THE SEVENTH PJ GRAMMY AWARDS Welcome to the Seventh Edition PJ Grammy Awards! With the real, flop Grammys delayed indefinitely, it's time to serve justice to the best music from 2021 once again ourselves. I am returning to host the extravaganza, along with @BubblegumBoy! With the PJ Readers' Poll and BPG 2021 [don't forget to send your votes to @aux!] fresh in our minds, let's continue to celebrate the best of the best. Plus, as this is our favorite award show of the season, it's only better that Popjustice has our own version, right? Rules: All submissions must have been released between January 1, 2021 and December 31, 2021. Some exceptions will be made for works released after Oct. 1, 2020, depending on their PJ and cultural impact on 2021. Submit 5-8 entries in the General Field categories (Best New Artist, Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year). These categories are mandatory. Submit 3-5 songs in the rest of the categories. These categories are all optional, but we highly recommend sending in nominations to break ties and diversify these noms. All 2021 Grammy Submissions are valid for the PJ Grammys, except in categories that won't be represented, and those firmly out of the new eligibility period. Albums and songs cannot go genre-hopping. Other than General Field, a song or album can only be submitted in one genre. Choose carefully. The top 10 nominees in General Field and Top 5 nominees in the other categories will be nominated for the final ballot. Note that the General Field's noms have been expanded to reflect the change in the upcoming Grammys. Categories: Record of the Year Song of the Year Album of the Year Best New Artist Best Pop Solo Performance Best Pop Duo/Group Performance Best Pop Vocal Album Best Progressive R&B/R&B Album Best Dance Album Best Dance Recording Best Rap Performance Best R&B Performance Best Rap Album Best Alternative Album Best Alternative Song Best Music Video Producer of the Year, Non-Classical Best Country Album Best Country Song You have just over three weeks before nominations are due January 30th, 11:59 PM EST! PM both @Sail On and @BubblegumBoy to submit your nominations! Add FYCs to the thread, and start campaigning for your favs now! Once the official noms are announced, final votes are due February 28th 11:59 PM EST! I'll also be keeping a list of potential category placements in this thread - see below!
Potential Options Best New Artist (5 - 8 entries) Spoiler Arlo Parks Baby Queen Betty Bass Celeste Charlotte Day Wilson Claud Erika De Casier ELIO Gavin Turek GAYLE Griff Joy Crookes Magdalena Bay Maggie Lindemann Olivia Rodrigo Orla Gartland PinkPantheress Remi Wolf Rochelle Jordan Self Esteem Tiana Major9 Videoclub Yebba Best Pop Solo Performance (3 - 5 entries) Spoiler Agnes – 24 Hours Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever Foxes – Sister Ray Griff – Black Hole Holly Humberstone – Scarlett Jessie Ware – Please Joy Crookes - When You Were Mine KILO KISH - AMERICAN GURL Ladyhawke – Think About You Laura Mvula - Got Me La Zara - Tu t'en iras Maisie Peters – John Hughes Movie Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u Nick Jonas – This Is Heaven Nina Nesbitt - Summer Fling Ralph – Tommy Self Esteem - I Do This All the Time Sigrid – Burning Bridges Sunmi - You Can't Sit With Us Best Pop Duo/Group Performance (3 - 5 entries) Spoiler Abba – Don’t Shut Me Down Aly & AJ – Symptom of Your Touch Charli XCX, Christine and the Queens, Caroline Polachek – New Shapes Coldplay – Higher Power Doja Cat ft. SZA – Kiss Me More Fickle Friends – Million Little Mix – Love (Sweet Love) or No Pure Shores - Back On My Love Videoclub - SMS Zella Day, Weyes Blood – Holocene Best Pop Vocal Album (3 - 5 entries) Spoiler Agnes – Magic Still Exists Aly & AJ - a touch of the beat gets you up on your feet gets you out and then into the sun Annie – Neon Nights Baby Queen – The Yearbook Demi Lovato – Dancing With the Devil... The Art of Starting Over Doja Cat - Planet Her Foxes – Friends in the Corner EP Griff – One Foot in Front of the Other Julia Michaels – Not in Chronological Order Joy Crookes - Skin Ladyhawke – Time Flies Madison Beer – Life Support Maisie Peters – You Signed Up For This MARINA – Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land Olivia Rodrigo - Sour PinkPantheress - to hell with it Nick Jonas – Spaceman Self Esteem – Prioritise Pleasure Videoclub - Euphories Yebba – Dawn Best Progressive R&B / R&B Album (3 - 5 entries) Spoiler Alicia Keys - KEYS Betty Bass - Grown Celeste - Not Your Muse Charlotte Day Wilson - ALPHA Eric Bellinger - New Light Erika De Casier - Sensational Gavin Turek - Madame Gold H.E.R. - Back of My Mind Jazmine Sullivan - Heaux Tales JoJo - trying not to think about it Jon Baptiste - WE ARE Kelly Rowland - K Leon Bridges - Gold-Diggers Sound Lucky Daye - Table for Two Mariah the Scientist - RY RY WORLD Snoh Aalegra - Temporary Highs in the Violet Skies Silk Sonic - An Evening with Silk Sonic Summer Walker - Still Over It Tinashe - 333 Best R&B Performance (3 - 5 entries) Spoiler Alicia Keys - Best of Me (Originals) Ari Lennox - Pressure Arlo Parks - Too Good Celeste - Love Is Back Charlotte Day Wilson - Keep Moving Chlöe - Have Mercy Doja Cat & The Weeknd - You Right Giveon - For Tonight H.E.R. - Fight for You (From the Motion Picture “Judas & the Black Messiah”) Jazmine Sullivan & H.E.R. - Girl Like Me Jennifer Hudson - Here I Am (Singing My Way Home) JoJo - Anxiety (Burlinda’s Theme) Kehlani - The Altar Kelly Rowland - Flowers Mariah the Scientist - Aura Normani feat. Cardi B - Wild Side Tiana Major9 & Vince Staples - Real Affair (Remix) Tinashe - Bouncin’ Silk Sonic - Leave the Door Open Summer Walker - Ex for a Reason (feat. JT from City Girls) SZA - Good Days Victoria Monét - F.U.C.K. Best Dance Album (3 - 5 entries) Spoiler Arca – Kick ii, iii, iiii, iiiii Boyz Noize - +/- Dawn Richard – Second Line L'Impératice - Tako Tsubo Lady Gaga – Dawn of Chromatica Magdalena Bay – Mercurial World Rochelle Jordan – Play With the Changes SG Lewis - times Slayyyter – Troubled Paradise Best Dance Recording (3 - 5 entries) Spoiler Bebe Rexha – Sacrifice David Guetta, Galantis, Little Mix – Heartbreak Anthem Elton John, Dua Lipa – Cold Heart Illenium, Dabin, Lights – Hearts on Fire Joel Corry & Jax Jones (ft. Charli XCX and Saweetie) – Out Out L'Impératice - Peur Des Filles (Montmartre Remix) Regard, Troye Sivan, Tate McRae - You Rita Ora, David Guetta, Imanbek, Gunna - Big SG Lewis (ft. Rhye) – Time Shygirl - Cleo Slayyyter – Troubled Paradise or Clouds Topic, Becky Hill – My Heart Goes (La Di Da) Silk City, Ellie Goulding – New Love Best Rap Performance (3 - 5 entries) Spoiler Bree Runway - HOT HOT Cardi B - Up Doja Cat - Need to Know Little Simz - Woman Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow - Industry Baby Megan Thee Stallion - Thot Shit Saweetie feat. Doja Cat - Best Friend Shygirl feat. Slowtai - BDE Therapie TAXI - Ete 90 Tyler, the Creator feat. YoungBoy Never Broke Again & Ty Dolla $ign - WUSYANAME Best Rap Album (3 - 5 entries) Spoiler Baby Tate - After the Rain: Deluxe Kanye West - DONDA Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be An Introvert Lil Nas X - Montero Megan Thee Stallion - Something for Thee Hotties Therapie TAXI - Rupture 2 merde Tyler, the Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST Best Alternative Album (3 - 5 entries) Spoiler Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview on Phenomenol Nature Chloe Moriondo – Blood Bunny CHVRCHES – Screen Violence girl in red - if i could make it go quiet Glades – Planetarium HAERTS – Dream Nation Halsey – If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power Hayley Williams – FLOWERS for VASES Jade Bird – Different Kinds of Light Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee Julien Baker - Little Oblivions The Killers – Pressure Machine London Grammar – Californian Soil Lucy Dacus - Home Video Luna Shadows – Digital Pacific Maggie Lindemann - PARANOIA Odette – Herald Orla Gartland – Woman on the Internet Pale Waves – Who Am I? The Pretty Reckless – Death By Rock and Roll Requin Chagrin - Bye Bye Baby Salt Ashes – Killing My Mind St Vincent – Daddy’s Home Wolf Alice – Blue Weekend YONAKA – Seize the Power Best Alternative Song (3 - 5 entries) Spoiler Alexia Gredy - Vertigo Caroline Polachek – Bunny is a Rider Cassandra Jenkins - Hard Drive Cherry Glazerr - Soft Drink Chloe Moriondo – What If It Doesn’t End Well CHVRCHES – He Said She Said girl in red - Serotonin Glades – Get In The Way Halsey - I'm not a woman, I'm a god Hatchie - This Enchanted Japanese Breakfast – Be Sweet Julien Baker - Hardline King Princess – House Burn Down London Grammar – How Does It Feel Lucy Dacus - VBS Mitski - The Only Heartbreaker MUNA feat. Phoebe Bridgers - Silk Chiffon Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen - Like I Used To St Vincent - The Melting of the Sun Wolf Alice – Smile Best Music Video (3 - 5 entries) Spoiler Arca – Prada/Rakata Charli XCX, Christine and the Queens, Caroline Polachek - New Shapes Doja Cat – Streets Grimes – Player of Games Japanese Breakfast – Posing in Bondage Kylie Minogue, Jessie Ware - Kiss of Life Megan Thee Stallion – Thot Shit Mitski – Working for the Knife Lil Nax X – Montero (Call Me By Your Name) Olivia Rodrigo – Good 4 U Producer of the Year, Non-Classical (3 - 5 entries) Spoiler Arca (Kick ii, iii, iiii, iiiii) Daniel Nigro (SOUR) Ethel Cain (Inbred) FINNEAS (Happier Than Ever) Jack Antonoff (Chemtrails Over the Country Club, Sling, Solar Power, Daddy’s Home, Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night) James Ford (What’s Your Pleasure? The Platinum Edition, “Kiss of Life”) Sega Bodega (Romeo) SG Lewis (times, “Hot N Heavy”) yuele ("Don't Be So Hard On Your Own Beauty") Yves Rotham (a touch of the beat…) Best Country Album (3 - 5 entries) Spoiler Allison Ponthier - Faking My Own Death Ashley Monroe - Rosegold Mickey Guyton - Remember Her Name Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram, Jon Randall - The Marfa Tapes Sarah Klang - VIRGO Yola - Stand for Myself Best Country Song (3 - 5 entries) Spoiler Allison Ponthier - Cowboy Allison Ponthier - Faking My Own Death Ellie King & Miranda Lambert - Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home) Kacey Musgraves - camera roll Maddie & Tae - Mood Ring Madeline Edwards - Best Revenge Taylor Swift feat. Chris Stapleton - I Bet You Think About Me Orville Peck - Born This Way (10th Anniversary Version)
Final Nominees & Winners Record of the Year Agnes - 24 Hours Allison Ponthier - Cowboy Aly & AJ - Symptom of Your Touch Angele - Bruxelle je t'aime Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever Caroline Polachek - Bunny Is a Rider Griff - Black Hole Hatchie - This Enchanted Lil Nas X - MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name) MUNA, Phoebe Bridgers - Silk Chiffon Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u Song of the Year Aly & AJ - Pretty Places Aly & AJ - Symptom of Your Touch Angele - Bruxelles Je T'AIme Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever Lil Nas X - MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name) Maisie Peters - John Hughes Movie MUNA ft. Phoebe Bridgers - Silk Chiffon Self Esteem - I Do This All The Time Shygirl ft. Slowthai - BDE SZA - Good Days Album of the Year Aly & AJ - a touch of the beat gets you up on your feet gets you out and then into the sun Angele - Nonante Cinq Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever Halsey - If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power Jazmine Sullivan - Heaux Tales Laura Mvula - Pink Noise Lil Nas X - MONTERO Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World Self Esteem - Prioritise Pleasure Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend Best New Artist Arlo Parks Baby Queen Celeste Griff Magdalena Bay Olivia Rodrigo Pink Pantheress Self Esteem Videoclub Yebba Best Pop Solo Performance Agnes - 24 Hours Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever Foxes - Sister Ray Laura Mvula - Got Me Maisie Peters - John