Rihanna, Nicki Minaj Lead This Year’s American Music Awards — Nominees In Full

This year’s AMA nominations are pretty surprising as Rihanna and Nicki Minaj lead the noms with four each, while Drake, Maroon 5, One Direction, Justin Bieber and Usher all share the title for three nominations. The award show which will go live next week Sunday on ABC has revealed this year’s full list of artists who have been nominated for an award.

Rihanna is up for ‘Artist of the Year’, ‘Favourite Female Artist – Pop/Rock’, ‘Favourite Female Artist – Soul/R&B’ and ‘Favourite Album – Soul/R&B’ for Talk That Talk, while Minaj’s noms are ‘Favourite Female Artist – Pop/Rock’, ‘Favourite Artist – Rap/ Hip Hop’, ‘Favourite Album – Pop/Rock’ and ‘Favourite Album – Rap/ Hip Hop’ for Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded.

It will definitely be interesting to see these two people go head-to-head against each category to see who can win more, seeing that they have a little feud going on. According to TMZ, when Drake and his crew (including Nicki) went up to collect the rapper’s award at this year’s MTV Music Awards, Rihanna turned to her friend and said ‘I hate these a**holes,’ which seems quite shocking since the two have collaborated together in the past.

Nevertheless, we’ll just have to wait til next week. For now, here’s the full list of nominees for this year’s American Music Awards:

ARTIST OF THE YEAR:
Justin Bieber
Drake
Maroon 5
Katy Perry
Rihanna

NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR:
J. Cole
fun.
Gotye
Carly Rae Jepsen
One Direction

FAVOURITE MALE ARTIST – POP/ROCK:
Justin Bieber
Flo Rida
Pitbull
Usher

FAVOURITE FEMALE ARTIST – POP/ROCK:
Kelly Clarkson
Nicki Minaj
Katy Perry
Rihanna

FAVOURITE BAND, DUO OR GROUP – POP/ROCK:
fun.
Maroon 5
One Direction
The Wanted

FAVOURITE ALBUM – POP/ROCK:
Justin Bieber, Believe
Maroon 5, Overexposed
Nicki Minaj, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
One Direction, Up All Night

FAVOURITE MALE ARTIST – COUNTRY:
Jason Aldean
Luke Bryan
Eric Church

FAVOURITE FEMALE ARTIST – COUNTRY:
Miranda Lambert
Taylor Swift
Carrie Underwood

FAVOURITE BAND, DUO or GROUP – COUNTRY:
Zac Brown Band
Lady Antebellum
Rascal Flatts

FAVOURITE ALBUM – COUNTRY:
Luke Bryan, Tailgates & Tanlines
Lionel Richie, Tuskegee
Carrie Underwood, Blown Away

FAVOURITE ARTIST – RAP/HIP-HOP:
Drake
Nicki Minaj
Tyga

FAVOURITE ALBUM – RAP/HIP-HOP:
J Cole, Cole World: The Sideline Story
Drake, Take Care
Nicki Minaj, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded

FAVOURITE MALE ARTIST – SOUL/R&B:
Chris Brown
Trey Songz
Usher

FAVOURITE FEMALE ARTIST – SOUL/R&B:
Beyoncé
Mary J Blige
Rihanna

FAVOURITE ALBUM – SOUL/R&B:
Chris Brown, Fortune
Rihanna, Talk That Talk
Usher, Looking 4 Myself

FAVOURITE ARTIST – ALTERNATIVE ROCK:
The Black Keys
Gotye
Linkin Park

FAVOURITE ARTIST – ADULT CONTEMPORARY:
Adele
Kelly Clarkson
Train

FAVOURITE ARTIST – LATIN:
Don Omar
Pitbull
Shakira

FAVOURITE ARTIST – CONTEMPORARY INSPIRATIONAL:
Jeremy Camp
Newsboys
tobyMac

FAVOURITE ARTIST – ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC (EDM):
David Guetta
Calvin Harris
Skrillex