Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga compete in the YouTube Music Awards 2013

The list of nominations for the first YouTube Music Awards (2013) is released. Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift are nominated in several categories while the duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis leads the race with four nominations. Winners will be chosen by the public.

The results will be announced in a ceremony that will be broadcast live on YouTube on November 3.

The most important category is the Video of the Year. Among the ten listed videos are "Heart Attack" by Demi Lovato , "Applause" by Lady Gaga , " We Can not Stop "by Miley Cyrus, "Best Song Ever" by One Direction , "Come & Get It" by Selena Gomez , "Same Love" by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis and "Beauty And The Beat (feat. Nicki Minaj) " by Justin Bieber.

For artist of the year nominees are: Eminem , Epic Rap Battles, Justin Bieber , PSY , Katy Perry , Macklemore & Ryan Lewis , Nicki Minaj , One Direction , Rihanna and Taylor Swift.


YouTube Awards will also award the "phenomena" of the year "( Rihanna , Baauer , Psy , Macklemore and Taylor Swift are shown) and the best videos "unofficial", where they enter covers, parodies and videos made by fans.

Response of the Year, Breakthrough and Innovation complete the category list. Earlier this month, it was announced that Arcade Fire, Eminem and Lady Gaga will perform at the ceremony.

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