Hughes Movie Best Pop Duo / Group Performance Aly & AJ - Symptom of Your Touch Charli XCX, Christine & the Queens, Caroline Polachek - New Shapes Doja Cat & SZA - Kiss Me More Pure Shores - Back on My Love Videoclub - SMS Best Pop Vocal Album Agnes - Magic Still Exists Aly & AJ - a touch of the beat gets you up on your feet gets you out and then into the sun Angele - Nonante-Cinq Doja Cat - Planet Her Self Esteem - Prioritise Pleasure Best Progressive R&B / R&B Album Alicia Keys - KEYS Celeste - Not Your Muse Jazmine Sullivan - Heaux Tales Mariah the Scientist - Ry Ry World Tinashe - 333 Best R&B Performance Mariah the Scientist - Aura Normani, Cardi B - Wild Side SZA - Good Days Tinashe - Bouncin Victoria Monet - F.U.C.K. Best Dance Album Lady Gaga - Dawn of Chromatica Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World Rochelle Jordan - Play With the Changes SG Lewis - times Slayyyter - Troubled Paradise Best Dance Recording Bebe Rexha - Sacrifice L’Impératice - Peur Des Filles (Montmartre Remix) Lady Gaga, Rina Sawayama, Clarence Clarity - Free Woman (Remix) Regard, Troye Sivan, Tate McRae - You Shygirl - Cleo Best Rap Performance Bree Runway - HOT HOT Cardi B - Up Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow - Industry Baby Little Simz ft. Cleo Sol - Woman Megan Thee Stallion - Thot Shit Best Rap Album Lil Nas X - MONTERO Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert Megan Thee Stallion - Something for Thee Hotties Therapie Taxi - Rupture 2 Merde Tyler, the Creator - CALL ME WHEN YOU GET LOST Best Alternative Album CHVRCHES - Screen Violence Halsey - If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee St. Vincent - Daddy’s Home Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend Best Alternative Song Halsey - I am not a woman, I’m a god Japanese Breakfast - Be Sweet Mitski - The Only Heartbreaker MUNA, Phoebe Bridgers - Silk Chiffon St Vincent - The Melting of the Sun Best Music Video Charli XCX, Christine & the Queens, Caroline Polachek - New Shapes Kylie Minogue, Jessie Ware - Kiss of Life Lil Nas X - MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name) Megan Thee Stallion - Thot Shit Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u Producer of the Year FINNEAS James Ford Sega Bodega SG Lewis Yves Rothman Best Country Album Allison Ponthier - Faking My Own Death Kacey Musgraves - star-crossed Mickey Guyton - Remember Her Name Sarah Klang - VIRGO Yola - Stand For Myself Best Country Song Allison Ponthier - Cowboy Allison Ponthier - Faking My Own Death Kacey Musgraves - camera roll Madeline Edwards - Best Revenge Mickey Guyton - Remember Her Name Spotify Playlist (courtesy of @Dangerous Maknae):
THE PJ ACADEMY @2014 @4Roses @berserkboi @boombazookajoe @BubblegumBoy @CorgiCorgiCorgi @Dangerous Maknae @GimmeWork @Island @londonrain @Lost In Japan. @Maki @Milotic @Phonetics Girl @ohnostalgia @Sail On @slaybellz @Sprockrooster @soratami @VivaForever
FYC JOY CROOKES BEST NEW ARTIST POP VOCAL ALBUM - SKIN ALBUM OF THE YEAR - SKIN POP SOLO RECORDING - WHEN YOU WERE MINE SELF ESTEEM BEST NEW ARTIST POP VOCAL ALBUM - PRIORITISE PLEASURE ALBUM OF THE YEAR - PRIORITISE PLEASURE POP SOLO PERFORMANCE - I DO THIS ALL THE TIME RECORD OF THE YEAR - I DO THIS ALL THE TIME SONG OF THE YEAR - I DO THIS ALL THE TIME SHYGIRL BEST RAP PERFORMANCE - BDE FT. SLOWTHAI RECORD OF THE YEAR - BDE FT. SLOWTHAI BEST DANCE RECORDING - CLEO ERIKA DE CASIER BEST NEW ARTIST ALBUM OF THE YEAR - SENSATIONAL BEST R&B ALBUM - SENSATIONAL BEST R&B PERFORMANCE - DRAMA RITA ORA BEST DANCE RECORDING - BANG BANG LITTLE SIMZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR - SOMETIMES I MIGHT BE AN INTROVERT BEST RAP ALBUM - SOMETIMES I MIGHT BE AN INTROVERT BEST RAP PERFORMANCE - WOMAN ALY & AJ ALBUM OF THE YEAR - A TOUCH OF THE BEAT.... POP VOCAL ALBUM - A TOUCH OF THE BEAT.... POP DUO/GROUP RECORDING - SYMPTOM OF YOUR TOUCH
I think these tags might not have worked, I just got a notification that there was a new post in the thread, not that I'd been tagged.
