Canadians steal the show at the 2015 American Music Awards

Swift’s 1989 was named album of the year, while single “Bad Blood” took home the award for song of the year.

Minaj also went home with two gongs for favourite rap or hip-hop artist and favourite rap or hip-hop album for The Pinkprint.

At the American Music Awards, Nicki landed “Best Rap Artist” and “Best Rap Album”, but failed to be nominated for “Favourite Pop Artist”.

“Make a few noise for Prince, ladies and gentlemen”, the singer said after picking up favorite album – soul/R&B for “Beauty Behind the Madness”.

The 2015 American Music Awards is definitely a memorable ceremony with highlight after highlight coming up.

Celine Dion performed the French classic made famous by Edith Piaf, “L’Hymne a L’Amour”, in front of a string section and a montage of images of famous Paris sites.

The other big victor of the night was British boyband One Direction, which received the trophy for Artist of the Year and the Favourite Duo or Group – Pop/Rock.

Kiwis dance with Jennifer Lopez at the American Music Awards.

The show began promisingly, with Jennifer Lopez doing several bars of her tune “Waiting for Tonight“, afterward quitting the music to pronounce having a not-quite-straight face, “Tonight’s not about me”.

Z LaLa totally channeled Ursula from The Little Mermaid on the red carpet, when she rocked a dress that literally featured a stuffed octopus, which looked like it was wrapped around the blue gown – that’s one way to ensure people give you a double take.

Swift lost favorite female artist – pop/rock to Ariana Grande, who was shocked when accepting the honor.

The diva hosted the awards show, which she opened with a performance of her own, choreographed by Auckland hip-hop dancer Parris Goebel. “Love you”, she said. Carrie Underwood gave a love letter in song to her husband, surprising everyone listening with “Heartbeat”, rather than her current surging song, “Smoke Break”.

In case there hasn’t been enough ’90s nostalgia for you, the AMAs brought Alanis Morissette back to the stage.

The Biebs closed out the show with a medley of hits from his new album, “Purpose”.

The night of celebration took a sombre turn when actor Jared Leto moved the crowd to tears as he paid tribute to the people of Paris and victims of violence around the world.

Only Nicki knows what she was actually thinking as she supposedly “stormed” off stage, but guess what – even if she was throwing said “shade”, she’s probably in the right.

The former teen star performed an acoustic version of his summer smash What Do You Mean? followed by the dance hit Where Are U Now and a rain-soaked version of the current United Kingdom number one, Sorry.