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| 2017 AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS Live Broadcast Monday, 20 November, at 9:00AM (8:00AM JKT/BKK) on RTL CBS Entertainment |
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productions announced superstar collaborations for the “2017 American Music
Awards” from Alessia Cara and Zedd, as well as Hailee Steinfeld and Alesso
featuring Florida Georgia Line and watt. Chart-topping band Portugal. The Man
will also join the roster of performers, marking their very first visit to the AMAs. The “2017 American Music Awards,” the
world’s largest fan-voted
awards show where music enthusiasts watch their favorite
artists and pop culture icons come together to honor idols,
newcomers and record-breakers in the contemporary music scene, will celebrate
45 years of music live from the Microsoft Theater
in Los Angeles on Monday,
November 20, 2017 at 9:00am
(8:00am JKT/BKK) exclusive on RTL CBS Entertainment.
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| ALESSIA CARA |
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| ZEDD |
Multi-platinum singer-songwriter Alessia Cara and multi-platinum
DJ/producer Zedd will come together to perform Zedd and Alessia Cara’s
Billboard Hot 100 smash single “Stay,” which topped Billboard’s Pop Songs chart and led the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs
chart, for their first performance ever at the American Music Awards. Alessia
Cara is nominated this year for Favorite Female Artist – Pop/Rock. Multi-platinum
recording artist and Academy® Award-nominated actress Hailee Steinfeld and
Swedish DJ/producer Alesso featuring multi-platinum duo Florida Georgia Line
and critically acclaimed songwriter and artist watt are set to take the
American Music Awards stage for a show-stopping collaboration, featuring their
Billboard Hot 100 hit, “Let Me Go.” This will mark Hailee Steinfeld, Alesso and
watt’s first American Music Awards performance, and Florida Georgia Line’s
second. Five-time American Music Award winner Florida Georgia Line last
performed “Cruise” and “Ride Wit Me” with Nelly at the AMAs in 2013, and is
nominated this year for Favorite Duo or Group – Country. Additionally,
chart-topping band Portugal.
The Man will
make their American
Music Awards performance debut with their irresistible, platinum-certified single, “Feel It Still,” off their latest
album, Woodstock. The funky track held the No. 1 spot at Alternative radio
for 17 weeks, reached No. 1 at Top 40 radio and has peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. Later in the evening, platinum-selling artist Bebe Rexha
will join forces with Diamond-selling Florida
Georgia Line to perform “Meant To Be,” which is currently climbing the charts
and has amassed over 30M global streams to date, for subscribers to Comcast’s
Xfinity TV service, which will be available following the American Music Awards.
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| HAILEE STEINFELD |
Republic
Records recording artist Hailee Steinfeld has quickly cemented herself as a
rising force in pop music with a series of hits under her belt, including her
2015 platinum certified debut single “Love Myself,” double platinum selling
smash “Starving” with Grey [feat. Zedd] and recent summer anthem “Most Girls.”
To date, the multi-platinum selling artist has amassed
a total of nearly 2 billion streams
globally. This year, Steinfeld garnered three Teen Choice Award
nominations for her work in both film and music, as well as a nomination for
“Best Push Artist” at the MTV EMAs. She also won Musical.ly’s “Top Covered
Artist” award at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards. Most recently, Steinfeld
released her new single “Let Me Go.” Produced by Grammy nominated DJ and
producer Alesso and critically acclaimed songwriter and artist watt, “Let Me
Go” pairs Steinfeld with one of
country music’s best-selling acts Florida Georgia Line. In addition to her
thriving music career, Steinfeld is an
Academy® Award-nominated and critically acclaimed leading actress. In 2016, she
starred in one of the year’s best-reviewed films, The Edge of Seventeen. Her performance earned her two Critics’
Choice Award nominations and a Golden Globe® nomination in the category “Best
Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.” Steinfeld
is currently in production on her next film, Paramount's “Bumblebee,” the first spin-off in the newly created “Transformers”
universe, and will star in the blockbuster “Pitch
Perfect 3”.
