55th Annual Grammy Nominations

[Wombi]

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 – Black Keys

Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) – Kelly Clarkson

We Are Young – fun. featuring Janelle Monae

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 (songwriter's award)

The A Team – Ed Sheeran, songwriter

Adorn – Miguel Pimentel, songwriter

Call Me Maybe – Tavish Crowe, Carly Rae Jepsen & Josh Ramsay, songwriters

Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) – Jérgen Elofsson, David Gamson, Greg Kurstin & Ali Tamposi, songwriters

We Are Young – Jack Antonoff, Jeff Bhasker, Andrew Dost & Nate Ruess, songwriters

Best pop vocal album

Stronger – Kelly Clarkson

Ceremonials – Florence and the Machine

Some Nights – fun.

Overexposed – Maroon 5

The Truth About Love – Pink

Best rock album

El Camino – The Black Keys

Mylo Xyloto – Coldplay

The 2nd Law – Muse

Wrecking Ball – Bruce Springsteen

Blunderbuss – Jack White


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

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

Best rap album

Take Care – Drake

Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album, Part 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

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

[Wombi]

Far better than last year but still...this is why we have the BEAMAs.

[Mr. Shankly]

Tom Waits was nominated for a grammy?

[Hayden]

I'm shocked at how...well... Above average, the nominations are

Call Me Maybe not being mentioned for record of the year is weird Considering..like, cause it is.

And fun. being nominated for best new artist is kinda funny It's like Bon Iver all over again.

I didn't think of M83, Tom Waits, Fiona Apple & Frank Ocean to even be considered... But cool

Might actually watch this years grammys

[Guest]

The alternative nominations seem quite good, until you realise that Gotye is going to beat Fiona Apple, Björk, M83 and Tom Waits.

[Guest]

If you replace alternative albums nominees with album of the year nominees, I'd quite like it.

[19loveless91]

Did last year lower everybody's expectations so much? Plenty of stuff is missing, even in sub-categories. And did GKMC miss the deadline or did they "forget it"?

[ShaneSpear]

[Kiki]

Babel – Mumford & Sons will win album of the year.

[thejoj96]