“It is not being acknowledged as an R&B album which is very strange to me. Changes was and is an R&B album,” he wrote in a message on Instagram last November. His collaboration with Dan + Shay is up for Best Country Duo/Group Performance. It’s up for Best Pop Vocal Album and Bieber has noms for Pop Solo Performance (“Yummy”) and Pop Duo/Group Performance (“Intentions” ft. Halsey claimed Grammy nominations go to artists who commit to doing exclusive performances on the show, generating “millions in advertising.”Ĭanada's Justin Bieber is reportedly not appearing on Sunday’s Grammys broadcast because he is upset that his album Changes was not nominated in R&B categories. “It can often be about behind the scenes private performances, knowing the right people, campaigning through the grapevine, with the right handshake and ‘bribes’ that can be just ambiguous enough to pass as ‘not bribes.’” Halsey, who was also snubbed by the Grammys, added her take in November. “The Grammys are an elusive process,” she said in an Instagram Story. Beauty Behind the Madness was nominated for Album of the Year (it had to settle for Best Urban Contemporary Album) and “Can’t Feel My Face” was up for Record of the Year (it lost to “Uptown Funk” by Mark Ronson ft. The Weeknd’s three Grammys came from 10 nominations between 20 – of which only two were in one of the four “General Field” categories. “It’s not like, ‘Oh, I want the Grammy!’ It’s just that this happened, and I’m down to get in front of the fire, as long as it never happens again. “I have three Grammys, which mean nothing to me now, obviously,” he said. Like, ‘This is it this is your year.’ We were all very confused.”
People told me I was going to get nominated.
Like, ‘What happened?’ We did everything right, I think. In January, ahead of his performance in the Super Bowl halftime show, The Weeknd told Billboardthat getting snubbed by the Grammys this year felt like “a sucker punch.” “You owe me, my fans and the industry transparency…” “The Grammys remain corrupt,” he tweeted at the time. The Weeknd first called for changes last November when the nominations for the 63rd Grammy Awards were announced and his name was not mentioned – despite his album After Hours being one of the most successful of 2020. The Weeknd is referring to the committees assembled by the Recording Academy to determine nominations using shortlists compiled by a screening committee that sifts through thousands of submissions. “Because of secret committees, I will no longer allow my label to submit my music to the Grammys,” the Toronto-born singer said in a statement to The New York Times. The Weeknd says he won’t let himself be considered for Grammy nominations again unless the Recording Academy becomes more transparent.
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