THE 2015 AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED Taylor Swift Leads This Year with 6 Nominations, Ed Sheeran and The Weeknd Tie with 5 Nominations Each 2015 Artist of the Year Nominees include Luke Bryan, Ariana Grande, Maroon 5, Nicki Minaj, One Direction, Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, Taylor Swift, The Weeknd and Meghan Trainor Jennifer Lopez Will Host the 2015 American Music Awards Live from the Microsoft Theater on SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 nd at 8:00pm ET on ABC For digital assets and nominee gif galleries, please go to: http://bit.ly/amascontent Los Angeles, CA (October 13, 2015) The American Music Awards, the world s biggest fan-voted award show, announced today the 2015 American Music Awards nominees. Recording artists Joe Jonas and Charlie Puth rose at the crack of dawn to reveal six categories of nominees on ABC s Good Morning America. Immediately following the broadcast, five additional categories were announced in real time exclusively via Snapchat (TheAMAs). ABC News then livestreamed the remaining 12 categories and included a recap of all nominees in the 11 previously-announced categories. (See the full list of nominees below). As previously announced, Jennifer Lopez will host and perform on the 2015 American Music Awards, which will broadcast live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday, November 22 at 8:00pm ET on ABC. Taylor Swift leads this year with six nominations. Ed Sheeran and The Weeknd tie with five nominations each, while Sam Hunt, Nicki Minaj, Sam Smith, Meghan Trainor and Walk the Moon earn three nominations each. Additionally, Jason Aldean, Chris Brown, Luke Bryan, Drake, Fetty Wap, Florida Georgia Line, Ariana Grande, Maroon 5, Bruno Mars, One Direction, Charlie Puth, Rihanna, Mark Ronson and Wiz Khalifa each receive two nominations. The Artist of the Year nominees are Luke Bryan, Ariana Grande, Maroon 5, Nicki Minaj, One Direction, Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, Taylor Swift, Meghan Trainor and The Weeknd. The ten nominees will be narrowed to five based on the votes received through November 11 at 11:59pm ET and the winner will be determined by the total votes received throughout the entire voting period. The Song of The Year nominees are Wiz Khalifa Featuring Charlie Puth See You Again, Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars Uptown Funk!, Ed Sheeran Thinking Out Loud, Taylor Swift Blank Space, and The Weeknd Can t Feel My Face. As always at the American Music Awards, artists will be honored in the genres of Pop/Rock, Alternative Rock, Country, Rap/Hip-Hop, Soul/R&B, Adult Contemporary, Contemporary Inspirational, Latin, EDM, Soundtrack, Song of The Year, New Artist of the Year Presented by Kohl s, Collaboration of the Year Un-leashed by T- Mobile and Artist of the Year. 1
American Music Awards nominees are based on key fan interactions as reflected in Billboard Magazine and on Billboard.com, including album and digital singles sales, radio airplay, streaming, social activity and touring. These measurements are tracked by Billboard and its data partners, including Nielsen Entertainment and Next Big Sound. The American Music Awards winners are voted entirely by fans. Voting opened today in all categories except those listed below. Fans can vote for each category once per day, per platform in any (or many) of the below ways: Via AMAvote.com Posting a status on Facebook that includes the nominee s name and the category s hashtag