The winners of the 54th annual Grammy Awards won’t be revealed until February 12th in L.A., but the nominations are now in.
In the lead, Kanye West is at seven nominations for both My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and Watch The Throne. Following him are Adele (though she leads in the top categories for album, record, and song of the year), Foo Fighters and Bruno Mars at six nominations each, while Lil Wayne sits with five. Nicki Minaj, Drake, and Rihanna are tied with four nominations each.
Album Of The Year:
21 — Adele
Wasting Light — Foo Fighters
Born This Way — Lady Gaga
Doo-Wops & Hooligans — Bruno Mars
Loud — Rihanna
Record Of The Year:
“Rolling In The Deep” — Adele
“Holocene” — Bon Iver
“Grenade” — Bruno Mars
“The Cave” — Mumford & Sons
“Firework” — Katy Perry
Best New Artist:
The Band Perry
Bon Iver
J. Cole
Nicki Minaj
Skrillex
Song Of The Year:
“All Of The Lights” — Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi & Fergie
“The Cave” — Mumford & Sons
“Grenade” — Bruno Mars
“Holocene” — Bon Iver
“Rolling In The Deep” — Adele
Best Rap Performance:
“Look At Me Now” – Chris Brown, Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes
“Otis” – Jay-Z & Kanye West
“The Show Goes On” – Lupe Fiasco
“Moment 4 Life” – Nicki Minaj & Drake
“Black And Yellow” – Wiz Khalifa
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration:
“Party” – Beyoncé & André 3000
“I’m On One” – DJ Khaled, Drake, Rick Ross & Lil Wayne
“I Need A Doctor” – Dr. Dre, Eminem & Skylar Grey
“What’s My Name?” – Rihanna & Drake
“Motivation” – Kelly Rowland & Lil Wayne
“All Of The Lights” – Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi & Fergie
Best Rap Song:
“All Of The Lights” – Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi & Fergie
“Black And Yellow” – Wiz Khalifa
“I Need A Doctor” – Dr. Dre, Eminem & Skylar Grey
“Look At Me Now” – Chris Brown, Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes
“Otis” – Jay-Z & Kanye West
“The Show Goes On” – Lupe Fiasco
Best Rap Album:
Watch The Throne – Jay-Z & Kanye West
Tha Carter IV – Lil Wayne
Lasers – Lupe Fiasco
Pink Friday – Nicki Minaj
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy – Kanye West
Check out the rest of the categories over at the official website of the Grammys.
Surprised with the Bon Iver and Skrillex nominations…I guess they’re changing it up after last year’s Arcade Fire upset…
And Kelly Rowland’s Motivation??? I love the song but don’t know if it warrants best rap/sung collab…
I was blown away by all the Skrillex nominations, its not my fav kind of music but it says something for it getting that music recognized from the Grammys.
Kanye is against himself in Rap Album of the Year, hope that doesn’t split his votes.
How exactly is Bon Iver a “New Artist?”
If Nicki Minaj wins Best New Artist, I’m going to throw up
Con, you should do your own “grammies” or something and just make a post every year with the same categories as the grammies but your own nominees and winners.
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy should have won album of the year last year. The Grammys’ whole time table is screwed up.
How MBDTF wasn’t nominated for both rap album and album of the year is beyond me.
Imma let you finish, but My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was the best music album of ALL TIME. ALL TIME.
The Grammys are entertaining, but are in no way anywhere influential in the music industry. Their selections are most always garbage. They pick albums of the year based on their popularity and number of singles produced rather than for true artistic merit. I’d rather watch the Mercury Prize awards from Canada or something like that..
ummm…lasers?
Bon iver in this list is quite surprising. But a great news for music in general. I can see him being the first of a new wave of “good and popular artists”.
Bruno Mars?!?!? gross
Right? What the fuck? Lately I’ve heard some people that are complaining that P&P doesn’t express enough hatred. It’s a weird complaint, because when we DO post things that we hate, people are like, “Well why would you post something you hate???” It’s crazy. people are crazy. Impossible to please you motherfuckers.
But I think we can all agree on Bruno Mars being a blemish on mainstream music. I don’t know how he is famous or why he wins stuff. Is it some kind of industry inside joke? Maybe.
Dude parties hard though. Goes out looking all clean cut, singing pop tunes for tha radio, then buries himself in mounds of cocaine until the next day. Jk Jk JK Omg P&P is getting reckless.
Hahahaha @Con. This list is, indeed, a fucking joke. I don’t even know where to start. Bruno Mars for Album of the Year. Bruno Mars’ “Grenade” for “Record” of the Year (Because there’s such a huge difference between this and Song of the Year). Anything Bruno Mars is nominated for. Basically every Best New Artist nominee. “The Show Goes On” for Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song. Every Best Rap Album nominee that doesn’t include Kanye. The fact that MBDTF, Doo-Wops & Hooligans, Loud, and Pink Friday came out in 2010 and the Grammy’s are nominating them for a 2012 awards show.