2014 Woodie Awards Nominees Announced; Arcade Fire Tops Noms, Followed by Jay Z, Pharrell, Kendrick Lamar
The 2014 Woodie Awards Nominees came out today and Arcade Fire is the top nominee for all things music for college students.
Canadian band Arcade Fire nabbed three nominations from mtvU's college-centric awards.
Pharrell, Jay Z, Imagine Dragons, Chance the Rapper and Disclosure got two nominations each. Drake, Avicci, Childish Gambino, Lorde, Bastille, Beyoncé, Zedd, Bob Dylan, Kendrick Lamar, Iggy Azalea, Daft Punk and The 1975 were also nominated.
The Woodie Award winners will be announced on March 13 at the awards show that celebrates music embraced by college students,
The nominees will compete for chunks of wood at the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas on Thursday, March 13 2014. The show will be filmed and MTV and mtvU will premiere the half-hour "2014 mtvU Woodie Awards Special" on Sunday, March 16 at 8:00 p.m.
The show will showcase some of the best "2014 mtvU Woodie Awards" performances. Woodie Award voting opens today at Woodies.MTV.com and runs through March 6, 2014.
This is the 10th annual Woody Awards Show at the SXSW.
Arcade Fire was nominated for "Best Video Woodie," "Performing Woodie" and the new category "Did it My Way Woodie," where they will compete against Beyoncé, Kanye West, Childish Gambino and Bob Dylan, all of whom found unique ways to share their music with fans over the past year.
The Nominations are:
Woodie of the Year:
Imagine Dragons
Lorde
Pharrell
Drake
Zedd
Disclosure
Breaking Woodie:
Bastille
Martin Garrix
The 1975
Jhene Aiko
Sam Smith
Mack Wilds
Best Video Woodie:
Disclosure, "Grab Her"
Passion Pit, "Carried Away"
Chance The Rapper, "Everybody's Something"
Iggy Azalea, "Bounce"
Arcade Fire, "Afterlife"
Did It My Way Woodie:
Beyoncé - Released her new, self-titled album without any prior promotion.
Kanye West - Created an interactive music video experience for Yeezus
Arcade Fire - Creatively utilized social media, street art and pop-up performances to launch the Reflektor album.
Childish Gambino - Hosted impromptu album listening sessions in public parks for Because the Internet.
Bob Dylan - Created a 16 channel interactive music video for "Like a Rolling Stone."
Performing Woodie:
Tyler the Creator
Ed Sheeran
Jay Z
Arcade Fire
The National
The XX
Best Collaboration Woodie:
A$AP Rocky and Skrillex - "Wild For the Night"
Avicii and Aloe Blacc - "Wake Me Up"
Just Blaze and Baauer featuring Jay Z - "Higher"
Kendrick Lamar and Imagine Dragons - "Radioactive (remix)"
Daft Punk and Pharrell - "Get Lucky"
James Blake and Chance The Rapper - "Life Round Here"
College Radio Woodie (Best College Radio Station):
Ball State University (WCRD)
Boston University (WTBU)
East Stroudsburg University (WESS)
Eastern Illinois University (WEIU)
Indiana University (WIUX)
Texas State University - San Marcos (KTSW)
University of California - Berkeley (KALX)
University of Illinois - Champaign Urbana (WPGU)
University of South Carolina (WUSC)
William Paterson University (WPSC)