It’s that time of year again!
November 22nd brings with it the 2015 American Music Awards – hosted by Jennifer Lopez.
As ever, all eyes are on the nominees for the latest instalment of the annual extravaganza, which this year airs from LA’s Microsoft Theater.
And folk need not wonder anymore, because the full list has just been unveiled.
Typically Taylor Swift leads with six honors, but find out who else scooped nods below…
ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Luke Bryan
Ariana Grande
Maroon 5
Nicki Minaj
One Direction
Ed Sheeran
Sam Smith
Taylor Swift
Meghan Trainor
The Weeknd
NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR PRESENTED BY KOHL’S
Fetty Wap
Sam Hunt
Tove Lo
Walk The Moon
The Weeknd
SONG OF THE YEAR
Wiz Khalifa Featuring Charlie Puth “See You Again”
Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars “Uptown Funk!”
Ed Sheeran “Thinking Out Loud”
Taylor Swift “Blank Space”
The Weeknd “Can’t Feel My Face”
COLLABORATION OF THE YEAR UN-LEASHED BY T-MOBILE
Wiz Khalifa Featuring Charlie Puth “See You Again”
Rihanna & Kanye West Featuring Paul McCartney “FourFiveSeconds”
Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars “Uptown Funk!”
Skrillex & Diplo Featuring Justin Bieber “Where Are Ü Now”
Taylor Swift Featuring Kendrick Lamar “Bad Blood”
FAVORITE MALE ARTIST – POP/ROCK
Nick Jonas
Ed Sheeran
Sam Smith
FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST – POP/ROCK
Ariana Grande
Taylor Swift
Meghan Trainor
FAVORITE DUO OR GROUP – POP/ROCK
Maroon 5
One Direction
Walk The Moon
FAVORITE ALBUM – POP/ROCK
Ed Sheeran x
Sam Smith In The Lonely Hour
Taylor Swift 1989
FAVORITE MALE ARTIST – COUNTRY
Jason Aldean
Luke Bryan
Sam Hunt
FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST – COUNTRY
Kelsea Ballerini
Miranda Lambert
Carrie Underwood
FAVORITE DUO or GROUP – COUNTRY
Zac Brown Band
Florida Georgia Line
Little Big Town
FAVORITE ALBUM – COUNTRY
Jason Aldean Old Boots, New Dirt
Florida Georgia Line Anything Goes
Sam Hunt Montevallo
FAVORITE ARTIST – RAP/HIP-HOP
Drake
Fetty Wap
Nicki Minaj
FAVORITE ALBUM – RAP/HIP-HOP
J. Cole 2014 Forest Hills Drive
Drake If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
Nicki Minaj The Pinkprint
FAVORITE MALE ARTIST – SOUL/R&B
Chris Brown
Trey Songz
The Weeknd
FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST – SOUL/R&B
Beyoncé
Mary J. Blige
Rihanna
FAVORITE ALBUM – SOUL/R&B
Chris Brown X
D’Angelo and The Vanguard Black Messiah
The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness
FAVORITE ARTIST – ALTERNATIVE ROCK
Fall Out Boy
Hozier
Walk The Moon
FAVORITE ARTIST – ADULT CONTEMPORARY
Ed Sheeran
Taylor Swift
Meghan Trainor
FAVORITE ARTIST – LATIN
Enrique Iglesias
Ricky Martin
Romeo Santos
FAVORITE ARTIST – CONTEMPORARY INSPIRATIONAL
Casting Crowns
Hillsong United
MercyMe
FAVORITE ARTIST – ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC (EDM)
Calvin Harris
David Guetta
Zedd
TOP SOUNDTRACK
Fifty Shades of Grey
Empire: Original Soundtrack from Season 1
Pitch Perfect 2
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Death at Rihanna being nominated in soul R&B she will lose anyway. Taylor and The Weeknd will sweep.
