Taylor Swift leads MTV video award nominations

Swift’s album 1989 was the top selling album globally for 2014

Pop star Taylor Swift is leading the pack for this year’s MTV Video Music Awards with nine nominations, followed by Ed Sheeran with six and Beyonce and Mark Ronson with five.

Swift’s superhero-themed video for Bad Blood is up for video of the year.

It will compete with Beyonce’s 7/11; Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud; Ronson’s Uptown Funk, featuring Bruno Mars, and Kendrick Lamar’s Alright.

The awards are being held in Los Angeles on 30 August.

BBC