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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nSnub: Taylor Swift<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tTaylor Swift has won 40 American Music Awards, more than anyone else in the history of the show. (And it\u2019s not even close. Runner-up Michael Jackson won 24 of the trophies.) But Swift didn\u2019t add to her collection this year. She led all artists with eight nominations this year but didn\u2019t win a single thing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nSurprise: Shakira & Tyla Win in Genre-Neutral Categories<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tIt\u2019s always impressive when a genre superstar wins in a genre-neutral category. That\u2019s what Shakira did, winning tour of the year over high-profile tours by Beyonc\u00e9, Kendrick Lamar\/SZA, Lady Gaga and Oasis.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn a similar way, South African star Tyla, whose music fuses pop and amapiano, won social song of the year for \u201cCHANEL,\u201d beating songs by Disco Lines & Tinashe, Pink Pantheress, Role Model and Zara Larsson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nSnubs: Olivia Dean, Alex Warren, Lady Gaga<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tSwift wasn\u2019t the only artist with a large number of nominations who was shut out. Dean had seven nominations. Warren and Gaga each had six. Dean, who won the Grammy for best new artist in February, needn\u2019t worry. She is almost certain to be nominated for album, record and song of the year at next year\u2019s Grammys.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nSurprise: Sam Barber<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tSam Barber won breakthrough country artist, beating Tucker Wetmore, who won the 2026 ACM Award for new male artist of the year, and Zach Top, who won the ACM Award in that same category in 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nSnub: Morgan Wallen<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tWallen won best male country artist for the second time in three years. (He lost last year to his buddy and collab partner Post Malone). But Wallen, the best-selling country album artist of the 2020s (by a wide margin), has yet to win best country album. This year, his I\u2019m the Problem<\/em> lost to Megan Moroney\u2019s Cloud 9.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\tKenny Rogers and Garth Brooks, the top male country artists of previous eras, won five and four awards, respectively, in this category.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nSurprise: KATSEYE<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tKATSEYE won new artist of the year, beating Olivia Dean, who less than four months ago won the Grammy for best new artist (beating KATSEYE, among others). Alex Warren, Sombr and Leon Thomas were nominated in the new artist category and lost at both shows.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nSurprise: Sombr<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tSombr\u2019s win for best rock\/alternative song for \u201cBack to Friends\u201d was no surprise, but even he expressed surprise at his win for best rock\/alternative album for I Barely Know Her<\/em>. The album reached No. 10 on the Billboard 200. All of the other nominees climbed higher. Sleep Token\u2019s Even in Arcadia<\/em>, Twenty One Pilots\u2019 Breach <\/em>and Zach Bryan\u2019s With Heaven on Top<\/em> each reached No. 1. Tame Impala\u2019s Deadbeat<\/em> climbed as high as No. 4.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\nSurprise: Groups Score Big<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tThree of the seven acts that led the night with three wins each \u2013 BTS, KATSEYE and HUNTR\/X \u2013 were groups. That\u2019s an unusually high number. In recent years, the great majority of the leaders at awards shows have been solo artists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nSnub: Artists Who Have Died<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tUnlike most awards shows, the American Music Awards doesn\u2019t have an In Memoriam segment. \u00a0In accepting an award for best throwback song for \u201cRock That Body,\u201d The Black Eyed Peas saluted rapper Rob Base, whose most famous hit, \u201cIt Takes Two,\u201d they sampled. Base died on May 22.<\/p>\n
\n\tThere was no such mention of Dash Crofts, even though Keith Urban performed Seals and Crofts\u2019 1972 smash \u201cSummer Breeze,\u201d which he covered on his upcoming Flow State<\/em> album of \u201cyacht rock classics. Crofts died on March 25.<\/p>\n\n\tThe AMAs courts a younger audience than the Grammys and the Oscars. And they strive to maintain an upbeat party atmosphere. Still, they may be selling their audience short. This is a popular segment at most awards shows.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2197311656-e1779782322112.jpg?w=1024″] An American Music Awards show where Taylor Swift doesn\u2019t win a thing? Where KATSEYE, HUNTR\/X and Sombr, who were little-known just a year or two ago, win three awards each? Where Morgan Wallen is passed over for favorite country album\u2026again? (He has yet to win in the category.) There were surprises galore […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-1955474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1955474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1955474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1955474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1955474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\tTaylor Swift has won 40 American Music Awards, more than anyone else in the history of the show. (And it\u2019s not even close. Runner-up Michael Jackson won 24 of the trophies.) But Swift didn\u2019t add to her collection this year. She led all artists with eight nominations this year but didn\u2019t win a single thing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
