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File photo shows Beyonce performing at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California, United States, on Feb. 12, 2017. REUTERS / Lucy Nicholson
LOS ANGELES – Megan Thee Stallion, Beyonce and Billie Eilish were among the first winners on Sunday, but K-Pop band BTS was defeated in their bid to win a first Grammy Award.
BTS lost in best pop duo or group performance to Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande for their single “Rain on Me”.
The seven-member band, which will perform from South Korea later on Sunday’s broadcast, was hoping to be the first K-Pop act to win a Grammy after a breakthrough year in the United States for the genre.
The awards were announced online ahead of the main broadcast of the Grammys on CBS television, which is expected to be a hybrid ceremony of live and pre-recorded performances but, due to the coronavirus pandemic, without the usual audience of thousands of musicians. and industry executives. .
Rapper Megan Thee Stallion won for her rap rendition of “Savage,” featuring Beyonce, on what could be a great night for the Texan musician, who is seen as one of the top contenders for best new artist.
File photo shows Taylor Swift performing “Out of the Woods” at the 58th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California on February 15, 2016. REUTERS / Mario Anzuoni
Kanye West took home the Grammy for his gospel album “Jesus is King,” while Beyonce also won best music video for “Brown Skin Girl,” which he shared with his nine-year-old daughter Blue Ivy.
Eilish, the Los Angeles teenager who dominated the Grammy Awards last year, won for her title track of the upcoming James Bond film “No Time to Die.” Eilish, 19, also has two other nods for her ballad “Everything I Wanted.”
Beyonce, the most nominated female artist in Grammy history with 79 career nominations, attended the ceremony with nine top nominations, primarily for music celebrating black culture in a year of racial turmoil in America.
But she’s not on the list of musicians hired for Sunday’s three-hour show, which will feature performances by artists like Taylor Swift, Megan Thee Stallion, Eilish, Harry Styles, Latin star Bad Bunny, and black country singer Mickey. Guyton.
An unusually diverse lineup of first-prize hopefuls, album of the year, means it could be anyone’s night.
“The nominations were so surprising – The Weeknd wasn’t nominated – it’s a very strange year to try to predict,” said Melinda Newman, Billboard’s executive editor for the West Coast and Nashville.
“I think it will be a year where nobody does a clean sweep,” he added.
The winners are chosen by some 11,000 voting members of the Recording Academy. Talk show host Trevor Noah will host the broadcast.
American Music Awards 2019 – Show – Los Angeles, California, USA, November 24, 2019 – Dua Lipa performs “Don’t Start Now”. REUTERS / Mario Anzuoni
Swift and British pop singer Dua Lipa each garnered six nominations, along with rapper Roddy Ricch. Lipa and her album “Future Nostalgia” may have the advantage of being the only one of the trio to get a nod in the big three races: album, album and song of the year.
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