Ed Sheeran, Kendrick Lamar win big at the #BBMAs

Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, and Kendrick Lamar were among the big winners at the 2018 Billboard Music Awards on Sunday, May 20.

Ed, 27, wasn’t able to make it to the glitzy ceremony at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, but that didn’t stop him from scooping up the coveted Top Artist accolade, as well as Top Male Artist, Top Hot 100 Artist, Top Song Sales Artist, Top Radio Songs Artist, and Top Radio Song for his hit ‘Shape of You’.

The ‘Castle on the Hill’ hitmaker managed to beat his close pal Taylor, 28, for the Top Artist gong, but she still won big on the night, scooping up the trophies for Top Female Artist, and Top Selling Album for ‘Reputation’.

Kendrick Lamar also came out on top as he tied with Ed’s six wins, in mostly non-televised categories. The rapper was awarded Top Rap Artist, Top Rap Male Artist, Top Streaming Songs Artist, Top Streaming Song (Audio) for hit single ‘Humble’, and both Top Rap Album and Top Billboard 200 Album for ‘DAMN’.

Elsewhere in the evening, the Billboard Chart Achievement Award was picked up by Camila Cabello, whilst Imagine Dragons won Top Duo/Group and Drake was handed the Top Billboard 200 Artist gong.

Korean pop group BTS beat off stiff competition from the likes of Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande to be the recipients of the Top Social Artist award - which was voted for by fans on Twitter - and Bruno Mars was declared the Top R&B Artist.

Janet Jackson accepted the ICON Award for her services to music, as she also took to the stage for her first televised performance in nine years.

See #BBMAs highlights below.

Ariana Grande showcasing her pipes

them vocals, she did THAT ♡ forever making me proud #BBMAs pic.twitter.com/EDAF5WZ6w4

— ems (@buteracloudy) May 21, 2018

Crowd goes wild for South Korean group BTS

FULL HD PERFORMANCE OF FAKE LOVE AT THE BBMAS

RT TO SAVE A LIFE since we got our beautiful fansitenims doing God’s work while bbmas did (no?) work: pic.twitter.com/UdHm1i4rhI @BTS_twt #BTS_BBMAs #BBMAs

— ariella~ (@imjungshook) May 21, 2018

hahaha

Darren Criss jokes about Camila Cabello and Taylor Swift blocking his view at the #BBMAs😂: “I’m trying to watch Shawn Mendes!” pic.twitter.com/LrChyCj8ue

— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) May 21, 2018