The 2012 American Music Awards wasted no time in handing out its first award of the night to Justin Bieber.

After a performance by Usher and an introduction by host Ryan Seacrest, producers must've given the green light to speed things right along given the fact that there are like... a million and one nominees and performances tonight. We appreciate that.

The AMA for Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist was the first award to be announced, and as expected, Justin Bieber, who's fresh off his break up from beauty Selena Gomez, won the award. In a black t-shirt and black pants ... and an extra long silver chain that's probably too grown up for him, he accepted the award from Seacrest, who read the winner from an iPhone. Or was it a Nook? We don't have a Nook, so we don't know... Scratch that, it's a Samsung Galaxy Note 2.

"First of all I wanna say this is for all the haters who thought that maybe I was just here for one or two years, but I feel like I'm gonna be here for a very long time," said a confident Bieber in the opening of his speech. "And second of all I, wanna thank my mom, she's amazing, she's beautiful. And I wanna thank Scooter Braun for just being a great mentor, and role model, and someone I look up to."

"I wanna thank my family at home. I wanna thank all my beautiful, beautiful fans, you guys are incrediblme I love you so much," continued Biebs, who shouted back an 'I love you too' to a lucky fan. "And last thing..." he said, clearly losing his train of thought thanks to the aforementioned fan. "I just wanna say thank you. I wanna wrap this up. Thank you!"

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