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The Weeknd Shockingly Shut Out of Grammy Nominations, and Other Snubs and Surprises

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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe annual nominations for the Grammy Awards are always full of surprises. But in our many collective decades of Grammy watching, we have never witnessed an omission on the level of the one that the Recording Academy committees who decide the nominees have given to The Weeknd this year.His “Blinding Lights” single is arguably the most ubiquitous song of the past year, and his “After Hours” album will be at or near the top of many sales and critics charts; he’s even playing the Super Bowl halftime show the Sunday after the Grammys.

He led nearly all of the expert-predictions lists for the past several months.And yet, his total number of Grammy nominations for the year that he dominated is zero.

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