Surprise: Shakira & Tyla Win in Genre-Neutral Categories<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tIt\u2019s always impressive when a genre superstar wins in a genre-neutral category. That\u2019s what Shakira did, winning tour of the year over high-profile tours by Beyonc\u00e9, Kendrick Lamar\/SZA, Lady Gaga and Oasis.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn a similar way, South African star Tyla, whose music fuses pop and amapiano, won social song of the year for \u201cCHANEL,\u201d beating songs by Disco Lines & Tinashe, Pink Pantheress, Role Model and Zara Larsson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nSnubs: Olivia Dean, Alex Warren, Lady Gaga<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tSwift wasn\u2019t the only artist with a large number of nominations who was shut out. Dean had seven nominations. Warren and Gaga each had six. Dean, who won the Grammy for best new artist in February, needn\u2019t worry. She is almost certain to be nominated for album, record and song of the year at next year\u2019s Grammys.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nSurprise: Sam Barber<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tSam Barber won breakthrough country artist, beating Tucker Wetmore, who won the 2026 ACM Award for new male artist of the year, and Zach Top, who won the ACM Award in that same category in 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nSnub: Morgan Wallen<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tWallen won best male country artist for the second time in three years. (He lost last year to his buddy and collab partner Post Malone). But Wallen, the best-selling country album artist of the 2020s (by a wide margin), has yet to win best country album. This year, his I\u2019m the Problem<\/em> lost to Megan Moroney\u2019s Cloud 9.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\tKenny Rogers and Garth Brooks, the top male country artists of previous eras, won five and four awards, respectively, in this category.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nSurprise: KATSEYE<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tKATSEYE won new artist of the year, beating Olivia Dean, who less than four months ago won the Grammy for best new artist (beating KATSEYE, among others). Alex Warren, Sombr and Leon Thomas were nominated in the new artist category and lost at both shows.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nSurprise: Sombr<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tSombr\u2019s win for best rock\/alternative song for \u201cBack to Friends\u201d was no surprise, but even he expressed surprise at his win for best rock\/alternative album for I Barely Know Her<\/em>. The album reached No. 10 on the Billboard 200. All of the other nominees climbed higher. Sleep Token\u2019s Even in Arcadia<\/em>, Twenty One Pilots\u2019 Breach <\/em>and Zach Bryan\u2019s With Heaven on Top<\/em> each reached No. 1. Tame Impala\u2019s Deadbeat<\/em> climbed as high as No. 4.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\nSurprise: Groups Score Big<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tThree of the seven acts that led the night with three wins each \u2013 BTS, KATSEYE and HUNTR\/X \u2013 were groups. That\u2019s an unusually high number. In recent years, the great majority of the leaders at awards shows have been solo artists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nSnub: Artists Who Have Died<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tUnlike most awards shows, the American Music Awards doesn\u2019t have an In Memoriam segment. \u00a0In accepting an award for best throwback song for \u201cRock That Body,\u201d The Black Eyed Peas saluted rapper Rob Base, whose most famous hit, \u201cIt Takes Two,\u201d they sampled. Base died on May 22.<\/p>\n
\n\tThere was no such mention of Dash Crofts, even though Keith Urban performed Seals and Crofts\u2019 1972 smash \u201cSummer Breeze,\u201d which he covered on his upcoming Flow State<\/em> album of \u201cyacht rock classics. Crofts died on March 25.<\/p>\n\n\tThe AMAs courts a younger audience than the Grammys and the Oscars. And they strive to maintain an upbeat party atmosphere. Still, they may be selling their audience short. This is a popular segment at most awards shows.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2197311656-e1779782322112.jpg?w=1024″] An American Music Awards show where Taylor Swift doesn\u2019t win a thing? Where KATSEYE, HUNTR\/X and Sombr, who were little-known just a year or two ago, win three awards each? Where Morgan Wallen is passed over for favorite country album\u2026again? (He has yet to win in the category.) There were surprises galore […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-1955474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1955474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1955474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1955474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1955474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\tIt\u2019s always impressive when a genre superstar wins in a genre-neutral category. That\u2019s what Shakira did, winning tour of the year over high-profile tours by Beyonc\u00e9, Kendrick Lamar\/SZA, Lady Gaga and Oasis.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn a similar way, South African star Tyla, whose music fuses pop and amapiano, won social song of the year for \u201cCHANEL,\u201d beating songs by Disco Lines & Tinashe, Pink Pantheress, Role Model and Zara Larsson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
