Drake Breaks Micheal Jackson's 32-Year Record For Most American Music Award Nominations

LOS ANGELES, CA – Since the top of the year, Drake has been breaking records left and right with no signs of slowing down as he dethrones Michael Jackson’s American Music Award record for the most nominations.

The King of Pop previously held the mark with 11 nods in 1984 for Thrillerand his popular classics “Beat It” and “Billie Jean” and he won all 11 of the awards.

The 6 God leads all 2016 American Music Awards nominees with 13 nods. He received selections in the categories for Artist of the Year, Favorite Male Artist, Favorite Rap Artist, Favorite Rap Song, Favorite R&B song, Favorite Rap/Hip Hop Album, Favorite Pop Album and Favorite Album for his multi-Platinum work VIEWS and joint Future album What A Time To Be Alive, among others.

Rihanna and the OVO boss’s collaborative single “Work” gets a few nods as well. RiRi comes in right behind Drizzy with 7 AMA nominations.

Drake is also slated to go up against his “Too Good” partner for Artist of the Year along with Adele, Beyoncé, Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande, Twenty One Pilots, Carrie Underwood and former OVO affiliate The Weeknd.

The Artist of the Year nominees will be narrowed down to only five based on fan votes received from Monday, November 14 to Thursday, November 17. Ambitious fans can vote for all categories once per day.

For New Artist of the Year Un-leashed by T-Mobile, fans can vote 100 times per day, per platform at AMAvote.com or by posting a tweet that includes the nominee’s Twitter handle, the category name and #AMAs within the post.

The award ceremony is scheduled to take place November 20 at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles and will air on ABC 8 p.m. EST.

See the full list of nominees below:

ARTIST OF THE YEAR

Adele
Beyoncé
Justin Bieber
Drake
Selena Gomez
Ariana Grande
Rihanna
Twenty One Pilots
Carrie Underwood
The Weeknd

FAVORITE ARTIST – RAP/HIP-HOP

Drake
Fetty Wap
Future

FAVORITE ALBUM – RAP/HIP-HOP

Drake VIEWS
Drake & Future What A Time To Be Alive
Fetty Wap Fetty Wap

FAVORITE SONG – RAP/HIP-HOP

Desiigner “Panda”
Drake “Hotline Bling”
Fetty Wap “679”

FAVORITE MALE ARTIST – SOUL/R&B

Chris Brown
Bryson Tiller
The Weeknd

FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST – SOUL/R&B

Beyoncé
Janet Jackson
Rihanna

FAVORITE ALBUM – SOUL/R&B

Beyoncé LEMONADE
Rihanna Anti
Bryson Tiller T R A P S O U L

FAVORITE SONG – SOUL/R&B

Drake Featuring Wizkid & Kyla “One Dance”
Rihanna Featuring Drake “Work”
Bryson Tiller “Don’t”

NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR UN-LEASHED BY T-MOBILE

Alessia Cara
The Chainsmokers
DNCE
Shawn Mendes
ZAYN

COLLABORATION OF THE YEAR

The Chainsmokers Featuring Daya “Don’t Let Me Down”
Drake Featuring Wizkid & Kyla “One Dance”
Fifth Harmony Featuring Ty Dolla $ign “Work From Home”
Rihanna Featuring Drake “Work”
Meghan Trainor Featuring John Legend “Like I’m Gonna Lose You”

TOUR OF THE YEAR

Beyoncé
Madonna
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band

VIDEO OF THE YEAR

Justin Bieber “Sorry”
Desiigner “Panda”
Rihanna Featuring Drake “Work”

FAVORITE MALE ARTIST – POP/ROCK

Justin Bieber
Drake
The Weeknd

FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST – POP/ROCK

Adele
Selena Gomez
Rihanna

FAVORITE DUO OR GROUP – POP/ROCK

The Chainsmokers
DNCE
Twenty One Pilots

FAVORITE ALBUM – POP/ROCK

Adele 25
Justin Bieber Purpose
Drake VIEWS

FAVORITE SONG- POP/ROCK

Adele “Hello”
Justin Bieber “Love Yourself”
Drake Featuring Wizkid & Kyla “One Dance”

FAVORITE MALE ARTIST – COUNTRY

Luke Bryan
Thomas Rhett
Blake Shelton

FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST – COUNTRY

Kelsea Ballerini
Cam
Carrie Underwood

FAVORITE DUO or GROUP – COUNTRY

Florida Georgia Line
Old Dominion
Zac Brown Band

FAVORITE ALBUM – COUNTRY

Luke Bryan Kill the Lights
Chris Stapleton Traveller
Carrie Underwood Storyteller

FAVORITE SONG – COUNTRY

Florida Georgia Line “H.O.L.Y.”
Tim McGraw “Humble And Kind”
Thomas Rhett “Die A Happy Man”

