LOS ANGELES — Taylor Swift, Beyonce and Dua Lipa lead the charge at the reinvented Grammy Awards on Sunday, where the music industry hopes to put a year-long pandemic behind it.
But an unusually diverse line-up of contenders for the top prize, album of the year, mean it could be anyone’s night.
“The nominations were so surprising — The Weeknd not getting 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’s going to be a year where no-one makes a clean sweep.”
The winners are chosen by some 11,000 voting members of the Recording Academy.
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