Snubs: Olivia Dean, Alex Warren, Lady Gaga<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tSwift wasn\u2019t the only artist with a large number of nominations who was shut out. Dean had seven nominations. Warren and Gaga each had six. Dean, who won the Grammy for best new artist in February, needn\u2019t worry. She is almost certain to be nominated for album, record and song of the year at next year\u2019s Grammys.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nSurprise: Sam Barber<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tSam Barber won breakthrough country artist, beating Tucker Wetmore, who won the 2026 ACM Award for new male artist of the year, and Zach Top, who won the ACM Award in that same category in 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nSnub: Morgan Wallen<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tWallen won best male country artist for the second time in three years. (He lost last year to his buddy and collab partner Post Malone). But Wallen, the best-selling country album artist of the 2020s (by a wide margin), has yet to win best country album. This year, his I\u2019m the Problem<\/em> lost to Megan Moroney\u2019s Cloud 9.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\tKenny Rogers and Garth Brooks, the top male country artists of previous eras, won five and four awards, respectively, in this category.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nSurprise: KATSEYE<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tKATSEYE won new artist of the year, beating Olivia Dean, who less than four months ago won the Grammy for best new artist (beating KATSEYE, among others). Alex Warren, Sombr and Leon Thomas were nominated in the new artist category and lost at both shows.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nSurprise: Sombr<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tSombr\u2019s win for best rock\/alternative song for \u201cBack to Friends\u201d was no surprise, but even he expressed surprise at his win for best rock\/alternative album for I Barely Know Her<\/em>. The album reached No. 10 on the Billboard 200. All of the other nominees climbed higher. Sleep Token\u2019s Even in Arcadia<\/em>, Twenty One Pilots\u2019 Breach <\/em>and Zach Bryan\u2019s With Heaven on Top<\/em> each reached No. 1. Tame Impala\u2019s Deadbeat<\/em> climbed as high as No. 4.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\nSurprise: Groups Score Big<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tThree of the seven acts that led the night with three wins each \u2013 BTS, KATSEYE and HUNTR\/X \u2013 were groups. That\u2019s an unusually high number. In recent years, the great majority of the leaders at awards shows have been solo artists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nSnub: Artists Who Have Died<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tUnlike most awards shows, the American Music Awards doesn\u2019t have an In Memoriam segment. \u00a0In accepting an award for best throwback song for \u201cRock That Body,\u201d The Black Eyed Peas saluted rapper Rob Base, whose most famous hit, \u201cIt Takes Two,\u201d they sampled. Base died on May 22.<\/p>\n
\n\tThere was no such mention of Dash Crofts, even though Keith Urban performed Seals and Crofts\u2019 1972 smash \u201cSummer Breeze,\u201d which he covered on his upcoming Flow State<\/em> album of \u201cyacht rock classics. Crofts died on March 25.<\/p>\n\n\tThe AMAs courts a younger audience than the Grammys and the Oscars. And they strive to maintain an upbeat party atmosphere. Still, they may be selling their audience short. This is a popular segment at most awards shows.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2197311656-e1779782322112.jpg?w=1024″] An American Music Awards show where Taylor Swift doesn\u2019t win a thing? Where KATSEYE, HUNTR\/X and Sombr, who were little-known just a year or two ago, win three awards each? Where Morgan Wallen is passed over for favorite country album\u2026again? (He has yet to win in the category.) There were surprises galore […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-1955474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1955474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1955474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1955474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1955474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\tSwift wasn\u2019t the only artist with a large number of nominations who was shut out. Dean had seven nominations. Warren and Gaga each had six. Dean, who won the Grammy for best new artist in February, needn\u2019t worry. She is almost certain to be nominated for album, record and song of the year at next year\u2019s Grammys.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