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| ALESSO |
Swedish DJ and producer Alesso has platinum records, a Grammy
nomination, and world-renowned tours and performances. His big productions
electrify crowds at the world’s biggest music festivals like Coachella, EDC,
and Tomorrowland. He also connects
with fans through
records like “Falling” and the chart-topping “Heroes (We Could
Be)” featuring Tove Lo that push the limits of the genre with lyrics that layer
raw emotions on top of intoxicating music. Recently, Alesso collaborated with
Hailee Steinfeld for “Let Me Go” featuring Florida George Line and watt and created a remix to J Balvin and Willy
William’s hit record “Mi Gente.” He combined with Brazilian superstar Anitta to create
the international hit “Is That For Me.” With every
original song, remix,
and live performance, Alesso
continues to establish himself as one of his genre’s most important figures.
Florida Georgia Line’s
Platinum-certified musical evolution, Dig Your Roots, propelled the history-making duo to
No.1 on the all-genre Billboard Artist 100 and Top Country Albums charts.
Continuing the epic momentum, the album has delivered three consecutive No. 1
Country Airplay smashes - the 3X Platinum-certified lead single “H.O.L.Y.”
[also No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart for 18 straight weeks] and
Platinum-certified hits “May We All” (featuring Tim McGraw) and “God, Your
Mama, And Me” (featuring Backstreet Boys [the latter FGL's 11th Country Airplay
No. 1]. Following a landmark Dig Your Roots Tour that broke attendance records
and reached over one million
featuring headline-grabbing guest appearances, Florida
Georgia Line just wrapped
The Smooth Tour 2017 – having played select sold-out
stadium dates this summer with special guests Backstreet
Boys. Bursting with first-rate reviews of their explosive live shows, MusicRow Magazine praised, "Just in
case you’ve forgotten, Florida
Georgia Line is one of the hottest
country acts alive.”
The top-shelf entertainers continue to crush records
as the first and only Country act to achieve
RIAA’s Diamond certification (10 million copies sold)
for their breakout smash “Cruise,” which is the best-selling digital
country single of all time (according to Nielsen
Music). Since their breakout in 2012, Florida Georgia Line has earned
prestigious honors from the American Music Awards, ACM Awards, CMA Awards, Billboard
Music Awards and CMT Music Awards. Their previous
BMLG Records releases – 2X Platinum debut Here’s
To The Good Times and Platinum Anything
Goes – have attributed to sales
surpassing 30 million
tracks and more than 4.2 million albums worldwide. Florida
Georgia Line is spreading good
vibes to sports fans each week during the 2017 NFL season as they’re featured
alongside Hank Williams Jr. and Jason Derulo in “All My Rowdy Friends Are
Coming Over Monday Night” during Monday
Night Football on ESPN. Their genre-smashing collaborations also include
teaming up with The Chainsmokers for “Last Day Alive” (Memories…Do Not Open), Bebe Rexha’s “Meant to Be” on her recent EP All Your Fault: Pt. 2, and Hailee
Steinfeld & Alesso’s latest single “Let Me Go” (featuring watt). Fueled by
fresh inspiration and keen entrepreneurial spirit, they’ve launched publishing
company Tree Vibez Music and their own emoji app, FGLmoji. Following the
introduction of their Old Camp Peach Pecan Whiskey, their premiere restaurant
and entertainment destination FGL House, a four-story attraction with the
largest “Cruise” rooftop Nashville has to offer, is now open.
Watt, the New York-born and Los Angeles-based
multi-instrumentalist, producer, and singer has lit a fire with every project
he touches within the music industry. His debut solo EP, Ghost In My Head,
earned critical acclaim from the likes of Guitar World and boasted drumming
courtesy of Chad Smith [Red Hot Chili Peppers] and Joey Castillo [ex-Queens of the Stone Age, Danzig]. He has
been tapped to perform and share the stage with everyone from Sting, Slash,
Justin Bieber, The Roots, Taylor Hawkins, Chad Smith, Tommy Lee, One Republic,
Martin Garrix, Jane’s Addiction, The Struts and more. Prior to the EP’s
release, he worked as a producer,
songwriter, and musical
director for the
likes of Justin Bieber & Skrillex, Kygo, DJ
Snake, Marshmello, Steve Angello, SNBRN and more. In 2016, he co-wrote
the highly successful song by DJ Snake featuring Justin
Bieber “Let Me Love You,” and co-wrote
& produced “Feeling
Whitney” on Post Malone’s
album Stoney. This year his
songwriting and production has been featured all over 2017’s biggest hits including Kygo’s “It Ain’t Me” ft.
