2013 MTV Europe Music Awards#Best Alternative

{{Infobox award

| name = 2013 MTV Europe Music Awards

| image = 2013 MTV EMA Logo.png

| date = {{Start date|2013|11|10|df=y}} (9:00 pm CET)

|| host = Redfoo{{cite web |author= |url=http://tv.mtvema.com/news/redfoo-ema-mc/ynrlde |title=Redfoo of LMFAO Is the EMA MC! |publisher=Tv.mtvema.com |date=2013-10-16 |access-date=2013-11-05 |archive-date=2013-10-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030021359/http://tv.mtvema.com/news/redfoo-ema-mc/ynrlde |url-status=dead }}

| network = MTV

| most_awards = Eminem and Miley Cyrus (2 each)

| most_nominations = Justin Timberlake and Macklemore and Ryan Lewis (5)

| previous = 2012

| main = {{nowrap|MTV Europe Music Awards}}

| next = 2014

}}

The 2013 MTV EMAs (also known as the MTV Europe Music Awards) were held at the Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam, Netherlands, on 10 November 2013.{{cite web|url=http://tv.mtvema.com/news/2013-mtv-ema-host-city |title=THE 2013 MTV EMA HOST CITY IS…AMSTERDAM! |date=January 26, 2013 |work=MTV |access-date=January 26, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130218050108/http://tv.mtvema.com/news/2013-mtv-ema-host-city |archive-date=February 18, 2013 }} This was the second time the awards had taken place in the Netherlands, the last time being in 1997.{{cn|date=May 2020}}

Several performances of the main show were performed at different locations in Amsterdam than the Ziggo Dome. Dutch DJ Afrojack performed at the Melkweg and was joined by Snoop Lion for the performance of 'Gin and Juice'. The American band Imagine Dragons performed their song 'Radioactive' at the Heineken Music Hall.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/11/mtv-awards-miley-cyrus-smokes-onstage-eminem|title=MTV awards: Miley Cyrus smokes 'joint' onstage as Eminem wins big|date=11 November 2013|work=Guardian UK|access-date=18 November 2013|archive-date=15 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131115221300/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/11/mtv-awards-miley-cyrus-smokes-onstage-eminem|url-status=live}}

Nominations

Winners are in bold text.

style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" \| Best Song ! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" \| Best Video
class=wikitable style="width=100%"
valign="top" \| Bruno Mars — "Locked Out of Heaven" Daft Punk (featuring Pharrell Williams) — "Get Lucky" Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (featuring Wanz) — "Thrift Shop" Rihanna — "Diamonds" Robin Thicke (featuring T.I. and Pharrell Williams) — "Blurred Lines" \| valign="top" \| Miley Cyrus — "Wrecking Ball" Justin Timberlake — "Mirrors" Lady Gaga — "Applause" Robin Thicke (featuring T.I. and Pharrell Williams) — "Blurred Lines" Thirty Seconds to Mars — "Up In The Air"
style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" \| Best Female ! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" \| Best Male
valign="top" \| Katy Perry Miley Cyrus Lady Gaga Selena Gomez Taylor Swift \| valign="top" \| Justin Bieber Bruno Mars Eminem Jay-Z Justin Timberlake
style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" \| Best New Act ! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" \| Best Pop
valign="top" \| Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Bastille Icona Pop Imagine Dragons Rudimental \| valign="top" \| One Direction Justin Bieber Katy Perry Miley Cyrus Taylor Swift
style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" \| Best Electronic ! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" \| Best Rock
valign="top" \| Avicii Afrojack Daft Punk Calvin Harris Skrillex \| valign="top" \| Green Day Black Sabbath Kings of Leon Queens of the Stone Age The Killers
style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" \| Best Alternative ! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" \| Best Hip-Hop
valign="top" \| Thirty Seconds To Mars Arctic Monkeys Fall Out Boy Franz Ferdinand Paramore \| valign="top" \| Eminem Drake Jay-Z Kanye West Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" \| Best Live Act ! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" \| Best World Stage Performance
valign="top" \| Beyoncé Green Day Justin Timberlake Pink Taylor Swift \| valign="top" \| Linkin Park Alicia Keys Fun Garbage Green Day Jason Mraz Jessie J Macklemore & Ryan Lewis No Doubt Paramore Rita Ora Robin Thicke Snoop Lion The Black Keys The Killers
style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" \| Best Push Act ! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" \| Biggest Fans
valign="top" \| Austin Mahone ASAP Rocky Bastille Bridgit Mendler Icona Pop Iggy Azalea Imagine Dragons Karmin Rudimental Tom Odell Twenty One Pilots \| valign="top" \| Tokio Hotel Justin Bieber Lady Gaga One Direction Thirty Seconds to Mars
style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" \| Best Look ! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" \| Best Worldwide Act
valign="top" \| Harry Styles Justin Timberlake Lady Gaga Rihanna Rita Ora \| valign="top" \| Chris Lee Ahmed Soultan Bednarek Cody Simpson EXO Fresno Justin Bieber Lena Marco Mengoni One Direction
style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" \| Artist on the Rise ! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" \|
valign="top" \| Austin Mahone Ariana Grande Bridgit Mendler Cher Lloyd Cody Simpson Lorde \| valign="top" \|
style="background:#EEDD82; width=50%" colspan="2" \| Global Icon
colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" \| Eminem

Regional nominations

Winners are in bold text.

