{"id":23988,"date":"2021-05-21T16:47:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T16:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=23988"},"modified":"2021-06-01T13:04:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T13:04:54","slug":"doja-cat-sza-billboards","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/doja-cat-sza-billboards\/","title":{"rendered":"Doja Cat &amp; SZA Will Perform &#8220;Kiss Me More&#8221; at 2021 Billboard Music Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23993\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23993\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23993\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/05\/dojacat2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23993\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: Doja Cat official YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/doja-cat-streets-music-video\/\">Doja Cat<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/lizzo-sza-and-kehlani-enjoy-epic-girls-night-out-in-west-hollywood\/\">SZA<\/a> will debut their hit single \u201cKiss Me More\u201d at the <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/best-2020-billboard-music-awards-fashion-looks\/\">2021 Billboard Music Awards<\/a> on Sunday, May 23. The pop-hit currently holds the No. 5 spot on the <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/billboard-twitter-trending-chart\/\">Billboard Hot 100 charts<\/a>. Both artists have a history of success on the charts: Doja has six top-40 hits, including the number-one single \u201cSay So.\u201d SZA has scored nine top-10 hits on Billboard\u2019s Hot R&amp;B Songs chart, including her number-one hit, \u201cThe Weekend,\u201d as well as four top 10s on the Hot 100. Her album CTRL debuted on top of Billboard\u2019s Top R&amp;B Albums chart. Both artists have had a top 10 album on the Billboard 200. SZA climbed as high as No. 3 with her first studio album, <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Ctrl<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. Doja Cat reached No. 9 with her sophomore album,\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Hot Pink<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019ll be taking the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBMAs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">@BBMAs<\/a> stage with my girl <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sza?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">@sza<\/a> for the world television debut of \u201cKiss Me More\u201d \ud83d\udc8b Tune-in this SUNDAY at 8pm ET\/5pm PT on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nbc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">@nbc<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BBMAs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#BBMAs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sYZKBIEY5t\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/sYZKBIEY5t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PLANET HER (@DojaCat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DojaCat\/status\/1395491479884210178?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">May 20, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Doja Cat is nominated for five BBMA awards, which is this year\u2019s third-highest total for a female artist. SZA is nominated for one award. \u201cKiss Me More\u201d is one of the many popular songs to come from Doja Cat\u2019s forthcoming studio album, <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Planet Her<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. The Grammy-nominated singer and rapper said she was keen to avoid rehashing the sounds of 2019&#8217;s\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Hot Pink<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0album and come from a more &#8220;innovative&#8221; place for her next collection. Unlike her previous work,<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0Planet Her,<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> set to release this summer, is already being described as the first of Doja\u2019s records that feels \u201cfully her own.\u201d \u201cI think in the beginning, I was just trying to be solid and be what a pop artist already was, what I\u2019d seen on TV, and what I thought was the right thing to do,\u201d she says in an interview with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/pop\/9560274\/doja-cat-billboard-cover-story-interview-2021\"class=\"editor-rtfLink\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. \u201cBut as I move on into this <em>Planet Her-<\/em>era, I want to introduce things to people as opposed to just re-create and rehashing. It\u2019s just more inspiring to start from a more innovative spot.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">SZA, too, is teasing new music with her singles \u201cGood Days\u201d and \u201cHit Different,\u201d but the artist still hasn\u2019t announced any news of a new album. However, we understand that a follow-up to her debut album <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Ctrl<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0will take time. The BBMAs, hosted by Nick Jonas, air Sunday night on NBC. Other performers include Alicia Keys, The Weeknd, DJ Khaled with H.E.R. and Migos, BTS, Pink, Jonas Brothers &amp; Marshmello, Jimmy Jam &amp; Terry Lewis with Sounds of Blackness, AJR, Glass Animals and Twenty One Pilots. Drake will receive the <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/drake-billboard-artist-of-the-decade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Artist of the Decade Award<\/a> at the ceremony.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29095,"featured_media":23991,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[38,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Doja Cat &amp;SZA Will Perform &quot;Kiss Me More&quot; at 2021 Billboard Music Awards<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Doja Cat and SZA will debut their hit single \u201cKiss Me More\u201d at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards this Sunday. 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