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 Azalea’s The New Classic, Childish Gambino’s because the internet, Common Nobody’s Smiling, Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP2, ScHoolboy Q’s Oxymoron and Wiz Khalifa’s 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]
(December 5, 2014)
UPDATE: Beyonce’s self-titled album earned a nomination for album of the year, as did Pharrell Williams’ G I R L, the Grammys announced yesterday (December 5).
how about bolding some of this? impossible to read
Who thhe fuck wrote this? Very hard to understand be professional for fucks sake
Really? Who the fuck can read this shit?
No Rick Ross or Jeezy for best rap album? Hiphopdx Awards has more credibility than the Grammys now.
lets be real! those albums were not grammy nomination worthy… yg shoulda been on there and madlib and gibbs!
Rick Ross album came out late for Grammy Nominations. They will get a vote next year not this year. Albums Songs must be released between Oct. 1, 2013 and Sept. 30, 2014.
^ Guess you forgot Rozay also put out Mastermind this year. That one should’ve been nominated, not that white bitch Iggy or pale-faced cross dresser Eminem. But of course the Grammys always wanna have the white man win and ignore the black folk.
Mastermind was trash. If it was really grammy material he wouldn’t have rushed out Hood Billionaire so soon after it.
0 to 100 for best rap song and Oxymoron for best rap album. They lose and we protest.
Who in their right mind would give “Tuesday” a Grammy nomination?
It’s such a horrible song!
To you but u not the only person living in this world LOL
nah hes rite. that tuesday song is dog poop in a paper bag. that shit is awful. everyone over here hate that shit. nigga sound like cleveland jr singing a song. fuck outta here. its only poppin cuz drake is on it and co-signed it. witout that, we wud never know that fat bitch ass nigga existed. thats y troy ave crack head soldier bodied him
I did. It’s not too black and it’s catchy. Women and children go crazy for it.
I agree. I’m about to get a “drink”
Drake ain’t even put an album out and he is still nominated for Grammys. His throwaways are even Grammy worthy! OVO is the home of real hip-hop and soul.
Dude his album came out late last year thats why he is getting nominated. He’s not getting nominated for an album because he already did. He getting nominated for the songs.
WHERE IS ANIMAL AMBITION……
Was that rap or something?
Iggy!!!!!
The nominees for Best Rap Album are Iggy Azalea’s The New Classic, Childish Gambino’s because the internet, Common Nobody’s Smiling, Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP2, ScHoolboy Q’s Oxymoron and Wiz Khalifa’s Blacc Hollywood.
Outside of a couple albums(Gambino and Common), this list is awful. I like eminem and schoolboy q but these albums are not nomination worthy. Ab Souls album deserves a spot on the list more than schoolboy q and I’m not convinced he does either. 2015 better be a big year. Hip hop is in similar funk since 03 that rock was in from around 79-91, so hopefully this is just a phase.
this shit is sad, i think ross or jeezy could have been nominated at least but this that shit that cole is talking about on his album.
none of those rap albums are worthy of grammys tbh wit u except for commons joint….M&M is the dopest mc of all them but yea…..oxymoron nominated for a grammy….really??? jesus. dont even get me started on iggys pop rap. go home hiphop ur drunk
Common sold 24,000 first week. Drake could do that with 1 song on the album. Eminem could do that with 10 skits on an album. Nobody’s gonna be smiling if Common wins.
a 6’4″ black man with purple dreadlocks and covered in tattoos
a well groomed old black man
a white man who calls himself a rap god
a flat chested australian girl with a sex tape
a unclean and unshaven man in a bucket hat
now which one would you invite to your birthday bash? thats how you will determine who will win.
I don’t know about all that… but I bet Schoolboy Q has some nice marijuana, is a pretty cool guy, and would hook me up with some sexy females…. Wiz probably would too but his album wasn’t good.
aint no sextape stop frontin i would be all over that
The new classsic needs to win all these awards. Its allready a certified classic soon to win a grammy and be the certified album of the year. Haters very mad that iggy stay winning hahahaha.
Hey T.I. stop writing Iggy’s stuff for her. I know this is you. This is all your fault.
Why is YG not on this list?
This article is poorly written and typed
If ILoveMakonnen can win a grammy then I can win an oscar
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Grammy
s like boxing,boxing consist of 12 rounds lasting 3 minutes a round and then mayweather wins.while The Grammys last 5 hours,consist of lots of twerking,Pretentious artists with bubble jum performances and then Miley Cyrus wins.SHIIIIIIIT!Rather be watching paint dry for the exitment!