"Fancy" is being accused of missing the awards' eligibility deadline—and at least 15,000 people are pissed.
It's been a year of many ups and downs for Iggy Azalea. After snagging the Billboard Music Award for Top Rap Song on May 17, over 15,000 people have signed an online petition to urge Billboard to revoke the shiny prize.
The petitioners point out that the award "has been proven invalid," since the eligibility period for nominations is March 10, 2014 through March 2015. As it turns out, "Fancy" was released on February 17, 2014.
"This is unfair to the other nominees in these category, especially to 'Anaconda' by Nicki Minaj, who most likely would've won," the petition explains. "Billboard did not follow their own guidelines and should have to recalculate these nominations without 'Fancy' as a nominee."
In the meantime, Dick Clark Productions, who's behind Billboard Music Awards, has responded to the petition, telling International Business Times that "Fancy" was indeed eligibile. The Billboard Music Awards are actually "based on Nielsen sales adata and chart performance, not the song's release date," the IB Times says.
