AMA Awards 2025 Winners: Complete List & Night’s Biggest Moments

Billie Eilish dominated the 51st Annual American Music Awards on 26 May 2025 at Las Vegas’ Fontainebleau, converting all seven of her nominations—​including the coveted Artist of the Year—​into trophies. The CBS/Paramount+ telecast, hosted by Jennifer Lopez, also saw history-making wins for Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars and Eminem, signaling the most genre-blurring AMAs in recent memory. Key takeaways • Artist of the Year & six more: Billie Eilish (Hit Me Hard and Soft era) completed a clean sweep, becoming the first artist since Taylor Swift in 2022 to win every category in which she was nominated. • Country crossover milestone: Beyoncé earned Favorite Female Country Artist and Favorite Country Album for “Cowboy Carter,” cementing her genre-shifting success. • Collaboration of the Year & viral video: Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’s power duet “Die With a Smile” snagged both Collaboration of the Year and Favorite Music Video, while Mars added Favorite Male Pop Artist. • Hip-hop resurgence: Eminem returned to the AMAs stage (virtually) to pick up Favorite Male Hip-Hop Artist and Favorite Hip-Hop Album for “The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce).” • Global sounds surge: Tyla (Afrobeats), RM (K-Pop) and Bad Bunny (Latin) led their respective international divisions, underscoring the awards’ expanding footprint. Full list of 2025 AMA winners (select categories) Artist of the Year: Billie Eilish New Artist of the Year: Gracie Abrams Album of the Year: Billie Eilish – “Hit Me Hard and Soft” Song of the Year: Billie Eilish – “Birds of a Feather” Collaboration of the Year: Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars – “Die With a Smile” Favorite Touring Artist: Billie Eilish Favorite Pop Artists: Billie Eilish (Female), Bruno Mars (Male) Favorite Country Artists: Beyoncé (Female), Post Malone (Male), Dan + Shay (Duo/Group) Favorite Hip-Hop Artists: Eminem (Male), Megan Thee Stallion (Female) Favorite R&B Artists: SZA (Female), The Weeknd (Male) Favorite Latin Artists: Bad Bunny (Male), Becky G (Female) Favorite K-Pop Artist: RM Favorite Afrobeats Artist: Tyla Complete category-by-category results are available on Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter online. Why it matters • Streaming-era milestones: “Birds of a Feather” had already topped both the Billboard Hot 100 and Global 200; its AMA win further validates Eilish’s cross-platform dominance. • Genre fluidity: Beyoncé’s success in country and Gaga/Mars’s dance-pop crossover point to blurred genre boundaries that reflect current chart trends. • Las Vegas rise: The ceremony’s move to the Strip—​and to CBS from ABC—​delivered the show’s highest Memorial Day weekend viewership since 2018, according to overnight ratings reports. With viral performances, record-breaking wins and cross-genre surprises, the 2025 American Music Awards set a new bar for the fan-voted show—​and gave chart-watchers plenty to track heading into Grammy season.