Selena Gomez (co-wrote & produced),” Camilla Cabello’s “Havanna” ft. Young
Thug (co-wrote), Avicii’s “Lonely Together ft. Rita Ora (co-wrote &
production), Bebe Rexha’s “Comfortable” ft. Kranium as well as his own track “Burning
Man” ft. Post Malone. watt has scored
three top 10 Billboard Hot 100
hits as a co-writer, all since late 2016: DJ Snake's "Let Me Love
You" (featuring Justin Bieber); "It Ain't Me," by Kygo and
Selena Gomez; and Camila Cabello's current hit, "Havana" (featuring
Young Thug). He also co- produced the first two aforementioned songs. "Let
Me Love You" and "It Ain't Me" also each hit No. 2 on Hot
Dance/Electronic Songs, while "Let Me Go," his first charted song as
a credited artist, has reached the top 10.
Multi-platinum, GRAMMY award-winning artist/DJ/producer Zedd made
his debut with Clarity after signing with Interscope in 2012 and has been
breaking down barriers surrounding music genres ever since. With his latest
single, “Get Low” with Liam Payne, Zedd ventures into a more urban musical
domain that Entertainment Weekly called a “sizzling
summer jam.” Earlier
this year, Zedd teamed up with Alessia
Cara to record “Stay,” a track that veers into a new direction for both artists,
and landed Zedd his first No. 1 on Billboard's Pop Songs airplay
chart. Zedd also single-handedly organized WELCOME!, an ACLU fundraising
concert with a lineup that spans the music spectrum. As an immigrant himself,
born in Russia and raised in Germany, the concert was born out of Zedd’s desire
to stand up for basic human rights and 100% of its profits benefitted the ACLU.
Throughout his career, Zedd has worked with a diverse range of artists,
including Foxes on “Clarity,” which soared to No.2 on Pop Songs and has sold
2.6 million downloads in the U.S., according to Nielsen Music, and Hayley
Williams on Platinum hit “Stay The Night,” which racked up more than 400
million streams. In 2015, Zedd released True
Colors, which debuted
at No. 4 on the Billboard Top 200 albums chart, No. 1 on the Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart, and earned Zedd a 2016
Billboard Music Award for “Best Dance Album.” Its lead single “I Want You to
Know” (ft. Selena Gomez) spent six weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot
Dance/Electronic Songs chart and has been certified Platinum, while second single,
“Beautiful Now” (feat.
Jon Bellion), has been certified Gold. In 2016, Zedd teamed up with Aloe Blacc on
“Candyman” to kick off M&M’s 75th anniversary celebration and released
smash hit “Starving” featuring Hailee Steinfeld and Grey, which soared to the
top five on Billboard's Pop Songs
chart and amassed over 240 million plays on Spotify alone in just four months.
Award winning Canadian
singer/songwriter and Def Jam Recordings artist Alessia Cara emerged onto the music scene in 2015 with the release of
her iconic anthem "Here.” "Here" garnered over 500,000 total
streams in its first week, going on to become Spotify’s Most Viral Song of 2015
selling over 3 million copies. A five-track EP, Four Pink Walls, soon followed
before the release of the full-length certified platinum KNOW-IT-ALL. Alessia lent her voice to “How Far I’ll
Go,” the official song for Disney’s animated film Moana, penned by Lin-Manuel
Miranda. Her multi-platinum No. 1 Billboard Pop Songs chart hit single,
"Scars to Your Beautiful," is Cara's gut- wrenching take on female
identity, on body image and on deleterious behaviors in the name of beauty.
“Stay”, her No. 1 Pop Songs hit with Zedd has sold over 2 million
copies and has been called the “song of the summer.”
“1-800-273-8255,” her most recent smash with Logic was recently
certified double-platinum, contributing to her 6 global smash hits and 4
billion streams worldwide. She is the most streamed new female artist of 2017.
