Taylor Swift and Michael Jackson lead the nominations at this year’s American Music Awards.
Jackson features in the coveted Artist of the Year award, as well as Favourite Pop/Rock Male Artist, Favourite Pop/Rock Album, Favourite Soul/R&B Album and Favourite Soul/R&B Male Artist.
The album nominations stem from Jackson’s re-released Number Ones album – featuring his greatest hits.
Swift has been nominated in the Favourite Pop/Rock Female Artist, Favourite Pop/Rock Album, Favourite Country Music Female Artist, Favourite Country Music Album, Favourite Adult Contemporary Artist and the Artist of the Year categories.
Black Eyed Peas, Lady Gaga, Kings of Leon and Eminem also scored well, each picking up four nominations.
The nominations were announced by former American Idol judge Paula Abdul, rap star Snoop Dogg and American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Alicia Keys, Black Eyed Peas, Jennifer Lopez and Adam Lambert are confirmed to perform at the AMAs. Additional acts and performers will be announced in the coming weeks.
The awards themselves are split into eight categories including Pop/Rock, Country, Soul/Rhythm & Blues, Rap/Hip-Hop, Latin Music, Alternative Music, Contemporary Inspirational, and Adult Contemporary categories.
A total of 20 awards will be presented during the 2009 American Music Awards on November 22.
Source: Splash News
We’ve all seen this scenario before: latest it-thing rises to sudden massive stardom, it-thing spends newfound wealth all in one place, new it-thing comes along, people lose interest in former it-thing, has-been it-thing goes bankrupt. I’m not saying that Adam Lambert is headed towards that fate but with reports that the singer is looking into buying some property in our current economy, he needs to be warned to invest wisely. The American Idol alum recently said “I think I’m going to buy a house. It’s a little ways off. I’ll probably wait until the end of the year. That’s exciting to me, to have a home.”
Audrina Patridge is apparently a big fan of American Idol. And who does she want everyone to vote for? Adam Lambert of course. The Hills star blogged “For those of you avid American Idol fans, I just wanted to remind you guys to tune in tonight to vote at 9 p.m. on FOX! One of the contestants, Adam Lambert, is a close friend of mine and he’s one of the most talented and sincere people I know — he definitely has my vote 
” Audrina even posted a picture of her and Adam which was taken at his birthday party at West Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont.
The American Idol contestant apparently soared through the idol meter this week due to his rendition of “The Tracks of my Tears” by Smokey Robinson. But then again that was the judges’ assessment too so it’s no big surprise. It looks like Adam Lambert is holding the victory torch for this week. It would be very ironical for him to trip and take a nose dive next week, but then again, that might just be what the judges are keeping up their saves for. Still there might be a slight bond forming in daddy-Cowell’s eyes for Adam Lambert… after all, the judge did call him the best performance of the night.