Saturday, December 6, 2014

2015 Grammy Nominees (List)

#AMPtv got the word that the official list of Grammy nominees has been released. Check out the categories and artists within them and leave a comment about what you think.


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]

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