{"id":4621,"date":"2016-11-16T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=4621"},"modified":"2016-11-18T13:24:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T21:24:32","slug":"american-music-awards-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/american-music-awards-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"American Music Awards 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Blayde Biacan\r\nStaff Writer\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This has been a truly crazy year. An event that signifies the coming of the end, as well as a new year, is the 44th annual American Music Awards, which will take place on Nov. 20 in the Microsoft Theater. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The American Music Awards will also premiere live on ABC\u2019s \u201cGood Morning America\u201d, which will be hosted by Gigi Hadid and Jay Pharoah. There are many well-known names included in the nominees for the many different music categories. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Drake currently leads with 13 nominations, the most in the event\u2019s history. Previously, Michael Jackson\u2019s 11 nominations held the top spot from the 1981 American Music Awards. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Drake\u2019s album, \u201cViews\u201d, has kept the top spot on the Billboard 200 chart, and one of the songs, \u201cOne Dance\u201d was given the title of Billboard\u2019s \u201cSong of the Summer 2016\u201d. Following him is Rihanna with 7 nominations, and Adele and Justin Bieber who hold 5 nominations each.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year, the American Music Awards is adding in new categories such as, Tour of the Year and Video of the Year, as well as adding in a favorite song category for the different genres of music. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The nominees for favorite album and favorite song in each genre aren\u2019t the same, so don\u2019t fret too much if we hear too much of the same names. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An anticipated category is the Artist of the Year, which features the nominees such as Adele, Beyonc\u00e9, Justin Bieber, Drake, Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande, Rihanna, Twenty-One Pilots, Carrie Underwood, and The Weeknd.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These are some highlights of the American Music Awards, however there is more information on the American Music Awards website itself with more information. If not you can always surprise yourself when it\u2019s showtime on ABC.<\/span><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contact the author bbiacan16@wou.edu<\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Blayde Biacan Staff Writer This has been a truly crazy year. An event that signifies the coming of the end, as well as a new year, is the 44th annual American Music Awards, which will take place on Nov. 20 in the Microsoft Theater. The American Music Awards will also premiere live on ABC\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":937,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}