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Frank Ocean and Beck top this year’s O Music Awards with two nominations each.
On June 19, Viacom’s O Music Awards returns with a “Make a Band Famous” competition, performances from across the country and a drum-a-thon led by The Roots band leader and drummer ?uestlove.
Among this year’s categories honoring musicians leveraging digital platforms in innovative ways are nominations for Ocean (“Most Follow Artist on Twitter” and “Too Much Ass for TV”) and Beck (“Best Interactive Music Video” and “Analog Genius”).
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Other artist nominees to vie for an award include Justin Bieber (“Fan Army FTW”), Pussy Riot (“Digital Genius”), Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (“Best Web-Born Artist”), Miranda Lambert (“Best Interactive Music Video”), Ed Sheeran (“Fan Army FTW”), ?uestlove (“Must Follow Artist on Twitter”), Tyler the Creator (“Best Artist Instagram”), Demi Lovato (“Fan Army FTW”) and David Bowie (“Too Much Ass for TV”).
Fans can vote on OMusicAwards.com via their Facebook or Twitter account. Open nominations also kicks off today and will go through Tuesday, May 21. Users can suggest nominees for consideration and voting by using category hashtags via Twitter and Facebook.
O Music Awards will livestream on June 19 at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT.
See the complete list of nominees, below.
Digital Genius Award
Psy
Yoko Ono
Will.i.am
Trent Reznor
Pussy Riot
Best Web-Born Artist
Kitty
Baauer
FIDLAR
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Angel Haze
Best Music App
Scape
Vjay
Timbre
CrowdSYNC
Jukely
Best Interactive Music Video
Linkin Park, “Lost in the Echo”
Beck & Chris Milk, “Sound and Vision”
Tanlines, “Not The Same”
Miranda Lambert, “Fastest Girl in Town”
Yung Jake, “e.m.-bed.de/d”
Fan Army FTW
Tokio Hotel’s “Aliens”
Adam Lambert’s “Glamberts”
Ed Sheeran’s “Sheerios”
Justin Bieber’s “Beliebers”
Beyonce’s “Beyhive”
Demi Lovato’s “Lovatics”
Thirty Seconds to Mars’ “Echelon”
Selena Gomez’s “Selenators”
All Time Low’s “Hustlers”
Lil B’s “Task Force”
Best Music Hack
Bonhamizer
Leap Orchestra
Maebe
Tweet Concrete
Boil the Frog
Must Follow Artist on Twitter
Bruno Mars
?uestlove
Frank Ocean
Andrew W.K.
Erykah Badu
Grimes
Carrie Brownstein
Solange
Ryan Adams
Richard Marx
Best Artist Instagram
Pictureplane
Tyler the Creator
Bon Iver
Mariah Carey
Riff Raff
Our Favorite Musical Cat
Lil Bub
Keyboard Cat
Skifcha The Hipster Dubstep Cat
Collective Soul Cat
CatCERTO
Too Much Ass for TV (NSFW Music Videos)
David Bowie, “The Stars (Are Out Tonight)”
Sigur Ros, “Valtari”
DIIV, “Wait”
Frank Ocean, “Pyramids”
Robin Thicke, “Blurred Lines”
Make a Band Famous
The So So Glos
Chill Moody
Syd Arthur
Striking Matches
Tatiana Owens
John & Jacob
Shy Glizzy
Fallulah
The Future
Darling Parade
Next Big Scene
PostDubStep
CloudRap
Beats
#Seapunk
Vaporwave
Analog Genius Award
Jack White
Beck
Neil Young
Shone
Most Inspiring Fan Outreach
Dan Deacon
Avicii x You
Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir
Alicia Keys
The “Friday, Friday” Vanguard Award
Harlem Shake (the faux dance)
Flash Mobs
Goats yelling like humans in music videos
Twerking
Lip Dubs
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O Music Awards Super Fan
The O Music Awards Super Fan Award will be the user that drives the most votes during the voting period. Votes either come from the fan’s own activity, or activity that he/she drives via his/her voting page. This fan will be announced during the show, spotlighted on the O Music Awards blog, and will receive a personalized cube award.
OPEN NOMINATIONS
For the O Music Awards Open Nominations, users will be asked to “write in” their nominee + the specific category hashtag:
#OMADigitalGenius
#OMAWebBornArtist
#OMAMusicApp
#OMAInteractiveVideo
#OMAFanArmyFTW
#OMAMusicHack
#OMAMustFollowTwitter
#OMAArtistInstagram
#OMAMusicalCat
#OMATooMuchAss
#OMANextBigScene
#OMAAnalogGenius
#OMAFanOutreach
#OMAFridayFriday
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