=Northern Europe=

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style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Danish Act

! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Finnish Act

valign="top" |

Jimilian

| valign="top" |

Isac Elliot

style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Norwegian Act

! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Swedish Act

valign="top" |

Admiral P

| valign="top" |

Avicii

style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best UK & Ireland Act

! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" |

valign="top" |

One Direction

| valign="top" |

=Southern Europe=

class=wikitable style="width=100%"

style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best French Act

! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Greek Act

valign="top" |

Shaka Ponk

| valign="top" |

Demy

Goin' Through
Michalis Hatzigiannis & Midenistis
Pink Noisy
Sakis Rouvas

style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Italian Act

! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Portuguese Act

valign="top" |

Marco Mengoni

| valign="top" |

Filipe Pinto

style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Spanish Act

! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" |

valign="top" |

Auryn

| valign="top" |

=Central Europe=

class=wikitable style="width=100%"

style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Belgian Act

! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Dutch Act

valign="top" |

Stromae

| valign="top" |

Kensington

style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best German Act

! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Swiss Act

valign="top" |

Lena

| valign="top" |

Bastian Baker

DJ Antoine
Remady & Manu-L
Steff La Cheffe
Stress

=Eastern Europe=

class=wikitable style="width=100%"

style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Adria Act

! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Czech & Slovak Act

valign="top" |

Frenkie

Filip Dizdar
Katja Šulc
S.A.R.S.
Svi na pod!

| valign="top" |

Celeste Buckingham

Ben Cristovao
Charlie Straight
Ektor & DJ Wich
Peter Bič Project

style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Hungarian Act

! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Israeli Act

valign="top" |

Ivan & The Parazol

Hősök
Karanyi
Punnany Massif
The hated tomorrow

| valign="top" |

The Ultras

style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Polish Act

! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Romanian Act

valign="top" |

Bednarek

| valign="top" |

Smiley

style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Russian Act

! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" |

valign="top" |

Zemfira

Basta
Ivan Dorn
Nyusha
Yolka

| valign="top" |

=Africa, Middle East and India=

class=wikitable style="width=100%"

style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best African Act

! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Middle East Act

valign="top" |

LCNVL

| valign="top" |

Ahmed Soultan

Hamdan Al Abri
Juliana Down
Lara Scandar
Rakan

style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Indian Act

! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" |

valign="top" |

Yo Yo Honey Singh

| valign="top" |

=Japan and Korea=

class=wikitable style="width=100%"

style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Japanese Act

! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Korean Act

valign="top" |

Momoiro Clover Z

| valign="top" |

EXO

=Southeast Asia, Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan=

class=wikitable style="width=100%"

style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Southeast Asian Act

! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Mainland China and Hong Kong Act

valign="top" |

My Tam

| valign="top" |

Li Yuchun

style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Taiwanese Act

! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" |

valign="top" |

Show Lo

| valign="top" |

=Australia and New Zealand=

class=wikitable style="width=100%"

style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Australian Act

! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best New Zealand Act

valign="top" |

Cody Simpson

| valign="top" |

Lorde

=Latin America=

class=wikitable style="width=100%"

style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Brazilian Act

! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Latin America North Act

valign="top" |

Fresno

| valign="top" |

Paty Cantú

Danna Paola
Jesse & Joy
León Larregui
Reik

style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Latin America Central Act

! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Latin America South Act

valign="top" |

Anna Carina

| valign="top" |

Airbag

=North America=

class=wikitable style="width=100%"

style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Canadian Act

! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best US Act

valign="top" |

Justin Bieber

| valign="top" |

Miley Cyrus

Worldwide nominations

Winners are in bold text.

class=wikitable style="width=100%"

style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Northern European Act

! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Southern European Act

valign="top" |

One Direction

| valign="top" |

Marco Mengoni

style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Central European Act

! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Eastern European Act

valign="top" |

Lena

| valign="top" |

Bednarek

style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Africa, Middle East and India Act

! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Japan and Korea Act

valign="top" |

Ahmed Soultan

| valign="top" |

EXO

Momoiro Clover Z

style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Southeast Asia, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan Act

! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Australia and New Zealand Act

valign="top" |

Li Yuchun

| valign="top" |

Cody Simpson

Lorde

style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best Latin American Act

! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" | Best North American Act

valign="top" |

Fresno

| valign="top" |

Justin Bieber

Miley Cyrus

Performances

=Pre show=

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Artist(s) !Song(s)
colspan=2\|Pre-show
TR/ST \|"Sulk/Capitol"
Ylvis \|"The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)"

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Artist(s)

!Song(s)

colspan=2|Pre-show

TR/ST

|"Sulk/Capitol"

Ylvis

|"The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)"

=Main show=

class="wikitable"
Artist(s) !Song(s)
colspan=2\|Main show
Miley Cyrus \|"We Can't Stop"
Robin Thicke \|"Blurred Lines" (with Iggy Azalea) "Feel Good"
Katy Perry \|"Unconditionally"
Miley Cyrus \|"Wrecking Ball"
Kings of Leon \|"Beautiful War"
Bruno Mars \|"Gorilla"
Snoop Dogg Afrojack \|"Gin and Juice"
Eminem \|"Berzerk" "Rap God"
The Killers \|"Shot at the Night" "Mr. Brightside"
Imagine Dragons \|"Radioactive"
Icona Pop \|"I Love It"

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Artist(s)

!Song(s)

colspan=2|Main show

Miley Cyrus

|"We Can't Stop"

Robin Thicke

|"Blurred Lines" (with Iggy Azalea)
"Feel Good"