Wheres Man-ara nominations? death at mary j blige being nominated before ciara when mary hasnt even been doing much this year
Mary had album last year that sold more than Ciara
There are too many nominations for Artist of the year. Makes no sense. Beyonce gets a nom even if she hasn’t done s**t. I hate that triflin h**. Lil Kim would beat her to a pulp. I WILL NOT stand for the blasphemy!! *Iyanla Vanzant voice*
Honey, why is Nicki being nominated? Kii
Lmao!! Bítches mad cause the real Queen bee stay winning.
#BOWDOWN
#nicki&missyslaykimwang
Don’t shade Riri’s nominations. I’m sure Ciara will do a fabulous job cleaning up after the ceremony and they’ll give her a certificate.
I don’t take any awards show that nominates Rihanna in an R&B category seriously. Why you mad though ugly?
They need to stop! They trying to throw Bey in there for ratings just as TGJ threw the Queens name in the headline for views ! Sad when a HIPHOP nomination list consist of nicki ferry was and drake lmao and RNB two vocal heavy weights and Rihanna smh these awards shows be trying it
You only don’t take it seriously because your fave has been blacklisted from all of them. Not one awards show, good or bad recognizes her. Don’t shade Rihanna because Ciara is slummin.
Ciara is just fine without these phony award show nominations. She’s very rich and very relevant. What other R&B b**** other than Bey and Alicia is doing it? I will wait.
Rih aint soul/rnb. But Ok :/ these nominations be weird and outta place as s***
Your fave’s better not show up or Else…….. they’ll get Taylor’d
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Who remembers Meghan Trainor? No one? I thought so
Why is Beyonce still getting nominated?
Is this 2009?
But she has more awards than any other female alive !
A worthless shagging-ra Stan is commenting. Your fave has bin irrelevant since forever, does d b*tch even sell 50k ww
This year nominations is better than last year no uggly
Why is the weeknd being nominated for best new artist? Lol
Because he’s seen as a new artist to the mainstream pop general public and hes now mainstream
Ask on it
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But your Fave can’t be nominated for a latin, so……….
@shakira stan
FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST – SOUL/R&B
Beyoncé
Mary J. Blige
Rihanna <————————– come on now!!! & I love her.
Taylor is winning everything. But seriously, is she TRULY the best that pop has to offer? Chvrches? Empress Of? Where's the variety? Nevermind.
FAVORITE ALBUM – SOUL/R&B
Chris Brown X
D’Angelo and The Vanguard Black Messiah <——————-
The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness
The superior album isn't winning this award.
Yeah, I'm skipping this nonsense.
@wellfare spell thing
Pressed??? I understand the song whisperer deserves a nomination more than
Mary-who did nothing this year
RiRi-who obviously ain’t a soul singer………
Nope, not pressed at all. Legend and Icon has been nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She’s well BEYOND this, sorry.
@shakira stan
Congrats to Ariana! They snubbed her last year so her nominations are well deserved. It always makes me laugh when Rihanna is thrown in the R&B/Soul category. Ariana is more R&B than her yet they rarely put her in the Pop category. Idk how Carrie Underwood got a nom when she only released like one song in the last two years. The AMAs are predictable.
They should give Taylor her award now. Why wait till Nov 22
? That d*** ass tall trick is so overrated.
These noms are a mess is overrated ass Beyonce and Rihanna the best they can do with R&B and Soul? A damn mess urban music really needs more female artists in the game!
We have plenty of white female artists but not enough for urban music!
Who else in R&B is selling records ? Please tell me
Meh. This has been a pretty dull, uneventful, unimpressive year in music.
The nominations are okay but seriously there needs to be a change in the music business. I’m tired of seeing the same people getting nominated every year. This shows it’s all about popularity and instead of embracing the art the industry is mediocre. Ciara is still getting her s*** together regardless what y’all PRESSED imbeciles say. She has y’all pressed it’s so damn funny. #C-SQUAD
Bish whet? Ur fellow flop buddy was the 1st comment and made sure to bring up Rihanna’s name. He didn’t even bring up Ciara’s flop a** name, so who iz really pressed over who boo boo?
