1. The former Destiny‘s Child star, who released her second solo album, B–Day, this month to mixed reviews, also picked up the best video and best international female awards.

2. For all its doughty attempts to promote British talent (including this year giving the hip–hop award not to multi–platinum–selling rapper and producer Kanye West but to Ms Dynamite‘s brother Akala, a name virtually unknown outside British hip–hop circles) the fact remains that, reggae aside, all the biggest stars in the music it celebrates are American like Beyoncé who won three Mobos this year, and is such a big star that no one dared tell her that calling your second solo album B Day is perhaps not such a hot idea in Europe, where the title is somehow redolent of sanitaryware.