American Music Awards: The Nominations
The American Music Awards are just around the corner and some of the nominations have been announced. This year seems to be ruled by Grammy award-winner Kendrick Lamar as he leads this year’s nominations with a total of 10, including artist of the year, album of the year (GNX) and song of the year (“Not Like Us”).
Post Malone is runner-up with eight nominations, including artist of the year, album of the year (F-1 Trillion) and song of the year “I Had Some Help,” his hit collaboration with country singer Morgan Wallen. Malone, the known Dallas Cowboys fan could take home an award in a third distinct genre. He already has two nominations for collaboration of the year: “I had some help” and “Fortnight” with Taylor Swift.
Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan and Shaboozey are next in line with seven nomination nods. Six artists tied with six nominations each: Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, Wallen, Sabrina Carpenter, SZA and Swift. Swift, the top winner in American Music Awards history with 40 wins, could extend her lead should she win in any of her six categories.
Women artists did well in the nominations as well as they had seven of the 10 nominees for the album of the year are women and six of the 10 nominees for artist of the year. Roan is the only artist to be nominated in all three of this year’s new categories: album of the year, song of the year, and social song of the year.
Of the 49 artists to receive two or more nominations, just three were groups or duos, a sign of how dominant solo personalities are in this era.
The 51st American Music Awards,w its host Jennifer Lopez, is set to air live from Las Vegas on Monday May 26. The show will air live coast-to-coast at 8pm ET/ 5pm PT on CBS, and available to stream on Paramount+ in the US. This marks Lopez’s second time hosting the ceremony, a role she first took on in 2015. Lopez has performed at 10 former AMA telecasts and will do the same for this year’s.