Taylor Swift Beats Michael Jackson’s Record for Most American Music Awards, If Michael Was Alive?
Taylor Swift accepts the Artist of the Decade award from Carole King. Photo: AFP
Swift won the top award, artist of the year, and four others.
She was also given an honorary artist of the decade award, taking her all-time total to 29 American Music Awards, organisers said. That easily outstripped the 24 awards picked up by Jackson.
“All that matters to me is the memories that I have had with you guys, with you the fans, over the years,” Swift, 29, told the audience at the ceremony in Los Angeles after performing a medley of her old hits.Swift had been expected to speak out about a long feud with record industry executive Scooter Braun, who owns the master recordings to her first six albums after Swift signed with a new label in 2018.
She accused Braun last week of refusing permission for her to sing songs from her back catalogue at the awards show. The public spat culminated last week with Braun saying that his family had received numerous death threats after the pop singer urged her 122 million Instagram fans to let Braun “know how you feel about this”.
