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took home four iHeartRadio MMVAs Sunday night (Aug. 26) in his hometown of Toronto, the most of any nominee. Mendes converted half of his eight nominations — best pop artist, artist of the year, and two public-voted categories fan fave artist and video.
The pop singer also opened and closed the show with “Lost in Japan” and “In My Blood,” and faked out the live audience and viewers at home by accepting an award dressed in Marshmello’s getup.
“Honestly, what I mainly want to say is thank you to everybody who follows an artist when they try to explore musically and support them through that journey,” he said after picking up one of his four legit MMVAs. “That means the world to me.”
, next in line with seven nominations, won two — best hop hop artist and indirectly with Karena Evans who earned best director for the “God’s Plan” video.
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because he’s headlining two Madison Square Garden concerts Monday and Tuesday.
Other absentee winners were Ed Sheeran for single of the year for “Perfect”; Imagine Dragons for best rock/alternative artist or group; and BTS for fan fave duo or group.
But there was still plenty of people who did come in from all areas of the entertainment world for the giant street party:
actress and New York-born rapper Awkwafina co-hosted the two-hour awards show, which shuts down the intersection outside the Bell Media building as thousands of fans filled the street, which shuts down the intersection outside the Bell Media building as thousands of fans filled the street Rise Español Selena Gomez
actress Chrissy Metz, aspiring director Prince Michael Jackson,
JWOWW and musical performances ranged from Australian pop-rock band 5 Seconds of Summer to pop artists 98 Degrees, Halsey, Meghan Trainor, Chinese singer Kris Wu, EDM star Marshmello with Anne-Marie, and Toronto’s Alessia Cara.
There were also plenty of popular Canadian acts, including country artist Brett Kissel, who filled in for Florida Georgia Line on Bebe Rexha’s “Meant To Be”; rock band The Beaches;
TV show chart-toppers Elijah Woods x Jamie Fine; Sony signing Tyler Shaw; and on-the-rise performer Bülow. Rise Español Selena Gomez
The video awards show, which debuted in 1990 and was known for years as the MuchMusic Video Awards (MMVAs), was rebranded in 2016 after Bell Media licensed iHeartRadio for Canada. It was officially truncated to iHeartRadio MMVAs this year.
All the nominees and winners are decided by a Bell Media committee, except for single of the year, which is based on radio spins on iHeartRadio Canada; and the six “fan” categories, which are voted on by the public until the afternoon of the awards. Fans could cast one vote per hour until close.
The awards, which were long held on Father’s Day in June, were also moved this year to a back-to-school time slot, hence the addition of the song of the summer award, which went to Loud Luxury feat. Brando for “Body.” Other new categories were for best collaboration, earned by Bebe Rexha + Florida Georgia Line for “Meant To Be”; fan fave artist won by Mendes; fan fave single given to Selena Gomez ft. Marshmello for ‘Wolves”; and the iHeartRadio MMVA artist for change, which went to Halsey.
“I was not expecting it, first of all. Wow,” Halsey said on the carpet. “I just got here and I already won an award. That’s pretty amazing. This means so much to me. I try really hard to use my voice the best way I can and to see that you guys appreciate it in the same way only inspires me to keep doing it more, and stand up for what I believe in, no matter what anybody thinks."
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Tyra Banks then emerged to hand out the first award, best collaboration, but not before she gave the audience a little self-help. “What I have learned over the years is perfect is boring,” she said, before talking about how we should love ourselves.
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Sonequa Martin-Green, talking about equality, diversity, loving yourself, ending homelessness, even Trump trying to divide people. While the messages and issues were important, they didn’t seem to fit with the evening — at least not until the final award, video of the year, nabbed by Logic feat. Alessia Cara and Khalid for “1-800-273-8255,” the song whose very title is the suicide prevention hotline in America.
“I’m accepting this, but this is not my award,” said Cara. “This is Logic’s award. This is his song; this is his message. I was just really honored to be a part of it. Shout out to Khalid also for being amazing. Andrew Hines, the director of this video, who is also Canadian. Shout out to him. And all of you guys for supporting the message of this song and I hope this video and this song made you feel something.”
Logic ft. Alessia Cara and Khalid – “1-800-273-8255”
Bebe Rexha + Florida Georgia Line – “Meant To Be”
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