Lady Gaga has cleaned up in this year's Virgin Media Music, awards getting some consolation after being snubbed by the Grammys.
Gaga failed to win a Grammy, losing out in the categories she was nominated in, largely to Adele. Here she won the awards of Best Album, Best Female, Best Track, Best Video and Hottest Female.
The singer's album 'Born This Way' was propelled into first place by her army of 'monsters' giving her 87.1% of the vote. Adele's all conquering, Grammy award winning album '21' was left behind in second place with just 4.94% of the overall vote.
This could have had something to do with Lady Gaga's 19million followers on twitter - Adele has just over 4million.
Virgin Media editor-in-chief of digital entertainment Nick Forward said, "The shock result for me was Lady GaGa beating Adele to win 'Best Album'. Adele's 21 has spent a record breaking 18 consecutive weeks at number one, so for Lady GaGa to swoop in and win this award was a huge surprise."
Adding, "It just demonstrates the incredible power of her fan base. The results are never quite as we predict but at the end of the day, with over 1.5 million voters, these results really do reflect the voice of the public."
The 'Born This Way' single was also voted Best Track and the Best Video ahead of Katy Perry's 'Firework'
The pop queens duked it out again in the closely fought Best Female battle with Gaga and Katy receiving 30.63% and 30.29% of the vote respectively.
Hottest Female was also awarded to the maverick singer.
Elsewhere, there were a few surprises. Manchester duo Hurts won Best Group, Take That won Best Live Act and pop stalwart Robbie Williams was victorious as Hottest Male.
Despite being in hospital for much of the year, George Michael was awarded Best Male and Sir Cliff Richard won Legend of the Year.
Jessie J was voted Newcomer of the Year
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