The Weeknd Slams The Recording Academy After Receiving Zero Grammy Nominations For ‘After Hours’
Award shows are being proven lack of transparency and The Weeknd obviously has response.
Successful Awards and nominations for 2020 have always brought to show. BET, AMA, Grammy and other related Award shows for the year 2020 are done and dusted but it been unfavorable to most artists, fans claims Award shows don’t transport transparency to due artists.
Lil Baby fans never sounds better since the rapper loosed Best New Artist to Doja Cat from AMA.
While that’s one of the claimed misdemeanor Award shows have been accused of, Blinding Light singer couldn’t keep silent in his observation to the recording academy after receiving zero Grammy nominations for ‘After Hours.’
The Weeknd’s After Hours snubbed and didn’t appears to be of those 2021 Grammy nominations. Despite potential success notably from his 2020 After Hours album, the album still don’t received nominations for this year.
“For The Weeknd, in every year you only have a certain amount of people you can nominate for each category,” he said. “There are a certain amount of nominations that we can give out. The voting body really determines where those nominations go. We take it very seriously. We review every bit of music that is submitted. From year to year, it is really hard to predict who is going to be nominated and who’s not.”
It came just hours after TMZ published an article claiming a conflict between his scheduled Super Bowl Halftime Show performance and plans to appear on the Grammys stage may have affected his nominations this year. Both programs will air on CBS within one week of each other. Although the Recording Academy hasn’t responded to that particular article, interim president Harvey Mason Jr. told Billboard that it was simply a matter of space.