The Weeknd SNUBBED by the GRAMMYs 

Yummy being nominated over Blinding Lights makes me want to claw my ears off

Blinding Lights not being nominated for Song of the Year is a crime.

Even if you arent a fan of The Weeknd or his song Blinding Lights, literally NO ONE can deny that him getting zero nominations is suspect and down right WRONG

Not even just “After Hours”. “Blinding Lights” was one of the biggest singles in 2020 too

At this point we shouldn’t even give the Grammys any attention it doesn’t deserve it

This has been the biggest snub on the Grammy’s since Macklemore won Rap Album over Kendrick

And then there’s Justin Bieber crying over the fact that Changes got classified as a pop album rather than an RnB album... the audacity

Bro you know how many kids were The Weeknd with the red jacket for Halloween. It was almost impossible to overlook him

How did Abel get the biggest chart topping hit of the year, shatter records, release the most acclaimed album of your career, appear on Rolling Stone Grammy preview edition, get the super bowl halftime show, win awards at all the other awards shows and not get ONE nomination? There is something going on behind the scenes. Shit is not fair.

When you realize that yummy was nominated for best song before blinding lights

There were 2 choices for Album/ song/record of the year: 1) The weekend 2) Dua Lipa Not yummy lol

He is the #1 artist on Spotify, this literally makes no sense

Implying the Grammy's actually mean something other than helping some egos

“Yummy yummy yummy yummy yummy yummy yum” Grammys: ITS BEAUTIFUL!

Never need a Grammy, I'm what a Grammy need.

Grammy was Blinded by the Lights.

Anthony’s MF Doom rap was snubbed at the Grammys

gurl im still gagging over Justin Bieber crying over how he’s not considered a “R&B” artist 😂

Dude literally put out the biggest song of the year in “Blinding Lights” and didn’t get a single nomination.

Tbh this might be one of the biggest snubs of the history. At least the others were nominated, God. Abel had everything this year to sweep the Academy: charts, reviews, bets, public reception. At this point, I don't really know why we give attention to an award that changes it's pattern so much and it's more on to make a concert than to actually value year's biggest impacts.

Mac Miller not getting a single nomination makes me want to leap from something tall.

abel: “i’ve been sober for a year now it’s time for me to go back to my old ways, don’t you cry for me thought i’d be a better man but i lied to me and to you”. justin: yeah u got dat yummy yum that yummy yum that yummy yummy 😜🙃😁 grammys: yep i think we nominate jb for this one😊☺️

What's even crazier is that After Hours apart from like Repeat After Me is a no skip. Whole thing slaps.

As if the Grammys weren’t already trash, this and fetch the bolt cutters not being nominated for best album hurts my soul

Blinding lights has already shown itself to be quite influential. Yummy is probably the least risk taking hit single of the year

You forgot to mention that blinding lights has literally been the single most successful song this year

he is literally the #1 artist on spotify and his song blinding lights is still getting radio play wtf

Now the weekend fans know what it was like to be a Travis Scott fan pre-Astroworld

The fact fucking Yummy of all songs got a nomination and The Weeknd is nowhere to be found is mind boggling, even knowing that the Grammys are completely rigged and all about money/ego Also I think Perfume Genius should have gotten some sort of nomination, even though he's a lesser known artist he released one of the most critically acclaimed albums this year and it completely deserves that praise. (Also just remembered Magdalene by fka twigs would've been in this nomination year and you'd think with how much everyone adored that album it might get acknowledged?? Guess not)

We were all waiting for this one...

Dude The Weeknd deserved song, album and artist of the Year wtf

Funny how everyone expected Abel and Fiona to be nominated for album of the year and that there would be competition between those 2 and taylor. Seeing the nominations, it’s obvious the grammys cleared the way for Taylor to win AOTY because they want the “taylor makes grammys history being the first female to win AOTY 3 times” headlines 🙄🙄🙄

I used to think that Grammy's are irrelevant because it's just a popularity contest but it's not even that, blinding lights was all over the charts tf

They snubbed Prince at 1987 grammys too this thing is unfortunately not even surprising you can make the best album of all time but they still won't give it to you. Grammys are irrelevant

Completely agree with this, also think that Run the Jewels deserved some recognition for RTJ4.

Two years later and it's still utterly mindboggling how this albums and Blinding Lights were snubbed

Imagine making one of the best albums of the year and getting snubbed because he’d rather perform at the biggest televised event in the U.S.

