Juice WRLD died in Dec. 2019 at age 21. His posthumous album, “Legends Never Die,” was released a week after Pop Smoke’s album and set several records on the Billboard charts, becoming the biggest posthumous debut in 23 years since Tupac and Notorious B.I.G. posthumously released albums in 1997.
His seven Billboard nominations include top male artist, top rap artist and top Billboard 200 album.
Others battling The Weeknd, Pop Smoke and Juice WRLD for top album include Lil Baby’s “My Turn” and Swift’s “folklore,” which last month won the star her third album of the year Grammy.
Morgan Wallen wasn’t allowed to compete at this month’s Academy of Country Music Awards because the singer was caught on camera using a racial slur earlier this year, but he’s one of the top nominees at the Billboard Awards. His six nominations include top song sales artist, top country artist and top country album for “Dangerous: The Double Album,” which is currently No. 3 on the pop charts and continues to sell extremely well despite Wallen’s crisis moment. He’s even a double nominee in top country song, competing with the hits “Chasin’ You” and “More Than My Hometown.”