The list includes many of our favourite artists as strong contenders (Beyonce is all that matters).
The 59th Annual Grammy Awards are all set to be held on the 12th of February 2017. But the nominees were announced just a while ago and we have all the categories of the possible winners for the coveted gold gramophone. The leader in terms of nominees is Beyonce for Lemonade by nominations in 9 categories followed by other hip hop big shots like Rihanna, Drake and Kanye West, all with eight nominations each.
But with so many categories to have, you can take a look at the ones you’re mostly interested in:
Album Of The Year:
25 — Adele
Lemonade — Beyoncé
Purpose — Justin Bieber
Views — Drake
A Sailor’s Guide To Earth — Sturgill Simpson
Record Of The Year:
Hello — Adele
Formation — Beyoncé
7 Years — Lukas Graham
Work — Rihanna Featuring Drake
Stressed Out — Twenty One Pilots
Song Of The Year:
Formation — Beyoncé
Hello — Adele
I Took A Pill In Ibiza — Mike Posner
Love Yourself — Justin Bieber
7 Years — Lukas Graham
Best New Artist:
Kelsea Ballerini
The Chainsmokers
Chance The Rapper
Maren Morris
Anderson .Paak
Best Pop Vocal Album:
25 — Adele
Purpose — Justin Bieber
Dangerous Woman — Ariana Grande
Confident — Demi Lovato
This Is Acting — Sia
Best Pop Solo Performance:
Hello — Adele
Hold Up —Beyoncé
Love Yourself — Justin Bieber
Piece By Piece (Idol Version) — Kelly Clarkson
Dangerous Woman — Ariana Grande
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance:
Closer — The Chainsmokers Featuring Halsey
7 Years — Lukas Graham
Work — Rihanna Featuring Drake
Cheap Thrills — Sia Featuring Sean Paul
Stressed Out — Twenty One Pilots
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album:
Cinema — Andrea Bocelli
Fallen Angels — Bob Dylan
Stages Live — Josh Groban
Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin — Willie Nelson
Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway — Barbara Streisand
Best Dance Recording:
Tearing Me Up — Bob Moses
Don’t Let Me Down — The Chainsmokers Featuring Daya
Never Be Like You — Flume Featuring Kai
Rinse & Repeat — Riton Featuring Kah-Lo
Drinkee — Sofi Tukker
Best Dance/Electronic Album:
Skin — Flume
Electronica 1: The Time Machine — Jean-Michel Jarre
Epoch — Tycho
Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future — Underworld
Louie Vega Starring…XXVIII — Little Louie Vega
Best Rock Performance:
Joe (Live From Austin City Limits) — Alabama Shakes
Don’t Hurt Yourself — Beyoncé Featuring Jack White
Blackstar — David Bowie
The Sound Of Silence — Disturbed
Heathens — Twenty One Pilots
Best Metal Performance:
Shock Me — Baroness
Silvera — Gojira
Rotting in Vain — Korn
Dystopia — Megadeth
The Price Is Wrong — Periphery
Best Rock Song:
Blackstar — David Bowie
Burn the Witch — Radiohead
Hardwired — Metallica
Heathens — Twenty One Pilots
My Name Is Human — Highly Suspect
Best Rock Album:
California — Blink-182
Tell Me I’m Pretty — Cage The Elephant
Magma — Gojira
Death Of A Bachelor — Panic! At The Disco
Weezer — Weezer
Best Alternative Music Album:
22, A Million — Bon Iver
Blackstar — David Bowie
The Hope Six Demolition Project — PJ Harvey
Post Pop Depression — Iggy Pop
A Moon Shaped Pool — Radiohead
Best R&B Performance:
Turnin’ Me Up — BJ The Chicago Kid
Permission — Ro James
I Do — Musiq Soulchild
Needed Me — Rihanna
Cranes in the Sky — Solange
Best Traditional R&B Performance:
The Three Of Me — William Bell
Woman’s World — BJ The Chicago Kid
Sleeping With The One I Love — Fantasia
Angel — Lalah Hathaway
Can’t Wait — Jill Scott
Best R&B Song:
Come and See Me — PartyNextDoor Featuring Drake
Exchange — Bryson Tiller
Kiss It Better — Rihanna
Lake By the Ocean — Maxwell
Luv — Tory Lanez
Best Urban Contemporary Album:
Lemonade — Beyoncé
Ology — Gallant
We Are King — KING
Malibu — Anderson .Paak
Anti — Rihanna
Best R&B Album:
In My Mind — BJ The Chicago Kid
Lalah Hathaway Live — Lalah Hathaway
Velvet Portraits — Terrace Martin
Healing Season — Mint Condition
Smoove Jones — Mya
Best Rap Performance:
No Problem — Chance The Rapper Featuring Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz
Panda —Desiigner
