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Lizzo Received 11 Billboard Music Awards Nominations Tuesday

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Catherine Wendlandt
Author: Catherine Wendlandt
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Houston’s very own flute-playing, rapping treasure Lizzo received 11 Billboard Music Award nominations yesterday, including Top New Artist, Top Female Artist, and Top Hot 100 Song (for “Truth Hurts”).

If she wins Top New Artist, the “Good as Hell” singer would be “the first female artist to win in this category since Lorde in 2014,” according to Billboard, which released its 2020 nominations Tuesday. Similarly, if Lizzo nabs Top Hot 100 Song, it’ll be the first time a female artist has taken home the award since Meghan Trainor won in 2015 for “All About That Bass.”

And speaking of the Top Hot 100 Song nom, “Truth Hurts” received a lot more love. The song, which was released in 2017 but didn’t explode into fame until last year, got three other nods itself: Top Selling Song, Top Radio Song, and Top Rap Song. But Billboard didn’t forget about Lizzo’s other hits. “Good as Hell” was nominated for Top R&B Song.

“I just wanna thank God,” Lizzo wrote on Instagram yesterday, along with a list of her nominations. “And thank YOU.”

Lizzo isn’t the only Houston-raised star to get Billboard nods this year. Megan Thee Stallion got a nom for Top Rap Female Artist. Travis Scott racked in nominations for Top Streaming Songs Artist and Top Rap Tour, fitting for the man who launched the Astroworld Festival in 2018 and played there again last fall. And, of course, Beyoncé received a Top R&B Album nod for “Homecoming: The Live Album.” She’s also up against Lizzo and Life on Earth singer Summer Walker for Top R&B Female Artist—we’ll all be biting our nails on this one.

The 2020 Billboard Music Awards will take place October 14.




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Catherine Wendlandt
Catherine Wendlandt
A native Austinite, Catherine Wendlandt spent almost six years in the Midwest for college and graduate school at the University of Missouri (MIZ). While there, she talked about Texas and missed queso so much she had to come back.  In school, she worked as a city government reporter and page designer for the Columbia Missourian, a communications intern at a local jazz company, a food editor and later the managing editor at Vox Magazine, and a research assistant for the Association of Health Care Journalists. She's worked in Missouri, Dallas, and Barcelona, Spain, and interned for Houstonia in 2018, when she fell in love with everything about the city, except maybe the traffic and mosquitos.  When she's not at work, you can find Catherine curled up reading a good book, out exploring local parks, taking lots of sunset pictures, and trying to pet every dog she sees (in spite of the allergies).