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Melanie Martinez, Morgan Wallen among 2020 BMA nominees

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

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

Former Voice contestants Melanie Martinez and Morgan Wallen will be looking for their first Billboard Music Awards at the 2020 awards show, set for Oct. 14.

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.

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