid dust by everyone ?
The least prestigious awards show after the People’s Choice Awards tbh. At least Kids Choice is exactly that, a kids show.
That’s because Beyoncé couldn’t buy The fan voted
Sorry fans but Obama and Michelle’s exit for the house is near. Beyonce and the rest of his troll will have to fine another way of selling records and winning awards! Who’s inauguration will she use to gain followers now?
ANTI is a true gem! I’m happy it’s getting the recognition & love it deserves!
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Congrats to all the winners… I was a bit peeved how Ari won over Adele and Rihanna but we can’t stifle young talents.
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I’m lowkey grudgingly amazed that this award ceremony wasn’t as predictable as we anticipated.
this was a f****** snooze fest point blank
Dangerous woman is the best female album of 2016.
Apparently not since it had to be discounted several times in order sell or gain any recognition…
I was not expecting this. I guess they don’t want it to be predictable lol but seriously. Rihanna didn’t even show up and she won 3 AMA’s. Congrats to all the winners
She deserve to win against lemonade. Anti is much better
That lemondade album is lackluster.The music is dry and forgettable. Is it even charting anymore?
Ariana and Selena deserve their awards! They are rising queens.
FAVORITE ALBUM – SOUL/R&B
Beyoncé, Lemonade
Rihanna, Anti — WINNER
Bryson Tiller, T R A P S O U L
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FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST – SOUL/R&B
Beyoncé
Janet Jackson
Rihanna — WINNER
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I only came for these two categories! I am holleringggggg kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Gagging a bad couple of days for the hive.
When you see the winner of the first award posted you know these awards are irrelevant!
So Chris won over The weekend? I guess the weekend needs a core fanbase. Ari’s win is shocking as well. Adele I love you! My fatty boom boom queen :-), Congrats to Anti. Great album
Rihanna ain’t playing with ’em! Anti is a brilliant album. I wish she would release Same Old Mistakes already sheesh! Adele!!!!!!! Muah! Muah! Muah! Congrats to all the winners.
This award show I’d fan voted which means all the unemployed fans of these artists sat on the internet and voted all day everyday. Nothing noteworthy about these wins. It’s basically the t*** choice awards now.
LOL yes they are as bad and irrelevant and the T*** Choice awards.
Lol bey fans are as sour as that lemonade album.
Gratz to Ariana.
Congrats Riri! Still enjoying ANTI
Sam doesn’t have pit Beyonce against Rihanna, yall do it to yourselves.
Lmaoo yall níggas píssing yourselves over an American Music Award? ? Im proud Anti has finally recieved some damn accolades… Onto Grammy season ☺️
A total and absolute joke LOL Nothing we didn´t expect. The awards themselves are a big joke and don´t even represent the real popularity at this point. Grammys are still (despite not being the same at all either) with credibility (some).
An event saved by Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga´s performing skills. Nothing else.
I wanted to congratulate Ari, but then got to thinking with all this “Purchasing awards Tea going around”. Its almost evident her team bought this win for her….