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      American Music Awards 2020: The Weeknd and Roddy Ricch Score Eight Nominations Apiece

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      The two music stars will compete against Justin Bieber, Post Malone and Taylor Swift for the Artist of the Year accolade, while Megan Thee Stallion secures a total of five nominations.

      Oct 27, 2020
      AceShowbiz – The Weeknd and Roddy Ricch lead the pack at this year’s American Music Awards (AMAs) with eight nominations apiece.
      The hitmakers are both up for the night’s biggest prize, Artist of the Year, where they’ll compete against Justin Bieber, Post Malone and Taylor Swift for the accolade.
      Meanwhile, Megan Thee Stallion, who comes in second with a total of five nominations, is up against Ricch along with Lewis Capaldi, Doja Cat, DaBaby and Lil Baby for the New Artist of the Year prize.
      Dua Lipa, who appeared on “Good Morning America” to help make the announcement, scored a nomination for Favorite Female Artist in the pop/rock category alongside Lady GaGa and Swift.
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      Other top nominees this year are Bieber, Bad Bunny, DaBaby, Doja Cat and Lady GaGa, all of whom collected four nods each across the board, with organizers also introducing a handful of new awards, including Favorite Male and Female Artist in the rap/hip-hop category, and Favorite Male/Female Artist, Favorite Album and Favorite Song in the Latin category.
      It was in the genre categories that the top nominees excelled, with The Weeknd scoring nods for Favorite Male Artist (pop/rock) and Favorite Male Artist (soul/R&B), Favorite Song (pop/rock) for “Blinding Lights” and Favorite Song (soul/R&B) for “Heartless”, and Favorite Album (pop/rock) and Favorite Album (soul/R&B) for “After Hours”.
      Ricch, meanwhile, was recognized for Favorite Male Artist (rap/hip-hop), Favorite Album (rap/hip-hop) for “Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial”, and two for Favorite Song (rap/hip-hop) – for his solo cut “The Box” and his collaboration with DaBaby, “Rockstar”. “The Box” also scored a nod for Favorite Song (pop/rock), while “Rockstar” landed Collaboration of the Year.
      Megan also picked up two Collaboration of the Year nominations – for her “Savage” remix with Beyonce Knowles and “WAP” with Cardi B – along with Favorite Female Artist (rap/hip-hop) and Favorite Song (rap/hip-hop) for “WAP”.
      Voting for all AMA categories is open now on the show’s website (https://www.theamas.com/Vote/) and the winners will be announced during a televised prizegiving, which will air on 22 November at 8 P.M. on ABC.
      The full list of nominees is as follows:
      Artist of the Year
      New Artist of the Year
      Collaboration of the Year
      Favorite Social Artist
      Favorite Music Video
      Favorite Male Artist (pop/rock)
      Favorite Female Artist (pop/rock)
      Favorite Duo or Group (pop/rock)
      Favorite Album (pop/rock)
      Favorite Song (pop/rock)

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      Favorite Male Artist (country)
      Favorite Female Artist (country)
      Favorite Duo or Group (country)
      Favorite Album (country)
      Favorite Song (country)
      Favorite Male Artist (rap/hip-hop)
      Favorite Female Artist (rap/hip-hop)
      Favorite Album (rap/hip-hop)
      Favorite Song (rap/hip-hop)
      Favorite Male Artist (soul/R&B)
      Favorite Female Artist (soul/R&B)
      Favorite Album (soul/R&B)
      Favorite Song (soul/R&B)
      Favorite Male Artist (Latin)
      Favorite Female Artist (Latin)
      Favorite Album (Latin)
      Favorite Song (Latin)
      Favorite Artist (alternative rock)
      Favorite Artist (adult contemporary)
      Favorite Artist (contemporary inspirational)
      Favorite Artist (EDM)
      Favorite Soundtrack

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      The Weeknd's Severed Head Charms Strangers in Bloody 'Too Late' Music Video

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      Directed by Cliqua, the five-and-a-half-minute visuals continues the storyline from ‘In Your Eyes’ music video that ended with the Canadian superstar getting beheaded.

      Oct 23, 2020
      AceShowbiz – The Weeknd has delivered a new music video fitting for the Halloween season. On Thursday, October 22, the Canadian superstar shared the accompanying visuals for his “After Hours” track “Too Late”.
      Directed by Cliqua, the new clip continues the storyline from “In Your Eyes” music video that ended with The Weeknd getting beheaded. His severed head is now lying on the streets before being discovered by two bandaged women who are on their way home from getting plastic surgeries. Rather than being horrified like normal people would, both of them are charmed and decide to bring him home.

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      Once they arrive at their mansion, they start seducing him and making out with him in the pool, though of course, it will be so much better with a complete body. In order to achieve that, the women call a male stripper to their mansion and kill him for everything but his face, before attaching The Weeknd’s head to the stripper’s body. Things get more steamy afterwards.
      As mentioned above, “Too Late” is one of the songs featured in The Weeknd’s fourth studio album “After Hours”. Receiving generally positive reviews from music critics, the effort debuted at No. 1 on Billboard 200 and marked the biggest first week sales of the year after racking up 444,000 equivalent album units. It additionally broke the record for the most global pre-adds for an album in Apple Music history, with over 1.02 million users pre-adding the album to their libraries.
      Furthermore, it receives nominations in several awards, including ARIA Music Awards and People’s Choice Awards. Meanwhile, one of its singles, “Blinding Lights”, has won Best R&B and Video of the Year at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards in addition to topping music charts in several countries including the United States, Canada and Sweden.

