MTV Europe Music Awards / Best Live Act

The MTV Europe Music Award for Best Live Act was introduced in 1995 at the MTV Europe Music Award . It rewards live bands and their respective tours during the nomination period. U2 and Ed Sheeran each won the award twice. In 2007 and 2008 the category was Best Headliner .

Winners and nominees

1990s

year	Artist	trip
1995
	Take that	Nobody Else Tour
	Bon Jovi	These Days Tour
	The Prodigy	Music for the Jilted Generation Tour
	SEM	Parallel tour
	The Rolling Stones	Voodoo Lounge Tour
1997
	U2	PopMart Tour
	Aerosmith	Nine Lives Tour
	Michael Jackson	HIStory World Tour
	Radiohead	OK Computer era and Against Demons Tour
	Skunk anansia	Stoosh tour

2000s

year	Artist	trip
2002
	Red hot chili peppers	By the Way World Tour
	Depeche Mode	Exciter tour
	grain	Untouchables tour
	Lenny Kravitz	Lenny tour
	U2	Elevation Tour
2007
	muse	Black Holes and Revelations Tour
	Arctic Monkeys	Favorite Worst Nightmare Tour
	Beyoncé	The Beyoncé Experience
	Foo fighters	Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace Tour
	Justin Timberlake	FutureSex / LoveShow
2008
	Tokio Hotel	1000 Hotels Tour
	The Cure	4 Play Tour
	Foo fighters	Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace Tour
	Linkin Park	Project revolution
	Metallica	2008 European Vacation Tour / World Magnetic Tour
2009
	U2	U2 360 ° tour
	Beyoncé	I Am ... World Tour
	Green Day	21st Century Breakdown World Tour
	Kings of Leon	Only by the Night World Tour
	Lady Gaga	The Fame Ball Tour

2010s

year	Artist	trip
2010
	Linkin Park	A Thousand Suns World Tour
	Bon Jovi	The Circle Tour
	Kings of Leon	Come Around Sundown World Tour
	Lady Gaga	The Monster Ball Tour
	muse	The Resistance Tour
2011
	Katy Perry	California Dreams Tour
	Coldplay	Mylo Xyloto Tour
	Foo fighters	Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace Tour
	Lady Gaga	The Monster Ball Tour
	Red hot chili peppers	I'm with You World Tour
2012
	Taylor Swift	Speak Now World Tour
	Green Day	21st Century Breakdown World Tour
	Jay Z and Kanye West	Watch the Throne Tour
	Lady Gaga	Born This Way Ball
	muse	The Resistance Tour
2013
	Beyoncé	The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour
	Green Day	99 Revolutions Tour
	pink	The Truth About Love Tour
	Taylor Swift	Red Tour
	Justin Timberlake	Legends of the Summer Stadium Tour
2014
	one direction	Where We Are Tour
	Beyoncé	On the run tour
	Bruno Mars	The Moonshine Jungle Tour
	Katy Perry	The Prismatic World Tour
	Justin Timberlake	The 20/20 Experience World Tour
2015
	Ed Sheeran	x tour
	Foo fighters	Sonic Highways World Tour
	Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett	Cheek to Cheek Tour
	Katy Perry	The Prismatic World Tour
	Taylor Swift	The 1989 World Tour
2016
	Twenty One Pilots	Emotional Roadshow World Tour
	Adele	Adele Live 2016
	Beyoncé	The Formation World Tour
	Coldplay	A Head Full of Dreams Tour
	Green Day	Revolution Radio Tour
2017
	Ed Sheeran	÷ Tour
	Bruno Mars	24K Magic World Tour
	Eminem	Revival tour
	Coldplay	A Head Full of Dreams Tour
	U2	The Joshua Tree Tour 2017
2018
	Shawn Mendes	Illuminate World Tour
	Ed Sheeran	÷ Tour
	muse	North American Summer Amphitheater Tour
	P nk	Beautiful Trauma World Tour
	The Carters	On the Run II Tour
2019
	BTS
	Ariana Grande
	Ed Sheeran
	P nk
	Travis Scott

