{"id":227129,"date":"2020-10-27T13:51:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T13:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2020\/10\/27\/the-weeknd-roddy-ricch-lead-nominations-for-american-music-awards\/"},"modified":"2020-10-27T13:51:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T13:51:34","slug":"the-weeknd-roddy-ricch-lead-nominations-for-american-music-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2020\/10\/27\/the-weeknd-roddy-ricch-lead-nominations-for-american-music-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weeknd, Roddy Ricch lead nominations for American Music Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

 Canadian musician The Weeknd and newcomer Roddy Ricch led nominations on Monday for the 2020 American Music Awards, with first time nominee Megan Thee Stallion snagging the most nods for a female artist.<\/p>\n

Ricch, the 22 year-old “The Box” rapper from California, and The Weeknd earned eight nominations apiece, including for the top award – artist of the year – where they will compete against Justin Bieber, Post Malone and Taylor Swift.<\/p>\n

Stallion got five nominations, including best new artist and collaboration of the year for her raunchy summer single “WAP” with Cardi B.<\/p>\n

The fan-voted awards will be handed out at a ceremony in Los Angeles on Nov. 22.<\/p>\n

Latin music, which has seen a surge in popularity in the last two years, was given a bigger role this year with added categories for best album, song, and male and female artists.<\/p>\n

Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny snagged most of the new slots, including two for his albums “YHLQMDLG” and “Las que no iban a salir,” while Colombian J Balvin will compete for best male Latin artist.<\/p>\n

Despite dominating the Grammy awards in January with five wins, 18 year-old Billie Eilish got just two nominations on Monday for best alternative rock artist and favorite social artist.<\/p>\n

K-POP group BTS were also shut out of the top categories, winning just two nominations for best group and favorite social artist.<\/p>\n

Swift, who already holds the record for the most American Music Award wins of all time, with 29, got four nods stemming from her surprise summer album “Folklore.” <\/p>\n

(Reuters)<\/p>\n

 <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Weeknd, Roddy Ricch lead nominations for American Music Awards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}