{"id":2428665,"date":"2026-05-22T21:57:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2428665"},"modified":"2026-05-22T21:57:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:57:43","slug":"leading-nominee-taylor-swift-is-skipping-the-american-music-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/leading-nominee-taylor-swift-is-skipping-the-american-music-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading nominee Taylor Swift is skipping the American Music Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>2026 American Music Awards. (Courtesy of CBS and Dick Clark Productions)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If you hoped that Taylor Swift might announce something during the American Music Awards on Monday, you&#8217;re out of luck:<em> People<\/em> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/taylor-swift-will-not-attend-2026-american-music-awards-11982640\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:reports;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;reports&quot;}\" class=\"link \">reports<\/a> that the singer will not be attending the show, despite being the lead nominee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Taylor&#8217;s up for eight nominations, including artist of the year and album of the year for <em>The Life of a Showgirl<\/em>.\u00a0She already has 40 AMAs on her trophy shelf, making her the most-awarded artist in the show&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As <em>People<\/em> notes, if Taylor sweeps all the categories in which she&#8217;s nominated, she&#8217;ll tie Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston for the artist with the most wins in a single year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As previously reported, Queen Latifah will host the show live from Las Vegas on Monday night; it will air on CBS and Paramount+ at 8 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In the past, Taylor has announced new albums on award shows, though not the AMAs. She revealed at the 2024 Grammys that she was dropping <em>The Tortured Poets Department\u00a0<\/em>and announced the upcoming release of\u00a0<em>Midnights\u00a0<\/em>at the 2022 MTV VMAs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026 American Music Awards. (Courtesy of CBS and Dick Clark Productions) If you hoped that Taylor Swift might announce something during the American Music Awards on Monday, you&#8217;re out of luck: People reports that the singer will not be attending the show, despite being the lead nominee. Taylor&#8217;s up for eight nominations, including artist of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2428667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[346973,349389,23084,37098],"class_list":["post-2428665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-american-music-awards","tag-dick-clark-productions","tag-taylor-swift","tag-whitney-houston"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Leading-nominee-Taylor-Swift-is-skipping-the-American-Music-Awards.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2428665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428668,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428665\/revisions\/2428668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2428667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2428665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2428665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2428665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}