Individual evidence

↑ Brett Atwood: November Awards Abound: Billboard Vid, MTV Europe . Billboard , November 5, 1994 (accessed October 19, 2011).
↑ YOGMAIL - The Unofficial George Michael Mailing List --Nov. 2/96 - Issue # 41. In: gminfopage.com. Retrieved November 6, 2019 .
^ Robert Mancini: Eminem, Pink, Shakira Nab Most Noms For MTV Europe Music Awards . MTV News . September 30, 2002. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
↑ Nick Levine: In full: MTV Europe Music Awards winners . Digital spy . November 1, 2007. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
↑ MTV EMAs name Rick Astley 'Best Act Ever' . NME . November 7, 2008. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
↑ US artists lead MTV Europe awards . BBC News . September 21, 2009. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
↑ We Announce Our First Two Performers: Katy Perry & Linkin Park! . MTV Networks Europe . September 20, 2010. Retrieved September 21, 2010.
↑ Lady GaGa Leads 2011 MTV EMA Nominations . MTV UK . September 21, 2011. Retrieved September 29, 2011.
↑ Beth Hardie: A total sex pot (Rihanna) and a sweet innocent lass (Taylor Swift) are going to have a fight . In: Daily Mirror , Trinity Mirror , September 7, 2012. Retrieved September 17, 2012.
↑ Jess Denham: MTV Europe Music Awards 2013: List of winners in full. The Independent , November 11, 2013, accessed November 10, 2019 .
↑ Brenna Ehrlich: 2014 MTV EMA Nominations: Get The Full List . In: MTV , September 26, 2014. Retrieved October 4, 2016.
↑ George Szalai: Taylor Swift Leads MTV EMAs With 9 Nominations . In: Billboard , September 15, 2015. Retrieved October 4, 2016.
↑ justin bieber & beyoncé lead the 2016 mtv ema nominations - see the full list! . In: MTV UK . Retrieved September 27, 2016.
↑ 2018 MTV EMA WINNERS: SEE THE FULL LIST . In: MTV . Retrieved November 4, 2018.
↑ ARIANA GRANDE, BILLIE EILISH, LIL NAS X, AND MORE: THE 2019 EMA NOMINATIONS ARE HERE . In: MTV . Retrieved October 3, 2019.

[1] Brett Atwood: November Awards Abound: Billboard Vid, MTV Europe . Billboard , November 5, 1994 (accessed October 19, 2011).

[2] YOGMAIL - The Unofficial George Michael Mailing List --Nov. 2/96 - Issue # 41. In: gminfopage.com. Retrieved November 6, 2019 .

[3] Robert Mancini: Eminem, Pink, Shakira Nab Most Noms For MTV Europe Music Awards . MTV News . September 30, 2002. Retrieved October 19, 2011.

[4] Nick Levine: In full: MTV Europe Music Awards winners . Digital spy . November 1, 2007. Retrieved October 19, 2011.

[5] MTV EMAs name Rick Astley 'Best Act Ever' . NME . November 7, 2008. Retrieved October 19, 2011.

[6] US artists lead MTV Europe awards . BBC News . September 21, 2009. Retrieved October 19, 2011.

[7] We Announce Our First Two Performers: Katy Perry & Linkin Park! . MTV Networks Europe . September 20, 2010. Retrieved September 21, 2010.

[8] Lady GaGa Leads 2011 MTV EMA Nominations . MTV UK . September 21, 2011. Retrieved September 29, 2011.

[9] Beth Hardie: A total sex pot (Rihanna) and a sweet innocent lass (Taylor Swift) are going to have a fight . In: Daily Mirror , Trinity Mirror , September 7, 2012. Retrieved September 17, 2012.

[10] Jess Denham: MTV Europe Music Awards 2013: List of winners in full. The Independent , November 11, 2013, accessed November 10, 2019 .

[11] Brenna Ehrlich: 2014 MTV EMA Nominations: Get The Full List . In: MTV , September 26, 2014. Retrieved October 4, 2016.

[12] George Szalai: Taylor Swift Leads MTV EMAs With 9 Nominations . In: Billboard , September 15, 2015. Retrieved October 4, 2016.

[13] ustin bieber & beyoncé lead the 2016 mtv ema nominations - see the full list! . In: MTV UK . Retrieved September 27, 2016.

[14] 2018 MTV EMA WINNERS: SEE THE FULL LIST . In: MTV . Retrieved November 4, 2018.

[15] ARIANA GRANDE, BILLIE EILISH, LIL NAS X, AND MORE: THE 2019 EMA NOMINATIONS ARE HERE . In: MTV . Retrieved October 3, 2019.