But b**** did I lie? Is Goathanna R&B or soul? Oh okay.
As always these nominations are are a mess Rihanna and Beyoncé still getting nominated for old stuff from years ago really I anything to stay popular huh AMA’s.
I guess
They always stick Rihanna in the R&B category lmao it’s hilarious to me
I’m already bored and I haven’t even watched this shitt…
Bored? Like the rest of the general public that stopped steaming and buying Safaari…I mean PinkPrint after track two when she attempted to sing and failed miserably, like the boy who cried world? And she ran out of gimmicks she couldn’t fool anyone anymore, not even Safaari, so she THOUGHT she’d win them back over by “going back to her roots” but no matter how much ‘JUST FOR ME’ she puts in her hair, no matter how much glutathione she injects in her blood stream and no matter HOW. MUCH. SILICONE. she gets put in her ass and bööbs, she’s STILL be a flop.
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Bisou, bisou ????
The Pinkprint sold about as many copies as Roman Reloaded (excluding the re-up) even tho sales are dead nowadays compared to 2012. Idk why u so mad at Nicki ? Did she hurt u lmaoo ?
And how The fuckkk are you not going to nominate “To pimp a butterfly” in the best rap album category??? Does these people even know that album was one of the few and best things that happened this year? This sh!tt is messed up.
Messed up just like the fact that you have to have a disproportionate b*** to thigh ratio just to have some shine in the industry? How’s that alphabet counting going sis? You’re almost to ‘L’
the competition is sold.
Not @AnagramsAndAnecdotesRejectedExistence Being dragged to the to the Paleolithic era and back to the Big Bang and fading into subatomic irrelevance.
You probably won’t understand any of that, cause that’s a move for those who went to school, anyways ????????
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Serfboardt your way into a black hole sis and never come back. ????????????
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“Reading Annalise, it’s easy as 123. Reading Annalise, 123, bring me the scalp and I’ll snatch you down!”-Michael Jackson
*Whitney Voice* MY BABY, King of P.O.P. MICHALE JOSEPH JACKSON! HA HAAAAA, Yesssss, praise shady scripture.
You like watching ‘The Legends Panel’ don’t you? Lol!
Lord Not Another Award Show With Beyonce And Rihanna Nominated Like Really They Havent Had Any Hits Out This Year I will Not Be Watching This Mess.
Who would you have liked nominated instead?
Micheal jackson will be weeping wherever he is ….is this basic beyonce the one tipped to fill his shoes ….such a classless tacky woman who can’t outsell taylor….why did aliyah die so soon.
Really ? I’m not even a fan of Ciara but that’s her best album and definetly deserved at least 3 nominations . It’s crazy how Rihanna’s 3 failed singles get her nom when Ciara album is shitting on almost all her albums .
Lmaooo okayyyy let me stop you RIGHT! THERE!
Ciara didn’t sell no albums u do get that right
Congrats Onika ☺ another day another slay.
But still no Grammy ????????????????
Beyonce and Rihanna don’t have to do anything & they get nominated. This is stupid. But Rihanna and Beyonce have had major charting singles on R&b radio. So that impacts stuff like this too..
Poor Ciara. Shut out of the VMAs, AMAS, and more then likely Grammys. 🙁
Taylor swift has to win artist of the year!!
Blank space is now only 20 million views behind baby, for 2nd most viewed video on YouTube!
Really this award show is so wacky and tacky asf. Taylor basic ass is gonna win all her noms. The whole Beyonce and Riri with the r&b category is annoying too; like they acting like Janet, Jhene Aiko, Tinesha, K. Michelle, Estelle, Jill Scott, Sevyn, and Tamar ain’t released good ass r&b songs that are heavy on urban stations.
Why are all these major award shows being held in theaters now? So, just because the ratings and attendance have decreased dramatically, does it necessary mean that they can’t book arenas anymore? The times are changing! But anyway, I hope Nicki and all my beautiful brown women win something.