Recording Academy says Grammy winners list is 'fake'
Updated 08:30 AM PHT Wed, January 30, 2019
(CNN) — A tweet purporting to be a leaked list of Grammy winners had some music fans up in arms on Monday.
The now-deleted tweet featured a video claiming to show all the winners for the upcoming Grammy Awards next month.
Winners of the 2019 #GRAMMYS have apparently been leaked through their official website, with the "Big 3" categories named to the following:
— Main Pop Data (@mainpopdata) January 29, 2019
Record of the Year - I Like It
Album of the Year - H.E.R.
Song of the Year - Shallow (@ladygaga)
Video:https://t.co/drbNZlW8x8
The list included Cardi B's "I Like It" as the winner for record of the year, and "A Star Is Born's" Lady Gaga as winner of song of the year with "Shallow."
if the grammy winners leaked list is actually true pic.twitter.com/E5ERNheFAt
— lil n (@prfctlywrxong) January 29, 2019
Some immediately started tweeting their thoughts about the "winners."
The grammy winners leaked omg pic.twitter.com/XOEjzjfho6
— Josh (@kissEMOTIONstan) January 29, 2019
the leaked grammy winners are confirmed real ariana got snubbed again pic.twitter.com/rPjm2qZ6bt
— aaliyah (@grandefarmigas) January 29, 2019
But a spokesperson for the Recording Academy told CNN the list was a fake.
"There is no legitimacy to this," the spokesperson said. "Grammy Awards results are not shared, even with Recording Academy staff members, until the day of the Grammy Awards ceremony, when names of the recipients are delivered by [accounting firm] Deloitte in sealed envelopes."
Rap artists Kendrick Lamar and Drake lead in Grammy nominations this year with eight and seven, respectively.
The 61st Grammy Awards, hosted by Alicia Keys, air February 10 on CBS.
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