For The First Time “mtvU Woodie Awards” Premiere LIVE in Primetime from SXSW on MTV Friday, March 20 at 9 p.m. ET

Nominations announced by Charli XCX & Rita Ora ("Doing It" out NOW!):

Woodie Of The Year (Artist of the Year)
· J. Cole

· Sam Smith

· Charli XCX

· Run the Jewels

· Porter Robinson

· FKA twigs


Artist to Watch Woodie (Best Emerging Artist)
· Years & Years

· Rae Sremmurd

· Raury

· MisterWives

· Kygo

· James Bay



Best Video Woodie (Best Video of the Year)

· FKA twigs – “Pendulum”

· Childish Gambino – “Sober”

· Beyoncé – “7/11”

· Flying Lotus featuring Kendrick Lamar – “Never Catch Me”

· Bad Suns – “Salt”

· Vic Mensa – “Down On My Luck”



Cover Woodie (Best Cover Song)
· Ed Sheeran, Sia, and Grouplove covering Beyoncé – “Drunk In Love”

· Kiesza covering Hozier – “Take Me To Church”

· Lorde covering Jeremih – “Don't Tell Em”

· Charli XCX covering Taylor Swift – “Shake It Off”

· Taylor Swift covering Vance Joy – “Riptide”

· Sam Smith covering Whitney Houston – “How Will I Know”

Next Level Performance Woodie (Finding New Ways to Reach Audiences)
· Drake and Lil Wayne – created an app that allowed the audience to decide who performed first on their joint tour.

· Childish Gambino – created an app that allowed users to display messages onto his tour stage.

· Big Data – used social media during their performances to acknowledge specific audience members in real time in front of the entire crowd.

· Sia – performed in several TV appearances without showing her face by utilizing performance artists and actors to serve as a proxy for her.

· Skrillex – performed Bonnaroo SuperJam session fusing EDM and live instrumentation with numerous surprise guests.


Co-Sign Woodie (Best Collaboration Between Artists)

· Alesso featuring Tove Lo – “Heroes (We Could Be)”

· Hoodie Allen featuring Ed Sheeran – “All About It”

· Jack Ü featuring Kiesza – “Take Ü”

· Fences featuring Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – “Arrows”

· iLoveMakonnen featuring Drake – “Tuesday”

· Eminem featuring Dej Loaf – “Detroit vs. Everybody”



College Radio Woodie (Best College Radio Station)

· Arizona State University (KASC)

· Boston University (WTBU)

· Eastern Illinois University (WEIU)

· Hofstra University (WRHU)

· James Madison University (WXJM)

· Loyola University Chicago (WLUW)

· Marywood University (WVMW)

· St. Edward’s University (Topper Radio)

· University of California, Berkeley (KALX)

· University of Pittsburg (WPTS)

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