One of the most epic nights in entertainment history is about to happen on November 20th and it is none other than the 2016 American Music Awards! Each and every year, the American Music Awards brings out one of the most spectacular and unforgettable award shows honoring all of our favorite musicians and their incredible accomplishments. Now, with the nominations for this year’s event just recently released and with one musician even setting a new record, we can already tell that this year’s AMAs will be absolutely stupendous!

The outstanding AMAs have just recently revealed this year’s nominees and artists including Justin Bieber, Adele, Ariana Grande, The Weeknd, and more are some of the many remarkable and immensely talented musicians who have been nominated. In fact, rapping phenomenon and legend Drake set a new record of having the most AMAs nominations in a single year with a total of 13! Congrats Drake!

Joe Jonas and Rachel Platten announced 6 categories of nominees on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” Following, the AMAs took to digital platforms to reveal the remaining nominees by announcing five additional categories on Snapchat and ABC News announced the remaining 17 categories via a livestream.

This year’s award show will be even bigger and better for many reasons, one of which is that there have been two new categories added to the award show, “Tour of the Year” and “Video of the Year.”

The nominees for Artist of the Year are Adele, Beyoncé, Justin Bieber, Drake, Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande, Rihanna, Twenty One Pilots, Carrie Underwood and The Weeknd. Voting is open now and the 10 nominees will be narrowed down to five based on your votes on Monday, November 14 at 8:59:59am PT. Voting will continue up until Thursday, November 17 at 8:59:59pm PT and the winner will be announced at the award show.

The nominees for New Artist of the Year Un-leashed by T-Mobile are Alessia Cara, The Chainsmokers, DNCE, Shawn Mendes and Zayn. Voting for this category is open on November 2nd and fans can vote up to 100 times per day.

The power is in your hands to see your favorite musicians walk home with an award at the 2016 AMAs! Voting is open now for all categories except for New Artist of the Year Un-leashed by T-Mobile and voting can be done once per day, per platform on either AMAVote.com or on Twitter by tweeting the twitter handle of the nominee, the category name and #AMAs.

Check out the full list of nominees at the 2016 American Music Awards below and don’t forget to get your votes in for your fave musicians! Comment below and tell me or tweet me at @alexisjoyvipacc, who do YOU want to see win at the 2016 AMAs? Be sure to tune in to the 2016 American Music Awards on November 20th at 8:00 PM on ABC!

Here at Alexisjoyvipaccess.com, I’d like to send a big congratulations to all of the nominees at this year’s AMAs!

(source: press release)

2016 AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS® NOMINEES: 

 

ARTIST OF THE YEAR

• Adele
• Beyoncé
• Justin Bieber
• Drake
• Selena Gomez
• Ariana Grande
• Rihanna
• Twenty One Pilots
• Carrie Underwood
• The Weeknd

NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR UN-LEASHED BY T-MOBILE

• Alessia Cara
• The Chainsmokers
• DNCE
• Shawn Mendes
• ZAYN

COLLABORATION OF THE YEAR

• The Chainsmokers Featuring Daya “Don’t Let Me Down”
• Drake Featuring Wizkid & Kyla “One Dance”
• Fifth Harmony Featuring Ty Dolla $ign “Work From Home”
• Rihanna Featuring Drake “Work”
• Meghan Trainor Featuring John Legend “Like I’m Gonna Lose You”

TOUR OF THE YEAR

• Beyoncé
• Madonna
• Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band

VIDEO OF THE YEAR

• Justin Bieber “Sorry”
• Desiigner “Panda”
• Rihanna Featuring Drake “Work”

FAVORITE MALE ARTIST – POP/ROCK 

• Justin Bieber
• Drake
• The Weeknd

FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST – POP/ROCK

• Adele
• Selena Gomez
• Rihanna

FAVORITE DUO OR GROUP – POP/ROCK

• The Chainsmokers
• DNCE
• Twenty One Pilots

FAVORITE ALBUM – POP/ROCK

• Adele “25”
• Justin Bieber “Purpose”
• Drake “Views”

FAVORITE SONG- POP/ROCK

• Adele “Hello”
• Justin Bieber “Love Yourself”
• Drake Featuring Wizkid & Kyla “One Dance”

FAVORITE MALE ARTIST – COUNTRY

• Luke Bryan
• Thomas Rhett
• Blake Shelton

FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST – COUNTRY

• Kelsea Ballerini
• Cam
• Carrie Underwood

FAVORITE DUO or GROUP – COUNTRY

• Florida Georgia Line
• Old Dominion
• Zac Brown Band

FAVORITE ALBUM – COUNTRY

• Luke Bryan “Kill the Lights”
• Chris Stapleton “Traveller”
• Carrie Underwood “Storyteller”

FAVORITE SONG – COUNTRY

• Florida Georgia Line “H.O.L.Y.”
• Tim McGraw “Humble And Kind”
• Thomas Rhett “Die A Happy Man”

FAVORITE ARTIST – RAP/HIP-HOP

• Drake
• Fetty Wap
• Future

FAVORITE ALBUM – RAP/HIP-HOP 

• Drake “Views”
• Drake & Future “What A Time To Be Alive”
• Fetty Wap “Fetty Wap”

FAVORITE SONG – RAP/HIP-HOP 

• Desiigner “Panda”
• Drake “Hotline Bling”
• Fetty Wap “679”

FAVORITE MALE ARTIST – SOUL/R&B 

• Chris Brown
• Bryson Tiller
• The Weeknd

FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST – SOUL/R&B 

• Beyoncé
• Janet Jackson
• Rihanna

FAVORITE ALBUM – SOUL/R&B

• Beyoncé “Lemonade”
• Rihanna “Anti”
• Bryson Tiller “T R A P S O U L”

FAVORITE SONG – SOUL/R&B

• Drake Featuring Wizkid & Kyla “One Dance”
• Rihanna Featuring Drake “Work”
• Bryson Tiller “Don’t”

FAVORITE ARTIST – ALTERNATIVE ROCK

• Coldplay
• Twenty One Pilots
• X Ambassadors

FAVORITE ARTIST – ADULT CONTEMPORARY 

• Adele
• Rachel Platten
• Meghan Trainor

FAVORITE ARTIST – LATIN 

• J Balvin
• Enrique Iglesias
• Nicky Jam

FAVORITE ARTIST – CONTEMPORARY INSPIRATIONAL

• Lauren Daigle
• Hillsong UNITED
• Chris Tomlin

FAVORITE ARTIST – ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC (EDM)

• The Chainsmokers
• Calvin Harris
• Major Lazer

TOP SOUNDTRACK

• Purple Rain
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens
• Suicide Squad: The Album