Surprise: Sam Barber<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tSam Barber won breakthrough country artist, beating Tucker Wetmore, who won the 2026 ACM Award for new male artist of the year, and Zach Top, who won the ACM Award in that same category in 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nSnub: Morgan Wallen<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tWallen won best male country artist for the second time in three years. (He lost last year to his buddy and collab partner Post Malone). But Wallen, the best-selling country album artist of the 2020s (by a wide margin), has yet to win best country album. This year, his I\u2019m the Problem<\/em> lost to Megan Moroney\u2019s Cloud 9.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\tKenny Rogers and Garth Brooks, the top male country artists of previous eras, won five and four awards, respectively, in this category.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nSurprise: KATSEYE<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tKATSEYE won new artist of the year, beating Olivia Dean, who less than four months ago won the Grammy for best new artist (beating KATSEYE, among others). Alex Warren, Sombr and Leon Thomas were nominated in the new artist category and lost at both shows.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nSurprise: Sombr<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tSombr\u2019s win for best rock\/alternative song for \u201cBack to Friends\u201d was no surprise, but even he expressed surprise at his win for best rock\/alternative album for I Barely Know Her<\/em>. The album reached No. 10 on the Billboard 200. All of the other nominees climbed higher. Sleep Token\u2019s Even in Arcadia<\/em>, Twenty One Pilots\u2019 Breach <\/em>and Zach Bryan\u2019s With Heaven on Top<\/em> each reached No. 1. Tame Impala\u2019s Deadbeat<\/em> climbed as high as No. 4.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\nSurprise: Groups Score Big<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tThree of the seven acts that led the night with three wins each \u2013 BTS, KATSEYE and HUNTR\/X \u2013 were groups. That\u2019s an unusually high number. In recent years, the great majority of the leaders at awards shows have been solo artists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nSnub: Artists Who Have Died<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tUnlike most awards shows, the American Music Awards doesn\u2019t have an In Memoriam segment. \u00a0In accepting an award for best throwback song for \u201cRock That Body,\u201d The Black Eyed Peas saluted rapper Rob Base, whose most famous hit, \u201cIt Takes Two,\u201d they sampled. Base died on May 22.<\/p>\n
\n\tThere was no such mention of Dash Crofts, even though Keith Urban performed Seals and Crofts\u2019 1972 smash \u201cSummer Breeze,\u201d which he covered on his upcoming Flow State<\/em> album of \u201cyacht rock classics. Crofts died on March 25.<\/p>\n\n\tThe AMAs courts a younger audience than the Grammys and the Oscars. And they strive to maintain an upbeat party atmosphere. Still, they may be selling their audience short. This is a popular segment at most awards shows.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2197311656-e1779782322112.jpg?w=1024″] An American Music Awards show where Taylor Swift doesn\u2019t win a thing? Where KATSEYE, HUNTR\/X and Sombr, who were little-known just a year or two ago, win three awards each? Where Morgan Wallen is passed over for favorite country album\u2026again? (He has yet to win in the category.) There were surprises galore […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-1955474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1955474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1955474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1955474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1955474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\tSam Barber won breakthrough country artist, beating Tucker Wetmore, who won the 2026 ACM Award for new male artist of the year, and Zach Top, who won the ACM Award in that same category in 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
Snub: Morgan Wallen<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tWallen won best male country artist for the second time in three years. (He lost last year to his buddy and collab partner Post Malone). But Wallen, the best-selling country album artist of the 2020s (by a wide margin), has yet to win best country album. This year, his I\u2019m the Problem<\/em> lost to Megan Moroney\u2019s Cloud 9.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\tKenny Rogers and Garth Brooks, the top male country artists of previous eras, won five and four awards, respectively, in this category.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nSurprise: KATSEYE<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tKATSEYE won new artist of the year, beating Olivia Dean, who less than four months ago won the Grammy for best new artist (beating KATSEYE, among others). Alex Warren, Sombr and Leon Thomas were nominated in the new artist category and lost at both shows.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nSurprise: Sombr<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tSombr\u2019s win for best rock\/alternative song for \u201cBack to Friends\u201d was no surprise, but even he expressed surprise at his win for best rock\/alternative album for I Barely Know Her<\/em>. The album reached No. 10 on the Billboard 200. All of the other nominees climbed higher. Sleep Token\u2019s Even in Arcadia<\/em>, Twenty One Pilots\u2019 Breach <\/em>and Zach Bryan\u2019s With Heaven on Top<\/em> each reached No. 1. Tame Impala\u2019s Deadbeat<\/em> climbed as high as No. 4.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\nSurprise: Groups Score Big<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tThree of the seven acts that led the night with three wins each \u2013 BTS, KATSEYE and HUNTR\/X \u2013 were groups. That\u2019s an unusually high number. In recent years, the great majority of the leaders at awards shows have been solo artists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nSnub: Artists Who Have Died<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\tUnlike most awards shows, the American Music Awards doesn\u2019t have an In Memoriam segment. \u00a0In accepting an award for best throwback song for \u201cRock That Body,\u201d The Black Eyed Peas saluted rapper Rob Base, whose most famous hit, \u201cIt Takes Two,\u201d they sampled. Base died on May 22.<\/p>\n
