Drake and The Weeknd Refuse to Submit for 2023 Grammys – Report

For yet one more 12 months, each Drake and The Weeknd stay adamant of their refusal to submit music for Grammy award consideration.

According to a Pitchfork report revealed on Friday (Oct. 14), Drake and The Weeknd’s most up-to-date solo musical choices had been noticeably absent from the voting ballots because the Recording Academy opened up its first spherical of the nomination course of for the sixty fifth Annual Grammy Awards on Thursday (Oct. 13).

Despite each Toronto-bred mega stars having been featured on loads of songs which can be included on this 12 months’s Grammy poll, neither Drake’s Honestly, Nevermind nor The Weeknd’s Dawn FM had been seemingly submitted for Grammy Award consideration. The identical may be mentioned for any singles from the respective tasks reminiscent of Drizzy’s “Jimmy Cooks” that includes 21 Savage.

The newest omissions from Drake and The Weeknd relating to the recording trade’s most prestigious award follows a historical past of beef each revered artists have had with the Recording Academy, the group which yearly hosts the Grammys.

In 2017, Drake equally refused to submit his More Life album to be thought-about for the coveted golden gramophone trophy after not displaying up on the Grammy Awards ceremony the 12 months prior due to his opinion that the Grammys not mirrored the preferences of a youthful viewers. At the 2019 ceremony, the Scorpion MC was minimize off mid-acceptance speech for downplaying the Grammys’ significance whereas accepting the award for Best Rap Song he earned for “God’s Plan.” In the wake of that incident, Drake took it upon himself to take away his 2021 album, Certified Lover Boy, from any and all Grammy Award nominations.

As for The Weeknd, he started his Recording Academy boycott in 2021 after not receiving a single nomination for his wildly profitable 2020 album, After Hours. Regardless of the boycott, The Weeknd nonetheless earned a Grammy finally 12 months’s festivities for his visitor look on Kanye West’s “Hurricane,” which earned the award for Best Melodic Rap Performance.

Drake and Weeknd weren’t the one city artists to refuse to submit their music for consideration. Silk Sonic, the duo made up of Anderson .Paak and Bruno Mars, not too long ago introduced the identical transfer.

“We truly put our all on this record, but Silk Sonic would like to gracefully, humbly and most importantly, sexually, bow out of submitting our album this year,” Mars informed Rolling Stone in a press release on Thursday. “We hope we can celebrate with everyone on a great year of music and partake in the party. Thank you for letting Silk Sonic thrive.”

The sixty fifth Grammy Awards are set to broadcast reside from the Crypto.com Area in Los Angeles on Feb. 5, 2023, on CBS.

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