Grammy Nominations Announced For 2015 Soren Baker Beyonce was nominated for five Grammy Awards for the 2015 edition of the award ceremony, which is slated to take place February 8 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The nominations make the Destiny’s Child singer the most Grammy-nominated female artist in the history of the awards. Iggy Azalea was nominated for Best New Artist and her “Fancy” single featuring Charli XCX is up for Record Of The Year. The Album Of The Year nominees are slated to be released on CBS today (November 5) prior to the 10 pm EST airing of A Very Grammy Christmas. Childish Gambino, Drake, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar and Lecrae were nominated in the Best Rap Performance category for 3005, 0 To 100 / The Catch Up, Rap God, I and All I Need Is You, respectively. The nominees for Best Rap Album are Iggy Azaleas The New Classic, Childish Gambinos because the internet, Common Nobodys Smiling, Eminems The Marshall Mathers LP2, ScHoolboy Qs Oxymoron and Wiz Khalifas Blacc Hollywood. Pharrell Williams and Ed Sheeran announced the nominees in four categories on CBS This Morning today. In order to qualify for this year’s Grammy Awards, material needed to be released between October 1, 2013 and September 30, 2014. A list of Grammy nominations released so far is as follows: General Field Category 1 – Record Of The Year (Award to the Artist and to the Producer(s), Recording Engineer(s) and/or Mixer(s) and mastering engineer(s), if other than the artist.) • Fancy Iggy Azalea Featuring Charli XCX The Arcade & The Invisible Men, producers; Anthony Kilhofler & Eric Weaver, engineers/mixers; Miles Showell, mastering engineer Track from: The New Classic [Def Jam Recordings] • Chandelier Sia Greg Kurstin & Jesse Shatkin, producers; Greg Kurstin, Manny Marroquin & Jesse Shatkin, engineers/mixers; Emily Lazar, mastering engineer Track from: 1000 Forms Of Fear [RCA Records / Monkey Puzzle Records] • Stay With Me (Darkchild Version) Sam Smith Steve Fitzmaurice, Rodney Jerkins & Jimmy Napes, producers; Steve Fitzmaurice, Jimmy Napes & Steve Price, engineers/mixers; Tom Coyne, mastering engineer [Capitol Records] • Shake It Off Taylor Swift Max Martin & Shellback, producers; Serban Ghenea, John Hanes, Sam Holland & Michael Ilbert, engineers/mixers; Tom Coyne, mastering engineer [Big Machine Records] • All About That Bass Meghan Trainor Kevin Kadish, producer; Kevin Kadish, engineer/mixer; Dave Kutch, mastering engineer [Epic Records] General Field Category 4 – Best New Artist (For a new artist who releases, during the eligibility year, the first recording which establishes the public identity of that artist.) • Iggy Azalea • Bastille • Brandy Clark • Haim • Sam Smith Field 1 – Pop Category 5 – Best Pop Solo Performance (For new vocal or instrumental pop recordings. Singles or Tracks only.) • All Of Me (Live) John Legend [Columbia Records] • Chandelier Sia Track from: 1000 Forms Of Fear [RCA Records / Monkey Puzzle Records] • Stay With Me (Darkchild Version) Sam Smith [Capitol Records] • Shake It Off Taylor Swift [Big Machine Records] • Happy (Live) Pharrell Williams [Columbia Records] Field 1 – Pop Category 6 – Best Pop Duo/Group Performance (For new vocal or instrumental duo/group or collaborative pop recordings. Singles or Tracks only.) • Fancy Iggy Azalea Featuring Charli XCX Track from: The New Classic [Def Jam Recordings] • A Sky Full Of Stars Coldplay Track from: Ghost Stories [Atlantic/Parlophone] • Say Something A Great Big World With Christina Aguilera Track from: Is There Anybody Out There? [Epic Records] • Bang Bang Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj [Republic Records] • Dark Horse Katy Perry Featuring Juicy J [Capitol Records] Field 6 – R&B Category 17 – Best R&B Performance (For new vocal or instrumental R&B recordings.) • Drunk In Love Beyoncé Featuring Jay Z Track from: Beyoncé [Columbia Records] • New Flame Chris Brown Featuring Usher & Rick Ross Track from: X [RCA Records] • It’s Your World Jennifer Hudson Featuring R. Kelly Track from: JHUD [RCA Records] • Like This Ledisi Track from: The Truth [Verve] • Good Kisser Usher [RCA Records] Field 6 – R&B Category 18 – Best Traditional R&B Performance (For new vocal or instrumental traditional R&B recordings.) • As Marsha Ambrosius & Anthony Hamilton Track from: The Best Man Holiday (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [RCA Records] • I.R.S. Angie Fisher [Hidden Beach Recordings] • Jesus Children Robert Glasper Experiment Featuring Lalah Hathaway & Malcolm Jamal Warner Track from: Black Radio 2 [Blue Note Records] • Nobody Kem [Motown Records] • Hold Up Wait A Minute (Woo Woo) Antonique Smith [9:23 Music & Media] Field 6 – R&B Category 19 – Best R&B Song (A Songwriter(s) Award. For Song Eligibility Guidelines see Category #3. