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Melanie Martinez from The Voice Season 3 is up for a Billboard Music Award.

Kelly Clarkson will host the show, which will air at 8 p.m. on NBC. The show was originally scheduled for April, but was postponed because of the pandemic.

Melanie is nominated for best soundtrack of the year for her album K-12, and Morgan has a pair of nominations for top country album (“If You Know Me”) and top country song (“Whiskey Glasses).

Other performers with singing show connections — Carrie Underwood, Blake Shelton and Camila Cabello — are more familiar faces on the award show circuit.

Here are the categories with featuring American Idol and Voice alum.

Top Country Female Artist: Maren Morris, Kacey Musgraves, Carrie Underwood

Top Gospel Artist: Kirk Franklin, Koryn Hawthorne, Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Sunday Service Choir, Kanye West

Top Soundtrack: “Aladdin”, “Descendants 3”, “Frozen II”, “K-12” by Melanie Martinez, “The Dirt” by Mötley Crüe

Top Country Album: Kane Brown “Experiment”, Luke Combs “What You See Is What You Get”, Maren Morris “GIRL”, Thomas Rhett “Center Point Road”, Morgan Wallen “If I Know Me”

Top Hot 100 Song: Lewis Capaldi “Someone You Loved”, Billie Eilish “bad guy”, Lil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Cyrus “Old Town Road”, Lizzo “Truth Hurts”, Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello “Señorita”

Top Selling Song: Lewis Capaldi “Someone You Loved”, Billie Eilish “bad guy”, Lil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Cyrus “Old Town Road”, Lizzo “Truth Hurts”, Blake Shelton “God’s Country”

Top Collaboration (Fan Voted): Chris Brown ft. Drake “No Guidance”, Lil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Cyrus “Old Town Road”, Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello “Señorita”, Post Malone & Swae Lee “Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)”, Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber “I Don’t Care”

Top Country Song: Dan + Shay with Justin Bieber “10,000 Hours”, Maren Morris “The Bones”, Old Dominion “One Man Band”, Blake Shelton “God’s Country”, Morgan Wallen “Whiskey Glasses”

For a complete list of nominees, head here.