The 31-year-old singer-songwriter has announced that he plans to boycott future Grammy Awards after his most recent album, After Hours was completely shut out of this year s nominations. Because of the secret committees, I will no longer allow my label to submit my music to the Grammys, the star said in a statement to the New York Times.
The Grammys are not run by secret committees per se, but according to the Times, anonymous expert committees do review the initial nomination choices that are made by thousands of voting members. After Hours was one of 2020 s top-selling albums, according to Rolling Stone, and the single Blinding Lights was one of the year s biggest anthems.
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Sep 11, 2015, 9:03 pm
Update: A sales total of 114,000 earns Five Finger Death Punch’s “Got Your Six” the #1 spot on this week’s Billboard Top Album Sales chart.
Not simply the week’s greatest total, it is also the greatest weekly sales figure ever posted by a FFDP album.
“Got Your Six” is the first Five Finger Death Punch album to win a weekly sales race. It does not, however, land atop the consumption-oriented Billboard 200. That honor instead belongs to The Weeknd’s “Beauty Behind The Madness,” which rules for a second straight week.
While it only sold 77,000 copies this week, it enjoyed a considerably greater boost from Track Equivalent Albums (10 single sales = 1 album equivalent unit) and Streaming Equivalent Albums (1500 single streams = 1 album equivalent unit). With TEA and SEA included, “Beauty” posted a first-week consumption total of 145,000. “Got Your Six” follows with 119,000.