The Grammy Awards
nominations were announced live Wednesday night by the Recording Academy.
Here are the contenders in key races:
GENERAL FIELD
Album Of The Year:
El Camino — The Black Keys
Some Nights — FUN.
Babel
— Mumford & Sons
Channel Orange — Frank Ocean
Blunderbuss — Jack White
Record Of The Year:
"Lonely Boy" — The Black Keys
"Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" — Kelly
Clarkson
"We Are Young" — FUN. featuring Janelle Monáe
"Somebody That I Used To Know" — Gotye Featuring
Kimbra
"Thinkin Bout You" — Frank Ocean
"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" — Taylor
Swift
Best New Artist:
Alabama
Shakes
FUN.
Hunter Hayes
The Lumineers
Frank
Ocean
Song Of The Year:
"The A Team" — Ed Sheeran, songwriter (Ed Sheeran)
"Adorn" — Miguel Pimentel, songwriter (Miguel)
"Call Me Maybe" — Tavish Crowe, Carly Rae Jepsen
& Josh Ramsay, songwriters (Carly Rae Jepsen)
"Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" — Jörgen
Elofsson, David Gamson, Greg Kurstin & Ali Tamposi, songwriters (Kelly
Clarkson)
"We Are Young" — Jack Antonoff, Jeff Bhasker,
Andrew Dost & Nate Ruess, songwriters (FUN. featuring Janelle Monáe)
POP FIELD
Best Pop Solo Performance:
"Set Fire To The Rain (Live)" — Adele
"Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" — Kelly
Clarkson
"Call Me Maybe" — Carly Rae Jepsen
"Wide Awake" — Katy Perry
"Where Have You Been" — Rihanna
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance:
"Shake It Out" — Florence & The Machine
"We Are Young" — FUN. featuring Janelle Monáe
"Somebody That I Used To Know" — Gotye Featuring
Kimbra
"Sexy And I Know It" — LMFAO
"Payphone" — Maroon 5 & Wiz Khalifa
DANCE FIELD
Best Dance/Electronica Album:
Wonderland — Steve Aoki
Don't Think — The Chemical Brothers
> Album Title Goes Here < — Deadmau5
Fire & Ice — Kaskade
Bangarang — Skrillex
ROCK FIELD
Best Rock Performance:
"Hold On" — Alabama
Shakes
"Lonely Boy" — The Black Keys
"Charlie Brown" — Coldplay
"I Will Wait" — Mumford & Sons
"We Take Care Of Our Own" — Bruce Springsteen
Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance:
"I'm Alive" — Anthrax
"Love Bites (So Do I)" — Halestorm
"Blood Brothers" — Iron Maiden
"Ghost Walking" — Lamb Of God
"No Reflection" — Marilyn Manson
"Whose Life (Is It Anyways?)" — Megadeth
Best Rock Album:
El Camino — The Black Keys
Mylo Xyloto — Coldplay
The 2nd Law — Muse
Wrecking Ball — Bruce Springsteen
Blunderbuss — Jack White
ALTERNATIVE FIELD
Best Alternative Music Album:
The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And
Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do — Fiona Apple
Biophilia — Björk
Making Mirrors — Gotye
Hurry Up, We're Dreaming — M83
Bad As Me — Tom Waits
R&B FIELD
Best R&B Performance:
"Thank You" — Estelle
"Gonna Be Alright (F.T.B.)" — Robert Glasper
Experiment Featuring Ledisi
"I Want You" — Luke James
"Adorn" — Miguel
"Climax" — Usher
Best Urban Contemporary Album:
Fortune — Chris Brown
Kaleidoscope Dream — Miguel
Channel Orange — Frank Ocean
Best R&B Album:
Black Radio — Robert Glasper Experiment
Back To Love — Anthony Hamilton
Write Me Back — R. Kelly
Beautiful Surprise — Tamia
Open Invitation — Tyrese
RAP FIELD
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration:
"Wild Ones" — Flo Rida Featuring Sia
"No Church In The Wild" — Jay-Z & Kanye West
Featuring Frank Ocean & The-Dream
"Tonight (Best You Ever Had)" — John Legend
Featuring Ludacris
"Cherry Wine" — Nas Featuring Amy Winehouse
"Talk That Talk" — Rihanna featuring Jay-Z
Best Rap Performance:
"HYFR (Hell Ya F***ing Right)" — Drake Featuring
Lil Wayne
"N****s In Paris"
— Jay-Z & Kanye West
"Daughters" — Nas
"Mercy" — Kanye West Featuring Big Sean, Pusha T
& 2 Chainz
"I Do" — Young Jeezy Featuring Jay-Z & André
3000
Best Rap Album:
Take Care — Drake
Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album, Pt. 1 —
Lupe Fiasco
Life Is Good — Nas
Undun — The Roots
God Forgives, I Don't — Rick Ross
Based On A T.R.U. Story — 2 Chainz
COUNTRY FIELD
Best Country Solo Performance:
"Home" — Dierks Bentley
"Springsteen" — Eric Church
"Cost Of Livin'" — Ronnie Dunn
"Wanted" — Hunter Hayes
"Over" — Blake Shelton
"Blown Away" — Carrie Underwood
Best Country Album:
Uncaged — Zac Brown Band
Hunter Hayes — Hunter Hayes
Living For A Song: A Tribute To Hank Cochran — Jamey Johnson
Four The Record — Miranda Lambert
The Time Jumpers — The Time Jumpers
AMERICAN ROOTS FIELD
Best Americana
Album:
The Carpenter — The Avett Brothers
From The Ground Up — John Fullbright
The Lumineers — The Lumineers
Babel
— Mumford & Sons
Slipstream — Bonnie Raitt
Best Blues Album:
33 1/3 — Shemekia Copeland
Locked Down — Dr. John
Let It Burn — Ruthie Foster
And Still I Rise — Heritage Blues Orchestra
Bring It On Home — Joan Osborne
SPOKEN WORD FIELD
Best Spoken Word Album:
American Grown (Michelle Obama) — Scott Creswell & Dan
Zitt, producers (Various Artists)
Back To Work: Why We Need Smart Government For A Strong
Economy — Bill Clinton
Drift: The Unmooring Of American Military Power — Rachel
Maddow
Seriously…I'm Kidding — Ellen DeGeneres
Society's Child: My Autobiography — Janis Ian
COMEDY FIELD
Best Comedy Album:
Blow Your Pants Off — Jimmy Fallon
Cho Dependent (Live In Concert) — Margaret Cho
In God We Rust — Lewis Black
Kathy Griffin: Seaman 1st Class — Kathy Griffin
Mr. Universe — Jim Gaffigan
Rize Of The Fenix — Tenacious D
This year's Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical nominations
go to Dan Auerbach, Jeff Bhasker, Diplo, Markus Dravs and Salaam Remi.
This year's GRAMMY Awards process registered more than
17,000 submissions over a 12-month eligibility period, Oct. 1, 2011, to Sept.
30, 2012. GRAMMY ballots for the final round of voting will be mailed on Wednesday,
Dec. 19 to the voting members of The Recording Academy. They are due back to
the accounting firm of Deloitte by Wednesday, Jan. 16, when they will be
tabulated and the results kept secret until the 55th GRAMMY broadcast.
THE 55TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS will be held on Sunday, Feb.
10, 2013, at STAPLES
Center in Los Angeles.
Wishing all the nominees the best