FAVORITE ARTIST – ALTERNATIVE ROCK

Coldplay
Twenty One Pilots
X Ambassadors

FAVORITE ARTIST – ADULT CONTEMPORARY

Adele
Rachel Platten
Meghan Trainor

FAVORITE ARTIST – LATIN

J Balvin
Enrique Iglesias
Nicky Jam

FAVORITE ARTIST – CONTEMPORARY INSPIRATIONAL

Lauren Daigle
Hillsong UNITED
Chris Tomlin

FAVORITE ARTIST – ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC (EDM)

The Chainsmokers
Calvin Harris
Major Lazer

TOP SOUNDTRACK

Purple Rain
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Suicide Squad: The Album

Wiz Khalifa Set To Drop 'BASH' Clothing Line

Wiz Khalifa is prepping to release a clothing line in honor of his son Sebastian. The line, BASH, is a collaboration between Wiz and the Los Angeles based clothing company Junk Food Clothing.

“All the designs are based around Sebastian — all of his hobbies and the things that he’s into. I just really wanted it to feel personal to him, so when he sees it, he gets excited,” the Pittsburgh rapper says. “He’s 3 years old, so he might not understand the concept of having his own clothing line. But the fact that all of his favorite things are all over his clothes, it makes him feel special; it makes him entertained by what he’s wearing.”

Wiz went on to say the line will include Sebastian inspired T-shirts, Jackets, and Sweaters for Men and Boys. Prices are looking like they will range from $35 to $50 for the children’s styles and $45 to $80 for the men’s designs.

Check out a few of the looks from BASH below:

Kid Cudi Blasts Streaming ServicesAfter Kanye West Tweet

Kanye West spent part of his weekend going on a Twitter rant about how streaming services battling each other is hurting music way more than helping it. Ye’s rant was the following:

“This Tidal Apple beef is fucking up the music game,” he wrote in a series of tweets. “I need Tim Cook Jay Z Dez Jimmy Larry me and Drake Scooter on the phone or in a room this week!!! Fuck all this dick swinging contest. We all gon be dead in 100 Years. Let the kids have the music. Apple give Jay his check for Tidal now and stop trying to act like you Steve.”

Kid Cudi quickly responded, agreeing on the demise of music at the hands of these streaming services:

Suge Knight Once Sent Goons After Eminem

Everyone knows Suge Knight likes to use muscle every now and then to get his point across. While speaking with Murder Master Music Show, one of Eminem‘s former bodyguards told a story about the time Suge sent some goons after Marshall.
Big Naz, the former bodyguard, explained it happened during the 2001 Source Awards.

“We were at The Source Awards and we all know historically in the past, The Source Awards, someone always got shot,” he says. “That was our first encounter with Suge Knight and his henchman. Em was going to his seat. The way they had the seating was all messed up and the bodyguards couldn’t sit with the artists. I think that was by design ’cause I think they really wanted the artists to be able to network with each other, but it also gives people who got beef with other artists to get at them.”
“He’s beefing with all these guys in these red shirts,” Big Naz says. Knight is affiliated with the Bloods. “So I come from where I was at, I had to come back around, I noticed Em’s face changing, he’s turning like tomato red. There’s a sea of red guys around him. I had to bust through the middle man and snatch him up. Like, ‘Hey man what the hell’s going on up here?’ This is exactly what they said, ‘Death Row, motherfucker, Death Row.’”

Naz then goes on to say the goons told him Suge sent them to rough Em up.

“‘Man, Suge Knight sent us to strongarm him and it’s going down,’” Naz remembers them saying. “I was like, ‘Oh man, I just inherited the East Coast – West Coast beef.’”

50 Cent & The Game Squash Beef ?

Apparently 50 Cent and The Game have definitely squashed their beef. The longtime rivals were in Ace of Diamonds strip club in L.A. on Monday night and they had nothing but smiles on their faces. While 50 made it rain, The Game decided to grabbed the mic and let the whole club know 50 and himself don’t have problems anymore.

Nation Of Islam Vows To Protect Beyonce

Minister Louis Farrakhan has asked the Nation of Islam to protect Beyonce as she embarks on her World Tour. Farrakhan was addressing over 14,000 convention attendees over the weekend in Detroit and touched on an array of topics – including Bey’s recent treatment after her Super Bowl halftime performance.

“She started talking that Black stuff and White folks say, ‘Well, we don’t know how to deal with that,” Farrakhan says at the convention yesterday (February 21). “Well, you taught us everywhere we went about the Holocaust, but we have sympathy for you. But when one of us shows some independence, look at how you’re treating Beyonce now. You’re going to picket. You’re not going to offer her police protection. But the FOI will.” The FOI refers to the Fruit of Islam, the Nation of Islam’s security.

Cash Money Records Ordered To Pay $1 Million For Jay Sean Songs

Birdman and Cash Money Records are being forced to pay mega bucks for a lot of old Jay Sean songs. According to reports, Orange Factory Music just won a $1.1 million judgement for producing several of Sean’s songs, including “Down,” “Fire,” “Lights Off” and “Do You Remember.”
Cash Money must pay up within 21 days.