MTV Europe Music Awards host P Diddy was right when he predicted it would be "Eminem's night" at the viewer voted Europe-wide music awards. Slim Shady snapped up three gongs at Barcelona event for best album, best hip hop artist and best male. Kylie, Linkin Park, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers each won two awards.
The MTV Awards is probably the only European based music awards that truly attracts the US music aristocracy - all the big names of the Western music world were there. Moby used his acceptance speech to say he had "nothing but peace and respect" for Eminem, a response to Mathers' famous knocking of Moby at the US MTV awards earlier this year. Sophie Ellis-Bextor, meanwhile, caused a stir when she spoke to reporters about the anti-fur campaign she is currently fronting: "I have seen some of the celebrities wearing it tonight and it really disappoints me," she said, "I think it is obscene and vulgar."
Although the awards were hailed a success Brent Hansen, the boss of MTV Networks Europe, has said he will be considering a revamp for the Awards' format as they reach their tenth anniversary next year. He told Billboard: "We don't want to get into the situation were we're doing the same thing. I'll look at it from the bottom up."
The winners in full:
Best group: Linkin Park
Best R&B: Alicia Keys
Best pop: Kylie Minogue
Best male: Eminem
Best live act: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Best website: Moby
Best female: Jennifer Lopez
Best new act: The Calling
Best song: Pink - Get the Party Started
Best hard rock: Linkin Park
Best dance: Kylie Minogue
Best hip-hop: Eminem
Best UK and Ireland act: Coldplay
Best rock: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Best album: Eminem - The Eminem Show
Best video: Royksopp - Remind Me
Best Nordic act: Kent
Best German act: avier Naidoo
Best Spanish act: Amaral
Best Russian act: Diskoteka Avariya
Best Romanian act: Animal X
Best Italian act: Subsonica
Best French act: Indochine
Best Dutch act: Brainpower
Best Polish act: Myslovitz
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