Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney of Dan + Shay at the 2020 awards ceremony.
Photo: AFP – AFP Agency
Today the names of the artists nominated for the American Music Awards (AMA) 2022 were revealed. Quin the most nominations accumulated was the Puerto Rican Bad Bunny, followed by Drake, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift. Although it is not yet known who will be the master of ceremonies this year, it is known that the awards ceremony will take place on November 20 in Los Angeles.
One of the most contested categories is Artist of the Year with seven contenders including: Adele, Bad Bunny, Beyoncé, Drake, Harry Styles, Taylor Swift and The Weeknd. Some of these continue to add nominations in this category, beating their own records, such as Taylor Swift who has already competed for this award nine times, behind the singer is Drake who competes for the sixth time, for his part it is the first time that Bad Bunny receives this nomination.
Among this year’s new arrivals to the AMAs are some categories that have been added or reopened, such as: Favorite K-pop Artist, Favorite Afrobeat Artist, Favorite Rock Song, Favorite Rock Album, Favorite Touring Artist and Soundtrack. K-pop has made its way into these awards, as it is the first time that categories of this musical genre have been awarded. The “favorite trending song” category was removed this year.
Billboard reported that “more than 40 artists received their first nominations this year, including the aforementioned Harlow and Tems (four mentions each), Latto (three), Blackpink (one), Anitta (one) and Swedish House Mafia. (one). “
Below are the candidates for each category:
Artist of the year
Adele
Bad bunny
Beyoncé
Drake
Harry Styles
Taylor Swift
The weekend
new artist of the year
Dove Cameron
Gayle Latto
Moonlight
Steve Lacy
collaboration of the year
Carolina Gaitán, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero, Stephanie Beatriz & Charm Cast, “Let’s not talk about Bruno”
Elton John & Dua Lipa, “Cold Heart – PNAU Remix”
Future ft. Drake & Tems, “Wait For U”
Lil Nas X with Jack Harlow, “Industry Baby”
The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber, “Stay”
Favorite touring artist
Bad bunny
Coldplay
Ed Sheeran
Elton John
The rolling stones
favorite music video
Adele, “Easy with me”
Bad Bunny ft. Chencho Corleone, “I Port Bonito”
Harry Styles, “How It Was”
Lil Nas X with Jack Harlow, “Industry Baby”
Taylor Swift, “All Too Good (Taylor’s Version)”
Favorite male pop artist
Bad bunny
Drake
Ed Sheeran
Harry Styles
The weekend
Favorite female pop artist
Adele
Beyoncé
Doia cat
Lizzo
Taylor Swift
Duo the favorite pop group
BTS
Coldplay
Imagine Dragons
Moonlight
A Republic
favorite pop album
Adele, 30
Bad bunny, A summer without you
Beyoncé, Renaissance
Harry Styles, Harry’s house
Taylor Swift, Red (customized version)
The weekend, Alba FM
favorite pop song
Adele, “Easy with me”
Carolina Gaitán, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero, Stephanie Beatriz & Charm Cast, “Let’s not talk about Bruno”
Harry Styles, “How It Was”
Lizzo, “About damn now”
The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber, “Stay”
Favorite male country artist
Chris Stapleton
Cody Johnson
Luca Pettini
Morgan Wallen
Walker Hayes
Favorite female country artist
Carrie Underwood
Lainey Wilson
Maren Morris
Miranda Lambert
Taylor Swift
Duo the favorite country group
Dan + Shay
Mrs. A
Old domain
Parmalee
Zac Brown Band
favorite country album
Carrie Underwood, Denim and rhinestones
Luca Pettini, To grow up
Cody Johnson, Human: the double album
Taylor Swift, Red (customized version)
Walker Hayes, Country stuff: the album
favorite country song
Chris Stapleton, “You should probably leave
“Cody Johnson,” ‘Until You Can “
Dustin Lynch with MacKenzie Porter, “Thinking of You”
Jordan Davis ft. Luke Bryan, “Buy Dirt”
Morgan Wallen, “Wasted on you”
Favorite male hip hop artist
Drake
Future
Kendrick Lamar
Little child
Lil Durk
female artist favorite hip hop
Cardi B
Gloria Rilla
Lact
Megan you stallion
Nicki Minaj
Favorite hip hop album
Future, I never liked youGunna, DS4EVER
Kendrick Lamar, Mr. Morale and The Big Steppers
Lil Durk, 7220
Polo G, Hall of Fame 2.0
favorite hip hop song
Future ft. Drake & Tems, “Wait For U”
Jack Harlow, “First Class”
Kodak Black, “Super Gremlin”
Latto, “Great Energy”
Lil Nas X with Jack Harlow, “Industry Baby”
Favorite male R&B artist
Brent Faiyaz
Chris Brown
Give
Lucky Daye
The weekend
Favorite female R&B artist
Beyoncé
Doia cat
Long Muni
Summer walker
SZA
Favorite R&B album
Beyoncé, Renaissance
Drake, Honestly, it doesn’t matter
Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak), An evening with Silk Sonic
Summer walker, More about it
The weekend, Alba FM
Favorite R&B song
Beyoncé, “Break my soul”
Muni Long, “hours and hours”
Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak), “Smokin Out The Window”
SZA, “I hate you”
Wizkid ft. Tems, “Essence”
Favorite Latin Male Artist
Bad bunny
Farruco
J Balvin
Jhayco
Alejandro raw
Favorite Latin female artist
Anita
Becky g
Kali Uchis
Karol G
Rosalia
Favorite Latin duo or group
MS band by Sergio Lizárraga
Caliber 50
Armored connection
Stationary group
Yahritza and its essence
Favorite Latin album
Bad bunny, A summer without you
Farruko, the 167
J Balvin, José
Alejandro raw, Vice versa
Rosalia, Motomami
favorite Latin song
Bad Bunny ft. Chencho Corleone, “I’m beautiful”
Becky Sol x Karol Sol, “MAMIII”
Carlo G, “Provence”
Rauw Alexander, “All About You”
Sebastián Yatra, “Two caterpillars”
favorite rock artist
Imagine Dragons
Kelly machine gun
Moonlight
hot red chillies
The Luminaries
favorite rock song
Foo Fighters, “Love Dies Young”
Imagine Dragons x JID, “Enemy”
Kate Bush, “Running Up That Hill (A Covenant With God)”
Moonlight, “Begging ‘”
Hot red peppers, “Black summer”
favorite rock album
Coldplay, The music of the spheres
Ghost, Reigns
Imagine Dragons, Mercury – Act 1
Kelly machine gun, sold out
Spicy red chillies, Unlimited love
Favorite inspirational artist
Anne Wilson for King & Country
Katy Nicola
Matthew West
Phil Wickham
Favorite Gospel Artist
CeCé Winans
DOEE. Dewey Smith
Unconventional city music
Tamela Mann
Favorite dance / electronic artist
Diplo
Marshmello
Swedish housewife mafia
The Smokers of Chains
Tiesto
favorite soundtrack
ELVIS
Charm
Sing 2
Stranger Things: Soundtrack from the Netflix series, season 4
Top Gun: Maverick
Favorite Afrobeat Artist
Burna boy
CKay
Fireboy DML
Themes
Wizkid
Favorite K-pop artist
pink black
BTS
Seventeen
Tomorrow X Together
Twice
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