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2021 Billboard Music Awards Nominees Announced—The Weeknd Leads With 16 Nominations, Followed By DaBaby With 11, Pop Smoke With 10, & Megan Thee Stallion With 7!

<p data-pm-slice&equals;"1 1 &lbrack;&rsqb;">&num;Roommates&comma; the Grammy Awards may be over&comma; but the 2021 <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;kanye-west-responds-after-winning-four-2020-billboard-music-awards-thank-god-for-the-9-nominations-and-4-wins&sol;">Billboard Music Awards<&sol;a> are just a few weeks away—and this year’s nominations have just been announced&period; The Weeknd&comma; DaBaby&comma; Pop Smoke and Megan Thee Stallion are the top nominated artists at the Billboard Music Awards&comma; each earning multiple nods for their chart-topping music throughout the last year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The 2021 Billboard Music Awards were <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;billboardmusicawards&period;com&sol;2021&sol;04&sol;2021-bbmas-finalists-revealed&sol;">recently announced<&sol;a> via livestream telecast—and if you’re a fan of The Weeknd&comma; DaBaby&comma; Pop Smoke or Megan Thee Stallion&comma; you have a lot to celebrate because they racked up dozens of nominations between them&period; &commat;Billboard reports&comma; The Weeknd leads this year’s nominees with 16 nominations of his own&comma; followed closely by DaBaby who received 11 nominations&period; Meanwhile&comma; the late Pop Smoke racked up 10 nominations for his debut album&comma; and Megan Thee Stallion represented for all the ladies with her seven nominations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Weeknd is nominated for a host of categories&comma; including Top Artist&comma; Top Male Artist&comma; Top Hot 100 Artist&comma; Top Streaming Songs Artist&comma; Top Song Sales Artist&comma; Top Billboard 200 Album and Top R&amp&semi;B Album&comma; with his chart-topping single &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Blinding Lights” recognized in five categories&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>DaBaby’s nominations include&comma; Top Hot 100 Artist&comma; Top Rap Artist&comma; Top Rap Album and Top Streaming Song&period; However&comma; some of the biggest honors are for late rappers Pop Smoke and Juice WRLD&comma; with Pop Smoke receiving 10 Billboard Music Award nominations for his debut album &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<em>Shoot for the Stars&comma; Aim for the Moon”<&sol;em>—while Juice WRLD was recognized as a seven-time nominee&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Megan Thee Stallion made the hotties proud with seven nominations for select categories including Top Female Artist&comma; and Top Rap Female Artist&period; The 2021 Billboard Music Awards are based on the chart period of March 21&comma; 2020 through April 3&comma; 2021&comma; specifically relating to album and digital song sales&comma; streaming&comma; radio airplay&comma; and social engagement&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Fan-voted categories of Top Social Artist and Top Collaboration are not included in the chart period&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Billboard Music Awards are set to air live on Sunday&comma; May 23rd at 8PM EST on NBC&period; The list of performers has not yet been announced&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Want tea directly in your text inbox&quest; Hit us up at 917-722-8057 or <a class&equals;"ProsemirrorEditor-link" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;my&period;community&period;com&sol;theshaderoom">click here to join&excl;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine; 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