Morgan Wallen banned from 2021 American Music Awards regardless of two nominations

By ANI

WASHINGTON: Country music star Morgan Wallen was banned from attending the 2021 American Music Awards regardless of being nominated for 2 awards on the ceremony.

“Morgan Wallen is a nominee this year based on charting. As his conduct does not align with our core values, we will not be including him on the show in any capacity (performing, presenting, accepting),” learn an announcement attributed to MRC Live & Alternative, which is producing the present, reported Variety.

The assertion went on to recommend that they are leaving the door half-open, however nonetheless aren’t glad with the statements the nation celebrity made since he was caught saying the N-word on video in March.

“We plan to evaluate his progress in doing meaningful work as an ally to the Black community and will consider his participation in future shows,” the assertion stated.

It additionally supplied an evidence of why the AMAs as an awards present with nominations primarily based on knowledge and never qualitative judgments, didn’t really feel there was any solution to depart Wallen out of his rightfully earned nominations.

“Unique among awards shows, American Music Awards (AMA) nominees are determined by performance on the Billboard Charts and are not chosen by a voting committee or membership organization. AMA nominees are based on key fan interactions with music (including streaming, album sales, song sales, radio airplay, social engagement), tracked by Billboard and its data partner MRC Data,” the assertion learn.

But, it additionally famous, “The AMA winners are voted entirely by fans” — which leaves the door huge open for a pair of Wallen wins, since he has the preferred album of the 12 months to this point in any style, and its large success has been unaffected by the disgrace heaped on him by massive swaths of the music business.

Almost for sure, the 2 classes for which Wallen is up — favorite nation album and favorite male nation artist — are extremely more likely to be offered on-air.

The AMAs’ resolution marks a seeming sweep of Wallen being barred from awards reveals this 12 months. He was dominated ineligible on the Academy of Country Music Awards within the spring and CMT Music Awards in the summertime.

The Country Music Association issued a cut up resolution and stated he may contend in classes that may go each to him and his collaborators, however the organisation nonetheless stated he wouldn’t be invited to subsequent month’s CMAs. In any case, he is up for album of the 12 months there.

At the Billboard Music Awards in May, that are data-driven from begin to end, Wallen gained three awards out of the six he was nominated for, after additionally being banned there.

The Grammys, in the meantime, has accepted all his submitted data for the primary poll. There’s been no indication from producers about whether or not he could be invited to the present if he makes the ultimate run of nominees.

Wallen has been easing again into performing and public life since doing an interview on ‘Good Morning America’ in July for which each he and anchor Michael Strahan had been extensively panned for insufficiently addressing his follow-up from the incident and racism in nation music typically.