The fact that Yummy has been nominated and not Blinding Lights is the biggest act of terrorism this decade

It’s confusing because I wouldve thought after hours would of been the perfect album for the Grammys to put into a a lot of categories and have the weekend winning a lot of awards especially with how the album arguably is the most successful this year as well as having the most successful record being blinding lights, easily on the biggest snubs of all time in Grammys just doesn’t make sense when you look at what has actually been nominated

Not just The Weeknd, pretty much all the big artists of this year were snubbed out of their awards

The Weeknd tried fighting them for one. That's how he broke his face

People like Mac, Weeknd, Cole, Cudi don't make music for accolades/trophies. They make music that stands the test of time, that changes lives. Now we know why Ye was pissing on his Grammy. I mean Jimi Hendrix never won a Grammy, and we all know how iconic & legendary his impact is. So in the words of Doc Hudson in Cars, "Its just an empty cup at the end of the day".

Let’s not forget that blinding lights was a record breaking number one single and no nominee

The Weeknd and Lady Gaga got fully snubbed, Weeknd more than Gaga but how did the two biggest artists this year receive almost nothing? Justice for Chromatica and After Hours

Honestly Mac Miller should've gotten a nomination for his song “Good News” alone. Circles in my opinion was one of my favorites of this year and to not see it get a single nomination is disappointing.

you'd think making what is arguably the most ubiquitous song of 2020 would warrant at least one grammy nomination.

ahhh some fantano video while eating breakfast cos it's freakin 6am here in the philippines.

Glad to know that I wasnt the only one hoping that Rina Sawayama should have got a nomination , her album is a masterpiece!

I really hoped that Rina Sawayama would get a nomination for XS or her LP, Bieber's record getting a nomination doesn't make sense, and a moment of silence for Igor once more... Thank you.

Ya he was and he didn’t deserve the snub After Hours was the R&B album of the year my god

Mac and The Weeknd are the ones that shock me the most

Been waiting for this Mr. Antonio Fantonio

It’s the fact the yummy got a nomination and blinding lights didn’t lol

The Weeknd getting snubbed is honestly worse than Macklemore winning over Kendrick. You could (falsely mind) argue that the hits off of The Heist were big enough to win the Best rap album but to receive no nominations or acknowledgment at all for hits that have topped the charts the entire year is just plain madness.

Really dig your Red Lot Fhili Ceppers shirt, dude

All the magazines and blogs predictions : the weeknd's After Hours will sweep at the 2021 Grammys Grammys committee : who's After Hours? We don't know her 😑

Yeah, you may not like Abel's music, but you can't say, that he didn't succeed this year

this is insane. blinding lights/after hours literally TOOK OVER 2020. after hours is a great r&b album which ALSO includes an amazing storyline and visuals. it is mind boggling to me that he was not even nominated. but it’s ok, we knew the grammys were corrupt since cardi b won best rap album over mac and travis and macklemore won over kendrick. crazy.

Grammys have always been very much related to commercial success, as we can see from the nominees (even Yummy got nominated lmao). So it's weird that Blinding Lights, which was the biggest hit of the year and universally liked, didn't get a single nomination. After Hours was also top 5 biggest album this year and positively received. I was expecting him to WIN a major category but he didn't even get a nomination in a minor category lol. Baffling.

Hey dude, could you do video about music streaming services? I'm especially interested in which one would be the best from artist's perspective. You know, I don't buy albums and I feel bad about it so I'd like to do my best in the streaming section at least. I've been hearing lot of good about TIDAL. Any thoughts?

Cancel culture better hop on this and cancel the Grammys☠️

And here I was thinking Blinding Lights had song of the year locked in

Thanks for recognizing the snub of Mac, it made me really sad when I heard he didn’t get a nomination since his final album is my favorite of all time

Yo when did the melon get such smooth transitions. Production value poppin.

I read online that the grammys didn't nominate him because they wanted Abel to preform at the grammys but he also had the Super Bowl halftime show 7 days after and it would have been very difficult for him to preform at both but after many meetings they finally agreed that he could preform at both but by that point the grammys were aggravated therefore they didn't nominate him for anything. This isn't conformed its just something I read in multiple different places and it also makes sense because of his most recent tweet about planning the performance.

Crazy to me that Post Malone's Circles got nominated but not Mac Miller's

I didn't even like the Weeknd before Blinding Lights. I was kinda surprised when I heard it. I can't deny it's greatness. Deserves formal recognition but ya know... it's the Grammys.

Also no Fleet Foxes - Shore nomination, unless I'm missing it??... Also, if anyone wants an underrated beautiful album from this year, check out 'Beginners' by Christian Lee Hutson. Sublime album from front to back.