within the post(s). Posting a tweet on Twitter that includes the nominee s name or Twitter handle, the category name and #AMAs within the post(s). Voting for New Artist of the Year Presented by Kohl s and Collaboration of the Year Un-leashed by T-Mobile will open on November 1 at 12:01am ET. More information on voting for these categories will be provided in the coming weeks. Preceding the ABC broadcast for the 7 th consecutive year will be the Coca-Cola Red Carpet LIVE! @ The 2015 AMAs pre-show. Live coverage will stream online for fans worldwide starting at 5:00pm ET / 2:00pm PT on November 22nd at Yahoo, this year s official digital distributor of the American Music Awards pre-show. The live stream can also be watched at TheAMAs.com and ABC.com. The 2015 American Music Awards is produced by dick clark productions. Allen Shapiro and Mike Mahan are Executive Producers. Larry Klein, Barry Adelman and Mark Bracco are Producers. Below please find the full list of nominations for the 2015 American Music Awards : 2015 AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS NOMINEES: ARTIST OF THE YEAR Luke Bryan Ariana Grande Maroon 5 Nicki Minaj One Direction Ed Sheeran Sam Smith Taylor Swift Meghan Trainor The Weeknd NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR PRESENTED BY KOHL S Fetty Wap Sam Hunt Tove Lo Walk The Moon The Weeknd 2
SONG OF THE YEAR Wiz Khalifa Featuring Charlie Puth See You Again Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars Uptown Funk! Ed Sheeran Thinking Out Loud Taylor Swift Blank Space The Weeknd Can t Feel My Face COLLABORATION OF THE YEAR UN-LEASHED BY T-MOBILE Wiz Khalifa Featuring Charlie Puth See You Again Rihanna & Kanye West Featuring Paul McCartney FourFiveSeconds Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars Uptown Funk! Skrillex & Diplo Featuring Justin Bieber Where Are Ü Now Taylor Swift Featuring Kendrick Lamar Bad Blood FAVORITE MALE ARTIST POP/ROCK Nick Jonas Ed Sheeran Sam Smith FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST POP/ROCK Ariana Grande Taylor Swift Meghan Trainor FAVORITE DUO OR GROUP POP/ROCK Maroon 5 One Direction Walk The Moon FAVORITE ALBUM POP/ROCK Ed Sheeran x Sam Smith In The Lonely Hour Taylor Swift 1989 FAVORITE MALE ARTIST COUNTRY Jason Aldean Luke Bryan 3
Sam Hunt FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST COUNTRY Kelsea Ballerini Miranda Lambert Carrie Underwood FAVORITE DUO or GROUP - COUNTRY Zac Brown Band Florida Georgia Line Little Big Town FAVORITE ALBUM - COUNTRY Jason Aldean Old Boots, New Dirt Florida Georgia Line Anything Goes Sam Hunt Montevallo FAVORITE ARTIST RAP/HIP-HOP Drake Fetty Wap Nicki Minaj FAVORITE ALBUM RAP/HIP-HOP J. Cole 2014 Forest Hills Drive Drake If You re Reading This It s Too Late Nicki Minaj The Pinkprint FAVORITE MALE ARTIST SOUL/R&B Chris Brown Trey Songz The Weeknd FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST SOUL/R&B Beyoncé Mary J. Blige Rihanna 4
FAVORITE ALBUM SOUL/R&B Chris Brown X D Angelo and The Vanguard Black Messiah The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness FAVORITE ARTIST - ALTERNATIVE ROCK Fall Out Boy Hozier Walk The Moon FAVORITE ARTIST - ADULT CONTEMPORARY Ed Sheeran Taylor Swift Meghan Trainor FAVORITE ARTIST - LATIN Enrique Iglesias Ricky Martin Romeo Santos FAVORITE ARTIST - CONTEMPORARY INSPIRATIONAL Casting Crowns Hillsong United MercyMe FAVORITE ARTIST - ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC (EDM) Calvin Harris David Guetta Zedd TOP SOUNDTRACK Fifty Shades of Grey Empire: Original Soundtrack from Season 1 Pitch Perfect 2 5