\n\tThere was no such mention of Dash Crofts, even though Keith Urban performed Seals and Crofts\u2019 1972 smash \u201cSummer Breeze,\u201d which he covered on his upcoming Flow State<\/em> album of \u201cyacht rock classics. Crofts died on March 25.<\/p>\n\n\tThe AMAs courts a younger audience than the Grammys and the Oscars. And they strive to maintain an upbeat party atmosphere. Still, they may be selling their audience short. This is a popular segment at most awards shows.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2197311656-e1779782322112.jpg?w=1024″] An American Music Awards show where Taylor Swift doesn\u2019t win a thing? Where KATSEYE, HUNTR\/X and Sombr, who were little-known just a year or two ago, win three awards each? Where Morgan Wallen is passed over for favorite country album\u2026again? (He has yet to win in the category.) There were surprises galore […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-1955474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1955474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1955474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1955474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1955474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\tWallen won best male country artist for the second time in three years. (He lost last year to his buddy and collab partner Post Malone). But Wallen, the best-selling country album artist of the 2020s (by a wide margin), has yet to win best country album. This year, his I\u2019m the Problem<\/em> lost to Megan Moroney\u2019s Cloud 9.<\/em><\/p>\n \n\tKenny Rogers and Garth Brooks, the top male country artists of previous eras, won five and four awards, respectively, in this category.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n \n\tKATSEYE won new artist of the year, beating Olivia Dean, who less than four months ago won the Grammy for best new artist (beating KATSEYE, among others). Alex Warren, Sombr and Leon Thomas were nominated in the new artist category and lost at both shows.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n \n\tSombr\u2019s win for best rock\/alternative song for \u201cBack to Friends\u201d was no surprise, but even he expressed surprise at his win for best rock\/alternative album for I Barely Know Her<\/em>. The album reached No. 10 on the Billboard 200. All of the other nominees climbed higher. Sleep Token\u2019s Even in Arcadia<\/em>, Twenty One Pilots\u2019 Breach <\/em>and Zach Bryan\u2019s With Heaven on Top<\/em> each reached No. 1. Tame Impala\u2019s Deadbeat<\/em> climbed as high as No. 4.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n \n\tThree of the seven acts that led the night with three wins each \u2013 BTS, KATSEYE and HUNTR\/X \u2013 were groups. That\u2019s an unusually high number. In recent years, the great majority of the leaders at awards shows have been solo artists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n \n\tUnlike most awards shows, the American Music Awards doesn\u2019t have an In Memoriam segment. \u00a0In accepting an award for best throwback song for \u201cRock That Body,\u201d The Black Eyed Peas saluted rapper Rob Base, whose most famous hit, \u201cIt Takes Two,\u201d they sampled. Base died on May 22.<\/p>\n \n\tThere was no such mention of Dash Crofts, even though Keith Urban performed Seals and Crofts\u2019 1972 smash \u201cSummer Breeze,\u201d which he covered on his upcoming Flow State<\/em> album of \u201cyacht rock classics. Crofts died on March 25.<\/p>\n \n\tThe AMAs courts a younger audience than the Grammys and the Oscars. And they strive to maintain an upbeat party atmosphere. Still, they may be selling their audience short. This is a popular segment at most awards shows.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/taylor-swift-amas-2026-snubs-surprises\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2197311656-e1779782322112.jpg?w=1024″] An American Music Awards show where Taylor Swift doesn\u2019t win a thing? Where KATSEYE, HUNTR\/X and Sombr, who were little-known just a year or two ago, win three awards each? Where Morgan Wallen is passed over for favorite country album\u2026again? (He has yet to win in the category.) There were surprises galore […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-1955474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1955474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1955474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1955474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1955474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Surprise: KATSEYE<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Surprise: Sombr<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Surprise: Groups Score Big<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Snub: Artists Who Have Died<\/strong><\/h2>\n