5 Seconds of Summer won the Kohl’s-presented New Artist of the Year award at the 2014 American Music Awards.
The excited boy band seemed a bit at a loss for words at first with Michael Clifford saying, “This is the first time we’ve ever done this so this is awesome.”
“This just shows that a little band from Sydney can do great things,” Ashton Irwin added.
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5 Seconds of Summer beat Iggy Azalea, Bastille, Sam Smith and Meghan Trainor for the honor, which was their only nomination of the night. Like all other AMA trophies, the New Artist honor was voted on by fans, but while voting in the other categories closed before the show, people could vote online and via Twitter through the first hour of the live broadcast.
Azalea was the most-nominated artist going into Sunday night’s show with six nods. Among the other new artist contenders, Bastille and Smith were each up for one other award. The new-artist trophy was Trainor’s only nomination.
5 Seconds of Summer also performed on the AMAs, joining a lineup that included Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, 5 Seconds of Summer, Iggy Azalea, Mary J. Blige, Charli XCX, Fergie, Lorde, One Direction, Sam Smith, Garth Brooks, Selena Gomez, Imagine Dragons and host Pitbull.
The AMAs are airing live from the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live from 8 to 11 p.m. on ABC.
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