For the latest American Music Awards news, exclusive content and more, be sure to follow the AMAs on social and join the conversation by using the official hashtag for the show, #AMAs. Facebook: Facebook.com/AMAs Twitter: @TheAMAs Instagram: @TheAMAs Snapchat: TheAMAs Tumblr: americanmusicawards.tumblr.com Vine: TheAMAs Cheat tweet: Congrats @taylorswift13, @edsheeran and @theweeknd who lead with the most @TheAMAs nominations! #AMAs Tickets are now on sale at www.axs.com. [EDITOR S NOTE]: For AMA assets, please visit the FTP site below: ftp://dcpi.hosting4less.com USERNAME: dcpi-ama PASSWORD: Publicity About the American Music Awards The American Music Awards features performances from today s hottest artists and presents fan-voted awards in the categories of Pop/Rock, Alternative Rock, Country, Rap/Hip-Hop, Soul/R&B, Adult Contemporary, Contemporary Inspirational, Latin, EDM, Soundtrack, Song of The Year, New Artist of the Year Presented by Kohl s, Collaboration of the Year Un-leashed by T-Mobile and Artist of the Year. The American Music Awards pays tribute to today s most influential and iconic artists. The show is produced by dick clark productions and is seen in more than 160 countries around the world. For more information, visit www.theamas.com, www.dickclark.com or abc.go.com/shows/american-music-awards. About dick clark productions dick clark productions (dcp) is the world's largest producer and proprietor of televised live event entertainment programming with the "Academy of Country Music Awards," "American Country Countdown Awards," "American Music Awards," "Billboard Music Awards," "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest," "Golden Globe Awards," Hollywood Film Awards and the Streamy Awards. Weekly television programming includes "So You Think You Can Dance" from 19 Entertainment, a division of CORE Media Group and dcp; World s Funniest from Jukin Media and dcp; as well as BOOM! from Keshet DCP, the joint venture between Keshet International (KI), the global distribution and production arm of Keshet Media Group and DC Media, the parent company of dcp. dcp also owns one of the world's most unique and extensive entertainment archive libraries with more than 55 years of award-winning shows, historic programs, specials, performances and legendary programming. For additional information, visit www.dickclark.com. SHOW MEDIA CREDENTIALS To apply for media credentials to cover the 2015 American Music Awards please go to https://dcp.wufoo.com/forms/rpds2jw0gp0xa7/. Submissions for credentials will stay open until 6pm PT on Friday, November 6, 2015. 6
Media Contacts Slate PR Andy Gelb 310-461-0111 Andy@slate-pr.com Elyse Weissman 310-461-0111 Elyse@slate-pr.com dick clark productions: Liz Morentin 310-255-4602 LMorentin@dickclark.com Gina Sorial 310-255-0308 GSorial@dickclark.com ABC Media Relations: George Zaralidis 818-460-7920 George.Zaralidis@abc.com Nicole Marostica 818-460-6783 Nicole.Y.Marostica@abc.com Latin Press Inquiries: Diana Baron 310-315-5444 diana@dbaronmedia.com Sebastian Cubillos 818-744-4473 Sebastian@dbaronmedia.com NOMINATIONS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER (BY FIRST NAME): Ariana Grande: (2) Artist of the Year, Favorite Female Artist-Pop/Rock Beyoncé: (1) Favorite Female Artist-Soul/R&B Bruno Mars: (2) Song of the Year, Collaboration of the Year Un-leashed by T-Mobile Charlie Puth: (2) Song of the Year, Collaboration of the Year Un-leashed by T-Mobile Calvin