{"id":51150,"date":"2025-11-07T17:55:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T17:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/07\/the-weeknds-hurry-up-tomorrow-not-nominated-for-2026-grammy-awards\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T17:55:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T17:55:49","slug":"the-weeknds-hurry-up-tomorrow-not-nominated-for-2026-grammy-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/07\/the-weeknds-hurry-up-tomorrow-not-nominated-for-2026-grammy-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weeknd’s ‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’ Not Nominated for 2026 Grammy Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\tIn February, the Weeknd<\/a> slipped into the 2025 Grammy Awards without anyone noticing. He\u2019d been working alongside the Recording Academy for four months to plan his grand return to the ceremony. It had to be kept a secret for dramatic effect and theatrics of that nature. The singer had fallen out with the awards body in 2020 after his album After Hours<\/em> \u2014 and its monumentally colossal single \u201cBlinding Lights\u201d \u2014 received zero nominations. He vowed to boycott<\/a> the show and bar his label from submitting any future releases for consideration, including what might actually be his career triumph, Dawn FM<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBackstage at Los Angeles\u2019 Crypto.com<\/a> Arena, the Weeknd prepared to storm the stage with over 100 dancers and an assist from Playboi Carti. Meanwhile, the audience watched as Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. delivered a speech in front of a wall of headlines. Each story on the screen was about the shutout, his boycott, and his claim that the prestigious institution was corrupt. The Weeknd wasn\u2019t the first artist to step away, with Frank Ocean and Drake among the others. But he was one of the first to come back.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Weeknd delivered a blazing performance<\/a> of \u201cCry for Me\u201d and \u201cTimeless,\u201d two standouts from his sixth studio album Hurry Up Tomorrow<\/em>, released two days prior. Still, it wasn\u2019t enough to garner any nominations for the 2026 Grammy Awards<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe newly-revealed nods for next year\u2019s show found Hurry Up Tomorrow <\/em>shut out across the board, including the pop and R&B categories he\u2019s previously earned nominations in. While it wasn\u2019t his most defining release (again, Dawn FM<\/em>, I\u2019m so sorry it had to be this way), the album was far from unsuccessful. In July, \u201cTimeless,\u201d the Carti collab, became the Weeknd\u2019s 28th song to surpass one billion streams on Spotify. The album also boasted popular collaborations with Anita on the Brazilian funk record \u201cS\u00e3o Paulo\u201d and Lana Del Rey on \u201cThe Abyss,\u201d a hazy callback to his early soundscape.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Weeknd didn\u2019t run an aggressive Grammys campaign, <\/em>but Republic Records did push For Your Consideration ads for Hurry Up Tomorrow<\/em>. The label pulled quotes from Pitchfork, <\/em>which called it, \u201cThe Weeknd\u2019s most expansive-sounding album.\u201d The Guardian<\/em>, the poster highlighted, called it, \u201ca record that will floor you,\u201d though it did remove the other half of that clause which read, \u201cand drive you up the wall.\u201d Though not included in the FYC round-up, Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> <\/em>described the album as \u201cdazzling and frustrating, with moments of lyrical clarity and sonic density that stand out amidst the heavy-hearted reflections and even heavier synths.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe sonic elements of Hurry Up Tomorrow <\/em>are the one thing about the album the Recording Academy didn\u2019t seem to totally mind, actually. Cirkuit, who is up for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical, is being recognized for his work on the album tracks \u201cRed Terror\u201d and \u201cBig Sleep,\u201d which features Italian composer Giorgio Moroder. The nod is also thanks, likely in a significantly larger part, to the producer\u2019s work on Lady Gaga\u2019s Mayhem<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe rest was, apparently, less interesting. The Weeknd grapples with his own legacy across Hurry Up Tomorrow<\/em>, from the towering heights of his career to all the times he feels he came up short. He previously suggested<\/a> that the record will be his last under the moniker. \u201cEverything needs to feel like a challenge. And for me right now, the Weeknd, whatever that is, it\u2019s been mastered,\u201d he told Variety <\/em>earlier this year. \u201cNo one\u2019s gonna do the Weeknd better than me, and I\u2019m not gonna do it better than what it is right now. I think I\u2019ve overcome every challenge as this persona.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMaybe the Recording Academy will like Abel Tesfaye more.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAbel boycotting the show \u2014 the Weeknd boycotting the show \u2014 was a really significant moment where it was like, there is a massive artist who is saying, not only does he not want to be on the show, but he\u2019s not even going to submit his music,\u201d Grammy Awards Executive Producer Ben Winston told Rolling Stone <\/em><\/a>the morning after this year\u2019s ceremony. \u201cLike that is as damning as you like. And Harvey hasn\u2019t gone and sought the Weeknd\u2019s love. Harvey has just gone and done the job and done the work.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tWhen Winston struck up conversations with the Weeknd and his team, he was curious about how his feelings towards the Academy had changed. \u201cI think they\u2019ll have to say how they feel. I never want to speak for them,\u201d Winston said. \u201cBut I think the proof is in the pudding, in that, like, there he was.\u201d In an interview with The New York Times<\/em>,<\/a> the Weeknd said, \u201cI\u2019ve got no beef, it was so long ago, and they did a lot of changes, I mean, we got under the hood.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd yet, some things never change and playing the game doesn\u2019t always work. No hard feelings, though, right?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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