Virgin Media Music Awards - winners

We asked you to vote for your best and worst of 2010 and you did it in droves. More than six million votes were cast and we can now announce the winners of the Virgin Media Music Awards. How did your favourites fare?

Best Album

Pop princess Kylie Minogue has come out on top, with her album Aphrodite bagging 40 per cent of the vote. Kylie very narrowly pipped Plan B's The Defamation Of Strickland Banks to the title. Diana Vickers came in third, for her debut Songs From The Tainted Cherry Tree with Katy Perry's Teenage Dream in fourth.

Best Comeback

It was a year jam-packed with high-profile comebacks, but the one that you voted top was Christina Aguilera's, by a landslide. Christina scored an impressive 65 per cent of the votes, bolstered no doubt by her branching out into movies and that sizzling performance on the X Factor final. Gorillaz were in second place while Sade, Craig David and Tom Jones made up the rest of the top five.

Best Group

Muse had plenty to celebrate in 2010 and they now can add the Best Group award to their list, bringing in a third of the vote and proving that there's a lot of life left in rock music. The Saturdays came second, that should go some way to making up for all their number one near-misses in 2010. The Wanted were third, with Take That and The Pretty Reckless also in the top five.

Best Live Act

Not only were Muse top of the bands, their fearsome live shows earned them the gong for Best Live Act too. Lady GaGa narrowly beat Black Eyed Peas to second spot, proving that her Little Monsters are a loyal bunch. Bajan diva Rihanna and theatrical Florence + The Machine were fourth and fifth respectively.

Best Newcomer

Marina of Marina And The Diamonds' might have been moaning about not being a bigger star recently, but tell that to the voters of our awards – the flamboyant frontwoman easily takes this gong, with more than two thirds of the votes. Former X Factor star Diana Vickers came in second while Ke$ha, The Pretty Reckless and The Wanted made up the remainder of the top five.

Best Single

Another triumph for pint-sized Aussie Kylie Minogue, who can add Best Single to her Best Album win thanks to floor-filling anthem All The Lovers, which drew almost half of the total votes. Lady GaGa's collaboration with Beyoncé, Telephone, was a close second. While Gary Barlow and Robbie Williams' Shame, was third with a surprise fourth place for Nadine Coyle's Insatiable, a song which famously failed to hit the high notes in the charts.

Best Collaboration

They might have narrowly missed out on Best Single to Kylie, but Lady GaGa and Beyoncé did win the award for Best Collaboration thanks to their controversy-courting single Telephone. The chart-slaying divas got more than half the total votes, beating Rihanna and Eminem's hook-up for Love The Way You Lie into second place. Gary and Robbie came third with Katy Perry and Snoop Dogg and Taio Cruz and Ke$ha in fourth and fifth.

Best Solo Female

She was the voice of the World Cup and now Shakira has her own winner's medal, bagging Best Solo Female after a massive surge in last-minute voting which forced Mariah Carey into second place. Lady GaGa might be the woman of the moment when it comes to column inches, but she could only muster third spot, while Christina Aguilera and Katy Perry made up the top five.

Best Solo Male

In what may prove to be a prediction of the BRIT Awards, at which he's also up for Best Male, Plan B walked away with the Best Solo Male title, knocking teen superstar Justin Bieber into second place. Evergreen Cliff Richard came third, with dance supremo David Guetta and one-man hit-factory Ne-Yo in fourth and fifth place

Best Video

Miley Cyrus is no longer a cutesy girl next door, and proved just how grown up she is in the super-sexy promo for Can't Be Tamed, which won the award for Best Video with almost half of the total votes. Lady GaGa and Beyoncé's raunchy, swear-laden video for Telephone caused a tabloid storm but could only muster second place, while Kylie's All The Lovers, Katy Perry's California Gurls and Gary and Robbie's Shame came third, fourth and fifth.

Hottest Female

This was one of the closest-run of all the awards, and in the end Pixie Lott triumphed in the ultimate battle of blondes versus brunettes. A mere one per cent of the votes saw Pixie triumph over Nicole in a neck-and-neck race to the Hottest Female title. Third place belonged to meat-wearing Lady GaGa with perennial pin-up Cheryl Cole only coming in fourth, just ahead of Taylor Momsen.

Hottest Male

There was nothing close about this surprise result – James Blunt romped to victory with almost two thirds of the votes, proving there's nothing quite like a man in touch with his emotions. Teen idol Justin Bieber was in second, with Aston from JLS and Olly Murs third and fourth. Lots of you like the more distinguished gentleman it seems – Cliff Richard came in fifth.

Legend Of The Year

In a timely win in the year which would have seen John Lennon turn 70, and marked the 30th anniversary of his death, the former Beatle was voted Legend Of The Year. A more modern icon came second, with the ever-outspoken and flamboyant Lady GaGa. Cheryl Cole, Paul McCartney and Cliff Richard made up the rest of the top five.

Loser Of The Year

As if Katie Price didn't have enough to fret about at the moment she was your Loser Of The Year, after her ill-fated attempts to crack the charts. Amy Winehouse was second, but may turn it around in 2011 if her long-awaited album finally emerges. Pete Doherty, George Michael and Peter Andre made up the rest of the top five.

Shameless Publicity Seeker

After their reality TV show, advert appearances and hapless performance on Never Mind The Buzzcocks it was no surprise to see Jedward topping the poll for Shameless Publicity Seeker. Lady GaGa's meaty wardrobe and eccentric antics may please her fans, but also saw her come second. David Guetta, Florence Welch and Olly Murs completed the top five.

Worst Song

Katie Price proved she didn't have the Midas touch with this awful attempt at a floor-filler, which was voted your Worst Song of 2010. Lady GaGa's hit Alejandro was second, while Yolanda B Cool's catchy (or annoying) We No Speak Americano, Owl City's Fireflies and Cheryl Cole's Promise This also came in the top five of songs you'd rather blacklist than playlist.

Worst Use Of Auto Tune

A near-clean sweep for Katie in the worst stakes - the industrial levels of Auto-Tune on her single saw her take home this award. No amount of effects could disguise the horrors of Free To Love Again.Ke$ha was second and Usher third. Following the well-publicised Auto-Tune scandal it was no shock to see X Factor auditions in fourth, while another treated TV singathon, Glee, came fifth.