The Weeknd, Taylor Swift, Dan + Shay win big at an audience-light, politics-free American Music Awards

Taylor Swift accepts the award for artiste of the year at the American Music Awards. Photo: ABC/AP

The American Music Awards gave three trophies apiece to Taylor Swift, The Weeknd and Dan + Shay in a show that proceeded along the lines of a typical annual AMAs telecast while acknowledging that the live audience consisted of a handful of cheering fans in the Microsoft Theater's balcony in Los Angeles, California.

Viewers who prefer their shows politics-free finally had a 2020 awards show to pick not a single bone with.