P3 Gold has had

a few tough years.

The pandemic has caused galas to be canceled and the award to the gangster rapper Yasin caused the entire channel to end up in a storm, not to say a shitstorm of gigantic proportions.

Friday's gala would be the big comeback, the night we would turn the page.

But P3 had barely had time to reload the confetti cannon before the storm blew up again and this time from the opposite direction.

This year's initiative to

scrap the genre categories (this year's hip-hop/rnb, rock/metal, dance and pop) and instead enable all genres to be nominated for all awards was not well received by the hip-hops.

Yasin threw his P3 Gold Prizes in the trash.

Jireel was so pissed off that he canceled his performance at the gala.

Then they came across as childish and easily offended.

But after tonight's awards ceremony, I'm willing to give them some credit.

Because the late Einár, who was awarded the song of the year award together with pop artist Victor Leksell, was the only hip-hopper to be honored.

This despite the fact that the P3 Gold jury actually nominated rappers such as 23, Ant Wan, Cleo, Yung Lean and L1na.

After tonight's gala, it is clear that not only the rappers but also the hip-hop fans have turned their backs on P3 Guld and neglected to vote.

But as expected

, it's not just the hip-hops that are the evening's big losers, but genre music in general.

After the genre categories were removed, all styles of music compete for the same prize.

No big shock then that Miriam Bryant wins over Axel Boman and the Viagra boys.

Acts narrower than that have not even been nominated by P3 in categories other than the green youngster prize Framtidens artiste.

Probably because, just like us, they understand that they wouldn't have a sigh.

It's too boring to have a music award that you can't even be nominated for unless your name is like Zara Larsson.

And how relevant is a prize if hip-hop, the music genre that Swedes stream most on Spotify, doesn't want to know about it?

No, back to the drawing board for P3 Gold.

Or rename the gala to P3 Pop.