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.) • Drunk In Love Shawn Carter, Rasool Diaz, Noel Fisher, Jerome Harmon, Beyoncé Knowles, Timothy Mosely, Andre Eric Proctor & Brian Soko, songwriters (Beyoncé Featuring Jay Z) Track from: Beyoncé [Columbia Records] • Good Kisser Ronald “Flip” Colson, Warren “Oak” Felder, Usher Raymond IV, Jameel Roberts, Terry “Tru” Sneed & Andrew “Pop” Wansel, songwriters (Usher) [RCA Records] • New Flame Eric Bellinger, Chris Brown, James Chambers, Malissa Hunter, Justin Booth Johnson, Mark Pitts, Usher Raymond IV, William Roberts, Maurice “Verse” Simmonds & Keith Thomas, songwriters (Chris Brown Featuring Usher & Rick Ross) Track from: X [RCA Records; Publishers: Songs Of Universal, Inc./Culture Beyond Ur Experience Publishing/Justin Booth Johnson, Keef Tha Beef, Maurice Nathan Simmonds Publishing/Bu Thiam Publishing/Universal Music Publishing, Eric B/Writing Camp Music/Sony/ATV Tunes LLC,4 Blunts Lit At Once Publishing/First And Gold Publishing adm. by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp./Sony/ATV Sons LLC, 6 Kolbert Drive/Sony/ATV Tunes LLC, Prescriptions Songs /Kobalt Songs Music Publishing, UR-IV Music /EMI April Music, Inc.] • Options (Wolfjames Version) Dominic Gordon, Brandon Hesson, William Roberts & Jamaica “Kahn-Cept” Smith, songwriters (Luke James) [Island Records] • The Worst Jhené Aiko Chilombo, songwriter (Jhené Aiko) Track from: Sail Out [Def Jam Recordings] Field 6 – R&B Category 20 – Best Urban Contemporary Album (For albums containing at least 51% playing time of newly recorded contemporary vocal tracks derivative of R&B.) • Sail Out Jhené Aiko [Def Jam Recordings] • Beyoncé Beyoncé [Columbia Records] • X Chris Brown [RCA Records] • Mali Is… Mali Music [RCA Records / Bystorm Entertainment] • Girl Pharrell Williams [Columbia Records] Field 6 – R&B Category 21 – Best R&B Album (For albums containing at least 51% playing time of new R&B recordings.) • Islander Bernhoft [Big Picnic Records] • Lift Your Spirit Aloe Blacc [XIX / Interscope Records] • Love, Marriage & Divorce Toni Braxton & Babyface [Def Jam Recordings] • Black Radio 2 Robert Glasper Experiment [Blue Note Records] • Give The People What They Want Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings [Daptone Records] Field 7 – Rap Category 22 – Best Rap Performance (For a Rap performance. Singles or Tracks only.) • 3005 Childish Gambino Track from: Because The Internet [Glassnote] • 0 To 100 / The Catch Up Drake [Cash Money/Young Money] • Rap God Eminem Track from: The Marshall Mathers LP2 [Aftermath] • I Kendrick Lamar [Top Dawg Entertainment/Interscope Records] • All I Need Is You Lecrae [Reach Records] Field 7 – Rap Category 23 – Best Rap/Sung Collaboration (For a newly recorded Rap/Sung collaborative performance by artists who do not normally perform together.) • Blak Majik Common Featuring Jhené Aiko Track from: Nobody’s Smiling [Def Jam Recordings] • The Monster Eminem Featuring Rihanna Track from: The Marshall Mathers LP2 [Aftermath] • Tuesday I Love Makonnen Featuring Drake [OVO/Warner Bros.] • Studio Schoolboy Q Featuring BJ The Chicago Kid Track from: Oxymoron [TDE/Interscope Records] • Bound 2 Kanye West & Charlie Wilson Track from: Yeezus [Def Jam Recordings] Field 7 – Rap Category 24 – Best Rap Song (A song must contain music and lyrics and must be either a new song or a song first achieving prominence during the eligibility year. (Artist names appear in parentheses.)) • Anaconda Ernest Clark, Jamal Jones, Onika Maraj, Marcos Palacios & J. Solone-Myvett, songwriters (Nicki Minaj) [Cash Money/Young Money] • Bound 2 Mike Dean, Malik Jones, Che Pope, Elon Rutberg, Sakiya Sandifer, John Stephens, Kanye West, Charlie Wilson & Cydel Young, songwriters (Kanye West & Charlie Wilson) Track from: Yeezus [Def Jam Recordings] • I K. Duckworth & C. Smith, songwriters (Kendrick Lamar) [Top Dawg Entertainment/Interscope Records] • We Dem Boyz N. Fisher & C. Thomaz, songwriters (Wiz Khalifa) Track from: Blacc Hollywood [Rostrum/Atlantic; Publishers; Wiz KHalifa Publishing admin. by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp./IFYOUNEEDMEDONTLEAVEME] • 0 To 100 / The Catch Up A. Feeney, Aubrey Graham, A. Hernandez, P. Jefferies, M. Samuels & Noah Shebib, songwriters (Drake) [Cash Money/Young Money] Field 7 – Rap Category 25 – Best Rap Album (For albums containing at least 51% playing time of new rap recordings.) • The New Classic Iggy Azalea [Def Jam Recordings] • Because The Internet Childish Gambino [Glassnote] • Nobody’s Smiling Common [Def Jam Recordings] • The Marshall Mathers LP2 Eminem [Aftermath] • Oxymoron Schoolboy Q [TDE/Interscope Records] • Blacc Hollywood Wiz Khalifa [Rostrum/Atlantic] #Natalie
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 19:34:26 +0000
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