A JUNO award winner for 2016 Breakthrough Artist of the Year, Cara received the
“Rule Breaker” honor at the Billboard Women in Music event and has been
nominated for Favorite Female Artist – Pop/Rock at the 2017 American Music
Awards, People’s Choice Award for Favorite Breakout Artist, Billboard Music
Award for Top New Artist, BET Award for Best New Artist, BBC Awards for Song of
The Year, and was the winner of 2 MTV Video Music Awards in 2017 for Best
Electronic Dance Video for “Stay” and Best Fight Against The System for “Scars
To Your Beautiful.”
Portugal. The Man took 2017 by the horns after a considerably long gap, especially for a band that has dropped
roughly an album a year since 2006. They spent years working on an album called
Doomin + Gloomin before later developing what would become
known as their
eighth studio album
WOODSTOCK. Fate struck lead singer,
John Gourley, twice. First, John got some parental tough love from his old man.
“What’s taking so long to finish the album?,” John’s dad asked.
“Isn’t that what bands do? Write songs and then put them out?” The whole thing got John thinking about why the band
seemed to be stuck on a musical elliptical machine from hell and more
importantly, about how to get off of it. Second,
John found his dad’s ticket
stub from the original 1969 Woodstock
music festival, which ultimately knocked something loose in his head. He
realized that, in the same tradition of bands
from that era, Portugal. The Man needed
to speak out about the world crumbling around them. With these
two ideas converging, the band made a seemingly bat-shit-crazy decision: they
took all of the work they had done for the three years prior and threw it out. The band went back to the studio
– working with John Hill, Danger
Mouse and longtime collaborator Casey Bates.
In this new-found
creative territory, the
album that became WOODSTOCK
rolled out naturally from there. Fast forward to present day and it was
impossible to escape the album’s first single “Feel It Still,” which dominated
the charts and radio airwaves for most of 2017. The platinum-certified hit
reigned at #1 at multiple radio formats, including Top 40/Pop radio. Yes, you
read that right. 5 guys from
Wasilla, Alaska who have played nearly 1,500 shows in their career had a #1
song at pop radio. Billboard even
went as far as to call the song, “the unexpected rock crossover hit of 2017.”
As previously announced, music legend, Diana Ross, will take the
stage for a rare performance at the “2017 American Music Awards” and will be
honored with the “American Music Award for Lifetime Achievement.” Christina
Aguilera will pay tribute to Whitney Houston and music from “The Bodyguard”
with a performance in honor of the
film’s 25th anniversary,
which falls on the same week as the awards ceremony. Other previously announced
performers include BTS, Kelly Clarkson, Selena Gomez, Niall Horan, Imagine
Dragons & Khalid, Demi Lovato and P!NK.
Nominations
for the “2017 American Music Awards” were announced last month. Bruno Mars
leads with eight nominations, including Artist of the Year, Video of the Year,
and Favorite Male Artist – Pop/Rock. The Chainsmokers, Drake, Kendrick Lamar,
Ed Sheeran and The Weeknd tied with five nominations each, while Justin Bieber,
Daddy Yankee and Luis Fonsi received four nominations each. Additionally, Keith
Urban earned three nominations, and Rihanna and Halsey earned two nominations
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The American
Music Awards winners are voted entirely by fans. Voting is now open in all
categories.
The Artist
of the Year nominees are Bruno Mars, The Chainsmokers, Drake, Kendrick Lamar
and Ed Sheeran. Voting for Artist of the Year will close on Friday, November 17
at 12:59:59 PM (11:59:59AM JKT/BKK). Voting for all other editorial categories
closes on Monday, November 14 at 12:59:59 AM (11:59:59 PM JKT/BKK).
For New
Artist of the Year presented by T-Mobile and Collaboration of the Year
presented by Xfinity, fans can vote for each award 100 times per day, per
voting platform in one or both of the ways: Via web at billboard.com/amas and theamas.com/vote or by Posting a tweet on
Twitter that includes the nominee's name or Twitter handle, the category name and #AMAs within the tweet.
American
Music Awards nominees are based on key fan interactions as reflected in
Billboard Magazine and on Billboard.com, including album and digital
song sales, radio airplay, streaming, social activity and touring. These measurements are tracked by Billboard and its data partners, including Nielsen Music and Next Big Sound. The eligibility period for the “2017
American Music Awards” was September 9, 2016 to September 14, 2017.
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