Olivia Rodrigo is nominated for album, tune, and report of the 12 months, all of which Billie Eilish took house in 2020.
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The music business arms out its high honors on Sunday with acts from teen sensation Olivia Rodrigo to awards darling Billie Eilish and rapper Lil Nas X competing at a star-studded Grammys ceremony in Las Vegas.
Grammy watchers say it's robust to foretell who will take the most important prizes aside from greatest new artist, which is extensively anticipated to go to 19-year-old Rodrigo. Her tune “drivers license” went viral in early 2021.
Rodrigo is also nominated for album, tune and report of the 12 months. If she wins all of these classes, she would develop into simply the third individual in Grammys historical past to comb the 4 most important awards.
The final artist to perform that feat was Eilish on the 2020 Grammys, when she was 18. Now 20, Eilish is within the working once more for album of the 12 months with “Happier Than Ever.”
Rivals for the album trophy embody Rodrigo’s “Bitter,” Kanye West’s “Donda,” Jon Batiste’s “We Are,” and Tony Bennett and Woman Gaga’s “Love for Sale.”
Justin Bieber’s “Justice” is also within the combine, together with Doja Cat’s “Planet Her,” H.E.R.’s “Again of My Thoughts,” Lil Nas X’s “Montero” and Taylor Swift’s “Evermore.”
Batiste leads all nominees with 11 nods starting from classical composition and American roots to his music video “Freedom” and album “We Are,” which was impressed by the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020.
This 12 months’s Grammys had been pushed to April from January due to a COVID-19 surge firstly of the 12 months. The date swap pressured a change in venue from Los Angeles to the MGM Grand Backyard Area in Las Vegas.
Final 12 months, the pandemic pressured a scaled-down out of doors ceremony with out the standard viewers of hundreds.
This Sunday, Okay-pop band BTS is among the many acts scheduled to carry out on the Grammys stage. The group, which has but to win a Grammy, enters the night time with a single nod for top-selling single “Butter.”
Different scheduled performers embody Eilish, Gaga, Brandi Carlile and Bieber. Silk Sonic, the duo of Bruno Mars and Anderson.Paak, are set to open the present, which will likely be broadcast dwell on CBS tv and the Paramount+ streaming service. Comic Trevor Noah returns as host.
The eligibility interval for the Grammys ran from September 2020 to September 2021, ending earlier than Adele launched her acclaimed album “30.”
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