Mess lemme try again xxx @BubblegumBoy[/USER] has asked me to do a tagging spree for everyone who participated last year; please come back xx THE PJ ACADEMY @2014 @Adam @aux @boombazookajoe @BubblegumBoy @CorgiCorgiCorgi @Cotton Park @Dangerous Maknae @evilsin @GimmeWork @Island @londonrain @Lost In Japan. @lushLuck @Mirwais Ahmadzaï @Music Is Death @ohnostalgia @Phonetics Girl @Remorque @Sail On @saviodxl @slaybellz @Sprockrooster @soratami @thommyh @Trouble in Paradise @ufint @Verandi
I kinda forget how this works, what do you mean by pick 5-8 or 3-5 entries? Like we can choose that many songs/albums per category? Also how are the nominations decided? Are we picking from a fixed list or we can choose anything? And are EPs allowed in album categories?
So you can submit 5-8 nominations for these categories (Best New Artist, Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year) which are mandatory and the rest of the optional categories are 3-5 nominations. Nominations are completely your own choosing. The list is just our ideas we put together. Feel free to post FYCs on here! As for EPs I'm going to say yes but I'll get @Sail On to clarify.
Ok thanks! That's a very generous amount of nominations. I've got a lot of thinking to do. If we can't think of that many noms for some categories we can just pick one right? Like 5 or 3 is not the minimum?
BEST POP DUO/GROUP RECORDING: GAVIN TUREK BEST NEW ARTIST BEST R&B ALBUM - MADAME GOLD BETTY BASS BEST NEW ARTIST BEST R&B ALBUM - GROWN
FYC! Best Country Album Allison Ponthier - Faking My Own Death Best Country Song: Allison Ponthier - Cowboy Allison Ponthier - Faking My Own Death Allison Ponthier - Tornado Country Allison Ponthier - Hell Is A Crowded Room Allison Ponthier - Harshest Critic
@Sail On @BubblegumBoy I have a few questions regarding category placements. Is Planet Her in Pop or Rap? Same goes with Montero. Is PinkPantheress in Pop or Dance? Is Halsey's album going to be in Pop here or in Alternative?
Thank you @2014 for the tagging help! We'd prefer you submit at least 5 for General Field and 3 for the rest but I'll be happy for any noms getting down to the more niche categories. Also, yes, feel free to submit EPs for album categories! I remember Lil Nas X's first EP got nominated for AOTY a few years ago, anyway.
Thanks for pointing these out. Though MONTERO and Planet Her are great pop records, let's make the Rap categories more competitive and count them there. Elsewhere, we'll count PinkPantheress in Pop and Halsey in Alternative. I've made adjustments in post 2! I'll go along now and begin adding the FYCs to Post 2, too.
Allow me to sprinkle in my own two favorite FYCs before I get any ballots submitted and then I'll be properly impartial. Billie Eilish AOTY - Happier Than Ever ROTY / Best Pop Solo Performance - Happier Than Ever SOTY - Male Fantasy The maturation of Billie Eilish develops throughout Happier Than Ever, the star’s sophomore effort released on the heels of her AOTY trophy for her 2019 iconoclastic debut. It’s a rewarding reminder that only age can illicit true wisdom (“Getting Older”), unfettered confidence (“Billie Bossa Nova”), doe-eyed romance (“Halley’s Comet”), and chilling heartache (“Male Fantasy”). Sonically, Billie hones in on her signature sound while still finding room to surprise the listener. Whether it be the spoken-word sensuality manifesto “Not My Responsibility” that could be lifted from Madonna’s 1992 Erotica, the trip-hop jazz switch-up in “my future,” or the title track’s ukulele lullaby switch to arena anthem kiss-off, Billie and producer-brother Finneas understand the importance of keeping fans on their toes. And don’t worry, it’s not all a serious affair either. The same wink-and-nudge artist behind the “duh!” punchline delivers the devilishly bonkers “Oxytocin,” which, yes, I can confirm does indeed pop off as much as you’d expect live. Lucy Dacus AOTY / Best Alternative Album - Home Video Best Alternative Song - VBS Lucy demonstrates how to properly indulge in nostalgia, swimming through old memories, both happy and heavy, with such an authoritative, engaging perspective that makes even the best memoirists jealous. The electric rock from Historian is a bit more accessible after her stint in boygenius (with Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker), and the result is gorgeous melodies, sharp lyricism, and catchy anthems about how much youth informs adulthood. Home Video really marks the most appropriate title, too, for its tracks all are cinematic. Whether it's the coming-of-age "Hot & Heavy," the hypnotic "Cartwheel," or the closing credits "Triple Dog Dare," Dacus' soundtrack will stop you in your tracks while you'll in turn begin to romanticize your own past without fear or guilt, and hopefully with a good sense of humor.
