{"id":97946,"date":"2017-04-11T04:07:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T08:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=97946"},"modified":"2017-04-11T04:07:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T08:07:18","slug":"drake-the-chainsmokers-lead-with-22-billboard-award-nods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/11\/drake-the-chainsmokers-lead-with-22-billboard-award-nods\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake, the Chainsmokers lead with 22 Billboard Award nods"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_97949\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97949\" style=\"width: 443px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Drake-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97949\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Drake-2.png\" alt=\"Rapper Drake and EDM duo The Chainsmokers are the top contenders at the Billboard Music Awards with 22 nominations each. (Photo: champagnepapi\/Instagram) \" width=\"443\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Drake-2.png 443w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Drake-2-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-97949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rapper Drake and EDM duo The Chainsmokers are the top contenders at the Billboard Music Awards with 22 nominations each. (Photo: champagnepapi<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BRcBEgFDvES\/?taken-by=champagnepapi\">\/Instagram<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Rapper Drake and EDM duo The Chainsmokers are the top contenders at the Billboard Music Awards with 22 nominations each.<\/p>\n<p>Dick clark productions announced Monday that the performers set a record for most nominations in a year. The 2017 awards show will air live May 21 from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Other big contenders include twenty one pilots (17 nominations) and Rihanna (14).<\/p>\n<p>Nominees for the biggest award, top artist, include Adele, Beyonce, Justin Bieber, the Chainsmokers, Drake, Ariana Grande, Shawn Mendes, Rihanna, twenty one pilots and the Weeknd.<\/p>\n<p>Albums from Beyonce, Drake, Rihanna, twenty one pilots and the Weeknd are up for top Billboard 200 album.<\/p>\n<p>The Billboard Awards have 52 categories. The show will air live on ABC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Rapper Drake and EDM duo The Chainsmokers are the top contenders at the Billboard Music Awards with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":97949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[6885,17833],"class_list":["post-97946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-drake","tag-the-chainsmokers","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}