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      The Weeknd Shuts Down Speculation That He's Beefing With Usher: He's the 'Sweetest'

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      ‘It wasn’t a feud,’ The Weeknd, whose real name is Abel Tesfaye, says of his controversial comments on Usher’s 2012 single ‘Climax’ in a cover story with Variety on April 8.
      Aug 26, 2020
      AceShowbiz – There is no music beef between The Weeknd and Usher, at least according to the former. In his interview for Esquire cover story, the “Starboy” hitmaker denies having hard feelings for the “No Guidance” singer.
      “It wasn’t a feud,” The Weeknd, whose real name is Abel Tesfaye, said of his controversial comments on Usher’s 2012 single “Climax” in a cover story with Variety on April 8. “I hit him up to apologize and tell him that it was misconstrued. He’s one of the reasons why I make music. Definitely.”
      The “After Hours” musician went on to say, “No, no, I have nothing bad to say about Usher.” The Weeknd further gushed over Usher, calling him “the sweetest, most down-to-earth guy ever.”
      The feud rumors between the R&B superstars started after The Weeknd compared “Climax” to his earlier moody R&B music in the interview with Variety. “I heard ‘Climax’, that [2012] Usher song, and was like, ‘Holy f**k, that’s a Weeknd song.’ It was very flattering, and I knew I was doing something right, but I also got angry. But the older I got, I realized it’s a good thing,” he said at the time.
      Following the publication of the article, Usher’s frequent collaborator Eric Bellinger started the #ClimaxChallenge on Instagram, showing off the original artist’s piercing falsetto. “Big Bro jumped in to set the record straight!!!… Now all we waitin for is you @theweeknd,” Bellinger wrote in the caption.
      Diplo, who served as the song’s co-producer and co-writer, also weighed in on the matter. In a series of tweets, he admitted that The Weeknd’s 2011 “House of Balloons” mixtape was such a crucial influence to the song.
      “The production on Climax lends itself to House of Balloons era @theweeknd. when I heard those early records they blew my mind – soulful in their silences, and a spacey iconic voice that felt uniquely internet,” Diplo tweeted on April 9. “The idea of R&B having dark edges was what I wanted to bring to @usher.”

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      The Weeknd Hopes to Create a Whole Album for Female Artist

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      The ‘Blinding Lights’ hitmaker makes the admission in a new interview as he addresses his misogynistic past lyrics, stressing that he never intended to offend anybody.
      Aug 26, 2020
      AceShowbiz – The Weeknd is keen to write a whole album for a female artist to balance out his misogynistic past lyrics.
      The Canadian star admits he often writes for a character he has created and his alter egos are not always politically correct, good guys.
      “When you hear some of the drastic stuff… it is me singing the words; it is my writing,” the “Blinding Lights” singer tells Esquire.
      “It’s like you want people to feel a certain way. You want them to feel angry. You want them to feel sad. You want them to feel. It’s never, like, my intent to offend anybody. I’m a writer. Sometimes I write a song and it’s not in my head. I’m writing it for someone else, but then I end up singing it.”
      And now he’s hoping to show off the full range of his lyrical talents by creating songs from a female perspective.
      “I want to write a whole album for a female artist,” he adds. “I have a whole vision of The Weeknd.”

      In the meantime, The Weeknd has teamed up with DJ Calvin Harris for a new single, “Over Now”, which drops on Friday, August 28.

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      The Weeknd Hints at Juice WRLD Collaboration

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      The Blinding Lights’ hitmaker has seemingly announced a posthumous collaboration with the late rapper following the release of the latter’s album ‘Legends Never Die’.
      Aug 6, 2020
      AceShowbiz – The Weeknd has taken to social media to hint that a new collaboration with the late rapper Juice WRLD is on the way.
      The R&B superstar tweeted, “XO + 999 Thursday Night” on Tuesday (4Aug20), with “XO” representing himself and “999” a moniker the late rapper used extensively as part of his brand.
      Fans on Twitter also played detective and discovered an old tweet of Juice WRLD’s from late last year, where he theorised that a collaboration between him and The Weeknd would be successful.
      “Me and The Weeknd would make a diamond record…” the old tweet, from September 2019 reads.
      Juice WRLD, real name Jarad Anthony Higgins, died age 21, following a seizure on a private jet from Los Angeles to Chicago, Illinois last December. An autopsy found toxic levels of oxycodone and codeine present in his system.
      His first posthumous album, “Legends Never Die”, went to number one in the U.K. and U.S. last month – becoming the most successful posthumous album in two decades in America.

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      The Weeknd to Headline TikTok's First Livestream Concert

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      The ‘Blinding Lights’ hitmaker is scheduled to perform his hit singles for an upcoming augmented-reality concert hosted by the popular social media app.
      Jul 31, 2020
      AceShowbiz – R&B superstar The Weeknd is taking over social media app TikTok next week for an interactive livestream concert.
      “The Weeknd Experience” will feature the singer as a digital avatar, belting out hits from his latest album, “After Hours”, in an augmented-reality gig created especially for the platform.
      The unique show, scheduled to take place on 7 August (20), will mark TikTok’s first such concert, and will feature 3D graphics and picture-in-picture video.
      Viewers will also be encouraged to support the campaign to fight racial inequality by donating to the Equal Justice Initiative during the broadcast, with TikTok bosses agreeing to match funds “up to a generous amount.”

      In addition, there will be exclusive The Weeknd Experience merchandise made available for purchase from 6 to 10 August, with proceeds benefitting the EJI.
      Fans can RSVP for the event here.
      The concert will premiere exclusively on the @tiktok account from 8.30 P.M. ET on 7 August, after which there will be a number of repeat airings.

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