Taylor Swift urges US fans to vote in election as she scoops up seven VMAs [Video]

TAYLOR SWIFT URGED US fans to register to vote in the November election as she accepted MTV’s top Video Music Award last night, one of seven accolades she took home from the awards.

Swift became the most successful solo artist of all time at the VMAs after winning in seven categories, including the top prize of Video of the Year for her song Fortnight, which was released on her latest album and featured Post Malone.

The night didn’t go as well for nominated Irish artists Hozier and U2, who missed out in their categories.

Hozier had been nominated for Too Sweet in Best Alternative song while U2 was nominated for Atomic City in the Best Rock category.

The awards went instead to Benson Boone for Beautiful Things and Lenny Kravitz for Human respectively.

Accepting the award for the Fortnight music video, which she directed, Swift said: “To the fans, I’m …