Harris: (1) Favorite Artist-Electronic Dance Music (EDM) Carrie Underwood: (1) Favorite Female Artist-Country Casting Crowns: (1) Favorite Artist-Contemporary Inspirational Chris Brown: (2) Favorite Male Artist-Soul/R&B, Favorite Album-Soul/R&B D'Angelo and The Vanguard: (1) Favorite Album-Soul/R&B David Guetta: (1) Favorite Artist-Electronic Dance Music (EDM) Diplo: (1) Collaboration of the Year Un-leashed By T-Mobile Drake: (2) Favorite Artist-Rap/Hip-Hop, Favorite Album-Rap/Hip-Hop Ed Sheeran: (5) Artist of the Year, Song of the Year, Favorite Male Artist-Pop/Rock, Favorite Album- Pop/Rock, Favorite Artist-Adult Contemporary Empire: Original Soundtrack from Season 1: (1) Top Soundtrack Enrique Iglesias: (1) Favorite Artist-Latin Fall Out Boy: (1) Favorite Artist-Alternative Rock 7
Fetty Wap: (2) New Artist of the Year Presented by Kohl s, Favorite Artist-Rap/Hip-Hop Fifty Shades of Grey: (1) Top Soundtrack Florida Georgia Line: (2) Favorite Duo or Group-Country, Favorite Album-Country Hillsong United: (1) Favorite Artist-Contemporary Inspirational Hozier: (1) Favorite Artist-Alternative Rock J. Cole: (1) Favorite Album-Rap/Hip-Hop Jason Aldean: (2) Favorite Male Artist-Country, Favorite Album-Country Justin Bieber: (1) Collaboration of the Year Un-leashed by T-Mobile Kanye West: (1) Collaboration of the Year Un-leashed by T-Mobile Kelsea Ballerini: (1) Favorite Female Artist-Country Kendrick Lamar: (1) Collaboration of the Year Un-leashed by T-Mobile Little Big Town: (1) Favorite Duo or Group-Country Luke Bryan: (2) Artist of the Year, Favorite Male Artist-Country Maroon 5: (2) Artist of the Year, Favorite Duo or Group-Pop/Rock Mark Ronson: (2) Song of the Year, Collaboration of the Year Un-leashed by T-Mobile Mary J. Blige: (1) Favorite Female Artist-Soul/R&B Meghan Trainor: (3) Artist of the Year, Favorite Female Artist-Pop/Rock, Favorite Artist-Adult Contemporary MercyMe: (1) Favorite Artist-Contemporary Inspiration Miranda Lambert: (1) Favorite Female Artist-Country Nick Jonas: (1) Favorite Male Artist- Pop/Rock Nicki Minaj: (3) Artist of the Year, Favorite Artist-Rap/Hip-Hop, Favorite Album-Rap/Hip-Hop One Direction: (2) Artist of the Year, Favorite Duo or Group-Pop/Rock Paul McCartney: (1) Collaboration of the Year Un-leashed by T-Mobile Pitch Perfect 2: (1) Top Soundtrack Ricky Martin: (1) Favorite Artist-Latin Rihanna: (2) Favorite Female Artist-Soul/R&B, Collaboration of the Year Un-leashed by T-Mobile 8
Romeo Santos: (1) Favorite Artist-Latin Sam Hunt: (3) New Artist of the Year Presented by Kohl s, Favorite Male Artist-Country, Favorite Album- Country Sam Smith: (3) Artist of the Year, Favorite Male Artist-Pop/Rock, Favorite Album-Pop/Rock Skrillex: (1) Collaboration of the Year Un-leashed by T-Mobile Taylor Swift: (6) Artist of the Year, Song of the Year, Favorite Female Artist-Pop/Rock, Favorite Album- Pop/Rock, Favorite Artist-Adult Contemporary, Collaboration of the Year Un-leashed by T-Mobile The Weeknd: (5) Artist of the Year, New Artist of the Year Presented by Kohl s, Song of the Year, Favorite Male Artist-Soul/R&B, Favorite Album-Soul/R&B Tove Lo: (1) New Artist of the Year Presented by Kohl s Trey Songz: (1) Favorite Male Artist-Soul/R&B Walk the Moon: (3) New Artist of the Year Presented by Kohl s, Favorite Duo or Group-Pop/Rock, Favorite Artist-Alternative Rock Wiz Khalifa: (2) Song of the Year, Collaboration of the Year Un-leashed by T-Mobile Zac Brown Band: (1) Favorite Duo or Group-Country Zedd: (1) Favorite Artist-Electronic Dance Music (EDM) # # # 9