The 2021 Grammy Awards nominees list has been released.
The 2021 Grammy Awards which is scheduled to take place on the 31st of January 2021, released its nomination list on Tuesday with Beyonce leading the list with nine nods.
We gathered that Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa, and Roddy Ricch are all up for six awards at the 63rd Grammy Awards which will be held at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.
The release of the nominees by the Recording Academy has seen various reactions from some artists.
Nicki Minaj slammed the GRAMMY Awards and the Recording Academy while reflecting on how she lost Best New Artist in 2012. The rapper took to Twitter to suggest the organizers have been regularly getting things wrong after they failed to reward her with Best New Artist in 2012.
During the 2012 Grammys, Bon Iver beat Nicki and other nominees including Skrillex, J. Cole, and The Band Perry for the highly coveted award.
She wrote on Twitter: “Never forget the Grammys didn’t give me my best new artist award when I had 7 songs simultaneously charting on Billboard & bigger first week than any female rapper in the last decade—went on to inspire a generation,” she wrote to her 21 million followers. “They gave it to the white man Bon Iver. #PinkFriday.”
Between the Weekend did not get a single nomination. He took to Instagram to write: “The Grammys remain corrupt. You owe me, my fans, and the industry transparency.”
Justin Bieber was also not left out in this fury. The “baby baby” musician complained about his Grammy Nominations for Pop. He said his album is R&B and not Pop.
“The Grammys remain corrupt. You owe me, my fans, and the industry transparency.” – The Weekend
While maintaining that he was grateful for his 2021 Grammy nominations but that he thinks he was nominated in the wrong category.
The Canadian singer, 26, received four Grammy nominations including Best Pop Solo Performance for “Yummy,” Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for “Intentions,” Best Pop Vocal Album for Changes, and Best Country Duo/Group Performance for his “10,000 Hours” collab with Dan+ Shay.
He wrote: “To the Grammys, I am flattered to be acknowledged and appreciated for my artistry,” the post began, “I am very meticulous and intentional about my music. With that being said I set out to make an R&B album. Changes was and is an R&B album. It is not being acknowledged as an R&B album which is very strange to me.
“I grew up admiring R&B music and wished to make a project that would embody that sound. For this not to be put in that category feels weird considering the chords to the melodies to the vocal style all the way down to the hip hop drums that were chosen it is undeniably, unmistakably an R&B Album!
“To be clear I absolutely love pop music it just wasn’t what I set out to make this time around. My gratitude for feeling respected for my work remains and I am honored to be nominated either way,” he added.
“Please don’t mistake this as me being ungrateful, these are just my thoughts take em or leave em,” Bieber captioned his statement. “Thank you to the people who fought for me to even have any noms.”
Wizkid was nominated in the category of Best Music Video for ‘Brown Skin Girl’ with Beyonce and Saint John. This is Wizkid’s second Grammy Nomination alongside Burna Boy was nominated for Best Global Music Album.