Pop Style — Drake Featuring The Throne
All The Way Up — Fat Joe & Remy Ma Featuring French Montana & Infared
That Part — ScHoolboy Q Featuring Kanye West
Best Rap/Sung Performance:
Freedom — Beyoncé Featuring Kendrick Lamar
Hotline Bling — Drake
Broccoli — D.R.A.M. Featuring Lil Yachty
Ultralight Beam — Kanye West Featuring Chance The Rapper, Kelly Price, Kirk Franklin & The-Dream
Famous — Kanye West Featuring Rihanna
Best Rap Song:
All The Way Up — Fat Joe & Remy Ma Featuring French Montana & Infared
Famous —Kanye West Featuring Rihanna
Hotline Bling — Drake
No Problem — Chance The Rapper Featuring Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz
Ultralight Beam — Kanye West Featuring Chance The Rapper, Kelly Price, Kirk Franklin & The-Dream
Best Rap Album:
Coloring Book — Chance The Rapper
And the Anonymous Nobody — De La Soul
Major Key — DJ Khaled
Views — Drake
Blank Face LP — ScHoolboy Q
The Life of Pablo — Kanye West
Best Country Solo Performance:
Love Can Go To Hell — Brandy Clark
Vice — Miranda Lambert
My Church — Maren Morris
Church Bells — Carrie Underwood
Blue Ain’t Your Color — Keith Urban
Best Country Duo/Group Performance:
Different for Girls — Dierks Bentley Featuring Elle King
21 Summer — Brothers Osborne
Setting The World On Fire — Kenny Chesney & P!nk
Jolene — Pentatonix Featuring Dolly Parton
Think Of You — Chris Young With Cassadee Pope
Best Country Song:
Blue Ain’t Your Color — Keith Urban
Die A Happy Man — Thomas Rhett
Humble and Kind — Tim McGraw
My Church — Maren Morris
Vice — Miranda Lambert
Best Country Album:
Big Day In A Small Town — Brandy Clark
Full Circle — Loretta Lynn
Hero — Maren Morris
A Sailor’s Guide To Earth — Sturgill Simpson
Ripcord — Keith Urban
Best Comedy Album:
…America…Great… — David Cross
American Myth — Margaret Cho
Boysih Girl Interrupted — Tig Notaro
Live At The Apollo — Amy Schumer
Talking For Clapping — Patton Oswalt
Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media:
Amy
Miles Ahead
Straight Outta Compton
Suicide Squad (Collector’s Edition)
Vinyl: The Essentials Season 1
Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media:
Bridge of Spies — Thomas Newman
Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight — Ennio Morricone
The Revenant — Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto
Star Wars: The Force Awakens — John Williams
Stranger Things Volume 1 — Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein
Stranger Things Volume 2 — Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein
Best Song Written For Visual Media:
Can’t Stop The Feeling! — Trolls
Heathens — Suicide Squad
Just Like Fire — Alice Through The Looking Glass
Purple Lamborghini — Suicide Squad
Try Everything — Zootopia
The Veil — Snowden
Best Recording Package:
Anti (Deluxe Edition) — Rihanna
Blackstar — David Bowie
Human Performance — Parquet Courts
Sunset Motel — Reckless Kelly
22, A Million — Bon Iver
Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package:
Edith Piaf 1915-2015 — Edith Piaf
401 Days — J.Views
I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It — The 1975
Paper Wheels (Deluxe Limited Edition) — Trey Anastasio
Tug of War (Deluxe Edition) — Paul McCartney
Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical:
Benny Blanco
Greg Kurstin
Max Martin
Nineteen85
Ricky Reed
Best Remixed Recording:
Cali Coast (Psionics Remix) — Soul Pacific
Heavy Star Movin’ (staRo Remix) — The Silver Lake Chorus
Nineteen Hundred Eighty-Five (Timo Maas & James Teej Remix) — Paul McCartney & Wings
Only (Kaskade X Lipless Remix)— Ry X
Tearing Me Up (RAC Remix) — Bob Moses
Wide Open (Joe Goddard Remix) — The Chemical Brothers
Best Music Video:
Formation — Beyoncé
River — Leon Bridges
Up & Up — Coldplay
Gosh — Jamie XX
Upside Down & Inside Out — OK Go
Best Music Film:
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead — Steve Aoki
The Beatles: Eight Days A Week The Touring Years — The Beatles
Lemonade — Beyoncé
The Music Of Strangers — Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble
American Saturday Night: Live From The Grand Ole Opry — Various Artists
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