Ariana Grande celebrates first Grammy album of the year nomination with manager Scooter Braun

Amid speculation about Scooter Braun's attendance at the American Music Awards this weekend after controversy with Taylor Swift, the Big Machine music exec is celebrating nominations for another award show.

Braun, who manages Ariana Grande, shared a series of FaceTime screenshots with the pop star Wednesday, celebrating her five Grammy nominations, including album of the year for "thank u, next."

"You silly @arianagrande," Braun captioned the Instagram post. "Super proud of this one. She has overcome so much. Today is all smiles and all love. Congrats on 5 noms and album of the year for #thankunext 👏👏🎉 love yah!"

Grande previously won best pop vocal album in 2019 for "Sweetener." This is her first album of the year nomination. She's also in the running this year for record of the year ("7 rings"), best pop solo performance ("7 rings"), best pop duo/group performance ("Boyfriend") and best pop vocal album ("thank u, next").

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Braun has been making headlines recently due to his public battle with Swift, which reemerged last week after the singer claimed she was being asked to meet an onerous set of conditions if she wanted to play a medley of her old hits at the American Music Awards show on Nov. 24, where she's being presented with the artist of the decade award.

Swift said Big Machine CEO Scott Borchetta and Braun, who purchased her extensive back catalog in June (to Swift's loudly expressed shock and horror), were blocking her from performing her old songs on television because "they claim that would be re-recording my music before I'm allowed to next year."

Big Machine says it's wasn't so. In a statement provided to USA TODAY, the label said it was "shocked" to see Swift's statements "based on false information."

Later, Swift's spokeswoman, Tree Paine, shared an updated statement with USA TODAY, insisting that Borchetta and Big Machine "flatly denied the request for both American Music Awards and Netflix."

Big Machine released a statement Monday to USA TODAY announcing Swift (among other artists whose music it owns) would be able to perform her old music at the AMAs.

"The Big Machine Label Group and Dick Clark Productions announce that they have come to terms on a licensing agreement that approves their artists' performances to stream post show and for re-broadcast on mutually approved platforms," the statement read. "This includes the upcoming American Music Awards performances for Thomas Rhett and former Big Machine Records recording artist Taylor Swift.

"It should be noted that recording artists do not need label approval for live performances on television or any other live media," the statement continued. "Record label approval is only needed for contracted artists' audio and visual recordings and in determining how those works are distributed."

Contributing: Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY.

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