Bruh Charli, Weeknd, Rina, and Mac all left out...what music is this Grammy committee listening to?

They literally didn’t nominate him bcuz he chose to perform at the Super Bowl

Glad you mentioned Mac too. Idk how they could ignore that album completely.

2:02 seeing Abel's face flash out of Melon's face isn't something you see everyday

Not exactly a fan of The Weeknd but seeing him and especially Blinding Lights snubbed like THIS.. What the actual f*ck? The GRAMMYs are a complete joke at this point.

The grammys are practically trying to get themselves cancelled

fantano's mustache reminds me of the little prince's drawing

After Hours deserves Album of the Year, Blinding Lights deserves Record of the Year, and the people who didn’t nominate The Weeknd deserve the death penalty

they somehow get it wrong every year and everyone complains about the snubs and the grammys just don’t care and do the same thing the next year

The problem is that it’s not even a bias we have coz we’re die hard XO, this is the biggest song of the year. The fastest selling album of the year. Probably his most rounded body of work. A character he created, a world he created, quality music videos. He ran 2020 commercially. I really thought he’d collect at least 2 this year but not even a nomination isnt just controversial or a different opinion, it’s wrong. It’s incorrect.

i got a ridge wallet ad before this thanks melon

It’s also crazy that none of the griselda releases didn’t get nominated

Blinding lights was literally the BIGGEST song of the year, the fact that it isn't nominated shows how much de Grammys are influenced by things beyond music. They're supposed to be simply awarding excellence in music, and letting politics and stupid drama cloud their judgement shows why people have lost all respect for them.

I lost faith when Igor didn't win best Album.

Marianne Faithfull was snubbed for her album Negative Capability back in 2019 and I'm still mad about it!

Don’t forget Fetch the Bolt Cutters

Agreed on this take, Yummy being named instead of Blinding Lights is in fact terrorism.

They snubbed him bc they were in talks to have him perform at the grammys, but he chose to perform at the super bowl a week before, while still hoping to retain his billing for the grammys. Obviously this was unaccaptable for the grammys, as it would likely be a repeat performance and would garner much less attention, so they could no longer offer him the same deal. Abel and his team refused to accept a lower offer however, so talks between Abel and the Grammys ended on a very sour note. I understand the frustration the grammys feel, as Abel essentially just leveraged their offer only to leave them in the dust, but to have that reflect on their selection criteria only calls into question the integrity of the selection committee (which no one buys anyways).

biggest snub of the year is definitely Merzbow you're telling me Broken Landscapes, Cat of Shell Vol. 1, Cat of Shell Vol. 2, Tauro-O1, Tauro-O2, Medamaya-O, Spring Harp-O, Wa, Mighty Ace, Tenshinkaku, Tentacle (1st Mix), Suzumeiro 1 (雀色1), Suzumeiro 2 (雀色2), Process 9611, Necro 2000, Pig AY, Material for Structure I, EXD, Yoshinotsune Metamo, SCSI Duck 2, 3rd of May Vol. 1, 3rd of May Vol. 2, Cuts Open, Sphere Sessions, Plasma Door, Merzbird Variation, or Screaming Dove weren't met with popular appeal!?!?!?!??!!!! c'mon grammys!!!!

Abel looks like the kid from Us in the thumbnail

The Weeknd saved me from one of my darkest times, and to see him not get nominated pains me

The grammy's have lost all credibility since 2014. They are a total embarrassment and detrimental to the industry/culture as a whole.

i’m glad you spoke on this my nigga

there is a big controversy that the weeknd is not allowed to be nominated in the grammys due to him taking position on the halftime show for 2021 and the record industry was not having it.

Anthony don’t forget we gotta be at Cardi Bs thanksgiving yeast tomorrow at 3 with our bucket and mop

I didn't love After Hours, but even I can see that this is a catastrophic snub. I also think Phoebe Bridgers got snubbed for AOTY, or just that in general AOTY needed some rock and rap inclusions. Yeah, an abnormally large number of head scratchers this year, after the past couple years when the Grammys seemed like they were starting to get their act together with Janelle Monae, Lizzo, etc.

We knew you wouldn't disappoint us Melon! Lets keep fighting for good music and justice

This year was ABEL's year no discussion. Blinding lights is the song of 2020. The grannys acted like the weeknd doesn't even exist this is shocking

The biggest middle finger here is that the Grammy’s are happening, *on the Weekend of Jan 30-31.*

Blinding Lights was literally the biggest song this year. So disappointing

Already drunk, already ready to view a fantano's video Hello from Italy

No noms at all is just crazy to me. How?