One Direction dominated the fan-voted 2014 American Music Awards, which aired live Sunday night on ABC.
Katy Perry also won three awards – Favorite Female Pop/Rock Artist, Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist and Single of the Year for “Dark Horse” – but two of those awards were not presented on camera, and Katy was not in the house to accept. She sent an acceptance video from Australia, where she’s currently on tour.
The five Brits performed on the show and took home three trophies, including the most prestigious one, Artist of the Year. Pronouncing the award “so, so cool,” Liam Payne said, “It’s amazing, because we worked so hard on these last two albums...we spent a lot of time writing the music and really going down and trying our hardest to really improve and make the music better and better.”
The group, whose new album “Four” just came out and has already hit #1 on the British charts, also won for Favorite Pop/Rock Band, Duo or Group, and for Favorite Pop/Rock Album, for their previous release, “Midnight Memories.”
Beyonce, who was also not present, won two awards, as did Iggy Azalea, who was.
