'The Recording Academy received a request from Drake / his management to remove his nominations from our final-round ballot and that request has been honored.'
at the time with 613,000 units. With 744 million streams in the US alone, it also broke Spotify's record for most streams in a single day.
No other nominees were drafted in to replace Drake, most likely because the voting had already begun with the ballot being sent out on Monday. Variety called the move at this late-stage"unprecedented." And the tension between Drake and the Grammys intensified in 2019 when he declined to perform, something that was reportedly down to the Academy's snubbing of rap and hip-hop artists over the years."The fact of the matter is, we continue to have a problem in the hip-hop world," Ken Ehrlich, a producer of the show, told the.
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